Brother Robert Minnick's Testimony To those reading and have previously read my story, I will give you an update before you continue reading. I have to thank the Lord Jesus Christ for letting me go through this. It has changed my life and made me a better follower of Christ; to be faithful when no one is around to see my life. God is there and I praise Him for so great love I stand by His grace and say that you can make it. A few months ago, in 2007, I had something not like a dream but more like a vision of Jesus. I was in bed, it seemed like I had woken up. It was dark and there was the face of Jesus in living colors. He was looking at me and smiling. I saw his face, he had long black hair, a black beard and his face had a smile on it as He looked at me. He was so handsome and beautiful. He had a kind of Jewish look to him. But for some reason, I jumped and he was gone. I don't know why I acted like that. I have been asking myself; why did I jump?. I am writing because I was given the meaning of why the things I put in my story back in 1990 and 91 had happened to me. For years, I had peculiar events im my life that got me down and affected me so much. I talked to many Christian ministers that are well known but none of them seemed to have an answer to the cause or meaning of what I was going through. They would say little things but it never came together for me. Many times I would ask the Lord to tell me why and for what reasons I was experiensing these things but never got an answer until now. On September 17th, 2007 I had a strange dream. I was in my bed rebuking the power of the devil. Momentary, a very dark black mist came upon me and covered me in an instant. I was taken out of my bed into a place of darkness for a few second. I got very afraid because I really felt it was not a dream but something real. It made me think of how the spirit comes out the body at death. On December 20th, 2007 I had a dream. I was outside of Austin Power House church. I was drawing a picture when something grabed my arm. I woke up and a black mist turned into a thick black cloud in my bedroom. Something had me and was holding me. I tried to get loose but could not. I tried to call on the name of Jesus but my voice would not come out above a whisper. However, I was able to say, "Jesus" from within and I was saying "I love you Jesus, I love you Jesus". I do not know how long it lasted before the room came back to normal. Maybe it lasted for about five minutes. Later that morning as I was praying, I asked the Lord to tell me why these things were happening to me. I did not think I would get an answer but I did. The words that came were; "Resist the devil and he will flee, and about Peter walking on the waters. The wind began to roar and Peter took his eyes off Jesus. I was asked, "what happen to Peter?" I answered, "Peter began to sink". I was then told to remember the times when I had set my heart to get closer to the Lord and how the devil came against me. That is what I was told. Robert's Story This is a true story, My Story; My name is Robert Minnick and this is my story. I was born in the state of South Carolina and as a youth I had always believed in God but I did not know Him. I went to a Baptist church where they taught religion. They talked about joining the church, singing in the choir, and they called that working for God, - but there was no real life change. When I got a little older, I went to a Seventh Day Adventist church services that was held in my grandmother's home. There, I learnt a lot about keeping the Ten Commandments and keeping the Sabbath day. Saturday was the most importation day. Here you did not eat hog meat or catfish but no one ever repented of their sins. They just kept the Sabbath day and the laws of Moses. At the age of about fourteen, I went to the Church of God in Christ. Now at this church, they talked about speaking in tongues. You had to ask the Lord to saved you one night, get sanctified the next night, speak in tongues the night after and this was the only way to really be saved; to speak in tongues. When I was about sixteen years old, I went to a Holiness Church. It was almost the same as the Church of God in Christ that I had gone to before. I also had to read the Holy Bible from front to back. I did all this but still did not know Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I do also remember when I was younger, I prayed from the bottom of my heart and cried telling the Lord that I wanted to go to Heaven when I died. Now at the age of about sixteen, I went by my grandmother's house one day and she was watching Minister Billy Graham preaching the gospel on TV. From that time on when he was on TV, I watched him. I was so touch by his messages. If there was a dance or a party going on and Billy Graham was coming on TV I would tell my friends I was not joining them; I was going to watch Billy Graham. They felt like something was wrong with me. I just wanted to go to Heaven. I also believed hell was real. One day I prayed to the Lord and told Him that I knew that the Bible talked about living right