That They Know Me: Understanding God and the Supernatural

By C. H. Henry

Charlene Henry had such an overwhelming spiritual hunger that she walked away from a successful career at the height of the economic slowdown just so that she could spend all of her time seeking a more intimate relationship with Jesus. Over the course of the next two years, Jesus rewarded her by frequently awakening her during the night to explain, in dreams and visions backed with scriptural references, the simplicity of the Gospel. She dutifully copied these visions in book form, and they are now being used around the world in Bible studies, prison ministries, and classes for new believers. The scriptures flow effortlessly from one subject to the next, and tie the whole New Testament together.

You will learn how you can develop a personal relationship with Jesus, how you can distinquish God's voice from other voices, how to understand ten basic spiritual principles, and the six steps to praying more effectively. You will also discover your own particular spiritual gift and how to develop it. Prepare to have every area of your life radically transformed by this teaching!

C. H. Henry is also the author of another book that highlights "snapshots" of Jesus from Genesis to Revelation, and one that extolls God's perfect love for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Apr 27, 2011
• ISBN: 9781449715489

C. H. Henry

Author C. H. Henry had an overwhelming spiritual hunger that caused her to walk away from a successful career at the height of the economic slowdown so that she could spend all of her time seeking a more intimate relationship with Jesus. Over the course of the next two years, Jesus answered her prayers by frequently awakening her in the early morning hours to explain in dreams and visions the simplicity of the Gospel backed by scriptural references on each detail. She dutifully copied these visions in book form, and they are now being used around the world in Bible studies, prison ministries, and classes for new believers. Charlene is also the author of two other books, one revealing the Person of Jesus from Genesis to Revelation, and the other about the perfect love of God.

Book preview

Copyright © 2011 C. H. Henry

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

WestBow Press books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

WestBow Press

A Division of Thomas Nelson

1663 Liberty Drive

Bloomington, IN 47403

www.westbowpress.com

1-[phone]

Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

ISBN: 978-1-4497-1547-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4497-1549-6 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-4497-1548-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2011926493

All rights reserved. This book is protected by the copyright laws of the United States of America. This book may not be copied or reprinted for commercial gain or profit. The use of occasional page copying for personal or group study is permitted and encouraged. Permission will be granted upon request.

Scripture quotations taken from The King James Version (KJV)

Scripture quotations marked (AMP) taken from THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE, Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by the Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.(www.lockman.org)

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW LIVING TRANSLATION, Copyright © 1996, 2004. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.,Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. Copyright © 2010, 1973, 1978, 1984 Biblica. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

Printed in the United States of America

WestBow Press rev. date: 04/22/2011

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 Hungry and Thirsty?

Chapter 2 God is: Awesome

Chapter 3 God is: Truth

Chapter 4 God is: Spirit (and so are you)

Chapter 5 God is: Holy

Chapter 6 God is: Love

Chapter 7 God is: Our Substitute

Chapter 8 God is: Grace

Chapter 9 God is: Freedom to Choose

Chapter 10 God Is: Father

Chapter 11 God is: Compassion

Chapter 12 God is: Changing Your Heart

Chapter 13 God is: Changing Your Mind

Chapter 14 God is: A Present Help

Chapter 15 God is: Shepherd

Chapter 16 God is: Listening

Chapter 17 God is: Calling into Existence

Chapter 18 God is: Joy

Chapter 19 God is: Life

Chapter 20 God is: Generous

Chapter 21 God is: Empowering

Chapter 22 Why Am I Here?

Chapter 23 God is: Confirming the Word

In Conclusion

Acknowledgments

First of all, I want to thank the Holy Spirit of the Living God Who has reminded me of scriptures, explained them to me, and guided me in my walk to become more and more like Jesus.

I also would like to thank all of the wonderful pastors and teachers who have patiently taught and explained the Word so faithfully to me.

Finally, I want to thank my husband, Dale, the high priest of my home, who has loved and supported me for almost forty years. I love you deeply, and look forward to spending eternity with you in our wonderful home in Heaven.

Introduction

About five years ago I realized that, even though I had been calling myself a Christian for almost thirty years, I wasn’t experiencing anything at all like the people I read about in the Bible. Sure, I attended church service every week, and I read the Bible (as I had time), but my day-to-day life was stressed-out, I was buried under a mountain of debt, I seemed to get sick a lot, and I couldn’t remember the last time I felt genuinely happy. When I looked around me, all of my Christian friends were also struggling with debt, sickness, stress, and depression, too.

I knew something was wrong, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. I knew that the Bible was chock full of promises of healing and prosperity, so I thought that if I studied the Word more, maybe I could figure out what I was doing wrong. I started carrying around a personal journal of Bible promise verses, trying to memorize them, and magically reciting them, hoping that by doing this, somehow my life would change for the better.

I read that I was supposed to be an over comer, and that miracles were supposed to be following me. Frankly, I just wasn’t seeing it. I felt that I had pretty good head knowledge about the Bible, but it had been a really, really long time since I had seen God moving. In fact, when I really thought about it, I hadn’t felt the tangible Presence of God in my life for almost twenty years. I felt like God had just decided to go somewhere else, like Africa or China (where He was wanted).

