The following is an
excerpt from one of Vicky's books, "Only Believe Volume
One". For more information on this and other
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In
The Fog, There Was a Vision…
Vicky, lift your
hands.
Okay, Lord.
Sitting on the second
row, a woman I didn’t know began to sob quietly and mumble something
unintelligible. With my hands lifted up, I continued to sing as I stood
before the small group gathered at that weekend retreat in northern Missouri
about seven years ago. The fact that I didn’t know what the Lord was doing
was not important. What mattered was that I be obedient to what He asked me
to do.
For the sake of
anonymity, I will call the woman Paula. When I was able to speak with her
after the service, she told me what she had seen during that song.
She said that when I
lifted my hands, an angel stepped into the room behind me. Looking up toward
heaven, the angel also had uplifted hands. The angel seemed to be holding
something large and round.
As I sang, the round
space the angel held filled with a light fog. In the center of the fog, a
vision appeared in which a woman wearing sweats stood before the throne of
God.
Unwilling to lift her
head because of the deep shame she felt for the life she had lived, the woman
stood there crying before the King of kings. She was deeply humbled as she
waited in the presence of God, for she was one who had been a prostitute, a
drug addict, and an alcoholic. Molested as a child and raped as a teenager
and adult, she had gone on to marry and divorce five men. She killed five of
her babies while they were still in her womb and didn’t bother to raise the
three living children she’d given birth to, leaving them with their fathers
instead so that she could do whatever she wanted with her life. She had
cheated, stolen, lied, damaged many lives, and had tried just about every sin
there was to try.
And, although she had
finally surrendered her life to God, loving and serving Him for the rest of
her days, the awareness of her sins left her feeling completely undeserving of
being in His presence. For here in this place was the One Who knew her even
more intimately than she knew herself, and loved her still…
