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My Spiritual Life was started in 1980 around winter as a struggling newlywed having married Sue in 1976 and getting a
bright idea to start out in business as a Carpenter and Joiner with impeccable timing the recession in the late 70s hit so
with very little experience and even less finance the cracks in our relationship became as wide as Grand Canyon.
By this time our first and only daughter Lisa was born in 1978 the pressures of life were beginning to take a toll, the straw
that broke the camels back was when Sue's brother who was living with us in Aldinga Beach and was a real support to us
both suddenly committed suicide we were in total disarray a sense of despair was so great that the very thought of God
was considered by us although as with so many men that was a women's thing.
Remembering back to those months when Sue was tormented by a sustained attack from something that we both denied
even existed we discovered that a spirit had taken up residence in our home, the nightly routine of barricading herself in
our bedroom and having the house lights on every one and the conversations and questions with Sue saying why and to
be quite honest I did not know any answers, the hair on the back of her neck being touched with no one there, Sue having
nightmares and seeing her brother hanging in a cupboard and screaming out in them except, Lisa was the one screaming.
The chap who I worked for was not paying us regularly at all and was in a position of power over me as there was no work
for building workers to be found, the turning point in all this was a chance? Encounter with a lay paster who upon hearing
our story offered to pray through the house with us when Sue asked me if this was OK, my smart alek answer was I don't
give a stuff it might help you! So the next night they came and talked with us and then proceeded to pray in every room of
the house much to my humorous attitude when they left I remember them saying to Sue when the attacks come just call out
to Jesus and he will reveal himself to you.
Well I do not think that a day or two passed when the normal pattern of our lives was turned upside down 6.00am off to
work, home 6.30pm pitch dark and there was our home lit up like a Christmas tree, doors locked. Having got to sleep about
1 or 2 am after trying to answer the unanswerable, when the most incredible thing had happened the night before as I was
leaving for work, Sue raced out of the bedroom declaring the she had met Jesus Christ and that he had stretched out his
hands and touched Sue and she felt all the pain and suffering leave here and that she was healed.
Well you would think that I would have been Happy as Larry, but all I could say was that she was cracked in the head and
should go to Glenside! loving husband huh.Well as I told my work mates we all joked about my crackpot wife and to make
sure that she was really healed, I came home later than normal and as I walked to the front door only half the lights were
on. As I entered the passage of our home Sue walked out of our darkened bedroom exclaiming, Hi Barry. Well I just was
stunned she was healed she then proceeded to inform me that she was going to attend church,well as long as I didn't
have to go that was ok.
Well she did continue to attend church and I started to go to the night services which were lively and well attended
my day of calling out to Jesus came and now after some 24 years and loving the relationships he has taught me along the
way! You may find our story incredible but every person who calls out to Jesus Christ shall be saved! Did all our faults and
trials disappear NO! But when you enroll in the school of the spirit you will never be the same.
I have found that life without Jesus as Lord to be no life at all,
If you find the truth the truth shall set you free.
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