but that I did not see anyone else doing it the way the Bible said. I believed the Bible was God's true word. I even wrote Billy Graham a letter asking him how to become a real Christian. He sent me some papers but I did not really understand the depth of what he was trying to tell me at that time because my spiritual eyes and ears were not open to hear and to understand the gospel message. About three years later I met a minister from Austin Texas. He also had heard pastor Graham on the radio in 1949 when he live in California. He was a gambler, got caught up with the wrong people and they tried to take his life. In a jail cell, running for his life, he called on the Lord Jesus Christ to saved him. The Lord not only saved him but also delivered him and called him into the ministry to preach the gospel many years later. At the age of nineteen, on November 28, 1971 I gave my life to Jesus Christ and made Him my Lord and my Savior. I ended up getting married at nineteen and now I realize that this was a mistake. I was too young, just a 'kid' then but I tried to make it work, it was not easy. It ended in divorce after many years. There had always been problems; one was because I was too young myself and not really ready to get married at that age. Another reason was that I was eight years younger. Now let me tell you about my Church, the one that I belong to. I was taught to live a holy life, was taught about Jesus but was not taught that He was God but that he was lesser. That He was created by God. I was also taught about the Holy Spirit, - not as God or as a person but just the power of God. Just the power of God at work. Speaking in tongues was not allowed. It was taught to be a lesser gift and one that you did not really need. Was also taught against women preachers, taught that not too many churches or ministers were right or real with God. We had no real fellowship with any other church. It was as though we were the only ones that were right. It came to a point that head minister and what he said was law, almost as though he was God himself. Now do not get me wrong. The minister lived a clean godly life. He also helped many people but some of his views and actions that I saw and felt were wrong. For me, I guess because I did study my Bible and with a lot of prayer, I did not agree with a lot of his views. I saw that Jesus was God and that the Holy Spirit was a real person and that He was God the Spirit. I also saw that speaking in tongues was one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I also saw in the Old Testament and New Testament that God did use women in special ways. Now, my wife and the majority in the church had most of their faith in the head minister and it was like he was almost God. What he said was taken as the absolute truth because many of the church members did not study the Bible for themselves. But what I am about to tell you had a big effect on my marriage, it brought a lot of conflicts because of the things that happened to me. As I write this, I have now been living by myself since December 10, 1999. Each day I thank the Lord for His love and mercy that He has for me and His keeping power that has kept me from falling. Looking back to the year 1990 and the months of June and July, I became very restless in my Christian walk. I felt like something was missing in my Christian walk. I could not put my finger on the problem or what was really missing. I just felt like I wanted to do more and get closer to the Lord, but I did not know how to go about getting any closer to Him. Just thinking back, I had been a Christian since November 28, 1971 and I knew that I was born again. I already knew that I was saved. However, looking over my life, I felt like I had not done my all for the Lord. Now I had read my Bible a lot and prayed and shared about my faith. I had spoken to a lot of people about the love of Christ and how to be born again. Now when July came around, I was really praying a lot and calling on the Lord Jesus to help me to draw nearer to him. About the last two weeks of July I would wake up around three o'clock in the morning and sensed that deep down inside me a voice would be speaking to me about how Holy God is. This went on for about three weeks. I went on a three and a half days of fasting and prayed to the Lord that he would answer my prayers. Up to this time I had already fasted four days and two and a half days in my Christian life. On Saturday August 11th about 10:30 in the morning I was in prayer I don't know how long I had been praying when I felt like power coming all over me and I felt like a coal of fire went into my chest.It burnt but it did not hurt and I felt great joy. It felt like I was being born again of the Holy Spirit. This feeling lasted for a few hours. I began to praise the Lord for about three hours. The next day was Sunday and I was glad. When I went to church the next day the Lord blessed me to have a word and I felt the Holy Spirit speaking thought my voice to the church. Monday I did not go to work. I stayed at home and I felt so much peace inside me. I knew