Home                                                                                            

The Life Story and Testimony of Sylvia Cummings West. This Book is the Culmination of Prophetic and Spiritual events that have occurred in my Life since the age of Thirty. In the Summer of 1982, at a House of Worship called "The Gathering Place," as my hand was raised in worship; a Powerful Anointing came upon me, as the Holy Spirit spoke to me and told me that I would be used in writing. My hand began to tremble as the Anointing of God fell upon me. About a week after writing this manuscript, as I was listening to some old tapes at work, I began to play a tape that was labeled "Summer of 1982." I was amazed to hear on that tape that I had documented the above mentioned event on the tape. I wrote this preface after listening to this twenty year old tape. Twice I paid a typist to begin typing from my hand written transcripts. Our timing is not God's timing. When God's Anointing fell upon me during this past Christmas Season, the book was written in just eight days. The only notes that I used was a short personal prophecy included in the book.

The End of the Age is upon this planet. The new age of Peace and Righteousness is near, But before that day can come to pass; the greatest conflict this World has ever known must come. It is the much prophesied time of "Jacob's Trouble." The Day of Great Tribulation is here. Multitudes of God's People will be caught off guard. They have been taught by their Preachers that the Rapture will take them off the earth. That Fable created out of the carnal minds of men will soon be exposed with all of it's "Dire Consequences." Because they have chosen to believe a lie; God has sent them a "Strong Delusion," 2 Thessalonians; 2;11. There will be Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth, as The Covering Veil is removed from off of all people. When the greatest day of darkness ever to befall mankind is upon the Earth, and the Mighty Army of God's Sons comes to full manifestation {Romans Ch.8:23} in the fullness of our Lord Jesus Christ; multitudes will know that their shepherds have been "Blind Leader's of the Blind." Multitudes will have to fall on their Faces before God in repentance for refusing to Heed the voices of God's Prophets, who have been sent unto them time and time again.

Creation has been groaning in travail for "The manifestation of the Sons of God." Jesus came to Abolish Death and bring "Life, Light and Immortality" to light through the Gospel. 2 Timothy 1;10. Jesus message to mankind was how to enter into Immortality on this side of the grave; not how to live on this earth for a few years, grow old and feeble, and pass on to be with Jesus on the other side. Our Lord's purpose for coming to this earth was to establish his Kingdom in the hearts and lives of his people; then through his perfected sons, He will establish His physical Kingdom upon the Earth. God's people have been taught fables birthed out of the carnal minds of men. They are so caught up in looking for ,"Pie in the sky, in the sweet Bye and Bye, that they cannot see what God wants to do for them in the "Sweet Here and Now."

IN the year 1971, I was a 30 year-old wife and mother of three children living with my military husband at Ramstein AFB near Kaiserslautern, Germany. After a series of circumstances, that I now know were orchestrated by God, I found myself separated from my family. I had been a loving wife and mother. I was not the type to abandon my family, and especially my children. I loved my children with all my heart. I moved into an apartment in downtown Kaiserslauthern. From the beginning of this experience, I felt like I was no longer living in this "Earth Realm" with all of it's cares and sorrows. I attempted to visit my children, during this time, but my husband blocked all my efforts to do so. He totally brain-washed the children against me, so that they would have nothing to do with me. From the beginning of this experience, I had the awesome feeling of the soon return of Christ. This feeling was so overpowering, that I expected it to occur Christmas of that year, 1971. I had not previously been serving the Lord. My family had been attending a Catholic Church on base. I had no reason, in the natural, to be thinking about the soon return of Christ. This feeling of the soon return of Christ was so manifested in my Spirit, that it took precedence over all other circumstances in my life, at that time. I had to borrow money from my family back home to survive during this time. { As I Look back on this experience of thirty years ago, as the Holy Spirit has moved upon me to begin writing about it December 19, 2001, I know that I had a similar experience as the Apostle Paul "2 Corinthians 12:2} 12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God 
knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. 

God led me into this experience with a two week fast. For two whole weeks, my appetite was taken from me. I never felt hunger once during this two weeks. I had never fasted in my life, and knew nothing about fasting. Not even my Pentecostal background as a child had prepared me for the supernatural experience that God was about to carry me through. I grew up in the Delta of Mississippi. My earliest memories were of attending a little Pentecostal Church of God, "Pilgrim's Rest." I can remember, as a small child, being scared out of my mind by a preacher who preached, "Hellfire and Damnation," for those who did not walk the aisle and accept Jesus. As a very small child, about the age of five, I can remember the powerful conviction of the Holy Ghost, and the tremendous urge to go forward and receive Jesus into my heart. I was a very shy child, and that shyness kept me glued to my seat. My father was a share-cropper; my family lived in a share cropper's shack on the edge of the cotton patch until I was seven years old. We had no electricity or running water back then. I was the oldest of four children; one sister and two brothers.

I was eyewitness to the awesome and magnificent Glory of God back then through my paternal Grandmother. She radiated the Glory of God. Everyone who saw her , even a blatant sinner, could recognize that Holiness that surrounded her. My earliest memories of my Grandmother were of her in the kitchen preparing a meal, and speaking in tongues. I can never remember my precious Grandmother ever raising her voice to anyone. I grew up hearing the family stories of how she would arise early, and go to the old outhouse, and pray for hours. My grandfather was as mean and evil, as my Grandmother was Holy. As a very small child, I was keenly aware of the contrast between "Good" and "Evil." through my grandparents. My beloved Grandmother went to be with the Lord. when I was seventeen years old. I had married at the age of sixteen, and was living with my military husband, and infant son, Adam, at a USAF base ninety miles from Paris, when I received the news, that my Grandmother had gone to be with the Lord.

