Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.” Psalm 66:16

After all these years of seeing Him work, How could I not proclaim the works that the Lord has done in my life and in the lives of my family? The Lord God came through for us over and over again in astoundingly amazing and miraculous ways, even amongst sorrows and troubles and dire circumstances. We remain continually in a state of amazement and awe at what He has done in our lives and We cherish the hard times we have had more than the times of prosperity, because of the miraculous hand of Almighty God that we have seen in those times. How could I not tell the world of the wondrous things that God has done in our lives?

The testimonies of our life experiences with God may at first bring about disappointment (you saying: Why has God not done miraculous things like this in my life?) or it may bring about jealousy. I only say this because there were people the past, who, when I began telling them my life story, seemed to distain me afterward (for simply telling them the miracles my family and I have experienced). Some people are either jealous, or my real life stories are too hard for them to believe! That makes me even more amazed at what God has done! They think I am fabricating these stories for my own glorification. But no; ALL the glory goes to God!

Let me make this clear: I have full knowledge that if a person were to make up stories like the ones I am about to tell you, and he knew these things were not true, but he put them on a website to tell the whole world (his lies) and he did not repent and confess that he was lying and take the website down… he would most certainly go to hell! I know what hell is like because I learned about it in the Bible. It is a terrible and horrifying place that no one would ever want to go to. I also know what heaven is like from the Bible. I would never purposefully give up my place in heaven and turn my own self into hell, just so that I could get some notoriety while I am alive on the earth. I have no interest in that at all. In fact, I left my last name off of this website, so that most people will not know who is writing this. I will only tell you that my name is Mark and my wife’s name is Jacqueline.

My goal is certainly not to bring about jealousy or to bring glory to myself… for who am I that God had even decided to visit, much less show all these miracles? I am not more special than anyone else. I am just a regular person who is in desperate need for God’s mercy. I have not achieved holiness, even though I am truly trying to escape sin and live a clean life before God with a pure heart. I am getting better and better each year as He sanctifies me, but I still fail to measure up to God’s holy standard! Thank God, by the blood of Yeshua (Jesus), all our sins can be forgiven and we can have our eternal place in the paradise of heaven, in the presence of God and His angels, forever, after this life is over.

If you are not yet “saved” and you do not have peace in your heart and a place in heaven, you will be able to learn about the only way you can be saved from hell and have a place in heaven by reading more on this website. You will learn how you can have a close and loving relationship with a majestic and powerful God who loves you and cares about you and your family more than you could ever fathom. You will see how I was saved and hear the most precious gospel (the good news for your soul) presented, so that YOU can escape the very real and agonizing eternal punishment that God has for unrepentant sinners, and instead, find the indescribable comfort and peace that all true believers have, along with a constant state of true hope and joy that we get from knowing that we possess an inheritance from God: a place in Paradise with Him, forever, after this life is over. The gospel message is automatically related to my story, because without God, I was lost and troubled and without direction, but when I came to God and He saved me, I became filled to overflowing with goodness, truth and life and began to see Him work wonderfully and mightily in my life. God can do the same for you!

If you are on this web site and the Spirit of God is drawing you in and inviting you into His Kingdom now and you feel it, and if you have an urgent need for forgiveness and salvation right now, you should read this right away, then come back to read more on this web site. “Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” (1 Corinthians 6:2)

As I contemplated my life: after a 29 year arduous journey of constantly trying to get out from under, from being made weak and thinking I had reached bottom, but then God showing me an even lower level, from going from place to place, trying to make a way, being made homelessness, then being built back up again and even being on the verge of becoming a millionaire, to then being completely broken back down again and living in a tent with a broken zipper with my family; homeless again at the age of 47 with five kids in a tent… why would God do this? Where is the testimony in that?

I had to contemplate these things very hard. But after all this; after the long and hard part of our journey was over, I began realizing in total amazement, that we most certainly and urgently must tell the world of our life and the amazing things that God has done! For it was in our most desperate times that the Lord showed us his mighty hand; his hand of provision, of healing, of comforts and of restoration. Many amazing miracles happened in our lives and I know God wants us to tell of them and declare them, because based upon the miracles God has done for us, He wants others to have hope for what He can also do for them.

I was overwhelmed as I contemplated our life’s saga. As I sifted through my boxes of notes and records and began piecing together the chronology of our story, so many dramatic memories filled my mind and I didn’t know where to start. For years, it weighed continually on my heart that our story desperately needed to be shared! God put it on my heart so heavy. I know God loved me and He responded to my prayers and my faith, but it was also, most importantly, for this testimony that God did all these miracles in our lives. It was so that people would know that there is a Miracle Working God who makes Himself available to all who cry out to Him with their whole hearts. He wants to help YOU out of all your desperate situations! You just have to call upon Him in Faith! He is there to save your eternal soul, and also to save you out of all your troubles in this life!

As I prayed and sought God as to how I should write my story, God heard my prayers and began giving me inspiration to write. For the past few years, he has been inspiring me and helping me to write our story. He is helping me to write it down in a way, that our Incomprehensibly Big and Powerful God; El Shaddai, and his stretched out arm toward us, would be revealed! We have a Miracle Working God! As you read about the things he has done for us, I pray you realize He cares about you and your family and I pray you gain more faith in the knowledge that He can most certainly do miracles for you as well. In His time… as you walk before Him in faith, while giving Him the honor and reverence He deserves, calling upon Him in prayer for help, he will take care of all your needs and rescue you out of all your troubles.

