The Damascus road experience.

I don't usually post on a weekend, but today is a special day for me. Today 20 years ago the Lord saved me out of a life of hard core drug addiction. I had been taught about the Lord growing up but I never knew Him. After losing my brother in a tragic motor bike accident, an abusive relationship and atraumatic pregnancy, at the age of 21 tried to take my own life. Then twice more after that. In my state of rejection, abandonment and unshed grief I started down the ugly road of drug addiction. I used every drug I could get my hands on to try and ease the pain. It would make me feel better for a while and then I would just have to start using more and more to numb the pain. I spiralled down as i moved from lighter drugs to crack cocaine . I sold my soul to the devil. He had me good and solid. What started out as one night of fun turned into a ten year journey into hell and back.

On 25/04/1999 a friend invited me to church. She had been inviting me for two years, but I didn't want to know about God. This day was different. For some reason I started getting ready for church not knowing that this day would change my life forever. When I got to church I felt so uncomfortable. I was nothing but a shell. Everything on the inside of me had died. I weighed 42kg. I was basically a walking skeleton. The praise and worship made me uncomfortable. The day before I went to church I was using drugs and someone I was using with said to me: isn't it strange how we never consider the consequences. I had never thought of that before. But then the pastor started preaching. The very first thing he said was: today I'm going to be preaching on Consider the consequences.!! My ears pricked up and I listened intently to the whole service. At the end of the service they had the altar call. I had no intentions of putting my hand up. All of a sudden I started weeping. I cried and cried and then almost as if someone had lifted my arm, I found my hand up in the air. The next thing there was an usher to walk me to the front. But I never saw an usher, I saw an angel and I never walked to the front, I was too weak. In the spirit i felt myself being carried. I know now that it was Jesus Himself that carried me to the front. There I gave my life to Him.

I wish I could say it was all plain sailing from there, but that would be a lie. I spent the next 3 - 4 years still battling my addiction. I was in for the biggest fight of my life. The fight for my soul. You see up until then I had been on the devils playground so he wasn't worried about me. But when I gave my life to the Lord the devil fought harder than you can imagine to try and win me back to his kingdom. It was in this time that I found myself once again high on drugs and asking myself why and how?? I landed up in a strange house and there I found an old bible lying on the table. I randomly opened it and God immediately spoke to me. I had opened it up on Acts 26:16 at Paul's Damascus road experience. As I read the words I I heard: "Mandy Mandy why are you persecuting Me? You are hurting yourself by kicking against the goads. Who are you Lord I said. And the Lord answered, I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. But get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as My servant. You are to tell others what you have seen of Me today and what I will show you in the future. I will rescue you from the people of Israel and from the gentiles to whom I will send you. You are to open their eyes and turn them from the darkness into the light and from the power of satan to God, so that through their faith in Me they will have their sins forgiven and receive their place among God's chosen people. "

This scripture spoke deep into my heart and I knew that God had called me. I spent the next 18 months in a Christian rehab getting my act together. There God did a deep healing work in me. He never left a stone unturned. I had to forgive people who had harmed me even though they weren't sorry and ask for forgiveness for all of my sins, which were many. God was faithful and forgave my sins and blessed me with a new life.

Since then I have been faithfully serving Him. In 2014 He gifted me with the prophetic anointing and I immediately began prophesying. In 2015 I received my prophetic mantle from Prophet Russ Walden at Fathers Heart Ministry and on Easter Monday this year the Lord took me up in the spirit and personally gave me my prophetic mantle and anointed me and released me into the Office of the Prophet. I have been prophesying over the corporate body of Christ for 6 years now as well as giving individual personal prophecies.

The name of my ministry is Pearl Harbour Prophetic ministry because my ministry was birthed out of pain. Just like the beautiful pearl is formed by a grain of sand that gets into the oyster shell which causes the oyster pain. The oyster then secretes layers of shiny liquid to defend itself from the pain. So do we build layers around our pain, defence mechanisms, to protect ourselves from our pain if we dont know God. A harbour is a place of safety where ships and boats vo to rest or be restored after a long, sometimes treacherous journey. Jesus is that safe place/ harbour.

In 2017 the Lord showed me a very large angel. He told me that the angels name is Damascus and that that angel would be with me in my ministry to help bring people out of the Kingdom of darkness into His glorious light. He also showed me two more angels. The angel of salvation and the angel of miracles. He said that these two angels would also be with me. I am waiting on the Lord for His next instructions for my ministry.

When I went to thank Him in prayer this morning He gave me a gift. It was the gift of patience. He also gave me a beautiful black horse with wings to travel around when I engage with God in heaven. God is so good. He never stops giving.

So be encouraged today. You are never too far gone that the Lord cant bring you back. If He can do it for me He can do it for you.

Mandy Butler Galinos

Http://www.pearlharbourpropheticministry.com

25/04/2020