Many thoughts of my Grandmother were brought back to my remembrance during this time in 1971 in Kaiserslautren, Germany. My memory was so intensified, during that time, that every detail is seared into my memory. As the feeling of the nearness of the return of Christ began to overcome me, I became hungry to know more about the Word of God. I was led by the Spirit into a German bookstore, and straight to a copy of the Holy Bible. I was also led to purchase a Cross. I heard the voice of God speak to me and tell me that the forces of darkness would try to come against my mind. I was not baptized in the Holy Spirit at that time, nor did I know the Word of God. {These are the weapons of Warfare that will be necessary to be able to "Stand in the Evil Day." that is now coming upon the earth.} God led me to meditate upon the Cross, when I felt the forces of darkness trying to come against my mind. As I began to consume the Word of God, I was made keenly aware of the similitude of recent past events that had occurred in my life, and those of the travels of the Apostle Paul.

In 1969, my husband was transferred to Wheelus AFB base in Tripoli, Libya, {located just 90 miles from the Sahara Desert.} He arrived there just before the coup occurred, that brought Gadiffi to power. Three months later, my children and I left to join my husband in Tripoli. We were in Libya during Ramadan Season, which is the time when they expect the Messiah to appear. Nine months after we arrived, Wheelus AFB was closed on orders from Gadiffi. My husband received orders to transfer to Ramstein AFB in Germany. In the fall of 1970, we left the Port of Tripoli on "The Cecilia." We chose this method of travel, so that we would not have to ship our automobile separately. This was a three day journey, that took us across the Mediterranean Sea. On the second day of our journey, the ship docked on the Island of Malta {Melita} for one hour. The passengers were allowed to go ashore and sightsee and take pictures. From Malta, we sailed to the Port of Syracuse, where we docked for one hour. From Syracuse, we sailed to Naples, where we disembarked with our automobile, and began our journey across Italy, and on into Germany. As we drove through the city of Oberammergau, Germany, we saw the townsfolk of that city preparing for the1970 presentation of the "Passion Play." This is an event that takes place every ten years, as people from all over the world flock to that city to see the "Life of Christ" depicted in a play by the townsfolk of that city. I had no idea, as we drove through that city, and were eyewitnesses to the preparation of this upcoming event, that this was a flash point in my life; a piece of a puzzle that God would use like a marker on the road map of life.

As I read of the life of the Apostle Paul in Acts Ch. 28, I was overwhelmed by the similitude of his travels, and my recent past journeys that my family had experienced. The island of Malta is the same island of "Melita"that Paul was shipwrecked on, where the snake bit him on the hand and he flung the snake in the fire. The ship that we took across the Mediterranean, the "Cecilia," had a similar name to the sea named in the book of Acts, that Paul sailed across, the sea of "Celicia." The city of Syracuse, where we docked for one hour, still bears the same name as the Syracuse of Paul's day. God used the parallels of Paul's life, as one of the signs, to reveal to me that he had a Devine purpose for my life. These supernatural events took place just after my thirtieth birthday. {Thirty is the number of maturity. Christ began His ministry at the age of thirty. It is exactly thirty years later, Christmas of 2001, that the Holy Spirit has moved upon me to write this book. I see this as a sign from God that the time of the "Full Maturity of the Sons of God" is here.} This experience lasted for about three months. In my carnal thinking, I was expecting the" Rapture" to occur. God was revealing to me back then, the foolishness of this fable that came out of the carnal minds of men.

When Christmas came and went, and I found myself still on earth, I was confused and bewildered. I began to descend from that high realm in the Spirit. My husband thought that I was on drugs, because of the change in my personality, and the 29 pounds that I had lost, because of the two week fast that God had led me through. He turned the children against me to the point that they wanted nothing to do with me. This caused me to be separated from my children for 3 1/2 years. The pain of that separation has never left me {even thirty years later, as I write about it.} My children were my life, and I loved them with all my heart. My husband sent them to live with his parents in San Diego to get them out of my reach. God made a way for me to get to San Diego, but upon learning that I was there, the grandparents returned them to their father in Germany. He still had another two years on his tour of duty in Germany. My hands were tied; I could do nothing. I wrote to my husband in an attempt to make contact with my children. I received no response to my desperate pleas to contact my children. After I descended from that heavenly realm, and began to function in the natural, I wasn't sure what had happened to me. These events soon became a distant memory; shoved so far to the back of my mind, that it was as if they had never happened.

Looking back, I know that it is only through the grace of God that I survived those lonely years of my life without my children. I remarried again in 1973. My new husband began to lead me into the free-living lifestyle of California. Partying and smoking marijuana became the high point of our lives. {about a year and a half after we married, I learned that my ex-husband and children had returned to the states, and were living in Lubbock, Texas.} In the summer of 1975, I was able to go to Texas. and get a court order allowing me to bring my children back with me to San Diego for a visit. Their father did everything he could to prevent this, but God prevailed and contact with my children {now teenagers} was brought to pass. We had a wonderful summer together, but God was preparing me to walk through another refining fire. This fire would bring me out of the depths of sin that I had sunk into, and begin to transform my life, and that of my children. This fire would set my feet back on the straight and narrow, and prepare me for the depths of Revelation of His Pure Word, that is now being revealed to those who have ears to hear what God is speaking to His people in this hour.