I was amazed when miraculous things started happening back in 1997. God began showing up for us in miraculous ways through immediately answered prayers and amazing signs, giving us direction for what we should do and where we should go, as we were being “called”. Things were happening in such a way that we knew they could not be happening by chance. These were divine happenings. I was astounded and in awe, and I remain in awe. After faith was activated and God responded, I had no choice, but to simply walk in my calling and in the anointing of the Lord. I was no longer living the “normal life”. It was like that of a missionary, who gives up everything, to go do a mission for God, wherever he sends him. My faithful wife followed and agreed with me as to how we should follow God. She walked beside me all the way, while activating her faith as well. Now, 30 years later, I have a story to write that cannot be contained.

We were led by God’s miraculous and shepherding hand, so that all who are led by God to read our story, would know that we have a God who loves, who cares, who sees your situation, and who helps and delivers those who love and honor him, and who call unto Him in Faith for help. “For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him” 2 Chronicles 16:9

To be most accurate, the miraculous story of my life had it’s true beginnings on April 14th, 1984, while stationed on an Army base in Germany. Just before getting out of the Army, I turned to Yahweh with all of my heart. In my brokenness, I yielded to the Spirit of God and He Miraculously and instantly lifted me out of the dark state of emptiness, darkness and despair that I was in. I was marvelously saved, Born Again and filled with the Holy Spirit. Down below, you will see that I wrote: “This is where our story begins” and in a way, that is true, but in all reality, this time; when I was changed into a new man with a renewed passion and purpose in life; this was the very beginning of my incredible life story. Read about my troubled upbringing and the Full story of my Salvation Here.

After getting out of the Army, I joined the Army Reserve and I went to College 8 years while working part time jobs in the medical field. I met my wife, Jacqueline, at Fort Sam Houston, Texas at an Army medical academy, where Jacqueline was training to become a Medical Lab Technician and I was training to be a Physical Therapy Technician in the Army Reserve. I like to say to people: “when I met my wife, she was wearing combat boots and she outranked me”. It’s true!

I eventually earned a Masters degree and became a Physical Therapist and I was highly motivated to achieve great success in life! I had plans to continue my education to achieve a PHD in PT, and to start my own clinic.

Along with the full-time job I had in a sports and occupational medicine center, I worked an extra evening job doing Physical Therapy in people’s homes and I got a 3rd job working every other Saturday at a nursing home. Additionally, I started a home-based marketing business on the side, so I could get out of debt and gain financial success sooner. We bought a 3 family building and lived on the upper suite while renting out the 2 lower apartments.

After trying to have children for 6 years, it finally happened! God gave us our first child; a precious and beautiful daughter. Now I was even more motivated to succeed! We bought a single family home in a little neighborhood in Milwaukee, which gave us a little fenced in yard for our daughter to play safely in, and we rented all 3 apartments in the other building we owned. We went to church, ran and biked for physical fitness and sought God in our lives. We were young (early 30s), filed with energy and motivation, and we thought we had a great plan for excelling forward in our lives.

But then… there is God. He had plans for us that we did not know at the time. He was going to turn everything around and do something different for us. He was going to use us one day to bring a message of hope to others who desperately needed him and his saving power in their lives. But.. in order to use us this way one day, he had to bring us through many “fires” and many troubled and treacherous “seas”. He wanted to show us how we could go through them without being burned or drowned, and then even to come out into a large and wealthy place in the end, all by his obvious and mighty miracle working hand at work in our lives. This is the kind of help many others would need. This is the kind of good will, love and power that he wanted us to bring hope of to others.

At this time in our lives, as everything was shaping up wonderfully for us according to our plans, we had no idea how dramatically our lives were going to soon change. We also would have never guessed that God’s plan for us; to shape and mold us and give us a testimony to tell the world one day, was a three decade plan! To our eternal God, a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day. He made us and can use us any way he chooses. He is God. He gets to do that.

Here begins our 30 year story… but the story is not over. We are still living in amazement as God continues to open new doors, give new revelations and do more miracles in our lives every year!

In your present trials, struggles and tempest, hope more than ever in God and seek His face. He will come through for you and you can have a story to write as well. Remember, our miraculous story is being written so that you and many others will have hope. God wants you to see some of the ways he has come through for others, so that you can hold onto hope and have faith for your life and all of the situations you need God’s delivering, healing and saving hand for too. This story is for you; for the breaking out of your faith story of how He saved you! Never give up!! Remember: He parts the Seas before us when we are pressed against them with our enemies and danger approaching. Have faith in God! Never give up! As Moses said: “Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord…” (Exodus 14:13)

Total Abandonment:

It was in the Summer of 1996, at 5:30 am, while on my knees in prayer, that I got my calling. I spent an hour or more every morning, reading the Bible, Seeking the Lord, and praying, but this morning was different.. I was filled to the top with the Holy Spirit and with boldness and was completely fed up with a mediocre existence and ready to be commissioned by God for something great. I laid my life on His altar and in Total Abandonment of my career as a Physical Therapist that I worked so hard for, and everything else that mattered to me in life, I said a very bold prayer. I told God that I wanted to do something Big for him, not small. I told him I wanted to be involved in something that HE was doing, and that HE thought was Important and Big on the earth and let me be a part of it! I was willing to do anything and go anywhere that he led me, to get it done for him. I pictured Jesus as the Captain of a huge ship, steering it, and him standing behind me, with his hand on my shoulder, letting me do the steering, with his guidance. I just wanted God to be by my side and to lead me into doing something great for Him. I wanted to be able to help many people in times of great trouble, and to be involved in a big way, in the end time harvest of souls. I didn’t even know I was going to pray this. I realized later in life, that this prayer, which was led by the Holy Spirit, was in itself, a prophetic indication of our calling and our destiny. After this amazing prayer, I got an answer in the Holy Spirit that was definite.