that the experience that I had was not a normal one but one out of the ordinary to me. I stayed home from work on Tuesday also. I felt so much joy and peace I was so happy. When I went to bed on Tuesday night, I put my Bible on my chest and began to pray and call on each of the brothers and sisters in Christ from my church by name. It seemed like just a few hours had passed. When I closed my eyes, I felt like I was floating and when I open my eyes, I was still laying in my bed. I closed my eyes again and I began to float again. I had great peace of mind and spirit. When I stopped praying, I began to look up and meditate on the Lord for a while. After that, there appeared a hole in the ceiling and then a beam of light like fire came down through the hole in the ceiling and flew around and went back up through the hole and disappeared. I could not believe what I was seeing So I got out of my bed and switched off on the light. I started talking to myself about what I had just seen then after a while, I went back to bed. While laying there in bed thinking on what had just happen, the room began to change. It became jet black and it got real cloudy something like smoke. After some time, a large beam of light came down into my bedroom. I did not know what to think or do so I just lay there and looked at the strange sight. Now, the beam of light that came into my room suddenly appeared like two eyes then the beam disappeared. I felt good within but was afraid at the same time. The room began to get cloudy again then two beams of light came down from the ceiling. An image or a spirit appeared in the beam of light then disappeared. The room got jet black afterward and then became very cloudy. More beams of light would come and go. This went on for most of the night. I had the feeling that this was too much for me to be able to deal with. An image or spirit came down, it had eyes like fire and flew around. Later, a picture appeared on the wall in my bedroom. It appeared as though clouds were in the picture. The picture became blue and the image of a man's face appeared in the picture and different faces appeared in the picture. I just kept on looking. I thought, "what is next? This is hard to believe!" It was difficult to believe that this was happening to me. What must I do or who could I tell? Who would believe me if I told them? I was afraid. I did not know what to do. The picture disappeared and the room became jet black. A spirit got close to my face and then another image stood in the door way. It seemed to have many little wings. It turned left and it turn right. Light was going on and off. It had eyes. I said to myself, "I will be glad when morning comes", because this went on all night long. I tried to close my eyes not to see any more but with my eyes closed I could still see as if my eyes were still open. As though my eyes went blind then became clear. Different images kept flying around. The image never talked but there was so much power in the room. I began to ask the Lord to help me because I didn't understand what was really going on in my bedroom.I was afraid and wanted to know why this was happening to me. On Wednesday morning about eight o'clock I called my pastor to let him know what had happen to me. He said it was truly a revelation. He said that I could talk about it at church that night. When my wife came home from work, I told her about it. She just listens to what I had to say. When my wife left home, I lay back down on the bed and it seemed like it moved. I felt like I should close my eyes. When I lay back down and closed my eyes, I began to float again. I felt peace with my eyes closed. I saw something like a bright image and I was with the image going way up above the clouds. We kept on going up to what seemed to be real brightness. Later, when my wife came home I became restless. I would lay down then I would get up. Lay down and get up again. Walk around, lay back down and get back up again. So I decided lay back down in daylight. I saw another image that appeared like a door with a light and it would change. I closed my eyes again and saw an explosion. As I travelled, I saw a building like a dome with a golden roof on top. When I got to church that night the pastor met me. He huged me and said that I had the power of God in my life. In church we had some other brothers give their testimonies how the Lord was working in their lives. When the pastor got ready to pray I closed my eyes. With my eyes closed, I saw a vision of the pastor and a group marching down the isle of the church. After I finished speaking, the pastor got up with a lesson on angels and bared witness of what I had said had happened to me, and that he was going to make me a minister. Because of what had happened to me I said I did not want to be a minister. When I got home from church and went to bed after prayer, I saw a spirit come near me. It had blue coals of fire in each hand and put them into my eyes; and my eyes burnt but they did not hurt. So later that night, I felt something go under the bed and I heard something like the sound of