Shortly after my children arrived, I started a home business to earn additional income. As I worked, I began listening to a program on Christian radio called "The Good Life." It was a program based on metaphysics and mind control. It sounded very good to me at the time. I did not have enough of the Word of God at the time to realize that their teachings were not based on sound doctrine. As I continued to listen to this program over a period of months, I began to experience something very similar to what had happened to me in Germany. It is very difficult to express in words all that happened to me during this time, in the fall of 1975. God will use whatever method He chooses to accomplish his plan for our lives. God allowed Satan to come against my mind, in order to bring me back from the depths of sin that I had sunk into. Satan made an all out attempt to take my mind, during this time. My husband became very concerned about my strange change in personality and behavior. I began to hear voices speaking to me in my mind, but they were not the voice of God. I became very mentally confused. On December 22, 1975 {my son's seventeenth birthday} I became so delirious. that my husband became frightened, and called the police. Every moment of this experience is seared into my memory, in spite of my mental state at the time. It is as though I am looking back at a movie of those events, as I write about them Twenty-six years later. I can still mentally visualize myself, as I was looking at myself in my bedroom mirror. It was as though a strange spirit was looking back at me through my eyes. I had no idea what was happening to me. I was in such a high realm in the spirit, that I again felt as though everything in my mind was being controlled by forces outside of myself. I left peacefully. I had no idea that I was being taken to the State Mental Hospital in San Diego.

Something very strange occurred, as we were leaving. The sound of a cock crowing began to come forth from my vocal cords. It was as though I had been hypnotized, and made to do this. I had no control over it. It scared that poor policeman sitting next to me in the police car half out of his wits, as he instinctively slapped his hand on his weapon. {In spite of my mental state, at the time, every detail is seared into my memory, as I sit here writing about it, Christmas of 2001.} It was on January 18, 1986, as I was studying for a radio broadcast, that the purpose for that sound of a cock crowing, that came from my mouth, on December 22, was revealed to me. I was studying from my Strong's concordance, when on page 200,,,,,the Spirit drew me to the reference "COCKCROWING."

Mark 13: 35--"Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh,  at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning.

After ten long years; the Holy Spirit revealed to me why that strange utterance came from my mouth on December 22, 1975. It was a prophetic utterance concerning the nearness of the return of "The Master of Our House." I was in the Spirit on January 18, 1986 as this, awesome Revelation was revealed to me. I was totally alone, and I had no one to share it with, at the time The date is marked in red, at that place in my Strong's concordance. {As God has moved upon me to begin writing this book, as we close out the year of 2001, I know that it was His plan for me to reveal this prophetic event.} By the mouths of many prophets, we are being alerted that the end of the age is upon us. God was showing me twenty-six years ago the nearness of His return. Everything that is being written about here, including the dates, were written from my memory, As the Holy Spirit has brought all of these events to my remembrance over the past eight days,.

I was taken to the State mental hospital in San Diego. I spent three days in this dreadful place. During this time, as Christmas Day approached, I began to see the people around me being transformed in front of my eyes. I again, thought the Rapture was about to take place. Their countenances appeared to glow; as though the Glory of God was covering them. Because of what God is revealing to a Body of people in the Earth today, I can now understand what God was showing me in the Spirit back then. God was giving me a Vision of The Sons of God, that are about to be manifested in the Earth {Romans Ch. 8.} On Christmas Eve, my husband made arrangements to have me transferred to a private mental hospital. I was still in the Spirit, as I was being transported by ambulance to the private hospital. As I was being loaded into the ambulance, I had the awesome feeling that I was being taken to a place of great honor to give birth to the Christ Child. Again these images are seared into my memory, and the timing of this Vision occurring on Christmas Eve, is still awesome to me as I write about, and recall these memories. Because of the Word that God had birthed within me, I know that God was giving me a Vision of the birth of the MANCHILD {Revelations Ch. 12.}Click The religious world has never had a clear Revelation of who this MANCHILD is. There are a people in the earth today to whom this Revelation has been revealed. This is a Revelation of Christ being revealed through His Perfected SONS, that are coming to full maturity, in this Hour.

The woman depicted in Rev. Ch. 12, as having birthed the "Manchild," is the religious system in the earth today. This MANCHILD Company of the Sons of God are coming to full maturity. Many years of Trials and Tribulations has prepared them to be Lights, during the darkness that is coming upon the world. Their carnal natures have been totally consumed by the nature of Christ. The Great and Terrible Day of The Lord is at the door; Great for those, who are looking for His Appearing, Terrible for those who are not. It is not some day off in the future; it is now!!!!!!!!!!!! This final battle will tear down the kingdoms of man, and establish the Kingdom of God upon the earth.

Daniel 2:44-And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a 
kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left 
to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these 
kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. 

As Christmas of 1975 came and went, I descended from that realm in the Spirit. As my mind returned to normal, and I realized that I was in a mental hospital. I knew that I did not belong there. I demanded to be released. They could only hold me for ten days, without my signature. I had to go to court to prove that I was sane. The judge released me at the end of the ten days. My husband had been so overwhelmed by all of this, that he had already filed for divorce before I was released. He took me home, and put the divorce on hold, but nothing was ever the same again. He had sent my children back to live with their father in Texas. The year of 1976, was the year of the worst loneliness and depression, that I have ever walked through. Thoughts of suicide entered my mind. Thoughts of what it would do to my children, kept me from taking this selfish way out. My husband and I became strangers, during this time, living under the same roof. He had demanded that I not listen to Christian radio again. I wanted nothing to do with Christian radio, as I felt that was what had caused my problems.