God spoke clearly in my inner soul. He said my prayer was granted… but there would be conditions. I sought him for these conditions and he told me: We would go from place to place, trying to find a way, we would be brought low, we would be in great need and we would be made weak. Then he would build us up again, restore us, enable and empower us financially and otherwise, and finally, give us this big and great mission to do. I told my wife about this and we prayed together and she accepted this condition with me before God. At that time, we had no idea what we were accepting or how long or hard the journey was going to be.

If God was going to put enabling power into our hands for something great, we needed to be humble and KNOW that everything is of him and for him and his kingdom, not for us or our glory, and it will be none of our own doing. Also, he wanted us to condescend down to men of lowliest estate, by being made low ourselves, so that we could serve many people who are in dire need and in lowly conditions one day, while interacting with them on their level and not feeling above them in any way.

Helping the poor in a special way, was one of the areas of our two prong mission calling. The other one was to have an big part to play in the end time harvest of souls. The Testimony he was going to build in us through hardships and his miraculous interventions, was eventually going to be used in a mighty way to reach a lost and dying world that will be searching for answers and for help in their times of desperation and great need, from someone bigger than themselves. Our great God and Savior is available to help you right now as well, in all of your daily needs and struggles!

The complete vision as to exactly what we will be doing has not been given. As we take each step by faith, God gives us the next step to take. What we do know is that our mission involves helping hurting and destitute people in an end time world, yet to be seen. It will be in our lifetime and it will be in a world unlike anything mankind has ever experienced before. Also, in the context of catastrophic events, bringing men to their knees, the End Time Gospel of the Kingdom will go out to all the world in new and powerful ways, which will include cutting edge Bible Prophecy, because the actual fulfillment of it will be before everyone’s eyes, bringing many to salvation, through special, enlightened revelations going out to the world through the “world wide web”. I will have a part in this, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, which I continue to wait on and have been beginning to receive. One day, in the context of much trouble and in the time period of the “Day of the Lord” (Joel 1:15, 2:1) God will pour out his Spirit upon all flesh and his sons and his daughters will prophecy. (Joel 2:28-31) Also, in the context of the end times “the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits” (great and powerful works) and “they that understand among the people shall instruct many”. (Dan 11:32,33)

It has now been 29 years since our calling, which included much hardship, but all while experiencing the miraculous hand of God many, many times. The amazing thing is.. the miracles have not stopped; We continue to experience an average of a miracle per year! Although we are older now, we are still flawed and imperfect like everyone else, but more enlightened as to how much God’s mercy, forgiveness and grace means for us. If we are to do anything great for him, it is only by God’s grace and only if we stay humble, always knowing that is Him and not we ourselves, that is doing it.

Going back 14 years earlier from that powerful prayer and the day of my calling: I was 20 years old, lost, angry, addicted to cigarettes and beer and without direction. I joined the Army and got stationed in Germany, as a Field Artilleryman. It was a rugged and hard two years, but I was tough (on the exterior) however, inwardly; I was lonely, empty, dead inside, uncertain of where I was headed, and seeking a way out from feelings of failure, guilt, emptiness and loneliness. On my last day in the Army, while packing my things from my locker in the barracks, I found myself completely alone. I broke down and began to cry as I poured my heart out to God in prayer. With sincere repentance and yearning, I turned to God with all my heart and was Marvelously and Miraculously Saved. This was just before coming out of the Army and heading back home to Wisconsin, USA on April 14th, 1984. I was Born Again, Filled with the Holy Spirit and totally changed. I will never forget that day! Deadness and darkness were turned to Life and Light. I went from emptiness inside, to being completely filled with life and light from the Spirit of the Living God. My face turned radiant and I couldn’t get rid of my smile, even when I tried, for days! I got on fire for God. I couldn’t get enough of his word and I became burdened for souls.

I stayed in the Army Reserve, had some part time jobs, and went to college full-time for 8 years (with help from the Army Educational Assistance program). I achieved a masters degree and became a Physical Therapist.

We were now 34 years old with a beautiful 2 year old daughter and married 8 years. This is where our amazing and miraculous, but arduous journey began..

We eventually had 5 children; another daughter and 3 sons.. who were all raised while our family moved from place to place, trying to make a way; while we were brought low, made homeless and destitute, living in tents, in our car, in homeless shelters, but always seeing God’s hand leading and guiding, protecting and providing, and lifting us back up again.

There were periods of time where God gave us success and brought us to amazing places to live, where we actually had a dream-like lifestyle. I was able to work full-time from my home-based office, while we farmed and raised animals and my wife homeschooled our kids. Here’s a description of three of the places we were able to live: (1.) a 60 acre farm with two ponds and beautiful views of rolling hills in Vermont, where we were able to raise chickens and and have horses (2.) a beautiful 10 acre property in New Hampshire with an inground pool and amazing views of the Mountains, where we had 2 dogs, sheep, goats and chickens (3.) a 20 acre farm in Maine where we raised chickens, pigs, a few cows and a horse. Our children helped us with the animal chores and the horses were gifts for my oldest daughter, who was taking horse riding lessons. We enjoyed living on those beautiful farms and had many fun experiences with the animals. Our family was blessed in those places.

I was an entrepreneur and was very driven for success. I wanted to give my family a good life and urgently wanted to get us out of the struggling financial position we were in. In those times when we lived on the farms and had a dream like life-style, I had a measure of success; however, I was dependent upon a venture capital partner, a medical doctor who had become my friend, who paid all of our bills while I build marketing and private investment businesses from home. We were renting those farms and I was dependent upon someone else to pay my bills, which was humbling. Because I wanted to give my family a good life and so urgently wanted to get us out of the struggling financial position we were in (being dependent upon my business partner to pay all our bills) I worked way too many hours, chasing every business deal I could find and starting many different business enterprises, which consumed most of my time. In the process, I missed out on a lot of the precious time I could have had with my wife and our children while they were growing up.