wings flapping. I was still awake with my eyes shut and the bed seemed to be moving. The next morning I went to work. At work, whenever I closed my eyes, I would begin to travel. Later sitting in my car, a cloud formed on the window of my car and a face looked at me and changed. I felt like it was evil. Later the pastor had me to come by his house to talk to some of my brother and sister in Christ. At the pastor's house, I went to use the rest room. Now in the rest room, I had a bad feeling come all over me. I felt so weak I didn't know what it was. After I had left the pastor's house I still felt very weak. When I went to work the next day, I still had that same weak feeling. I went next door to the rest room. As soon as I walked into the rest room , it looked like the shadow of a man was standing by the wall. It threw something at me and it seemed to have hit me in my chest. Afterwards, all the weak feeling left me and I felt joy again and the spirit just disappeared. When I went to bed after switching off the light, the room became bright for about ten minutes then it would get dark and cloudy. Soon after, a spirit would appear to be floating like it was vibrating. It looked like a vapor mixed with fog with eyes the color was blue, white with a spark of red. The room seemed to be filled with power and peace. When I closed my eyes I could still see the vapor with eyes closed. I began to travel with the image. I saw many things. At one time I opened my eyes and I was in space. I saw the whole earth. It was below, I was traveling in space. I don't know how I got up there or got back in my bed. When Saturday evening came, a brother in Christ came to use the phone. My wife was cooking. Two water glasses were sitting on the table. When I began to look at the glasses, a cloud formed on one of them. Then it turned into a face. The face looked like a beast. It was black with dark red eyes and had three horns. It had a head with horns. A crown of gold was on each horn and it kept looking at me. I asked my wife and the brother that was using the phone if they saw the face on the glass. They looked and said that they did not see anything on the glass. They could not. Soon after, a crystal clear form of a man appeared inside the other glass. I don't know how long it lasted. I cannot say but I felt inside that this was the devil being manifest in two forms. As evil and as an angel of light. When I went to bed that night, my bedroom became ice cold, - the kind of cold that is hard to believe at that time of the year. It was the kind of cold that would have your bones freezing; remember that this was not winter, it was August. When I got to church on Sunday and saw the pastor's face I felt like some thing was wrong. Like someone had been talking to the pastor about me and about my experiences. The pastor said he would make me a trustee instead of a minister. I could not understand the change and it hurt me. The pastor told me in front of the church that the Lord was not using me to show him how to live in the spirit world. I was crushed. I could not understand how he said that it was a calling at one time and now it seemed to be a curse. He did not say this with words but this is how I felt. I had only told him what had happened to me. I never told him that I wanted be a minister or anything at all. He act to me like I had done some thing that was very wrong. I was glad when church let out for the day. I felt a change in my spirit, I could not put my finger on it. Now I felt that the devil was rejoicing at me because he had worked and it really hurt. Now that I was down in my spirit, the devil took advantage of my feelings and made me not understand. For some reason, about a week later, the pastor called for me to come over to his house so that we could talk. I went and he asked me to tell him more of the things that were happening to me. So, I told him. Later that night, one of his ministers came by his house and began to tell him that I had ran into God and also the devil. He began to tell me how he had got saved about hearing the voice of the Lord, how his hair stood up on his arms. But he did not see anything. So I told him that I did not say what had happened to me was greater than what had happened to him. I only told about what I had seen. That is when I knew that someone had been talking to him about what had happened to me and it hurt. It has really hindered things for me. I would like to say before I go on that the first six weeks of my experience I got only about eight hours of sleep in about a six weeks' time. The image started to change when I went to bed and put off the light. The ceiling would disappear The face of the sky would appear in my bed room as if it was outside at night. I would also hear the sounds of the night. I would hear this sound like a wind. The face of the sky would appear in my room. Different spirit images would appear, for example, a lion passing before my eyes and thendisappear. Some times I would feel some thing go under the bed and I would hear something close to the sound wings flapping and it felt like