But as Christmas of 1976 began to approach, I again began to feel another Spiritual experience descending upon me. I began listening to Christian radio again. When my husband came home for lunch one day, and heard me listening to a Christian radio station, he demanded that I stop listening to it. I turned on him with deep agony of travail in my Spirit, and told him that he would not tell me what to listen to when he was not home. He gave me a strange look, and walked out the door. I knew he thought that I was about to have another mental breakdown. The rift between us grew wider, as I began listening to Christian radio at night through earphones, as my husband would be watching a football game on TV.

As Christmas drew closer, the Spirit of God began carrying me into that high place in the Spirit realm again. I knew that my husband sensed that something unusual was going on, as he began to watch me very closely. I was determined that what had happened to me one year earlier, was not going to happen to me again. Christmas of 1976, came and went. In January of 1977, I could hold back no longer. I found myself attending a little Baptist Church near our home. I walked the aisle, that first morning, that I attended that church. I surrendered my heart to the Lord that Sunday morning. My husband had already demanded that I move out of the house. I was baptized one week later. I drove down, before my baptism, and put a deposit down on an apartment. One week later I moved out. Peace and joy overshadowed me during this time, that overcame any sorrow I felt, at the break-up of my marriage. I continued to attend that Baptist Church, and to grow in the Lord. God gave me two jobs during this time that allowed me to make very good money. My Father's professional Gift to me is that of a seamstress. I worked days at an alteration shop, and obtained another job doing pick-up and delivery for another shop, at fifty per cent commission.

God began laying it upon heart my to visit my family in Mobile, Al. My children's father had remarried and retired from the military. He had recently moved to San Diego with the children. I had planned to come to Mobile only for a visit, but my Father had other plans, and my Father always gets His way. I was so full of the Lord, when I returned home to my family, that I was able to get most of my family saved and back in church. I soon came to realize, that I did not want to go back to San Diego to live. My family and home were in Mobile. My children had to make the tough decision of whether to move back to Mobile with me, or return to San Diego to live with their father. They wanted to move back to Mobile with me; the tough part was having to tell their father. The revival that had broken out in my family, brought such a unity, that we all began attending church together. We started out at Dauphin Way Baptist Church, because of a cousin who attended there. I was on my honeymoon experience with the Lord back then, and even though my Father has brought me into much deeper depths of His Word, the memory of that Glorious time is still a precious memory.

I knew, in my Spirit that my Father had more for me than I was receiving in that Baptist Church. It was through an uncle of mine, who lived in New Orleans, that I learned that Marvin Gorman, whom he was associate pastor with, was going to be in Mobile for a meeting. At my uncle's recommendation, I attended his meeting in Mobile, and was baptized in the Holy Ghost, But that was only a foretaste of what my Father had in store for me a few weeks later. A preacher from Crestview, Florida came to Mobile for a meeting.. He felt so impressed of the Lord to come to Mobile, that he even had the meetings video taped. It was on the last night of his meetings in Mobile, that the Lord impressed upon my heart to go forward at the altar call. When the time came for the altar call, no one would budge from their seats. I did not want to be the first one on the platform. When it looked like the altar call would bear no fruit, the Lord spoke to me and said, "are you going to obey me?" I said, "Yes Lord," and I stepped upon the platform. When the preacher leaned down to hear my prayer request, I said, "I want to receive the full Anointing with the fluency in the prayer language." The Lord spoke those words through my lips, because I did not have the wisdom to make such a request. The preacher said, "You know what, you are going to receive it." As he laid hands on me, it was as though I had grabbed hold of 10,000 volts of electricity. my hands were being forced backwards by a force beyond my control. Tongues began to pour forth from my lips. I heard a prayer worker say, "what an Anointing!!!!!!." As I walked off the stage, a spirit of weeping overcame me. Looking back now, I realize that this was the beginning of this Full Anointing that the Firstfruits Company of the Sons of God will manifest. After that Anointing fell, that stage suddenly filled up with people. The Glory of God came down in a Mighty Manifestation that night. Many people were healed. I never learned of all the things that took place that night; I was too caught up in my own Glory Cloud. I only learned about a few of them from family members who attended that service with me. My sister-in law told of seeing a woman's leg grow out. She had joined that prayer line on the stage. God had another Glorious Revelation for us, as we were driving back home along Interstate I-65 in Mobile. My brother spotted it first. He said, "Look at that." We all looked where he was pointing to the Bank Tower Building by Bel Air Mall. The moving, lighted sign, that runs around the top of the first floor is used for paid advertisements. It was not moving, but it was broken and stuck on one word. That word was "REVIVAL." {Apparently some church had paid for an ad about a Revival.} The sign stayed broken for three days, and remained on that one word, "REVIVAL." I know that God was giving me a Prophetic sign of the Mighty move of God that is now upon us.

This mighty infilling of the Holy Ghost that I received in the fall of 1977, began to transform my walk with the Lord. I could no longer remain in that cold, dead Baptist Church. All of my family accepted this experience, as being from God, except my youngest brother. He had listened to the teachings of the Baptist Church, that speaking in tongues was not for today, and that any manifestation of it, was of the devil. He was sitting in the audience, the night that Baptism in the Holy Ghost fell upon me. I guess God gave me eyes in the back of my head that night. I can still visualize the look of unbelief on his face as, this event took place.

