Purpose of Deborah’s Lifetime
Hello my friends and thank you for visiting this website. The purpose of this website and the creation of Deborah’s Lifetime is to build the Lord’s church and deliver to the world the prophecies given to me leading up to the Lord’s return. The primary prophecy given by the Lord is he will return in my sister Deborah’s lifetime. The Lord is allowing the Holy Spirit to confirm this to me continuously. Since January 2019, I have not ceased to experience the physical presence of the Holy Spirit. Currently, it feels like small electrical buzzing throughout the entire body, it does not hurt and thank God I am not hearing voices! Now, I do not consider myself a prophet like the Old Testament prophets but have been given key prophecies. Please click on the following link to listen to an opening video.
Similar to how the Holy Spirit gave Simeon the Lord’s birth in his lifetime in the gospel of Luke, I have been given his second coming in a person’s lifetime. The Bible says in Amos 3 that the Lord does nothing unless he reveals his secrets to his servants the prophets. My friends, God loves us so much but it is time to press into the Lord and ask the Holy Spirit to help us stop sinning so we will not end up in torment. God’s desire is to save us and use our talents and resources to further his agenda in the world. However, we have freedom of choice so each of us must decide to allow him to work in our lives. The teachings on my website cover the below topics.
- What does it mean to be born again and how to know if we are saved?
- How and when I began to experience the physical presence of the Holy Spirit.
- My testimony, including a miraculous healing and conversion from a sinner to a saint.
- Understanding what God has revealed in the Old and New Testament.
- The fundamental Principles of Christianity.
- My street ministries and guidance on interacting with the public.
- My prayer and fasting approach and some recommendations.
- Eschatology or the study of the end times as well as my dreams and visions to date.
- How you can get involved.
Deborah is my sister. She and I were born into a family of sixteen siblings all sharing the same parents and there are no twins. Again, I do not consider myself a prophet but have received prophecies I am witnessing come true right before my eyes. I am experiencing the physical presence of the Holy Spirit in the form of what feels like small electrical charges on my hands, crawling sensations on my feet and occasional wind over the body. I dreamed of something similar to this before it began in the real world. This experience has not ceased since it began and below is my testimony of this phenomenon.
Physical Presence of the Holy Spirit
My friends, around June 2017, the Lord did something very strange to me. I am unsure if this was a dream or vision. I felt the Lord come into my room and sit on my bed, in the dream or vision, I opened my mouth and the Lord breathed into me. I woke up and chills were over my body.
Around November 2017, in a dream or vision, the Lord was in my bedroom and reached his hand through my wall and grabbed my hand. I felt the Lord’s hand on my hand in the bed. The Lord stayed there for a few minutes and I woke up and felt strange sensations over my entire body.
Around August 2018 in a dream, I received the prophecy that he is coming in my sister Deborah’s lifetime. In the dream, the Lord was within me and I felt similar sensations I am feeling now.
Around November 2018 in a dream, I was taken down to hell and meet a man who said the Antichrist was rising soon. I was given an understanding that the Catholic Church would propel him to power. Now, I am not saying there are no born again Catholics.
Around January 2019, I felt a presence enter my room. I was not asleep because I had just laid down. I felt the presence touch my feet and I immediately felt warm sensations over my entire body. I turned to see a glowing, white face without a blemish. The being appeared male and had two eyes, normal nose, mouth and chin. His eyes were piercing blue. I said, “You are an Angel”. He smiled and said, “Marvin you have eternal life, you will never die”. I stared at him for a while and could feel his strength within me. This experience lasted for about a minute.
A few days later, I woke up and experienced a small tingling sensation in my right hand. Of course, I assumed that I must have just slept wrong. However, I noticed that when I prayed the sensations got stronger. My friends, this was the beginning of me experiencing the physical presence of the Holy Spirit.
Approximately six months to a year later, I began to experience strong physical sensations in prayer. When they first began, I had no clue of what was happening or why I was struggling to breathe during prayer. The dizziness and coldness got so intense that I just did not want to even pray. However, thank the Lord, now I prepare my mind before entering prayer because I know the attacks are coming. Also, the cold hands and feet have been replaced with a warm burning sensation. Presently, during my prayer sessions, it feels like I am being transported somewhere, there is popping in my ear and feels like something is crawling on my feet and head.
My Dreams and Visions
My friends, any dreams, visions or spiritual experiences must be compared with the Scripture. Anywhere our experiences contradict the Scripture, we must conclude they are not coming from the God of the Bible.