the bed would be moving. Now back at work at lunch time, I lay back to rest and I closed my eyes for a while. Next thing I knew I would be floating and see the vapor like image traveling places. I would feel this vibrating power like pure electric. I could not move but my whole body would be vibrating. Sometime when I felt this pure vibrating, three of my watches did stop working and could not be fixed. With my eyes closed, I would still be traveling, and when I would pray I would feel like two hands on my head. Later things started to change in my bedroom. For about eight nights, remember I described how the ceiling would disappear and the face of the sky would appear? Now a creature would appear like in the Book of Revelations where it talks about the locust. Had hair like a woman's and teeth of a lion, had a breastplate, had two wings and a crown on it's head. I remember the first time I saw it coming from the sky into my room and flew in my face. I did not know what to do. I kept asking the Lord to help me but it seemed like God was not there. This happened about eight times. The last time the locust came into my room it moved under my bed cover. I turned the cover back real fast. I saw a cloud laying in my bed the locusts came up out the cloud Man afterwards, I lost it. I began to cry I felt that I was at wit's end, no hope not anyone to hear or care. After crying for a while, I then felt a being in my bed holding me and taking all my fears away. It seemed like He held me for a long time. I talked to him and told him about all my fears. I do not know for how long I lay there before I went to sleep. When I went back to church I did not want to say a word. You could tell that I had been the subject. Main talk sometime I would feel someone tap me on my shoulder when I would turn to see no one was there. This worried me a lot. I was at a crossroad in my life and did not know what to do or where to go for help. Now my room at night became jet blue then a strong arm would grab me and take me up out of my bed. I would try to get loose but did not have enough strength. I would be flying then I would black out. This happened to me many times. I wanted to talk to someone that could help me. I began to read many books about peoples' testimonies. I started watching the 700 club on tv people would be giving their testimonies about being raised from the dead; people being healed and other strange stories. People being deliver from evil spirits, people seing Angels, and going to heaven. I said to myself, "Maybe they can help me." So I called them on the phone and talked to a lady and she said that she was glad that I had called. I told her my story and when I had finished telling her my story she told me that she felt that when the Lord gets finished with my life that I would have a great testimony. I was glad that I called. Later I called David Wilkerson's ministry. I wanted to talk to Mr. Wilkerson about myself but he was not there he was out of town ministing. But one of his members prayed for me that the Lord would bless me. I prayed to the Lord that if he let me find another real church somewhere else that I would leaves but the Lord did not lead me to go somewhere else. I met Mahesh Chavda when he came to Austin Texas. I had seen him on the 700 club program. I had already read his book. He began to call people to come up for prayer I went up there to be prayed for. He looked at me and said the Lord was doing something in my life. After that meeting I also met Johanna michaelsen the author of "The Beautiful Side of Evil". I told her my story. After hearing my story her husband prayed for me. Then I also went to meet with the full gospel business men. At their fellowship I met with them on Saturday for about six weeks. I felt like I was all alone. No one understood what I was going through. The devil made his presence known. He made the grounds shake under my feet and would not let me sleep and I must say that some times I could not tell whether I was dreaming or was wide awake. I saw myself fighting a snake that I could see through. My wife said she came home one day and I was asleep. She said I just sat up in the bed and pointed my finger at some thing she could not see and began to speak in another language and when I had finished, I just lay back down. Unto this day I cannot remember this. I almost forgot that one night my wife was asleep and I was laying beside her. I felt something next to me I slowly turned my head and there was a figure laying beside me. I turned back around but every time I turned back around it was still there. I don't know how long it stayed. Doing this time looked like the room was moving at great speed going down. A power set me up in bed one night and I began to spin around for a while. I kept saying, "I am not asleep", this went on for a while and I began to ask the Lord what this meant and why it was happening to me. I said, "I was trying to get closer to you Lord what have I done wrong? I am sorry, please forgive me." Sometimes at work my chair would feel alive. Sometime I would see what looked like