It's Not Normal. Or is it?: Book One in the "Not Another Boring Book About Testimonies Series"

By Elaine Patricia

This book is intended to challenge you. Allow it to be the launchpad to encourage you to step out of your comfort zone to explore and record your own personal journey. Let it propel you beyond the norm and into the realm of the supernatural, where you will experience the miraculous and deeper things of God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781458345196

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It’s Not Normal.

Or Is It?

Book One in the 'Not Another Boring Book About Testimonies Series'.

Elaine Patricia's Personal Account, (L.I.S.T.) - Living in Supernatural Territory. 

This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, by any means – electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise – without prior written permission of the author.

Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, King James, KJV.

Cover Design

Jackie Stokoe & Michelle James.

Copyright © 2022 Elaine Patricia

978-1-4583-4519-6

CONTENTS

Contents

Acknowledgements.

Foreword.

Preface.

The Power of a Testimony.

Introduction.

My Reality.

The Road to Resilience.

An Open Invitation.

Being Different.

A High Price.

Enough is Enough!

It’s Testimony Time.

Purpose-Driven.

Leading By Example.

The Stratospheric Anointing.

A Life of Sacrifice.

Immediate Obedience.

Holy Spirit, I Need You.

Direct Words.

Assuming a Position.

Get A Grip!

In Retrospect.

My Sheep Know My Voice.

Our Deliverer.

The Love Walk.

How Much Longer Lord?

Declaring God’s Greatness.

The Call.

Epilogue:

Notes:

More Notes:

Questions for Elaine:

More Questions for Elaine:

Notes and Scripture References.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Acknowledgements.

Thank You Father God for this gift.

I simply want to thank You, my late mother and father, other family members and everyone who has encouraged me to write over the years.

We’ve finally done it!

This is for you, a product of your love and support.

To my beloved ones: If you meet up on yourself somewhere in the book, Please take this as an advance warning: I’ll only receive positive feedback.

For anything else, please seek legal advice.

Happy reading!

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Foreword.

There is nothing more encouraging and inspiring than to read or hear the testimonies of others and learn from their experiences.

When I was asked to write the foreword of this book for Pastor Elaine Paul, I was excited and honored as I knew it would be a work that authentically outlines and describes the awesome and remarkable journey her life has taken so far.

I was not disappointed. In this book you will find encouragement, experiences you can identify with, receive spiritual insight and life lessons you can benefit from.

Her perspective is thought-provoking, refreshing and dynamic! This is a book that will captivate you from the first paragraph.

I highly recommend this book and believe it is the first of several volumes that will become a point of reference that you return to repeatedly and I have every confidence that as you read, your life will be impacted.

SHEILA HIGHTOWER

Founder: For Such a Time as This Ministries Intl.

Host: Protocols of Faith, Protocols of Power

Preface.

First and foremost, I want to thank you for reading this book, but if you picked it up expecting it to be super-spiritual, philosophical, intellectual, academic, etc., etc. let me tell you, I’m glad I can even spell those words.

Philosophical, intellectual, dynamic, melodramatic, are not what you’ll find in this particular scribing. What you’ll find is ordinary, extraordinary, bordering on unbelievable or incredible even - if you prefer that word - eye-opening, not super-spiritual, but always down to earth, real, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

None of it is what I’ve read and re-hashed, none of it is from what I’ve been told, apart from by Holy Spirit, Himself.

In every case, I’ll attempt to maintain clarity and ensure my reader knows what is what in terms of providing details, but it will be, as much as is possible, to encourage, not to judge or condemn, and always from my own, personal experiential knowledge, substantiated with and by the Word of God.

The Power of a Testimony.

Revelation 12:11.

And they have overcome (conquered) him by means of the blood of the Lamb and by the utterance of their testimony, for they did not love and cling to life even when faced with death [holding their lives cheap till they had to die for their witnessing. AMPC.

We confound Satan with the Word of our testimony and the Blood of the Lamb.

I know this is an important book because in the middle of writing it out and with only 3 days to go to complete the collation of all of the content, before publishing it, I was plugging in the laptop charger when the plug and the charger exploded.

All I could see was a blue flash and smell the smoke afterward.

So, wide-eyed and encouraged, I continued.

Not what you expected to hear, is it? Let me explain, I know that this is the book that will open the womb for more books, manuals, writings, poems, prose, essays, documents, newsletters, etc, to follow.

Plus, there's power in testimonies. Therefore, I would be surprised if I sailed through producing this without opposition from the dark forces.

This interference confirmed the absolute necessity to get this book out ASAP, especially to break the curse off my life of God calling me His author yet me not having produced a book.  Imagine. A bookless author...

How embarrassing to stand in front of Him on the Day and not be able to ask Him if He'd read any of my books. Let's not go there.

So, under Holy Spirit inspiration, I managed to get the information off that particular laptop onto another one, before the power ran out (Remember, I no longer had a working charger for this one). I couldn't afford for my work to be trapped again, as had previously happened. You can read about that later on.

But, for now, I continued, I produced more and you are now reading the finished product. Yay!

Are you ready to read with me, deep truths expressed in an easy-to-read way? Even so, eat, digest, assimilate, be liberated, but, above all, enjoy. Here goes...

Introduction.

Let me say before I proceed, that apart from a poetry diary and a poetry anthology, this is the first book I’ve written that is now in print. To this end, I decided to be myself and do it my way.

I have not set it out in conforming to or in accordance with the usual expected structure. It would have taken me too long and been too expensive for me to do it that way. Thus, here it is. Ta-da!

I’ve simply let it flow and entitled every section as it came. I hope you’re okay with that, because you are already reading the finished product. No refunds.

To get to the point, none of that matters. What matters is that it’s clear enough for you to join me on this trip partway through the unfolding of my reality.

I want you to run and catch up with me, then walk with me in my current time zone where I share a beautiful relationship with my Creator and encounter Him on a daily basis, minute by minute, second by second, with the greatest level of satisfaction and fulfilment a human being can enjoy from here to eternity.

I’m inviting you to take this trip with me, but I need you to belt up and enjoy the ride. If necessary, get your tissues out, by all means, because it will stir up your emotions in certain places, but also take care to maintain the balance and rejoice with me in my moments of joy, excitement and elation.

Understand that my main