I have received and documented certain dreams from April 2017 forward that I believe are from the Lord. Also, I attempt to provide an interpretation for many of them. Notice I said attempt, because I am not hearing a voice saying, “Marvin this is the meaning”. When you read the Bible, the Lord uses symbols in many of the dreams and visions given. I invite you to visit my page on dreams and visions and let me know if the Lord has given you dreams and visions. Feel free to reach me at the email provided on the how to get involved page.
The Scripture clearly says in the book of Joel that in the end, the Lord will pour out his Spirit and we will receive dreams and visions. Of course, this began at Pentecost in the Book of Acts and will continue until the Lord returns. It is a reasonable assumption that the closer we are to his return, the more details will be provided. In the Book of Daniel, the Bible says in the end knowledge will increase. As the Lord provides additional dreams and visions, I will post them. However, I am very cautious when proclaiming a vision or dream is from the Lord because just as Satan gave the Lord a vision of full authority in exchange for worship, he can give us the same thing.
My Conversion
I first confessed the Lord in my senior year at college around the age of twenty four. Immediately, I began passing out tracts and witnessing on the campus of Fullerton State University. Many of my clubbing buddies just thought I got religious and went off the deep end. Coming from a poor family, I chose Finance as a major and the plan was to move to New York, become a stock broker, make all the money and run all the women! Now being a fairly good looking guy, physically strong and relatively smart, this plan was definitely within my reach.
One day, I was returning to my apartment with my then girlfriend, who became my first wife, whom I lost to cancer after eleven and a half years of marriage. The complex was full of police officers. An officer said, “Sir you cannot enter your unit because someone is threating to commit suicide and we are trying to talk them down.” Now being the sensitive guy I was, I said “I do not care, I have to go to the bathroom.” A man in the complex was near us and he said “You can come use my bathroom.” I said, “Thanks”, and my girlfriend and I went to his apartment. I noticed this guy had very little furniture, no TV and a Bible open on his coffee table. When I came from the bathroom, he asked me, “Are you a Christian?” I said, “Yes”, while sleeping and living with my girlfriend. He said, “I am new to the area and do not know many Christians, so would you like to begin studying the Bible with me?” I do not know what made me say yes, but I said “Yes”.
Over the next few months, I was under tremendous conviction because my girlfriend and I were sleeping and living together. Also, during that time, the Lord gave me a powerful dream. In the dream I was struggling with following a guy on a stage saying “Follow me and I will lead you to riches.” In that dream I remember saying, “No, I am not going to follow you, but I am going to follow Jesus.” During the night I had that dream, when I awoke my bed was soaking wet. It felt like someone had poured water on my bed. My girlfriend and I stopped sleeping together and within a month or so, we were married. My big proposal was we have to get married or break up.
I began reading the Bible approximately eight hours a day and listening to nothing but Christian teaching and music. I remember this lasted for about six months and on a Monday night at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, when Greg Laura was teaching, I went forth and publicly confessed the Lord and was baptized shortly after.
Miraculous Healing and Guidance on Fasting
The information on fasting provided on my “Prayer & Fasting” page came directly from the Lord. I remember when I typed this out and went back to edit it, my hands began to shake and the Lord said, “Do not change it”. This document was given after the culmination of a miraculous healing of a herniated disc I had. No doubt from years of lifting weights and glorifying the flesh. I am giving you an overview, but if you want to know more of the details surrounding my miraculous healing and guidance on fasting, please click on this document.
If you visit the page on Prayer & Fasting, you can read what the Lord gave me. While working, I followed this for about three years religiously on the first Saturday of the month. Now that I am retired, I do not fast as often because the prayer sessions are quite difficult. The Lord does not guilt me out for not fasting more. However, one word from the Lord to begin a regular routine of fasting will definitely be obeyed.
To summarize, these experiences happened for approximately two weeks from November 10 to November 23, 2011. After visiting the doctors, MRI and fighting with intense pain, one day I was knelling to pray and felt a hand on my back, my pain immediately left and my room was as bright as the sun for about a minute. After that experience, the following morning I felt the same hand on my back. The next day I woke up and heard a voice say, “Good Morning Marvin.” I did not say anything and just figured I was imagining it. The voice said it again, “Good Morning Marvin.” I said, “OK, who are you?” The voice said, “I am Jesus.”
