A Walk with our Lord My Personal Journey 1 and 2

By Rick Sones

The Lord talks to all of us in many different ways. It could be a whisper, a dream, a thought, through others, just to name a few. In my journal, I have recorded many instances where the Lord was present. Through the reading, many emotions will surface. It is only through prayer, dedication, and the Lord's mercy that I have survived. Above all else, the Lord's love comes through. Some of the ways I understand, but some of them I still do not understand. Please read this with an open mind. It is through the pages that I hope you will see how the Lord has spoken to you throughout your life. Learn to see the Lord in everything that we do.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rick Sones
• Release date: Feb 10, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463841655

Rick Sones

I am currently an instructor in the technical fields. Construction has always been a permanent aspect of my life. At 42 years old, I turned to the Lord once more. I asked the Lord to take control over my life and let my works be for Him. God has never let me down. I am still a sinner, but through God's mercy, He still allows me to work for Him. I love the Holy Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit so much, I just want to share that with the world.

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A Walk with our Lord

My Personal Journey 1 and 2

Rick Sones

This is my personal walk with the Lord. Everything that follows is true. Many times, the Lord has shown mercy on me, even though He knows I am sinner. The reader will experience many feelings when reading this. Do not be afraid to read it with an open mind. The Lord is constantly reaching out to all of us to follow Him. Jesus wants us to celebrate in the wedding festival that He has planned.

Trust and pray to the Lord because He has said that we will never be alone.

I have had many dreams in the past that have come true. I have heard the Holy Spirit’s audible voice many times before these writings. I fully regret not keeping a journal from the start.

One of the early times when I heard the voice, I was 20 and had just moved out into an apartment with two other roommates. I was playing around and had my rifle in my hand. I pulled the rifle up to my shoulder, centered the scope on one of my roommates head, and put my finger on the trigger. Before I pulled back, the voice shouted No, don’t do it. Just then my roommate turned around and freaked out. I was laughing but when I checked the safety, the safety was off and a round was in the chamber. I was playing around and thinking the safety was on like normal. If it was not for the voice, I would have gone to prison. That was one of the earliest events that had happened. Since that time, there have been many instances and some that even I have forgotten about. I regret not writing them down.

When I was 22, my one brother and myself went in together to build a house. After we had the house framed, we were running fascia boards across the front of the house. We were working off extension ladders about sixteen feet from the ground. He was on one side and I was about twenty feet from him. He turned around and was pushing with his legs against the ladder to get the board in place. When he pushed against the ladder, it slid out from beneath him. The ladder fell straight down and bounced about four times before it finally stopped directly below him. As the ladder fell, my brother was suspended in mid-air. He looked as if he was sitting in some-ones hand. He stayed in that position for about six or seven seconds. He looked over at me and all I could do was shrug my shoulders. After the ladder stopped bouncing, is when he finally fell, like the hand was pulled away. Now, by all laws of physics, he should have fell straight down on top of the ladder. He fell two feet from the ladder but his arm hit the ladder. He ended up with only a broken arm and not any back injuries. This happened in the summer of 1984.

In the times after that, I have dreamed countless times of things that were fixing to happen. I could have a dream one morning and within two to three days, the exact scenario took place. It was not an everyday occurrence but it has always been constant. Many other times I have woken up with a name of somebody or something, only to meet them within a day or two.

In 1989, I had a box with a ring in it and I went to visit the girl I was dating. Before I gave her the box, the voice spoke again and said, Do not marry this one. I went ahead and proposed and she said yes. It was not a joyful marriage. Infidelity was an issue and it ended long before the split. If I had listened to the Holy Spirit, I often wondered how that part of my life would have been different.

After the marriage ended in the fall of 1996, January had brought something unexpected. I woke one morning with the name Shelby, and I asked the Lord who was Shelby. I was working part time at a Mexican restaurant and a couple of sisters were also working there. One of the sisters had asked me if I was dating anybody and I told her no, not right now. The other sister spoke up and said they had a sister named Shelby who was also single. Shelby and I dated for about three months.

I went into teaching in 1997. I started out in Memphis for a year and then I was transferred to Des Moines. While I was in Des Moines, is when I started to ask the Lord what was coming in the future. I kept being led to the prophecy website. I started to read some of it but did not fully understand it. When I had gotten transferred to St. Louis, I continued to do research on the end of times.

