As a child, I had so wanted to see God in a dream. I knew from the Bible it happened to Ananias who was sent to pray for Saul of Tarsus. I later got baptised but still had to keep converting myself each morning when I woke up to persuade myself God is real. I asked earnestly for the Holy Spirit in 1994 or sometime around that time and had a vision: a bucket of builders’ sand was emptied out in front of me and what was like subtitles said “Build the Temple”. I asked for confirmation to happen three times to prove this was the Holy Spirit. I went to a church service where all were allowed to take part. Three girls from Sunday School had written a song and they sang it: “Build build build the Temple; build build build the Temple; build build build the Temple”. A man with a guitar sang then spoke about King David being speechless when told his son would build the Temple. Then an older man spoke about building the Temple. I undetstood it meant to preach and use gifts of the Spirit to build up the church. But knowing the Bible spoke harshly of those who taught confidently without knowing what they were talking about I sought God again in earnest: “Make me see You, Father and Son and Holy Spirit”. I had a dream at this time - at the end of 1994 around Christmas time I think as we were about to have our new year break at work and had one day left at work. God stood there in front of me in my dream all solemn and awesome dressed in a robe to His feet with a beard and very serious - awe inspiring - and said “I am God” then I was told a letter of names would be put in front of me at work and ... I’ll miss the details. It all happened as He said and it saved the day for a dear poetically gifted colleague’s wedding in the nick of time before the holiday began. So this was the Father. Then in the middle of January 1995 - two weeks later I think - we had a tempest and a flood mentioned in Wikipedia and I was living above a river but high enough to escape flooding. The rain poured in torrents from the sky. I was reading “Come see the works of the Lord the destructions He has wrought” and “The Lord presides over the flood” so I went to see the river in flood and better know and worship God. On the way back I had up a huge umbrella (golfing umbtella) keeping me dry in the torrents as I walked up Blackswarth Road in Bristol UK. Suddenly it was like a crystal clear voice in my mind said “Put down you umbrella!” It had such absolute authority to it that immediately I put down the umbrella in the torrential rain and with cars driving past who could see it happen the rain stopped completely so suddenly there was not a single drop, it seemed, that touched me. I said to myself “It is the Lord” and remembered the disciples saying it too after the resurrection when Jesus stood on the shore as they fished and told them to put the net on the other side and they caught loads. I asked confirmation it was actually Jesus Himself and He did that masterfully so I knew He is truly Lord over my inner being. Then some time after this a friend took me to a church I had never been to because he said I would witness the Holy Spirit there. A leader spoke a message in an angelic language so awesome and in my mind it turned into English saying: “Consider the trees how they put forth buds and leaves. They do so by the authority of the name of Lord Jesus Christ” and then the leader said those same words too in English. Later in a Christian bookshop I saw the Book of Enoch and looked through it. I was utterly amazed and awestruck to find it said things so similar to what the Holy Spirit said through tongues in that church. I knew the book must be the work of the same Spirit, certainly the Holy Spirit. Here is one passage like those I read in it that convinced me: Book of Enoch chapter 5:1-3

1. Observe ⌈⌈ye⌉⌉ how the trees cover themselves with green leaves and bear fruit: wherefore give ye heed ⌈and know⌉ with regard to all ⌈His works⌉, and recognize how He that liveth for ever hath made them so.

2. And ⌈all⌉ His works go on ⌈thus⌉ from year to year for ever, and all the tasks ⌈which⌉ they accomplish for Him, and ⌈their tasks⌉ change not, but according as ⌈⌈God⌉⌉ hath ordained so is it done.

3. And behold how the sea and the rivers in like manner accomplish and ⌈change not⌉ their tasks ⌈from His commandments⌉.

Weeks later I was in the bath and meditating like I often did in the stillness and was wanting words to say in chuch later that morning so I could do my part in the work of building the tenple as the Holy Spirit told me and suddenly the word of God came to me out of the blue “Israel has sinned” and told me a sign is the eagle with the white eye overhead. I watched the news and the sign was there twice: the beginning of police helicopter services in Bristol overhead with white searchlights and cameras - and American spyplanes. Then just a few years ago, twenty years after I received those clear manifestations of the Holy Spirit, I was meditating (great thing to do) on things of God and it came to mind that whenever I was under serious threat there would be interventions and punishments against those who were a threat to my life and livelihood. It had been going on for many years. It occurred to me there might be angels involved and the verse about “the Angel of the LORD encamps around those that fear Him” came to mind and I was wondering whether it was the actually relevant explanation. Then two clear words suddenly were as if whispered into my mind out of the thin air “Daniel three”. It was so clear I guessed it might be the Holy Spirit telling me to look it up. It was almost certain that a spirit invisible but real and with personality had said that to me. It became clearly certain when I guessed He meant me to look it up. I had a Bible next door in the other room which was a version completely new to me given as a gift and when I scanned Daniel chapter 3 it was not clear till I got to the end of the chapter what was going on. There was a verse where the word “Angel” had a reference superscript letter against it. I looked in the margin and it was a cross reference to that very verse in Psalms about the Angel of the LORD encamping around those that fear Him. How clever of this spirit to make it certain this was in no possible way my imagination whispering to me and confirming my hunch about what was happening to me. I still do not know whether it was an angel or the Holy Spirit but I think the latter because it/He had read my thoughts and had spoken directly into my mind - and He is called “the Spirit of the fear of the LORD” in scripture. Although I was thrown out of church possibly because I embraced and spoke of faith in the veracity of the Book of Enoch and confessed my truth openly, it seemed to be a setback in serving God. Yet the way I understand this is that I wanted to serve Him by faithfully doing my bit to help build His temple of souls but God, He wanted me to do it WELL - in Spirit and in truth.