The pastor at Dauphin Way was informed by unbelieving members of my family, about my experience. My last Sunday at Dauphin Way, I went forward at the altar call. When Pastor Jerry Vines leaned down to hear my prayer request, I said," I have come into a deeper experience with the Lord." He raised his hand, as if to stop me from saying anything more. He said, "I think I know what it is all about. I want to talk to you later." I never went for that talk, and I never went back to Dauphin Way Baptist Church.

The Lord led me to First Assembly on Michael Bvd. All of my family members followed me except my younger brother and my cousin. From the latter part of 1977 until about 1980, God used First Assembly to help me finish raising my children in the ways of the Lord. My son and oldest daughter met and married their spouses there.

It was about 1981, that the Spirit of God began to move upon me again. God would not allow me to sit still and dry up in organized religion. God began to lead me out to tent revivals and auditorium meetings. I knew that my family did not understand, especially my son. He thought I was getting off into error. He, like many others, thought that anything taking place outside of the church order, could not possibly be of God. I missed the times of fellowship and worship that I had known with my children at First Assembly. As the grandchildren began to come along, I was not able to attend all the little church programs that they were in. I would have loved to have been there, but God would not allow me to do so. I was following the leading of the Spirit of God. I was called apart to hear the voice of God as a distinct sound, and not as a tinkling cymbal.

As God began to draw me under the ministry of prophets, God began to speak to me through the mouths of many prophets that he brought to Mobile. As many powerful prophecies began to be spoken to me by the mouths of many prophets. I began to carry my little portable tape recorder with me everywhere I went. I have just about every prophecy I have ever received on tape. {That prophetic ministry was for a time and a season. I have not received a personal prophecy from the Lord in about fourteen years. But I have, over the years seen most of these prophesies fulfilled, one after another. The Word says, "God doeth nothing, except he revealeth it first unto His servants, the prophets.{ I have those prophecies recorded in a journal. It is one of my most precious possessions.}

The last prophecy in this book is dated June 23, 1988- Pensacola, Florida. "Sister Sylvia"----The Lord said, "The devil has done everything he can to disturb and discourage your ministry, and the Gift of God that is in you." God said," You have gone through the last stop. Now you are getting ready to see the Glory Cloud move one more time, that 's going to bring you into the fullness; that's going to bring you into that realm in the SUPERNATURAL, and you are going to hear from me. Great Wisdom shall come unto thee through the Holy Ghost, and when thou speakest, even those that have known you for years shall stand with amazement and say, "Is this really she that we've known for so long; For there shall be a new Anointing. " You shall come into a whole new dimension of the SPIRIT and knowledge of the Holy Ghost, and PROPHETIC UTTERANCE. For I have reserved thee as a Handmaid of RIGHTEOUSNESS for the End-Times," saith the LORD GOD. God shows me that the time for the fulfillment of this prophecy is at hand. I stand in Holy Awe in the presence of my Father, as the purpose of my life has been revealed to me. God has caused my life to be like a road map of Prophetic Events pointing to the End-Time. God brought me through the Feast of Passover," Salvation," then through the Feast of Pentecost, "Baptism in the Holy Ghost," and now He is bringing me through the Feast of Tabernacles. This third and final feast will bring the Fullness of God to the Firstfruits{Click} of the new creation in Christ. My Father has caused my life to be a Living Testimony, a Living Book of Life, as the world is about to see "The Coming of the Lord." My Father did not allow the pieces of the puzzle of my life to come together, until Christmas of 2001, in the writing of this book. Those who have Spiritual Ears and Eyes to see and hear from the Throne Room of God, are becoming eyewitnesses to "THE MAJESTY OF HIS COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The Denominationally divided churches are in total darkness today, expecting an event that is never going to happen, "The Rapture or removal of all Christians off the face of planet earth."

It was in 1984, that God spoke to me and said," I am about to take you deeper than I have ever taken you before." God said, "I am going to bring forth a Pure Word, that is undefiled by the carnal minds of men." I had no idea of the depths of what God was speaking to me, or of the Death Bed Experience, that I would have to go through.

I had been suffering, for some time with a condition in the lower portion of my body. I would have excruciating cramps during my monthly cycle. This was not normal for me. The pain was almost unbearable, but I did not feel led to see a doctor, at that time. The next symptom was excessive hemorrhaging. I had received a prophecy, years earlier, from a prophetess, by the name of Sis. Kitty. {That's all the name that I have in my journal-----April 24, 1982.} She came down, at a meeting, and whispered in my ear, " I see a separation coming, God is healing that condition in the lower portion of your body, and He's setting you free from that job that has kept you bound" God had already prepared me to trust Him completely, in the experience that He was about to carry me through. I was sharing a home with a friend, at the time of this experience. God would use her in a mighty way to help me through, what He was about to carry me through. The hemorrhaging became so severe that I would have to use large towels to contain the bleeding. Around June, the pain ceased, but the bleeding grew progressively worse .

It was at my weakest point, that Brenda received a phone call from a friend, inviting us to a Home Bible Study. I heard her on the phone tell the friend, "There is no way Sylvia can make the meeting, she has no color in her body from loss of blood." I heard my Father speak to me and tell me to be at that meeting. I told Brenda to tell the person on the phone, that we would be at that meeting. I got out of bed and went to shower and get ready. When I got out of the bathtub, I was so weak, that I had to crawl back to my bed. As I lay there for a few minutes, my Father began to restore strength back into my body. I was able to arise, get dressed, and go to that Bible Study, with Brenda driving the car.

