What a sweetie you are, Reni!  First of all, thank you very much for your kind words of encouragement!  You know how Satan loves to make us think we don't make a bit of difference to anyone!  And the prayers are ALWAYS welcome, too!!!
 
Richard & I have been being told (in our spirit) quite a bit over the last couple of years to "come out from amonst them", and warned of quite a lot of other things in these last days.  You might be right!  Since I rededicated my life to Yahshua in 2002, and Richard in 2001, the Spirit has changed us to such a HUGE degree, from the inside-out, that our families hardly recognize us!  My first touch of the Lord came to me in 1979.  My daughter, Shelly, was 7 years old, and son Michael was 4.  Shelly was out of school and me out of work that particular day due to the fact that it was Memorial Day.  I had laryngitis at the time which had hung around for 2 weeks already, and I couldn't speak above a whisper.  I was beginning to get frightened, because 2 weeks is a LONG time to be that bad.  My ex and I had been seeking a church at the time, and had been trying Lakewood Church in Houston.  I hated it, because during "Pastor" Osteen's "healing" part of the service, he never gave the glory for the "healings" to Yahweh, but instead gave himself all the glory.  That was my first clue that he wasn't a godly man. That and the fact that they embraced any and all religions.  So needless to say, I became skeptical of "healings".  Anyway, I digress.  <grins>  While we were home that day, the phone rang.  I picked it up and whispered, "Hello."  The voice on the other end asked me what was wrong and I told her.  She said she was from The 700 Club (which I was a member of at the time), and that she needed to confirm my address.  She said that after she did so, she would pray for my healing.  She finished taking the info from me, then began praying about the laryngitis.  As she did so, Shelly ran into the room to tell me something.  I stuck my left arm out toward her to tell her to be quiet, and when I did, this warm tingly heat entered at my fingertips, went up over my arm, across my throat, and kept tingling there.  I knew what it was instinctively, but it still freaked me out, and I was looking all around the room.  As soon as she same "amen", I said, "Thank you!" in my normal voice!!!
 
The second touch was the physical hug He gave Shelly & I (me in the hospital hallway, and Shelly at home) the night before my only grandbaby died at a week old (Shelly's baby), in 1993, due to hospital negligence.  I literally felt His arms enclose me, and I've never felt such love and peace.  That hug is what got us through the funeral and afterwards.
 
I didn't feel another physical touch until 2002, when I gave up drinking (I'd been a heavy drinker for 30 years at the time) and began writing poetry for Him and living for Him.  One week  not long after that happened, for 7 days straight, each night between 6 and 7, sitting in the living room with Richard watching TV, the Holy Spirit entered my RIGHT arm, starting at the fingertips and working up over my shoulder.  Each night, this would last approximately 5 minutes.  On Day 6, He didn't stop at my shoulder, but went over my heart and JOLTED me!  I even yelped "Oh!", it was so intense.  After that week, I would receive that same feeling (never again over the heart though) sporadically.  Also that year, the Spirit was on my tongue and in my throat, but only once.  Since then, whenever I've gotten still and quiet (which doesn't happen much with me!), I feel Him tickling in my right ear.  Richard says since I have spiritual ears, He's talking to me, but I don't stay quiet long enough to find out what He's saying.  And often at work, when I've been typing all day on a proposal or something, He will massage me between my shoulder blades, and the tightness and pain there will leave when He's done.  Recently I felt Him in my spleen... the reason I say spleen is that the spleen is the ONLY thing in that area of the human body.
 
Richard doesn't feel physical touches, but sometimes the Lord fills his heart with such intense love for Him that his heart feels it's going to burst!  And he also talks to me through Richard... one of the Gifts He gave to Richard is Wisdom.  And He speaks to Richard in dreams, visions, and praying.
 
Well, I'd best close this "book", and get back to work.  I love you all in Him, and hope to meet you SOON in the clouds of glory!!!
YSIY!
Peggy
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