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 Angelic
Visitation
SACRAMENTO,
CA — While in California Jim Goll related a
story of how the Presence of God came to his
wife for a period of time that lasted nine
weeks.
EDITOR’S
NOTE: We found this to be very interesting
and will relate the story as written in the
book called, "The Lost Art of
Intercession." The following is an
excerpt of the words of Jim and Michal Ann
Goll.
On
October 6, 1992, at 11:59 p.m., I was suddenly
awakened by a crash of lightning that brightly
illuminated our bedroom. It was the Day of
Atonement, the ancient day of sacrifice,
salvation, and new beginnings observed by Jews
around the world for thousands of years. In
the eerie flickering light in our backyard I
saw a man standing in our room. He looked
strangely at me. I blinked and looked at him
again, and he continued to look at me for what
seemed like the longest minute of my life.
Then I heard the words, "Watch your wife.
I’m about to speak to her." Michal Ann
was still asleep when the being spoke to me,
but when the clock reached the midnight hour,
the manifested appearance seemed to leave the
room. I could sense the being’s presence
although I could no longer see him. Michal Ann
instantly woke up, and trembling in the fear
of the Lord, I whispered to her, "An
angel has just come!" Together we shook
in the bed with the covers pulled up right to
our faces for the next 30 minutes. Tyler, our
four-year-old son, had moved to our room when
he had become frightened by the storm, and he
was asleep on the floor on my side of the bed
through the whole ordeal. For some reason, I
floated off to sleep for a while without
telling Michal Ann what the "man"
had said. She was now left wide awake as the
sense of the presence increased and I
slumbered away.
While I slept, the Holy Spirit began to move
upon Michal Ann in some rather unusual ways.
At one point she felt a hand in the middle of
her back exerting great pressure, and she
heard herself moaning and groaning as the
activity increased. It was so intense that she
was afraid to even look at herself in the
mirror, thinking she might discover that her
hair had turned white or the appearance of her
face had been dramatically rearranged. Just as
this portion of the intense encounter came to
an end, I woke up again. A light was shining
over our bedroom dresser. We continued to
tremble as the fear of the Lord was ever so
strong. We tossed up a feeble prayer and said,
"Lord, if this visitation is of You, then
cause one of our children to have a dream
about an angel to confirm this visitation. We
waited and quietly prayer, "Oh God, oh
God, oh God!" I think we identified with
the old gospel hymn, "Were You
There" in the line where it says,
"sometimes He cause me to tremble,
tremble, tremble." I then fell asleep for
the rest of the night, but Michal Ann was left
alone again until 5:00 a.m. with God’s
terrifying Presence thick in the room.
Later that morning we awakened to find Tyler
standing right beside me, and he said, "I
had a dream last night that an angel come and
visited our house." Justin, our first
born, was asleep in his room right above us on
the second floor. He was all excited that
morning when he told us that he, too, had a
dream that angels had come. In the dream he
was shown a white horse that was being
prepared for a mission that was yet to come.
Interesting, huh? Michal Ann was shown the
same horse when at one point she seemed to
have been "taken up in the Spirit."
How comforting and reassuring this was! God
was watching over His Word to perform it.
Remember, when something is truly of the Lord,
He will confirm it by the witness of two or
three.
Although
we were somewhat already versed in the
supernatural activities of the Holy Spirit,
this was a totally new league. But it’s
interesting to note, that in the summer of
1992, I had a dream in which the Lord
instructed me to study the ministry and
function of angels. I avidly read all the
scriptures on the subject and every book that
I could find. I thought it was an interesting
assignment, but I had no idea that in the fall
of that year our household would become a
"visitation ground" for angels. Nor
would I have guessed that for the following
nine weeks the visitation would center
primarily on my wife. Here are some of the
things that happened during the next nine
weeks of visitation as told by Michal Ann Goll.