That night I heard a preacher deliver a message on "SONSHIP." This was the next level that God was preparing me to walk in. This preacher was also very familiar with a man of God by the name of "BILL BRITTON."{Click} I had also been given some of Bill Britton's books by someone at a meeting, that I had attended earlier. This was the beginning of a whole new realm that I was about to walk into. My weakened condition caused me to have to take to my bed. I had already sent for some of Bill Britton's books. They arrived at the time that I was at my weakest point. My Father began to reveal himself to me through the message of "SON SHIP." God's Revelations to Bill Britton became "Living Word" to me, during the next few weeks. Bill went on to be with the Lord shortly after this. I never met him in person, but God used him in a mighty way to begin to reveal to me "The Manifestation of the Sons of God." The next event on God's calendar, Is the Full Manifestation of the Firstfruits Company of His Perfected Sons in the Earth.....Those who have been called out, know who you are. God says, "Get ready to receive the Fullness of my Spirit, that you may go forth and deliver the rest of my Creation from the curse of sin and death. Your Time has Arrived!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

It was on the morning of July 4, 1984, that God gave me the dream on the "HARLOT CHURCH SYSTEM." In the dream, I saw these Harlots walking the streets. These were older, more street-savvy women of the night. As I watched, I saw these younger and prettier women, begin to join the ranks of the older women. They had fancier hair-dos and make-up, and prettier clothes than the older women. They were working out of a huge beer-hall. I knew in my Spirit, that gallons of alcohol was flowing out to the masses from this building. The Spiritual void was so intense, as I walked among these women, that I decided to enter the building to see what I could find inside. I walked past empty chairs and tables. The Spiritual void was just as intense inside. I walked past a man at a cash register, counting out the money. I walked past the man, and down a corridor to the kitchen area. It was swept clean and bare and nothing going on. As I began to try to find my way out of the building, I walked back to the man, in charge of the place, still counting the money. I said, "How do I find my way out of here?" He said, "Don't bother me. Go ask someone else." That's when I woke up.

I asked the Lord, "What is the meaning of the dream?" As I lay there in my near death condition. God began to pour the meaning of the dream into my Spirit. God said, "Those older women are the HARLOT CHURCHES in the earth today, that are seducing and enticing my people with the Doctrines and Traditions of men. As you watched, you saw the younger churches coming on the scene, each with a fancier window dressing to entice and seduce my people into their churches. The kitchen area represented the place where my people should have been fed the Pure Word of my Gospel. It was swept clean and bare and nothing going on. The man in charge was not concerned with helping you find the way, but only with the finances. Multitudes are being made drunk on the false doctrines and carnal interpretations God's Holy Word.

My near death experience in 1984 opened up a whole new realm of understanding of what has been called "The Second Coming of Christ." My Father was showing me, through that experience, that only after we have had our carnal man {mind} put to death, can

the fullness of Christ shine forth through The Sons of God. Only then will the full manifestation be evident to the rest of humanity.

After three weeks God began to restore strength back into my body. God had sustained Brenda and I, during this time, but the time had come to go back to work. I was able to get a job, as an independent contractor for an alteration shop, called "The Fitting Room." I was working on commission, so I was able to work as many hours as I wanted to. Being a skilled seamstress, from many years of experience in this field, the work began to roll in. My Father began to bless me with financial abundance. I was able to see a doctor, concerning the condition in my body. I felt led of the Lord to do so at this time. {God used a doctor to verify the healing in my body.} I made an appointment with Dr. Robert S. Harlin After an examination, he told me that there was a problem. He said that it could be very minor, or very serious; that only a biopsy would tell. He did the biopsy that day. At my next appointment, Dr. Harlin informed me that I had a benign polyp, that could be removed through a minor surgical procedure, called a DNC. He made arrangements for me to enter Mobile Infirmary one week later, as an outpatient. The procedure took less than an hour. I walked out of the hospital, totally healed. To God be the Glory.

As my Father began to draw me into a closer walk with him, I moved out of my friend's home. I rented a mobile home in West Mobile. This was the beginning of the separation, that had been prophesied to me years earlier. One night, as I lay upon my bed, the overhead light suddenly came on. I had just been reading a book on Angelic Visitations. A Heavenly Presence filled the room. During this time, I was able to put the entire Bible on tape, in just fourteen days. It was only through the Power and Anointing of God that I was able to do this. It required reading day and night. My Father led me to do this, so that I would be able to listen to the Word, while I worked. I was blessed with a job, where I could listen and work at the same time. I listened through earphones, so that I would not disturb my co-workers. These tapes are now over sixteen years old, and they still play as good as the day they were made.

I attended many Evangelistic services, at various locations, during this time. A few of them were ordained of God, most of them were not. I can count on one hand, the number that were. I did not have the wisdom, back then, that God has brought me into over the years. There are many "Wolves in Sheep's clothing." that have led God's flock astray; fleecing them and not feeding them. My Father has had his hand upon me in a mighty way, and He carried me through those dark places, and into the Light on the other side. {Those that are called to be the Firstfruits to deliver creation from the curse of sin and death, cannot be plucked out of the Hand of God.}

It was at a David Paul meeting. that I met my black friend , WANDA. We were drawn together, from the beginning. I had no idea, at that first meeting, of how God would bind our friendship together in the Spirit. She has become my best friend and confidant for about sixteen years now. God has brought us into these deeper Revelations of the Kingdom together. She has been the only one in Mobile that I could share these deeper truths with. We have experienced many Dreams and Visions concerning the Mighty move of God, that is now upon us. My Father led me to take her with me, in 1985, to a convention in West Palm Beach, Florida. It was the first international convention, held at the church of "Bro. Benny Skinner." {Grace Gospel Church} The cream of the crop of God's Kingdom preachers were at that convention: J Preston Eby, Charles Weller, Kelly Varner, Peter Demetris, and many from overseas. There were ministers from all over the world at that 1985 convention. We returned back to Mobile renewed in our Spirits, and with tapes, that would continue to feed us.

