Apostle Samuel McDowell Shelton
My Holy Father,

These are visions which the Lord has given to me through you.

There was rambling in front of the room, someone was seeking to kill me. Then there came a man with a large knife and went pass me because I was moving, in the room to devour my wife. I heard her scream and ran into the room, the man turned and stabbed me into the abdomen, I fell to the floor, but was not dead. The man turned again to devour my wife but I regained my strength and tussled him until I won. My spirit was then lifted and I was carried over the dead, burned, and ugly places of the earth and I cried out because of the ugliness of the earth. Then the Lord answered me, saying, "You crieth because you have not seen the beauty of the earth." And I said to him, "When shall I see the beauty of the earth," and he said, "Honor me, praise me, glorify me, obey me, and you shall see the beauty of the earth." And I said, "I honor you, praise, and glorify you and love you."

Sorrow is upon my Blessedness................

Then my spirit was lifted and I was again in war with Satan. There were two women trying to hold me down but I fought to get up because the spirit was in me. I spoke out saying, "come fight me, for the spirit has given me power and I have no fear." Then great evil spiritual forces began coming up after me but I spoke out, "In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I cast out devils." The evil forces tried again and again but I spoke out in the Lord Jesus name. There was power given to me from Father Blessedness, from God almighty, power was in that name. Then because the evil forces could not devour me. Satan materialized and occupied a body or a body that I could see. And he stood there with a small stick in his hand seeking to deceive me, saying, "you had better not do that again because one of us could have gotten hurt," "for the man came with a rock in his hand to kill you." But I spoke nothing, suddenly I saw Blessedness standing on my right hand side. The power from Blessedness, the power from God raised my hand and great spiritual power came from them and the heavens lighted up and a bright light came down through Blessedness from God and took hold of Satan and burned him black. And he appeared before my window in the form of a black bat with human head but extremely weak. All through the vision I was calling my wife, then I felt myself enter my body and I called her and she arose. I knew then I had left my body but I could feel the functioning thereof.

Sorrow is upon my Blessedness.............

There were two clowns entertaining the people, the saints, and they were laughing and enjoying themselves. The saints were in joy and merry.

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