Over the next four days, I would ask the Lord something and he would immediately answer. Also, at night when I walked to the bathroom, wherever I would step, there was a light on the floor. It seemed like someone was shining a light on my foot. Also, during this time, Satan entered my room in the form of a white pit bull and sat by the bed. I said in my mind, “Lord that’s the Devil!” The Lord calmly said “Yes.” I looked directly at him and said out loud, “Satan you do not love God and you do not want anyone else to love him.” Satan did not say anything but just walked out the room.
Also, during this time, I remember speaking with a co-worker who had just been diagnosed with cancer. I was performing Chaplaincy ministry at that time and asked my boss could I pray over this person. During the prayer, I asked him what he would want from the Lord during this time. He said that the Lord would be with him. That day, he went to lunch and I happened to go to lunch at the same location. We sat down and the Lord gave me the exact sin of this person. I told him and he started to cry and asked, “How did you know that?” I said, “Do not worry about that but go home and read Genesis 1-3.” By the way, that man’s exact sin was “Pride” and the Lord gave me some details to reveal to him.
After a week or so, this person began to go to a local church and reported to me that he had repented, received Christ and was baptized. He died a few months later. I remember wondering during this period whether this open dialog with God was my new normal. After approximately four days, I remember his voice shut off.
Street Ministries
I have been doing some form of street preaching, feeding the homeless and witnessing on the streets for over 25 years. If you desire to perform street ministry, please read my guidance on how to engage the public. All of us are commanded to witness for the Lord, but not all of us have a direct gift of evangelism.
During my street ministry career I have experienced God working through me. I have laid hands on people and seen instant healings, demons have come out and spoken with a different language, and many confessions of sin have occurred. When I am on the streets, I ask individuals if they would like prayer and to be added to my prayer list. Anyone hitting my prayer list receives at least 30 days of prayer. Please review the confidential prayer list I have maintained over the years and feel free to request prayer. My prayer list continuous to grow but now being maintained on my phone. I record and post my street preaching and witnessing videos to my channel for others to see this great work in action!
Foundational Teachings
My friends, what does it mean to be saved, born again or know God? Throughout my teaching sessions, I explain what I believe it means to be living in this state. However, allow me to present this miracle in the following way.
First, we must understand God does not need to save us but he literally killed his Son Jesus to bring us the light of the gospel. God will not cease to exist if our souls are lost. Now the Bible says that God is long suffering and patient, not willing that any should perish, but all to come to repentance. Also, we know that John 3:16 says how much God loves us but also says he who does not believe will perish. The Bible says God manifested in the flesh as Jesus and also says God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself. The Bible says Jesus is the Light which lights everyone that comes into the world. I understand this to mean that God, through his Son Jesus, has given everyone an understanding that he exist or the light of conscience. Therefore, we conclude that God has made the first step to reach us.
Next, we must understand our relationship with God is that of Creator / Creation which is similar to a Parent / Child. This is what the Lord meant when he said we must humble ourselves as a child to enter his kingdom. Another way of saying this is God makes the rules and we submit to them. Now as you get to know God better, you definitely feel more empowered, this is evident to me, a person experiencing his physical presence. However, there is always an element of Master / Servant present. Therefore, we must never come to God in a proud way thinking we are going to bring some new information to him. For Jesus says his Father knows even when a feather falls to the ground.
Finally, God has appointed a time when he will judge the world, through his Son Jesus. If my prophecy is correct and based on his presence I believe it is, we are the final generation. In this last hour, God through his Holy Spirit is calling everyone to become reconciled to himself. I like to summarize the born again process in this manner.
The 3Rs of Conversion
- The Rules (Sin): Prior to conversion, we come to an understanding that we are breaking God’s rules or laws and disobeying him which means we are sinning, worthy of his eternal wrath.
- The Repentance (Righteousness): We feel shame over rebelling against God and desire to turn from our rebelliousness lifestyle and want to live according to God’s righteous standard. This includes not believing the facts of the Bible. When ready, we get baptized to demonstrate we are dying to the old lifestyle of sin or disobedience and coming out of the water to walk in the new lifestyle of holiness or obedience. When God sees our obedience, he gives us his Holy Spirit. Now this may or may not be when you come out of the physical water. I know for me, it did not happen upon water baptism.
- The Rescue (Judgment): We understand until we obey God that the wrath of God is upon our life and if we die in disobedience, he is going to send us to torment for our rebellious, sinful lifestyle. We understand that God loves us so much and has given us Jesus Christ to be the only blood sacrifice to pay for our sin debt. We develop a hunger and thirst for righteousness and want God to fill us with the Holy Spirit so we can live a life free of sin.