a demon. Sometimes at home also I saw it there. I could look in the mirror and it would appear behind me. I prayed many prayers. Sometimes I stayed at Denny restaurant, sometimes at ihop restaurant so that I could be around people and not be alone. No one understood how I was feeling. One brother in Christ told me the Lord showed him I needed a friend. Sometimes he would call or come by to check on me. This experience lasted about thirteen months. One day I recall I was not floating any more. I was not seeing spirits any more yet I did not know why it happened. I knew I would never be the same until I got some answers. So I started reading many books. I hate to say this. Me and the pastor never had good communication until his death in 1994. Before he died, I went to see him and I told him I was sorry if I had done anything he felt I had done to offend him. Years later whenever I prayed or thought of the Lord I would feel a lot of heat come all over me and get into my eyes. Here, it was the year 2002. I just went on a three days and half fast. About two days I was given great joy and later the powerful electrify feeling grabbed me and I began to vibrate until I could not move myself freely. I did not know what the Lord had in store for me. A brother in Christ kept telling me to write my story but I kept putting it off. I told him that people would not believe it, that they would think that I was crazy. But the brother would not take no for an answer. So I just prayed about it. I had forgotten a lot of details but when I set down to write, a lot came back to me. Some incidents that I had forgotten came back to me and still I did not tell it all. In august 2001, I was playing basketball when a youngman came up to me in a group of guys playing ball. He asked me what church I attended. I thought it was strange that he asked me this out of a group of ball players. I asked him why he was asking me about what church I was going to. And this is what he said; that when I was standing up, he saw a tall angel standing behind me. I had never seen the youngman before but I told him where I went to church and that if he wanted to go, I would pick him up. I had been down in my spirit when I went to the ball park. But when I left the park I rejoiced in the Lord because He had not forgotten me. This story is true. When you feel no one cares about you like I felt many times, call on Jesus Christ. He may not come when you want him to come but he is always on time. This is a true story, my story. The story of Robert Minnick. On September 4, 2003 I had a dream. In the dream I saw minister Benny Hinn. He was at his church and his people were dancing and praising the Lord for a while. Later, I came and talked to him. After that he wanted me to bring the message on his TV program. On his program, I got up to speak on the great I AM. I started talking about when Moses saw Him. As I talked, pastor Hinn was talking like he was happy with what I was saying as I started telling them what I came out of and what the Lord had done for me. Pastor Hinn's wife huged me and I fell down under the power of God and I began to weep for a long time. Later in my dream, I saw brother Credic Hill. He was talking about leaving for Atlanta when he got his money. He prayed for me and said that the Lord was putting something in my life. I told him that that had already happened to me in a dream when Benny Hinny prayed for me. I would like to say that as of the year 2004, I have had peace in my heart. I have had Bible studies in two homes, taught Sunday school for the youth for about ten months. As of now, I have written about two hundred Bible lessons the Holy Spirit has given me since 2002. I have worked in the Billy Graham crusade, and still have had some spiritual things happen. I do remember at the beginning of November 2005 I felt like the Lord had given me a message to tell someone that I knew that was having trouble with his faith. But I did not want do it because I knew that he was going through a lot in his faith. I tried to tell the Lord about all the brother had been through as though the Lord did not know. So I did not obey on that night. However, very early the next mourning I was woken up out of sleep and inside my spirit I was given the message again. I got up out of my bed, went to my computer and wrote to this person. When I had finished writing, I got up and went back to bed. As soon as I had closed my eyes, I saw a light and the light began to form into a man. He had long hair and he put on a robe. I saw Him with stretched-out hands for only a few second then the light shot from Him to me, into my head. For about forty minutes, the light kept vibrating. I had great peace of mind. It was like the Lord was pleased with what I had done. To ascertain that it was the Lord, when I talked to the person, he agreed with everything that was said. I pray that whosoever reads this story will be blessed and helped by what has happened in my life. Love in Christ, Robert Minnick http://www.voicesoftruth.bravehost.com/

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