Before 9/11 hit, I kept getting the 11 but I could not figure it out. I knew something bad was coming but I never did have an exact date or what event it was going to be. I had a live-in at that time and I told her there is something bad with 11. She said I was crazy and blew me off. I looked at her and said, No, there is something going to happen. This happened in the summer of 2001.

In 2003, I moved back around family and was living with my brother. My brothers’ house is a two bedroom and I slept on a bed in the kitchen. I said a prayer one night and told the Lord that I give up. For forty one years I have tried it my way and never seemed to find the missing piece. Now I give it to You and I lay myself at Your feet. It was that night that I truly started to trust in the Lord in all things. The Lord says put our trust in Him and He will guide and protect us. I did and still do. It was not very long after that when I began driving and my life started to take on change.

It was during this time that I started to read the Bible from start to finish. I had the Bible on cd and that is what I listened to while I was driving. One instance I was driving and I noticed a group of dogs about to cross the road. It was a two lane highway and the dogs were starting across it. I then noticed puppies following the adult dogs and all I could think was that I was going to run over a puppy. I said, No, Lord, please not the puppies. One puppy was behind the rest and it was going to be hit. The puppy made it about three quarters into my lane. Just then the hind legs lifted off the ground as if someone was cradling his back end and pushing him back across the road. His hind legs were in the air and only his two front legs were touching the ground. The puppy was even looking back over his shoulders toward his hind end, trying to figure out who was holding him. He made it back to safety while all the other dogs had already crossed the road.

For the next several years I drove across the United States. Often I would listen to the Bible on cd and talked to the Lord many times. I used that time to spread Bible cd’s across the country. One instance in particular was a truck stop in Santa Rosa NM... When I had pulled up to get fuel, I had three cd’s left. The Holy Spirit told me to take them and put them on the counter in the men’s bathroom. I turned my head and told the Holy Spirit that the counter in there is always filthy. I mean the counter looked like it had never been cleaned and this was in a busy truck stop. I asked Him to please show me where He wants them because of the filth. When I went into the bathroom, the counter was nasty as always, but in one corner it had been wiped pristine clean. It was as if an arm just swept across it and that small area would have passed a white glove test with honors. I started to understand the pureness of the Lord and how the Lord is absolutely clean. Nothing on this earth can even compare to the purity of the Spirit.

I was driving across New Mexico on a beautiful sunny day. It was three o’clock in the afternoon, I was not tired. I then noticed the sky. It was a brilliant blue with white pillow shaped clouds. I had ordered some books from the prophecy website and I was in the middle of reading the third or fourth book. I said a silent prayer and I asked the Lord if Ray is truly your prophet, would you show me a cross in the sky. At that very moment, I looked to my left and a cross appeared. The cross was bigger than the set of doubles that I was pulling. It was as if someone had pushed a giant cross from the back of the clouds to the front. The Bible tells us that the Lord will always send prophets to warn His people and we can ask Him for confirmations.

About a year later, I had been asking the Lord if He would allow it, could I see an angel. One day I was pulling out the Dallas terminal and started down the road. It was three o’clock in the morning and nobody was out. I saw a man walking waving his arms at me. What took me back was how clean his clothes were. There is no way a normal wash could have gotten the clothes that clean. When I looked back in the mirror, I saw the back trailer had come loose and was sitting in the middle of the road. I made a quick u turn and turned around. After I had gotten back to the trailer, I started to look for the man who had warned me. I could see a half mile in all directions. There was no sight of him. It was as if he had just vanished. From the first time I saw him to the time I had gotten back to the trailer was less than four minutes.

Many times I was partnered with another driver for a team run. I would often use this time to share the word of the Lord but I never pushed the Lord on anyone. Many were willing to listen. One time I had crawled into the truck with a young man. I was thinking about sharing the Lord with him but then the Holy Spirit spoke, No, not this one. I did not understand why but I told the Lord okay. I still read the Bible sitting in the passenger seat but no words of the Lord were spoken between us.

I had taken a sabbatical from dating for four years. I told the Lord, the next lady I lay down in my bed will be my wife. I asked the Lord to please bring me a wife of His choosing, not of my own. I met my wife through a driver that I worked with. We dated for a year and then we knelt before the Lord in my living room and exchanged vows. This was our marriage ceremony with only the Lord and His angels present. After that, I went into the garage and the Spirit told me to come and look. I looked up in the sky and saw total cloud cover. There was a solid line of clouds with no break in them. I turned and asked the Spirit What am I looking at? He just said, Keep looking. It was then two parts of the clouds parted. The parting was in the shape of eyes, two eyes looking down. I knew at that moment, the Lord was present and He had heard every word of our vows. The following year is when we went before the preacher to satisfy man’s world.