The cost to God
Now salvation is a gracious gift from God but do not let anyone tell you it did not cost God to send Jesus and therefore, you better believe it will cost us to enter into eternal life. Remember when our Lord was in the garden before going to the cross, he pleaded with the Father. My friends, the redemption of our soul continues to be a heavy cost to the Godhead.
Anyone who has some understanding of how holy God is knows that no human can earn or demand salvation. The Bible says that Jesus blood is the only blood that can pay the sin debt. However, the Bible is clear that we will work to enter eternal life. For our Lord said, no one begins to build before sitting down and counting the cost. Our Lord said, deny yourself, pickup your cross and follow me. My friends, whoever falls on the cross or the rock of Christ, will be humbled. However, whoever the cross or the rock falls on, it will grind him to powder. Let me encourage you to fall on the cross and pay the cost to become his disciple.
The cost to Us
My friends, salvation is more than believing Jesus died on the cross and other facts of the Bible. Salvation is us entering into the cross and dying daily to the old, sinful man. Remember, Paul said I die daily and he was crucified with Christ. Do you know dying daily to our sin is hard work my friends? This is why the Bible says the Holy Spirit is there to help us in our weaknesses.
Please find one parable in the gospels where the Lord is not saying we must work to enter the kingdom. Remember the parable of the talents, the Lord gave one five, another two and another one. What did the Lord say about the servant hiding his one talent? Remember the parable where the Lord is hiring workers to go and work for him. His question was friend, why have you been standing here idle all day? Remember the parable where the Lord says, no one who puts his hands to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom. My friends, when we are farming, how do we use a plow?
Remember the story of the prodigal son in the gospel. What did the prodigal son do after living a worthless life and wasting his Father’s money? Did he believe his Father loved him and he could be forgiven? Yes. Do you think this belief would have gained him forgiveness unless he got up out of the pig pen (old life of sin) and ran to the Father (confession of sin) and asked the Father to allow him to serve no longer as a son but a hired hand (repentance and new life of service to God).
The physical and spiritual birth
Now, we cannot know God other than through his Son Jesus Christ. Jesus says the one who does my Father’s will and obeys me will be given the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will lead us into a life of holiness, not a life of sin. Our love for the Lord and our neighbor is demonstrated through being involved in the great commission to reach the lost, by meeting physical needs and abstaining from the practice of sin. Obviously, we need the Holy Spirit’s power to pull this off. This may appear black and white, however, as you continue to read, you will see that falling into sin is a process. The letter of James gives us a hint of this process, but consider this for now.
To enter the physical world we experience a nine month painful growth process that ends in extreme pain. Just ask any woman. Now, if the physical birth is associated with this much trauma, then it is only logical to believe the spiritual birth will have much more. Paul says we must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God and our Lord says strive to enter the narrow gate because many will try and not be able. Also, our Lord says in this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer.
Prayer & Fasting Guidance
My friends, my prayer sessions last for about an hour. All during the prayer sessions, I experience pressure in the chest, intermittent dizziness, burning sensation in the hands and feet and the wind of the Holy Spirit blows on my hands throughout the entire prayer. More recently, I feel my ears popping, something crawling on my head, arms, feet and have heard things moving in my room. Thank God I do not do drugs because I am definitely interacting with the spirit world! Please visit my page on prayer & fasting for guidance.
Understand the Holy Spirit interacts with each of us in his unique way and leads us in different directions according to our gifts. Please do not try to interact with the spirit world in any other way other than how Jesus teaches us in the Bible. If the spirit world begins to interact with you, like it is doing with me, run directly to the Bible and compare your experience with the Scriptures. If your experience appears inconsistent to the Scriptures, then ask the God of the Bible to help you understand what is going on. Remember, our experiences never trump the revealed written word of God.
Our Relationship to God: Obedience vs Disobedience
My friends, we are made in the image of God so our perceptions, desires, feelings, actions and motives are very complex. Notice these things I just mentioned are not physical. Yes, we exist within a physical body or structure, but at the core of our being or the essence of us, is spirit. When the Bible says God breath life into us and we became a living soul, the Spirit has confirmed to me that some part of us will exist forever. Now for most deep decisions in life, many and quite possibly all these aspects are definitely in play. Therefore, since the subject of God or Supreme being, is the most complex topic we will ever consider, all these processes are definitely active.
