This is a true story of how God rescued a wayward trucker only to use him to make an impact throughout the inner streets of America, which branched into ministry worldwide.
IVINE ENCOUNTERS II
My name is Dr. Jerry W. Hulse, and I am licensed as an International Evangelist with Miracle Life Church International. Apostle Don Stewart and Bishop Ping Alba personally mentored me.
In my over 43 years as an over-the-road driver and mechanic in the trucking industry, I have had many supernatural encounters with the living God, which would make one rethink the law of physics.
I am sharing one of those encounters with you in this story, which I pray will cause you to take a measuring stick off of the God who declares in Ephesians that he can do exceedingly abundantly more than our three-pound human mind can imagine.
Beloved, I have experienced many manifestations of the Holy Spirit in my more than 43 years as a professional driver.
In 1995, I returned to ministry after a more than seven-year nervous breakdown, taking the CB radio call sign “The Guardian Angel.”
I used this call sign, or we call it “handle” in trucker language, because while in this nightmare that seemed there was no end to where I would wake up with my fingers drawn up like someone with severe arthritis, the Lord sent Angels to me just like the TV series “Touched By An Angel.”
Yes, these would be messengers from God who identified themselves to me as being sent by the “Lord God Jehovah,” they used his name with Holy reverence while speaking to me.
Beloved, when I made a comeback in ministry, God opened doors for me in radio and TV, and did you know that he would do creative miracles through my programs without me knowing it?
This caused the stations to be flooded with calls and letters. I never used my real name in any of my programs, outreaches, or magazine articles written about me, for my thought was, “If God thinks that much of me to allow me to meet Angels on several occasions, significantly when I believed death would be a gift to me through all the heartache, rejection and mistreatment I had to endure since a young teen.
Dear readers, I would use the name “Guardian Angel in everything I undertake to do in his ministry, and that is why I feel led to share this true story of how God chose to use me in such a way that many people were left shaking their heads and rethinking their relationship with God.
God opened doors for me to minister for over twenty years, wearing my original Indiana Jones hat throughout the inner cities of America, including Knoxville, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia.
Dear readers, my quiet times with the LORD on the road were some of my life's best times.
I remember God spoke to me on one run, informing me that he needed me to pray for an Angel to be delivered.
Beloved, I did not understand God's message then, and I have noticed that in all my years in ministry, the Lord had a habit of speaking to me in broken sentences.
I have also learned that this aligns with scripture where he said we prophesy in part, and I have learned that this is for a reason because he wants us to be just as surprised when he comes through as the ones we have been given the assignment to minister to.
Beloved, my satellite communication device had just beeped to signal a routing change that would take me off my regular route by several miles.
The new route would take me through a town in Kentucky that I was very familiar with, and I had a friend God had been using to impact the gospel ministry in this town positively.
I called my friend and let him know that I would be coming that way, and he was so excited that he began to call other ministers in the area.
Sometime before this, I had met the shop manager of one of the large ship-building factories in that town, who informed me that he had been playing my preaching tapes across their PA system, and all the workers loved my preaching.
My friend had given him some of my preaching tapes, which were put out by three different gospel tape ministries, distributed in different areas such as Truckstop throughout America, and mailed free of charge to ministries worldwide.
The tapes would have introductions into the country gospel bluegrass music and then be closed out with one of the messages I had preached in Truckstop meetings nationwide.
Beloved, getting back to my phone conversation with my friend, I remember asking him if he knew anyone going by the name of Angel, and he replied, no, I cannot recall knowing or meeting anyone with that name.
Beloved, with the memory still fresh in my mind of God’s voice asking me to pray for an Angel, I informed my friend that God was sending my truck out of route asking me to pray for someone named Angel.
My friend did not recognize anyone by that name but suggested that I pray for a godly lady in the choir of a local Baptist church. He informed me that she was at the church praying and had recently been diagnosed with throat cancer.
My friend informed me that because of the cancer, her life, ministry, and career as a gospel singer were in jeopardy.
We drove to the church where she was, and after my friend introduced me to her, we spent some time getting to know each other.
I used that time to speak of how I had witnessed the power of God work to perform unexplained miracles.
I did this in an attempt to build her faith and cause her to get her eyes off her condition and get them focused on God and his miraculous works.
Beloved, When asked to pray over her situation, I was led by the Holy Spirit to be careful to operate in her faith as a Baptist church member within the teachings she had been imbued with.
After prayer, I felt peaceful inside my spirit that I had accomplished the assignment.
Several weeks later, I called to ask about her health and was told she had gotten worse, which, after several instances of watching God come through at the last minute, did not shake my faith.
The singer continued to go downhill until the time of her surgery, but just before the scheduled surgery to remove the cancer, the doctor decided to do a pre-surgical testing procedure, which surprised him and every one of the medical staff working on her case.
Beloved, God came through for this singer and did what he loves to do, bringing the patient to where it looked like there was no hope. Then he stepped in, did the surgical removal, and left the doctors shaking their heads.
The surgeon informed her and her family that surgery would not be needed because the test showed that the cancer was gone!
My friend also informed me that he discovered the singer's nickname is Angel.
Dear readers, God knows everything about us: where we live, our bank accounts, where we work, and where we spend most of our time, which means the scripture comes into clear view that asks the question, "What is the man that you are mindful of him or in plain words, What is the man that you (God) have a mindful of him?
God had performed a wondrous miracle and healed her, and dear readers, this did not take me by surprise, for I knew God had arranged our meeting and would confirm his word with signs following.
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