I kept thinking that maybe the trial that God said he would give us was almost over and he was beginning to lift us up. I saw every business opportunity as a gift from God that I should embrace. I didn’t know at the time, that even though it had been a number of years, our progressively hard and agonizing trials were just beginning. He was going to break us down beyond any level we had ever contemplated.

Even though we had a lot of great times together as a family while living a good life on the farms we rented, and even though I took Sunday’s off to go to church and spend time with my family, and I gave our children and the whole family an hour long devotion and Bible study every morning for most of their upbringing, the kind of love and presence that our children needed from their dad to help them to become healthy, confident and complete in their older years, was not being given. I spent too many prolonged hours in my office every day during the week. Besides this, we as a family had many challenging times. Our children experienced poverty, and even homelessness. Because we moved often, spending no more than a year or two in each location, our children had little opportunity to form close or lasting friendships and we had no extended family either. We had forged a life in Maine, away from any grandparents, aunts & uncles, or cousins. The isolation and hardships, combined with me not being available enough to give love and guidance, eventually had an affect and took it’s toll on our children’s emotional health and the fabric of our family. Some very sad and painful times in the lives of some of our children was coming, which would brake my heart.

It would take many pages to write and would be too sad to elaborate on the details of what we went through with some of our children while navigating those hard years and struggling to keep our family together. Many poured out prayers and lamentations were set before the Lord and many tears wet the ground on the prayer paths that I often went on, down remote nature trails by the sea.

Later in life, as our children got into their teen years and after our daughters moved out of the house, I realized how I had been consumed by my own pursuits while they were growing up. Although I loved them dearly and cared immensely for my children, I had not given them the time as a father that they needed. I did not show them enough, how much I loved them. I had not been the father that I could have been for my children, while I had the chance. They grew up so fast. Sadly, many things in life that you wish you could do over, cannot be done over. You only have one chance. I had remorse at what had been lost because of what I had not given.

Starting in their teen years, our two daughters sought other ways to find fulfillment in life, outside of God’s plan and eventually abandoned the Christian faith that they were raised in and are now living as part of the world, outside of God’s will and loving desires for them. We pray everyday, that our two adult daughters, who have left the faith, are restored to God, to experience all of His goodness, kindness and salvation. I have been comforted by God through the Holy Spirit, along with an amazing miraculous sign that God gave to my wife and I after fasting and praying in the wilderness years ago, that they will come back to Him one day. (The story of that miraculous sign will be explained later.)

Please pray that our God of mercy spares them of too much pain and brings them back to Him as the Good Shephard. (God had good plans for Israel, even though they departed from Him and sinned, but they had to suffer a lot through destruction and bondage first, in the process of bringing them back to Him.) God’s character, His covenant, and His Love that He has for Israel has never diminished. God’s love is steadfast and He always has good plans for His children. He will bring our children back to Him so their lives can be restored and they do not have to suffer Hell. They will be with us in Glory one day. We will never give up hope for our children! We will never give up Hope in What GOD Can Do in ANY Situation in our lives. He is a Miracle Working God in ALL Categories!

For all of my mistakes, the Lord did not condemn me. He gave me understanding, pity, love and forgiveness. We eventually got through the hardest times and circumstances with our children and healing and restoration is beginning to happen in their lives by God’s grace. Even though I had not been all that a dad should be for his children and I had not been a very good steward of God’s most precious gifts (the children He gives us), God let me know that I was still His child and I was still loved, and I was forgiven. He also let me know that I was still His servant. “God doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.” God still loved me and He still had an amazing plan for my life. His miraculous and loving presence in my life has never ceased! He never stopped working, helping, comforting, healing, restoring, leading and guiding. Amazing and miraculous things are still happening in our lives to this day.

I had good success at times, but then the floor dropped out and we were made destitute again and it took years to recover. The last time it happened was in 2009, after the Global Economic Collapse. The Lord had given me favor as I worked from home as an agent for a Private Equity Fund. Out of 85 agents that the fund had working for them, bringing high net worth investors to table to invest their money, I was chosen as one of 5 Regional Marketing Directors, and later, as one of the fund’s 2 National Marketing Directors. I was a direct link between the agent’s wealthy clients and the principles of the fund, and had now achieved the highest percentage gains that anyone could get, from what the clients were earning from their investments. After years of hard work, I was finally becoming successful and had achieved a substantial 5 figure monthly income, which was growing bigger every month.

When the Financial Crisis of 2008 & 2009 hit, the fund stopped trading and parked all our client’s money in safe, but unprofitable places. Our client’s started withdrawing their funds and the Equity Fund collapsed. Our income ended and eventually, we ran out of money. Within a couple years, we also lost EVERYTHING we owned and had to start from scratch, with nothing, except a tent to live in, but I also had a sand worm rake, some hip waders and a cooler (for commercial sea worm digging). I had taken that occupation up on the side, in the past, when I needed to earn some extra money, so I had the equipment and I knew how to do it.

That started 10 years of full-time work on the sea, with many adventures and even near death experiences. I did Commercial Blood Worm and Sand Worm Digging, Commercial Clam Harvesting, and I was a Stern Man on 3 different Commercial Lobster Fishing Boats. We walked the shore on foot and went out in canoes and small motor boats, out on the Atlantic Ocean, year round, in all types of weather, day and night (with headlamps) working the tides. For Lobster Fishing, we went out on Boats that were wide, with a lot of deck space and 38-44 feet long. We fished 18 miles from shore, in 250 – 350 feet of water.