"I
heard a spiritual song in my sleep that I just
couldn’t figure out. It bothered me so much
that I woke up. The singer in this dream sang,
‘Where is my bride, o my God?" I
pondered those words over and over until I
finally realized that it was Jesus who was
singing the song. I was getting some clarity
on some of the issues brought up by the Holy
Spirit at that point, but it was very
overwhelming. I didn’t know what to do with
the song, and this really bothered me because
I felt that it had much to do with Jesus’
return to claim His spotless Bride, the
Church.
"The
problem is that as a Bride we don’t know
what we should look like, and we don’t
really know what our Groom looks like either.
He is coming, and we don’t intimately know
who He is! I felt a deep burden to search out
His face and to know Him just for His sake. As
if in answer to my quest, the Lord sent
angelic visitors into our bedroom night after
night for the next nine weeks, and each time
they came, they ushered the manifest Presence
of God. This weighty glory of God was almost
unbearable to me. I was scared out of my wits
because the fear of the Lord was so intense.
"One
time I saw 12 fireballs literally arc through
the room and hit me squarely in the chest.
Their impact electrified my body and made me
wonder if I was going to survive the
experience. Before the arrival of the Presence
each night, I would earnestly pray to
experience God’s fullness again. As His
glory filled my bedroom, I would feel the
pressing weight of His holiness and begin to
cry out, ‘Please Lord, I can’t take
anymore! I think I am going to die!’
"Finally,
the Lord said, ‘Ann, do you want Me to come
or not?’ I took several days to think over
this question because I was just so
overwhelmed by the intensity of His Presence.
In His mercy, the Lord brought me to a place
where I had to decide what really mattered the
most to me. He was no longer willing to let me
just waffle back and forth from day to day and
retreat into my excuses and fears. Perhaps it
was a form of the ‘Mount Moriah’ test and
God wanted to see if I was willing to climb
upon the altar of God myself as a living
sacrifice. Finally, the Lord confronted me
with a choice—not a choice between salvation
or damnation, for I was already forgiven and
saved since a child—but a choice to make
between what I had already experienced and
what God longed yet to impart to me. The
problem was that He wanted me to empty my
hands before He filled them with something
greater. He asked me, ‘Well, what do you
want?’ "Finally, I responded to Him in
the way He always wanted me to respond. I
said, ‘Well Lord, if I live, I live; and if
I die, I die, but I really, really want You to
come.’ Angelic visitors continued to visit
our bedroom regularly. They still visit on
occasion. In every case, they always speak of
the things that are nearest and dearest to the
heart of God. At times we are struck with
ecstasy, and at other times we are struck low
with the fear of God and stark revelation of
our sinfulness compared to His incomparable
holiness and beauty.
"
I came out of these times of visitation with a
burden to help men and women get ready for His
coming—His intimate, personal coming. Every
time that I hear some of the songs we sing
with incredible words and melodies about
intimacy with God, I tremble. When we sing,
‘Oh Lord, let me feel the kisses of Your
mouth, let me feel Your warm embrace, feel the
tenderness of Your touch’ and the like,
I’m convinced experientially that we have no
idea what His kiss is like!
"Just
as I pulled back when the manifest Presence of
God entered my room with unexpected results,
we as a corporate body of believers often
recoil when He really answers our sung prayers
and touches us with His glory and fire! We
back up and say, ‘No! You’re coming too
close.’ Meanwhile, God is saying, ‘ Do you
realize that all of those songs you’ve been
singing to Me are arousing My love? I am
coming to you and you don’t even know that
it’s Me.’ "
Jim
Goll said this about his wife’s visitations
at their home: After the most intense period
of these angelic visitations had passed, I
walked into our kitchen one night, looked at
Michal Ann, and said, "I just don’t
know who you are anymore." She looked at
me and replied, "I just don’t know who
I am becoming." Since then, I’ve seen a
new depth of raw power and spiritual authority
rise up in Michal Ann’s life. God imparted
something to her that allows her to see past
the barriers of fear, and she is able to
minister security, hope, and destiny with
authority. Even people who have never known
Michal Ann before recognize that Someone or
something incredible has totally transformed
her into a mighty woman and minister of God.
This highlights one of the most dynamic roles
of supernatural encounters in our lives.
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