In 2007, one day in the truck I had a dream. My guardian angel came and the two of us went into a room. The room was encased in dark veils but in the center of it was a large globe of the earth. As I was standing in the room looking at the globe, she said, Let’s try something new. We went into another room and there stainless steel pipes running in all directions. I was very confused and had no idea what the meaning was.

In the spring of 2008, my wife and I were talking about where to buy a house. She had said lets go to Wilson and look around. I told her no, the house is not in Wilson, but it is over here and I pointed west. I kept telling her that the Lord has a house for us. I told her what the asking price was, where it was, the description of the house, and that it was not even for sale yet. She did not believe me until after we met the homeowner and then I showed her a picture of the house that I had drawn two months earlier.

During that year, our son had to go the Children’s hospital in Little Rock. He had to go in to have spinal fusion surgery. He has Muscular Dystrophy, Duchene’s disease. They cut him from the back of the neck all the way down to the tailbone and inserted two metal rods. After the surgery, his lung collapsed. I stood over him and said a prayer. The next day, his lung inflated on its own. I remember the doctor saying, he has never seen a lung come back that quick.

For three months he stayed in ICU. I had met a man outside the hospital and we started talking. It turned out that his daughter was in the room next to our son. I do not know what disease she had but it did not look good for her. I prayed for her and about two weeks later, I saw the man outside. We got to talking and he said my daughter is getting out tomorrow. He told me he had not even told his wife. He was going to surprise his wife by letting their daughter ring the doorbell when they got home. I just smiled and thanked the Lord.

It was during this time that I was out of work. We had been living on savings for the last year and our account was almost depleted. After our son came home, I had put in over a hundred applications but to no avail. Then I was asking the Lord for help and one day I was out in the garage watching TV. I got up and told the wife I was going next door for a minute. Jack was outside, an elderly man who had lived there most of his life. I had asked Jack if he knew of anybody that was hiring and he broke out his cell phone. He dialed a number and asked the man if they needed help at the factory. Just then, the man he was talking to drove past the driveway. I had my interview in Jack’s driveway. When I was taking a tour of the food factory, there were stainless steel pipes running in all directions. I looked at all the pipes and asked the supervisor, who in the world installed these pipes. He said we did. In my mind I was thinking oops, I just said the wrong thing. I worked there for exactly two years.

I started to get the eleven again, but now it was 3/11. Again I had no idea on the event but I kept getting 3/11. I was working the graveyard shift at a factory that night. I never really thought about the date, but something compelled me to draw on the white board in the shop. I drew the shape of the U.S. and I was drawing the areas where storms and chaos would reign. It was around 2:00 A.M. when I was doing this. As I was standing there looking at the map, the voice spoke and said, May 24 is the next day of destruction. I wrote the date on the bottom of the dry erase board after the Spirit told me it was okay to do so. As I wrote it, I prayed and said do not let anyone erase this if this is true. Martin looked at me and said what is up with the date. I repeated what the Spirit told me and shrugged my shoulders. The tsunami hit Japan around 2:00 a.m. on the very night that this happened. The next day, the three other maintenance men came in and they all asked how I knew it. I just smiled and shrugged. The one even made the comment, What is he a prophet too? I walked away quietly. I do not consider myself a prophet, for I am just a servant of our Lord. The Lord speaks to us all, but it is up to us if we listen.

On May 25, Martin told me that he had not seen in the news where any destruction had occurred. I just looked at him and told him I do not know, but that is what I was told. May 24, 2011 is when the Army Core of Engineers diverted the Mississippi river, opening the Morganza spillway flooding over 2 million acres of farmland and homes. They opened the flood gates to help prevent flooding in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. For over two months that date stayed on the white board. Many people came in and out of the shop but no one erased it. I finally erased it on May 25.

I kept getting 11 again the following year. I even asked the prayer lists if anyone else had been getting that date. Something was going to happen around the first of November but again I was not sure what it was. I had written the date on the calendar and that made my wife mad because I wrote on her calendar. When I was at school, I was talking with two of the students in my class. I told them something was coming but I was not sure what it was. A couple of days later when I went in to school, I asked Chris when was he was leaving for Germany. He told me the date and then I asked him when he was returning. This was around the end of September - the first of October. He said he was returning on the 10th of November and I said, "Good. You will be fine. It will be over before you