It’s interesting to note: Commercial Worm Digging on the coast of Maine has been featured in National Geographic’s reality show “Filthy Riches” and on on the Discovery Channel show “Dirty Jobs”.

During those years, I had many wonderful experiences and took in so much beauty. I saw a hundred rising and setting suns while out at the sea and I worked in spectacular settings on the rocky coast of Maine. I worked in every kind of whether, including perfect weather and beautiful sunny days, with the sites and sounds of the sea and the sea gulls cooing. But I also faced rain, sleet, snow and storms; from 90 degree heat, to sub-zero temperatures. I also experienced many potential perils while working on the sea. I Fell into “sink holes” and “honey pots” in the sea mud while doing Commercial Sea Worm Digging, which almost swallowed me up. I navigated around massive floating ice sheets, canoeing out to islands in the Winter, while Commercial Clam Harvesting. Once, my outboard motor broke down, and another time, my boat developed a crack in the hull and I almost sunk, while navigating rough seas, and then I crashed into the rocks on the ledges when I finally made it back to the shore. I got to experience being in a “perfect storm”, while Lobster Fishing, which produced 35 foot swells, that we navigated while making it back many miles to shore. Only by the grace of God were we not completely swallowed up by the sea! For those 10 years, which were filled with memorable and valuable, treasured experiences, I made a living doing hard and rugged work on the Beautiful, Powerful and Majestic Atlantic coast of Maine.

Although I made more money than I could have if I had gotten a “job”, I usually only made $150 to $200 a day, which wasn’t enough to provide well for my family of seven, so we struggled to make end meet and were in financial need many times. We mostly lived in rented houses, but at times, when things got hard and we had financial crises again, we had to live in camp grounds for a season, a motel for the winter, and at times, we were temporarily homeless again as a family. (That is when MIRACLES took place! I will explain the miracles later on this web site.)

It took that whole decade to recover from rock bottom, but after all this, we are now in the process of being lifted up, for the purpose of enablement and empowerment of the ministry.. God has shown us that we have entered the time of our recovery and revival now.. but we will NEVER FORGET all the trouble and hard times we had and how God helped us again and again, in miraculous ways!

THIS IS WHERE OUR STORY BEGINS…

I went to college for 8 years after getting out of the Army, and I was now a Physical Therapist, trained to help people’s bodies.. but my burden was for souls! Over a 3 year period, while working in over 30 different hospitals, clinics and nursing homes as a temporary placement PT for 2 different agencies, I witnessed to my patients whenever possible, passed out over 1000 gospel tracts, won 24 souls to Christ and then wound up losing my job twice for witnessing in the workplace. Many of these salvations are amazing stories in themselves. I will tell you of a few of them…

One of my patients, a woman named Mary, who was wheelchair bound and bed bound and in constant pain for over 5 years, was miraculously healed after I prayed for her in Jesus name! One day, while treating Mary with moist hot packs, ultrasound and massage, while she laid on the treatment table, I told Mary that the treatment I was giving her on the spasming muscles of her neck would help her, but it won’t heal her. (She had a complicated condition, which included fibromyalgia and and other complications, left untreated for many years.) Mary said: I know, but I appreciate you helping me. Then I said ..but Jesus can heal you. She said.. I know he can! I realized Mary had faith to be healed and the Spirit of God was saying to me.. pray for her right now. But my supervisor, also a PT, was in the booth next to me with her patient, separated only by a curtain, treating another patient, and it was against clinical rules to preach or pray with your patients. I decided not to be afraid and to simply do what God was compelling me to do, so I prayed for Mary’s complete healing, by faith, in Jesus name. I did not elevate my voice, but I also did not diminish it. I spoke in a normal voice, which was easily heard by my supervisor. When Mary came back to the clinic for her next therapy appointment, she was not in her wheel chair… She was walking! She was able to drive a car again, ride a bicycle around her neighborhood, and walk the entire shopping mall! Mary no longer needed her wheelchair, and all her pain was gone. I discharged her from physical therapy and in the medical records I wrote: “healed by prayer in Jesus name” (which my boss did not like)!

A lot of times, patients opened up to me in conversation while I was giving them therapy, and I had an opportunity to share the comfort and faith that I had in God. I would simply ask, do you trust in God, or do you pray to God for help? It would open up conversations that my patients welcomed, and wanted to have, about God. So.. why could I talk to my patients about our families and our pets, the weather, sports, etc. but not about God and faith, which is the most important thing in life? It did not make sense to me. Soon afterwards, I was fired, because I talked too much about God to my co-workers and witnessed to my patients. I was not trying to do anything wrong. I just couldn’t t keep the good news of the gospel to myself and I felt God constantly leading me to witness for him.

Mary was a new convert to Christ with a child-like faith when I met her. She had been through a lot of suffering and pain in her life and was even beaten by her husband before he left her, and now she was disabled and in constant pain. She was miserable, but trusting in God for help. She had joined a church and was attending there for just a few months before meeting me and starting her therapy. Because of her amazing healing, her pastor asked me if I would attend their church the next Sunday, because he wanted to give me the privilege of baptizing Mary before the congregation! These people did not even know me. They only knew that Mary used to come to church in a wheel chair, but now she walks into church without a wheelchair and I was her Physical Therapist who said the prayer. My wife and I visited Mary for two years after her healing and she was still healed and doing well.