Please journey with me as I explain how the Holy Spirit is helping me implement my relationship with God. What does it mean to love and obey God? Does God know I cannot obey him at the same level that Jesus did? What does it mean to live a holy life? What does it mean to hate and disobey God? How does my fear of God interact with my motivation to love or hate God? Can I love, obey and fear God all at the same time? Does God want me to serve him out of fear or love? If I am indifferent toward God does that mean I hate God? Is the Old Testament God saying obey me and the New Testament God saying love me? Trust me my friends, here is an extremely important question. Am I trying to relate to God apart from a good understanding of the Bible, what happened to Jesus on the cross and the role of the Holy Spirit?
How is God choosing to test our love?
When God created our first parents and placed them in the garden, did he say love me or obey me? We know the command was to obey me because they already knew to love God. They were experiencing God’s continuous presence, similar to what I am experiencing, so both beings, man and God, were in an unbroken love affair. As long as man continued to abstain from the wrong tree, the test was being passed, their obedience demonstrated and both beings continued to experience each others love.
Since man had never died, he had no experiences to compare against the consequences of disobedience. So, in a sense, the threat given by God only engendered a minimal amount of fear. Now since we have a better understanding of loneliness, pain, addictions, hatred, sickness, death and hell, the fear component of our motivation to obey God is greater than theirs. Trust me my friends, every being has a certain level of fear, when the concept of God comes into its’ mind. The reason I know this is because the Holy Spirit is convicting the world of sin, righteousness and judgment. The world in this instance means people.
When God told Abraham to take your son, Isaac whom you love, and offer him as a burnt offering to me, was he testing Abraham’s love, obedience or fear? After Abraham passed the test, did God say now I know how much you love me or how much you fear me? When God delivered the 10 commandments to Moses, how did he deliver them on Mount Sini? The Bible says that the sight was so terrifying that Moses said, I am exceedingly fearful. And Moses said to the people, Do not fear for God has come to test you and that his fear may be before you, so that you may not sin. Also, how many times is the word love mentioned in the 10 commandments? When our Lord says the greatest commandments are for you to love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, while loving your neighbor as yourself, wasn’t he summarizing the 10 commandments for us? Can we find any passage in the Bible where our faith toward God is not expressed as obedience to his rules?
Why am I breaking the rules?
So what if I choose to disobey God’s rules, does that mean I hate God? If I am choosing to disobey God, does that mean my level of love or fear toward God is wrong? If I am convinced that my lifestyle is disobedient and truly believe in the fear of God’s punishment, why on earth would I continue in this direction? My friends, the most logical response is I believe God will continue to extend grace to me. Also, my concept of God might be he is love and would an all loving Being ever send someone, especially me, to a place of eternal torment? Am I really that bad when compared to all other bad people?
Essentially, I am risking future judgment to receive this temporary feeling of pleasure. Why on earth would I trade this temporary feeling of pleasure for an eternal feeling of pain? The only reasonable answer is my belief in the future torment is not strong enough in the present to change my behavior. When God tells us to confess with our mouth and believe in our heart to be saved, he is talking about a belief strong enough to change our behavior. Any belief we have or confession of faith we make, that does not change our behavior is worthless.
My friends, our Lord’s death on the cross, the gift of the Holy Spirit and our Lord’s blood continuing to intercede is evidence of God’s desire to help us make it to glory. Therefore, regardless of our perceptions, desires, feelings, actions and motives, let’s chose to demonstrate our love and faith through obedience. Just as Hebrews says that our Lord learned obedience through the things he suffered, we to must do the same. In every situation, we chose to submit our will to God’s rules and believe his plan is to work all things out for our good. When the Father and the Son sees our abandoned resolve to obey them under any circumstance, exactly what my brother’s book “Going All In” is preaching, they release the power of the Holy Spirit within our lives.
About Deborah’s Lifetime
Please visit my page on “The Principals of Christianity”, which includes some fundamental teachings on testing, temptation, sin, repentance and the born again state. Also, my pages on the Old and New Testament is crucial for everyone seeking answers to what this is all about. If you would like to begin witnessing, please visit my page on “Street Ministries” for some guidance. I also have teachings on my “Prayer and Fasting” page providing guidance to deepen our personal relationship with the Lord. I have teachings on the “End times or Eschatology” and how I believe this age will culminate, which based on my prophecies, is in my sister Deborah’s lifetime. Obviously, if I am wrong then I am delusional and will probably end up in hell for lying on God. That was a joke my friends because I assure you, I am interacting with the Holy Spirit even as I type this. I encourage you to follow the teachings and copy any material from this site. Please visit the About Deborah’s Lifetime page to learn a little about the founder and how you can get involved.
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