The Black Cloud


                               By Phil Scovell






     It was  Christmas.  My son was  about 9 years old.   He was sitting on
     the couch.  He said, "Dad, I think I have something wrong with one  of
     my eyes."

          "Why is that?" I asked; calmly.

          "Well,"  he said,  "I am  looking at  the Christmas  tree lights.
     When I cover  up one eye  and just look  with the one eye,  everything
     looks normal.  When I switch and look with the other eye open and  the
     other one covered, things look blurry."

          This got my attention  and my wife  and I became concerned  about
     his vision.  My retinal problems came  from my father and his side  of
     the family.   We always wondered, in  the back of our mind,  if any of
     our children would  have any problems with  their eyes.  So  far, they
     hadn't.  Now, we wondered.

          We  had changed  churches because  the Lord had  led us  into the
     baptism  of  the  Holy  Spirit.    If  we would  have  stayed  in  the
     independent Baptist  church we were  already in,  we eventually  would
     have been found out and asked to leave or denounce where  the Lord had
     led  us  spiritually.   Denouncing  the  Holy  Spirit, His  power  and
     ministry, isn't  something I  think I could  ever do  for any  reason.
     Thus, it was,  we began attending a church that the  Lord had shown me
     in a prophetic dream a year earlier.  The Lord had literally shown me,
     not  only what part of town  the church would be  in, but He literally
     revealed the name of the church to me in the dream.

          calling my pastor, I explained what my son had said and requested
     that the following Sunday, he be anointed with oil and prayed  over by
     the pastor and others in the church.  That next Sunday, we did exactly
     that.  I was one of those laying hands on my son.  This would not have
     been the first time my son was miraculously healed.

          Later, after  we were home  and church was  over, my son  told me
     something.  He described what happened to him as we all  prayed, after
     anointing him  with oil,  and laying  hands  on him.   He  said as  we
     prayed, he was looking  down the isle of the  church.  He saw a  small
     black cloud appear in front of him and  a few feet away.  It was about
     two or three feet off the floor.  It was in the  isle between the rows
     of pews.  As we all  prayed, he reported the cloud appearing as  if it
     were a cloud of black smoke, began moving away from everyone  down the
     isle.  I asked him what happened to it and he said, it eventually went
     out  the door; never  to return.   By the  way, he also  reported that
     covering his good eye  made no difference in how the other eye now saw
     things normally.  In other  words, it was just  as clear as his  other
     eye.  He is now almost 30 years of age and his eyes are fine.

          I feel sorry for those of our Christian brothers and  sisters who
     no longer believe miracles happen today because that died out with the
     last apostle, whoever he was.


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