ANGELS IN THE PARK

On February 1st, 1996, I was working as a Physical Therapist in a nursing home in downtown Milwaukee on a Saturday. In the afternoon, I left the facility to take my lunch break and I searched for a remote area to park, because I had a strong desire to be alone to pray. I was in a parking lot by a small bridge going over a creek into the park. It was very foggy. When I saw the park sign, I realized that this was the park that has been in the newspaper of very recent, with crime and murders taking place! It was a little eerie to realize this, plus the heavy fog made it unsettling, but I needed a solitary place to pray, so I got out of my car and started walking across the bridge.

I stopped in the middle of the bridge and stood overlooking the creek. At that time, I had a deep burden for the souls of my extended family. As I prayed for them, I felt filled with the Holy Spirit and I prayed a dramatic prayer! I said “whatever it takes Lord, whatever it takes, even if somebody has to die to wake them up, please save my family!” While praying this, I immediately heard the voice of God inside of me saying “How about you”? I was surprised and amazed that He turned it around this way, but I realized it was a fair call. Jesus had given his life for the life of the world and I realized it was fair for Him to ask me to give my life this way. I realized this was a very heavy situation and I agonised for a moment, but I did not hesitate for too long. I was willing to do what was required of me.  I said “Oh Lord.. of course. Why would I suggest taking the life of one of my family members if I wasn’t willing to give my life, myself.” I wrote a letter to my dear wife on the notepad that I kept in my shirt pocket, explaining the situation. I expressed my love and wrote my “good byes” and tucked the note pad back into my pocket. Then I began walking across the bridge, through the dense fog, into the park.

I thought God would bring one of the hoodlums by to take my life, but I trusted God fully and was at peace and without fear. Only a few moments after I walked off the bridge into the park, I looked over and down the path to the left and saw faintly, through the dense fog, a very tall figure (about 9 feet tall) walking towards me! I said out loud: “Wow, the Lord has sent the angel of death to take me.  As the tall figure came closer and got within about 5 feet from me, I was able to see clearly. It was a tall, kind looking man with his toddler son on his shoulders! They walked by slowly with calm, serene and loving faces, and the man simply said “hello” as he walked by, and I said “hello” back. He looked and talked with a surreal calmness, peace, and love. I realized at that time and I still believe today, that that man and his son were angels. They continued walking calmly and peacefully down the path in the other direction and faded out of sight.

After this, the Lord released me. I was amazed while walking back across the bridge, realizing that the Lord had tested me, to see if I was really willing to give my life. I was so comforted that I passed the test, and that the Lord had spared my life. When I got to the middle of the bridge again, I looked toward the park where I came from and there was a paddy wagon police vehicle driving on the grass along the creek and under the bridge that I was standing on, continuing down along the creek, patrolling the park. This verified to me that there was real danger in that park, but I also saw it as symbol of protection from God.

As I stood on the bridge overlooking the creek, I pulled out my small New Testament Bible that I kept in my pocket. I needed to see if God would give me a particular Rhema word to seal this dramatic occasion. In my amazement, when I opened my Bible to the middle, my eyes immediately locked in on verse 17 of Psalm 118, which says: “ I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.” This was indeed a direct word from God for this occasion, but also a prophetic word for my life! The Lord had already begun doing miracles in my life and he would be doing many more. From this time forward, I knew that God had pre-ordained my future with amazing testimonies that I would one day declare! At that moment of time, I only had a small glimpse at the incredible journey that was ahead.

I worked as a PT for 4 years and I also did Home-based Network Marketing on the side, because I liked the idea of having my own business and I wanted to get out of debt and build a better life for my family as fast as possible. I was very ambitious and worked 20-30 hours a week at my home-based businesses, while working full-time as a Physical Therapist.. but while I did this, I also felt God’s calling for Ministry.

I felt the Lord calling me to go into my own business and also to move from Wisconsin. I started seeking him for answers.

In the Spring of 1996, I was in a remote parking lot that I had searched for by car, while on lunch break from my job at a nursing home that I was placed in at the time. I needed direction from God. I needed a definite answer from him that day. It could wait no longer. I knew that I had been called into full-time ministry and I had already given God my life; My life was on His alter. I had already ordered and received and reviewed about a dozen information / application packets from various Seminaries and Bible Colleges around the country, because I was willing to go back to college to become a Pastor, but it was not God’s will. He let me know that time was too short to spend time in college, for what His plans were for me. He was preparing me and would continue to prepare me for the mission that he had for me to do. I also had already ordered and received an Information and Application packet and had completed and submitted it to a missionary organization and then had a phone interview and was fully approved and invited to be a Missionary / Physical Therapist to Nepal, but after considering it deeply in prayer, the Lord prevented me again. I was searching for His direction. One thing I did know was that I was to get ready for service. He was going to release and send me into full-time ministry very soon.

I was, however, grid-locked into the enslavement of debt from eight years of full-time college, and although I was earning over $80K per year as a physical therapist, being that my wife was a full-time mother and housewife, and we had a mortgage, student loan payments, and credit card debt, as well as many bills; I typically had $20 to $40 left after paying all of our expenses on paydays. With debt that would take thirty years to relinquish, how was I to be set free to enter ministry? I was waiting for the divine guidance and miracles that I knew was necessary for this freedom.