At the end of 1986, God led me into a Radio Ministry on WMOB Radio in Mobile. { It seems that it is always around Christmas, that the greatest moves of God have taken place in my life, as it is now Christmas Day--2001, and I have been at my computer all day in the completion of this book, that my Father told me in 1982 that I would write. he gave me the title back then, "The Backside Of The Desert," as I lived for nine months in Tripoli, Libya, just ninety miles from the Sahara Desert.} I can count on one hand the number of people who responded to my Radio Broadcast. I was paying my own radio bills, so I was indebted to no man. I preached the Word as God gave it to me. God opened up a television ministry in the summer of 1987. Again God provided for me to be able to pay for my own television programs. It was on the local TV station {Channel 21} and only lasted for a few months. Again I was indebted to no man; I preached the Kingdom message as God gave it to me. Again, I could count on one hand how many people responded to the message. I had no idea how God would use these sixteen year old taped messages to bring me back from a twelve year Wilderness Experience.

I left my job at the Fitting Room after four years, and opened my own shop on July 4, 1988. My son, Adam, and I set up the shop, and opened for business on that day. It was a struggle the first year, but now, thirteen years later, it is now the largest alteration shop in Mobile. {Check it out in the Mobile yellow pages under alterations.} My beautiful daughter, Evelyn and I, run the shop. We have both been blessed abundantly through this business that God has given to us. God has blessed my daughter with the same professional talent as a seamstress. She has been my right arm in the business; I could not have done it without her. God has blessed me with five beautiful granddaughters, through my son and daughter, ages twelve, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, and twenty-one. The oldest, Kristina, gave birth to my first Great-granddaughter, Destiny, March 23, 2001. She is expecting her second daughter in April. God's promises of blessings, have been fulfilled beyond my expectations.

update: photos taken November 2004

Shortly after the opening of my shop, my Wilderness Experience began. Up until that time, Wanda and I been attending meetings with a small group in Pensacola, Florida. We also had a small group, that I ministered to in Mobile, after my television ministry ended. God opened up some doors for me to minister at a few small churches in Pensacola from 1986 to 1988. The Revelation of the manifestation of the Sons of God was so powerful during that time, that we expected to see the "Full Manifestation" in the year of 1988. God's timing is not our timing. It is very easy, in our carnal nature, to get ahead of God. When God's time for an event of such magnitude, as the "Revealing of His Sons" in the Earth, it will be by the mouths of many prophets. When this much anticipated event did not take place in 1988, it was as if a curtain came down. I found myself walking in that low earth realm once again. I had no idea that this lifting of the Spirit of God and the Anointing, would last for twelve years. The cloud of darkness that came near the end of 1988, began to make me feel as though all of the teachings and Revelations of God had been erased from my memory. The devil tried to make me believe, that the Word, that had been birthed into my Spirit, concerning the Kingdom of God, and the Manifestation of the Sons of God were all lies. I became very involved with my five granddaughters, during those years. In my loneliness, and desolation, I went through two failed marriages, during those years. Any thoughts of ever ministering again were gone from my mind; "I thought."

September 11, 2001; a day that will live in infamy; marked the beginning of the lifting of that "Cloud of Darkness, " that I had walked under for twelve years. I was feeling such an awesome, horrible depression at these Horrific events that had befallen our nation of America. I knew, in my Spirit, that the attack upon the WORLD TRADE TOWERS marked the beginning of judgment upon America. America has sown to the wind, and She is now about to reap the whirlwind. The legalization of the slaughter of the unborn, has surpassed Hitler in Genocide!!{Click} The fall of the WORLD TRADE TOWERS, was a wake-up call for America for repentance; but has it happened??? The answer is a resounding, "NO." I tremble before Almighty God at what is about to befall America, and the whole World. The "Great and Terrible Day of the Lord" is at the door. Great for those who are "LOOKING FOR HIS APPEARING," Terrible for those who are not.

Those rivers of water spoken of here in Isaiah are the "Living Waters of the Pure Word of God," that are prepared to flow down to the dry earth, to a thirsty people, who have been taught fables and traditions of men. The "Religious World" is teaching that the next event on "God's calendar" is the "Rapture of the Church." I am amazed at what I see on some of their websites. The early church said, "Through much Tribulation, we shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven." The Religious System in the earth today does not even know what "Tribulation is," but I am afraid that they are about to find out. God gave me a vision in 1984. I saw a shepherd standing on a mountainside. There were dark clouds on the horizon, as a tremendous storm was rolling in. His sheep were gathered around his feet. His cloak was blowing in the breeze. He had a frightened look on his face, as he tried to gather his sheep closer. I heard a voice say, "Shortly the shepherds are going to be confounded, and their sheep are going to be scattered."

It was just days after the tragic events of September 11, that Wanda called me at work. I had loaned her my ministry tapes from my Radio and Television programs from 1986 and 1987. I had not heard from her in a while. Something had clicked in her mind, after the fall of the WORLD TRADE TOWERS, about my first Radio broadcast, that I had made in 1986. I had shared my testimony that first week of broadcast. The part about driving back along the I-65 Interstate, the night I received that Mighty Anointing and Baptism in the holy Ghost, and seeing the TOWER of the Bank Building at Bel Air Mall stuck on that one word 'REVIVAL," was brought back to her remembrance. She got my tapes out and began playing them. She called me at home that night, and began playing that part of my testimony over the phone. I sat with my ear glued to the phone. I could not believe what I was hearing; the Anointing that was upon these sixteen year old tapes began to lift us both into the Spirit. We were up until past midnight, weeping before the Lord, as the Anointing fell on both of us. My twelve year drought was over in a matter of minutes.