What I didn’t realize was that I had fallen into the trap of ‘counterfeit Christianity’. I was going through the motions, but it was almost like sleepwalking. My head may have said ‘Jesus is Lord’, but my heart had become overly occupied with the pressures of making a living, running a household, juggling family and friends, and all of the other important concerns that seem to take precedence in our lives.

Even in the midst of all the busyness, there was always a nagging emptiness that I felt in my heart but wouldn’t quite admit to myself. The emptiness manifested in outward symptoms: I was overweight because I was always hungry for something, stressed-out because I was striving to prove that I was good enough, and in debt because I was trying to buy enough things so I would find satisfaction in my life.

Then, one morning when I was reading the Bible, I came across something that Jesus said that completely changed my life:

This is eternal life: (it means) to know (to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with, and understand) You, the only true and real God, and (likewise) to know Him, Jesus (as the) Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah)…

(John 17:3 AMP)

I realized that, while I may have had a lot of mental knowledge about God, I really didn’t know, or understand, or perceive God in my day-to-day life. And, if I really didn’t know Him, was I really ‘saved’ at all? Or was I just fooling myself, and all of my friends at church? After all, Jesus said that eternal life was all wrapped up in simply understanding and knowing Him. Then I came across another scripture that said pretty much the same thing:

You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about Me, yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.

(John 5:39 NIV)

I heard an interview with a young man who was preaching on the streets near New Orleans and God was moving mightily in his life. I also heard about the things that God was doing in the lives of several missionaries in Africa and China. God was still alive, and He was still actively moving and working in the lives of people who were sold out to Him. I didn’t want to just play church any longer. I hungered for the ability to have a real, living relationship with Him, to experience the love and power in my life that I had been reading about. I reached the point where I spend hours on my face on my bedroom floor crying out from my heart, I want to know You! I want to experience Your Presence! And I will not quit or give up until I do!

After I’d get home from work, I would go on the Internet and watch live broadcasts of services where God was moving with miracles and healings in different locations around the world. I searched for, and listened to, interviews of people who had been touched by God and listened to how He had radically changed their lives. I started diligently searching the Bible trying to find Him in the gospels and the epistles.

That is really all He is asking us to do. He is watching and waiting for us to open the door, and invite Him to come in to our lives. He will reveal Himself to you in direct proportion to how much of Him you really want. As I began recognizing His hand in my daily life, I developed an overwhelming hunger for more and more of Him. His wonderful Presence is so addictive, that I just couldn’t get enough of Him.

After time, I learned to recognize the sound of His voice. It’s not like the thundering voice that spoke to Charlton Heston in the movie the ‘Ten Commandments’. Sometimes it’s simply a quiet impression of Go here or Do that. At first, you wonder if you’re just talking to yourself, until something happens that you realize you could not have known about beforehand. You may ignore the voice for a while, and end up making mistakes you could have avoided if you had paid attention. After a period of trial and error, your ear becomes trained to listen for His instructions. And then you learn, through experience, that you really can trust Him.

Then, over the next three years, He proceeded to teach me about Himself through open visions (which are like watching a movie unfold on a screen in front of you), in dreams, and by downloading scriptures one right after another in rapid succession (which I discovered that He loves to do with me at three in the morning). I started keeping a notebook by my bed so that I could take notes, so that when I woke up the next morning, I could look up the actual Scripture verses that He mentioned. He has so much that He wants to share with you that sometimes it seems like it is being downloaded too much too fast. But He is loving and patient, and He will keep working with you until you understand exactly what He is trying to tell you. It never ceases to amaze me that, with so many millions of people alive in the world, He would love to sit and patiently talk with me as if I were the only person on Earth. He is always there, just waiting for me to make time in my busy schedule to be with Him.

I learned that, if I needed to be healed, I needed a revelation of The Healer. If I had a need in my life, then I needed a revelation of The Provider. Rather than studying the Bible to see what I could get out of it, I started studying it simply to learn more about the character and nature of my Father. And the more I read about Him, the more I fell in love with Him.

I had been keeping a journal of Bible promise verses for several years that I had planned to type up. One morning, Jesus spoke to me and said, "You have written your book (my scripture promise book), now it is time for you to write My book." He said, There are plenty of books on the market that each study a different facet or aspect of Christianity, but there are very few books that actually study Me.

I looked at all of the Christian books that I had on my bookshelf, and it was true that very few seemed to focus on the total character and nature of God. I became so consumed by this project that had been assigned to me that I walked away from a high paying career at the height of the economic downturn for over a year so that I could devote all of my time to research and writing. Each time I found myself looking at a topic from the viewpoint of ‘what’s in it for me’, or ‘what am I supposed to do’, Jesus would gently remind me to look at the subject from His point of view, as to how it related to His nature. (I freely admit that this was the most difficult aspect of this project, and that I may not always have succeeded in this).

Because God is so immense, so amazing, and there are so many facets to His character and personality, getting to know and understand Him is a never-ending process, a journey that will never have an end. Even the Apostle Paul, who wrote two thirds of the New Testament, said at the end of his life, that he had not yet achieved perfect knowledge of Him (Philippians 3:12). In all, this book took several years to write because it kept changing and evolving as He revealed more and more of Himself to me. Your experience with Him will be just like that – each day He will reveal more