So here I was, finally frustrated to the point of such great need for guidance and such a zeal for the Lord’s work, that I drove around on my lunch break to find a place of isolation for serious prayer to God, and I was primed and ready for an answer from Him that day! After serious prayer with tears, I asked the Lord God to give me an answer as to what I should do. I was doing home-based Network Marketing from home as my own business, added to my full-time job, my evening job, and my Saturday job in the physical therapy field. I was worn out, and still not getting ahead. But I was looking for a miracle, and I knew something new needed to spring forth in order for me to be set free from financial bondage, so I could serve God in the capacity he was leading me to. My serious request to God in prayer in that parking lot that day, was that God would give me direction NOW as to what I should do. Should I continue in physical therapy, or should I go full-time in my own businesses to get set free? I was quickened by the Holy Spirit at that time to ask him for a definite answer from the radio. (I kept my radio tuned to a Christian Station). So I asked God to give me an answer right now, that was not vague, but direct; so that I would have no doubt that the answer had come from Him, and that the answer would have no room for misinterpretation. My question was this: “Should I go on in Physical Therapy, or should I go into my own business full-time to get freed from debt so I could serve Him”? I then reached over and turned the radio knob to the on position. What I heard immediately, was the end of a question/plea that a woman was asking, followed by the closing remarks of a Christian commentator to the woman who had called into this Christian talk show. The woman had been having challenges making it in her own business! The closing remarks of the talk show host just before the music began to play, signifying the end of the show for that day, was: “Put your heart into your business, and give it over to the Lord, and you will have success”. I turned off the radio, and in total amazement, I told God that I knew it was Him that gave me this most direct and immediate answer, and that I was going to head into that direction in a very serious manner.

I began putting much more energy and time into my own home-based marketing business, while continuing to work as a Physical Therapist full-time. I was getting tired and weary as I “burned the candle from both ends”. As time went on, I continued to have a feeling inside of me that got stronger and stronger. I had a calling in my inner soul to leave Wisconsin and go somewhere else. It seemed like it was the voice of God, but I wasn’t sure. I felt an increasing urgency to be sure this was a leading from God. 

It was now late in the Fall of 1996.  I was working at St. Luke’s Hospital in Racine, Wisconsin, which is right near the shores of Lake Michigan, one of the Great Lakes. I was on my lunch break taking a brisk walk, as I often did on my lunch break, and as I walked, I often prayed. I was in the Lord on that walk and I once again felt the calling that had been persisting in me, that I was to take my family and leave Wisconsin. As I was walking I came to a plateau, about 50 feet up, overlooking the great waters of Lake Michigan. At the bottom of the slope and about 50 feet out from the shore, I observed a small flock of geese floating on the water. Just to the right of me at the top of the hill was a thick hedge of bushes about my height, blinding me from what was on the slope to the right of me. In the moment that I saw those geese and began contemplating, I felt a strong urgency to have it confirmed that I was hearing the voice of God about leaving Wisconsin with my wife and daughter. 

Suddenly, I burst forth in bold acclaim, in prayer, while staring at the geese who were sitting on the waters. I said, “Lord, if it is you that is calling me to leave Wisconsin, have some of these geese get up and fly from the waters right now”! 

What I didn’t know at that time is that the Lord knew I was going to pray that prayer and he had already prepared a few geese in flight who were flying up the side of the hill to the right of me, but I didn’t see them because of the bushes that were blocking my view. Just as I was finishing my fervent plea to Lord to show me that sign, three geese that were already in flight, breached the top of the hill at the edge of the bush line next to me on my right and astonishingly, flew past me, just inches from my face; so close that I felt the wind from their their wings! 

I jumped back and almost fell to the ground, being startled by this event, and when I regained my composure I spoke while looking up to the sky, to the God of heaven, and said; Lord, you didn’t answer exactly as I asked, but I know that was you!  You answered my prayer! Then, while reaching for my pocket Bible and opening it, I said, Ok, so we should leave, now tell me when. 

To my astonishment and total delight (that the Lord was leading me so directly) I looked down at the page that my Bible was open to and fixed my eyes on 1 Corinthians 16:6. The apostle Paul was talking to the congregation that he had come to visit and talking about how long he would stay and when he would go. Verse 6 of 1st Corinthians chapter 16 says, “And it may be that I will remain, or even spend the winter with you, that you may send me on my journey wherever I go.” 

It was late Fall at the time and God had showed me the miraculous sign of the geese in flight, flying past my face and now this precise word of Rema, telling me that I should spend the Winter,  and then go! How many verses are there in the Bible that could say that I should spend the winter and then go when speaking about leaving from a place and going to another? Not too many, maybe none. These events were orchestrated directly by God, and once again I saw that the Lord was bowing his ear down from heaven to hear my prayers and leading me in very direct and miraculous ways. The contemplation of this brought me great satisfaction And now I knew what path I should take, and that I should begin preparing to leave in the Spring. 

I told my wife Jacqueline of this experience and we prayed together for an exact date of when we should leave in the Spring, and God let us both, in agreement, to April 1st (1997). 

A few months later, I had a break through… One morning I prayed earnestly to God, that He would deliver me from the work place and empower me unto the ministry! I could not get out from under the burden that was upon me, for people’s souls, not their bodies. The next day, just before leaving for work, I got a phone call from my boss; the director of the placement agency, who placed me to work in all of the different hospitals and clinics. He told me that he was a Catholic and he appreciated that I was sharing my faith at work, but he said too many of the clinics would not take be back anymore because they needed a therapist, not a chaplain! He apologized that he had to let me go and said he had heard good things about me from other clinics who liked me and said I was a good therapist; but it was getting too hard for him to place me now, because of the hospitals and clinics who would not take be back. So, I was fired, the second time, for witnessing in the workplace. I was sad, but amazed, because I had just cried out to God for deliverance from the workplace the day before and I had no idea, at the time, that I was in danger of losing my job again, for witnessing. This was a direct answer to prayer once again!

Even though the Lord had answered my prayer, I was troubled. I was in prayer the next morning, asking God how I was going to take care of my family now, because I was not earning nearly enough from my marketing business to provide for my family. God spoke to me immediately in the Spirit and said, you asked to be delivered from the work place and I did. Don’t you think I will take care of you? I was so comforted that I heard God’s voice and I trusted him.