I drove to her home in Montrose, Alabama the following week-end and retrieved my tapes. This was the week of September 15. I have spent the past three months, at my place of business, doing my work, with a tape player clipped to my belt, listening not only to my ministry tapes, most of which I had never listened to before, but the tapes from years past of the convention in West Palm Beach, Florida. My Father has restored his Anointing a Hundred-fold. The events of September 11, are now a distant memory to me. In the New Anointing that God has restored unto me, I have no desire to watch television. I have Spent many hours listening to Kingdom Preachers on the internet. To all of you out there, who may be reading this and have an internet ministry, God bless you from the bottom of our hearts. I say" our" because, Wanda doesn't have a computer, so she will call me, and I will put the phone by the speaker, and she will listen until she falls asleep. I am usually up until 1:00 AM at least. I also record them, and take them to work and listen to them. Don't be dismayed by the number of hits you may be getting on your websites; the ones that God has ordained to hear are hearing.

I moved into my neighborhood of Pinehurst in September of 2000. Across the street from me lives my Chinese neighbor, Amy. Working the hours that I work at my place of business, I had not had the time to get to know her. She had tried to get me to go to church with her at Knollwood Assembly of God. I felt led to put some of my tapes into her hands. I had no idea if she was on a level to receive them or not. Lo and Behold, someone had already given her books, that had prepared her to receive what was on my tapes. We began to share more and more. We began having Bible Study together. One day she invited me to have lunch with her. During the course of our conversation, at a Chinese Buffet, we began to discuss Kingdom websites. I had felt God dealing with me about a website. I knew absolutely nothing about web programming. In her meek little voice, she informed me that she had a Degree in Computer programming and web design. She had worked for a company in San Francisco for twelve years before coming to Mobile. When God speaks to you about something, you can believe that He has already paved the way. A few weeks later "The Kingdom of Light Ministry" website was born. It still needs a lot of work, as this book comes to a close, but the groundwork is already laid, for whatever plans my Father has for it in the future. God does not tell us too much, too far in advance. If he did, we probably would not know how to handle it. I did not even know that I was going to write this book until I started writing it on December 19, 2001. Amy, {my webmaster} had asked me to write my testimony for my website. I began typing at my computer on December 19, and eight days later "THE BACKSIDE OF THE DESERT" was born.

My Father awoke me out of a sound sleep December 23, 2001; two days ago, at 1:30 AM, after only about two hours of sleep, as I had been at my computer typing all night. He spoke the word "HARBINGER " into my Spirit. I was then instructed to arise and go to my dictionary, and look up the word, as I did not even know the meaning of the word. The words " FORERUNNER" and " HERALD" leaped out at me from the pages of the dictionary. I fell on my face before the Lord. as the magnitude of what God was revealing to me sunk into my Spirit. I immediately went to my computer, and logged it into my files in the largest, boldest fuchsia  lettering on my computer.

The manifestation of the SONS of GOD is at the door. My Father gave me the Revelation that the 2 in front and back of 2002, represents the two-fold ministry of the "MELCHISEDEC PRIESTHOOD, " {King and Priest.} that will have no end. The two zeros mark the end of this age and the Beginning of the New Age of Peace and Righteousness. The Saints of the Most High will take the Kingdom by force. PRAISE THE NAME OF OUR FATHER. EVEN SO COME QUICKLY, LORD JESUS. His return is at the door.  Prepare to meet your God.   

Footnote: Even though my Father used the Christmas season to bring my into many of my Spiritual Revelations,  He has now revealed to me the pagan roots to Christmas.  I no longer celebrate Christmas.  This was one of the hardest decisions I have ever had to make.  Breaking family traditions is never easy.                                    

 Update: February 22, 2004: To God be the Glory--this website has expanded and my Father's purpose for it has been revealed. {Exposing the evil of The New World Order and the Soon return of our Lord} I am now my own webmaster.  God has taken me from a total computer illiterate of a few years ago  without having to go to computer school.  I give him all the Glory.  Without Him I am nothing, just a piece of clay that He has seen fit to pour out His Spirit upon and use for His Glory.

My Father has blessed me with three Great-granddaughters and now a great-grandson.  My life is so full of His blessings.  My cup runneth over.

Update September 28, 2005:  Another great-granddaughter was born August 18, 2005.  As we are entering the time of Jacob's Trouble, I sense the urgency to continue my preparation for their survival.  Dark days lie ahead for those walking in darkness and for that Apostate Church system that is expecting to escape from the Great Tribulation that is already upon us.  My heart is very heavy these days, as I have seen what happened just a two hours drive away from me in New Orleans, and now with Hurricane Rita's devastation upon the same area.  We wait with great anticipation  for the next cataclysmic event to occur.  It is time for the Saints to be in fasting and prayer before our Heavenly Father.

Update December 2007. I became great-grandmother to number seven great-granddaughter in July of 2007.  What will 2008 bring???????  America is on the brink of war and economic collapse.  Who will be our next president???? God's judgments have already begun to hit America.  How long do we have until {America, Mystery Babylon, Revelation Chapter 18 is fulfilled??????????????????}

www.kingdomoflight.org