Over the Threshold By Paula Loveless

Sometimes I look at life like a book - filled with experiences and chapters. “Over the Threshold” is the latest chapter in my life and it all started in April of 2011.

My friend Mary called me and didn't even say “hi.” Her conversation started with "Paula, you need to come up to Collinsville (Illinois) and hear this man minister. I've never heard anybody this accurate!" I have to admit it sparked my interest. Plans were made, and my husband and I traveled to Collinsville to hear this man. When we arrived I kept looking for him, but I couldn't figure out who the speaker was. Finally when the meeting started, I noticed a young man at the front of the room pacing, singing, and encouraging others to join in. When the praise and worship ended he moved into prayer and the preaching. Mary arrived at this time, and I leaned over to her and asked, "Is this the man?" She grinned at me and nodded. She didn't remember his name, but after he preached for a while, gold dust was all over his hair, face, and the podium. It was at that point that I was quite sure that God knew his name.

As the service moved on, he began talking about the Glory of God. He moved about the room looking at everyone. My husband began to squirm and I just knew that he was getting ready to pounce on this poor young man if he said one word out of place to me. Mary, knowing my husband, Sam, just gave me a reassuring look that said, “It will be alright.” Sure enough this man began to prophesy and tell me things that only Sam, Mary, and I would know...and then things that only Sam and I would know....and then only things that God and I only would know. Sam did not come out of his seat and his squirming lessened. Later I thought about the woman at the well with Jesus. She said, "He told me everything I ever did." Then I realized God told me (through this man) many of the things I have done and even many of the thoughts of my mind.

After a week or so, Mary and I figured out the young man's name, Bill Vincent, and three months later we enrolled in the first class of The School of the Supernatural with the Holy Spirit with Bill as our teacher. My dear husband Sam has not squirmed since that first meeting, and that, in itself, is a testimony to the purity of Revival Waves of Glory Ministry, because my husband is very sensitive to the spirit of God. If something is not right, Sam is out of there!

I treasure the things God has done for me over the past 10 months. It reminds me of the song lyrics, “HE [God] healed my body, HE touched my mind and HE saved me just in time!” All the Glory goes to The Lord God Almighty for the miracles I have seen and have experienced in the school and at the services. However, the thing that has changed my life the most is realizing that God knows everything about me - EVERYTHING!

There was a time in my life when depression came in, and it felt like God was not there. Those thoughts have plagued me for 28 years. I felt like I had done something wrong to cause such a separation from my savior. Guilt and condemnation were my bed fellows, tormenting me at night. But GOD found a way to reach me in the yielded vessel of a young man that would speak the very words that my loving Heavenly Father had wanted to speak to me for 28 years -the very words that brought me over the threshold from unbelief to belief, from sorrow to joy, from abandonment to acceptance, and from darkness to light.

Even the very hairs on our heads are numbered by God. I now understand His watch and care over me. When the prophetic word came that God was going to cause new hair growth, my hair was falling out, breaking off, and no one knew the extent of it. My head began to tingle as soon as the word was spoken, and within a few weeks my hair had grown and was full again. HE even knew every hair on my head.

One word from God can change your life forever. I tell you all of this, not to lift up any man, but to let you know that God desires to speak to His children, to love His children, to bring them over to where He is....Over the threshold into HIS LOVING ARMS.