Two days later, I got a call from the President and Vice President of a new network marketing company. They had seen some of my flyers and marketing materials that I had developed, and heard about me being a good helper / manager of the sales agents under me in previous companies I worked for, and they offered me a position as one of the leading distributors for their new company in opening their product and opportunity to the market. (How did they hear about me? Only God knows! I was not anybody big in the business.) They paid for a massive advertising campaign, and that next weekend, I made 17 sales and started on the path to building over 500 sales agents under me and I became the number one recruiter and salesperson in that new company! Within 2 weeks of the time I asked to be delivered from the workplace so I could be in the ministry and God amazingly answered my prayer, my full-time income as a Physical Therapist was replaced! God delivered me from the workplace so I could be in ministry for him and he was taking care of me and my family, miraculously! I was completely in his hands and I was so amazed and satisfied.

I worked very hard in the business night and day for about four months, and I was on track to becoming a very highly paid representative.. Then the company went out of business suddenly, and my income ended over night. They weren’t able to keep up, logistically, or administratively, with their growth; largely due to the business I was bringing them. Now, we were in big trouble. God had already shown us, with miraculous signs confirming, that we were to leave to go to Florida on April 1st. We didn’t even have time to put our house up for sale yet and we were to be leaving in a couple months.

I had been amazed at how perfect everything was turning out for us. The Network Marketing business can be done from anywhere, and once I built a big business, I wouldn’t even have to work anymore. I would have income from the commissions of the sales agents under me. So.. I was going to be free to do the Lord’s work, wherever he told us to go, and we were going to be miraculously taken care of! (I had already forgotten about the conditions God gave us; that we were going to have to go from place to place, trying to make a way, and that we would be brought low and be made weak, before he lifts us up and empowers us unto the ministry.)

I was deeply troubled, but filled with faith. I said a very serious prayer to God. I told him that I knew it was him that gave us the leading, with signs, that we should move to Florida on April 1st. But, now we did not have an income and our money was running out. I declared to him that I know he created the world by his almighty command out of nothing, that he parted the red sea, that he puts floods upon the dry ground, and sends manna from heaven, and I know he is able to make a way where there seems to be none. But, I told God I didn’t want to be irresponsible and put my family in danger, in case I did not hear him right. I asked him if he would just give me one more sign that we were still supposed to leave to go to Florida, even though there didn’t seem to be provision for the move. I told him I was going to go outside and pound a “For Sale” sign into the ground in our front yard, and that within 2 days, he would send someone by, and that the first person that comes to see our house would buy it… It happened, just as I asked!!!

About 6 weeks later, we closed on the house and the date set where we were to move out and give up residence to the new owner, was April 1st. We did not ask for this date, but it was on the contract! We had very little equity in the house, so after paying closing costs, paying all our bills, and renting a U-Haul truck, we had $350.00 to our names and we were headed to Florida. We didn’t even have enough money to pay for gas to get half way there and we had nowhere to live, no income and no expected income. We were “walking by faith and not by sight”. We were “walking on the water” now, with Jesus’ hand reached out to help us.

We attended a Missions conference at a very large Church, right before we left for Florida, with over a dozen missionaries in attendance and speaking, from around the country, who were on furlough. At the end of the service they had a call to come forward for prayer, to anyone who felt a call by God to be a missionary. We knew that we had been called to be on a mission for God, with miraculous signs confirming, which meant to us that we were missionaries, so my wife and I came forward, holding our 2 year old daughter in our arms. Over a dozen Missionaries and the Pastor formed a circle and laid hands on my wife and I and another couple who came forward also, and sent us out as Missionaries, in Jesus name.

Did God do Miracles for us to Make A Way after we left to go the Florida without provision?? Come back to read the rest of our story! I will be adding to our awesome testimony on a regular basis, until it is finished, but it will take years to write. I could talk for 5 hours straight, without stopping, just telling of the miracles we have experienced. .. Not because we are great in any way, or that we deserved this. It has only been by God’s grace and his divine appointment.

It was when we were in the most dire need and the weakest, that we saw his hand at work the most. We are thankful for the whole Journey and what he has led us through, for the praise of his mighty, loving hand, and to his glory! We also realize that our story must be told, so that other people would be inspired and gain hope for their lives when they are in trouble, now, or in the days ahead, when there is great trouble upon the earth and many people are suffering.

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THE REST OF OUR STORY WILL CONTINUE TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS WEBSITE. THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. THERE ARE MANY AMAZING STORIES AND MIRACLES TO WRITE ABOUT!

This is a long overdue account of the Miraculous Happenings of the last 29 years of our life, leading up to our present calling and ministry to God’s People and people who are lost, in these End Days.

Please come back to hear the rest of our story and how it applies to our Great God and what He can do for you. .. Also, what he can, and will do for those who believe and trust in Him in the End Days that are ahead of us, which will go from bad to worse. But.. even in the midst of great troubles.. God’s people will always have a song in their hearts, because.. there is ALWAYS Hope with God! He Makes a Way in the Sea and a Path in the Mighty Waters!! He puts Floods upon the Dry Ground! He takes the Beggar from among the dunghills and sets him among princes. He opens the eyes of the Blind and brings out Beauty from the Ashes. No Matter how the world looks down here.. We have a Glorious Future!

PLEASE PRAY FOR GOD’S ANNOINTING so that it all comes out as the the Lord Directs and that the HOLY SPIRIT will use this site for the Manifest Destined Purpose that has been pre-determined.

Thank you and God Bless you as you seek God and His Help for YOUR LIFE!

His Servant,

Mark

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Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength Isaiah 26:4