Welcome to my new web log! I wanted a place where I could share my thoughts and insights on the apostolic/prophetic, family discipleship and homeschooling products. I am passionate about these three subjects! Through the years, many people have suggested that I create a website based on these areas as well. So now, with the help of our computer savvy sixteen year old daughter, Katherine, I am finally getting around to it!
Important Note: Because this is a free website/blog, there will be ads to the right of my text. I want to state that I do not officially endorse them, although some could be worth investigating.
Bio/Testimony
For those of you who do not know me, my name is Susan Freeman and I have been abiding in the Tree of Life (Jesus) for over 25 years now. I was born again and filled with the Holy Spirit all on the same night, the summer I graduated from high school in 1982. ( Come on, do the math! :-) )
That night I had an amazing encounter alone with God! The next day, I called the "strangest" Christians I could think of in our neighborhood to see if they knew what had just happened to me! I told them that I had woken up in the middle of the night and heard a voice repeatedly calling my name and asking me to get out of bed, get on my knees and ask for the gift of tongues. Although, at the time, I did not know God personally nor what the gift of tongues was, I did somehow intrinsically know that it was Him talking to me. What impressed me the most was that He knew my name!
When I finally bowed my knee to His request, and asked for the gift of tongues, I was filled with a warm sensation of love and an amazing revelation that God was real! I also found myself speaking a torrent of foreign words. This rich outpouring of unknown languages continued on for over two hours. While I was rather overwhelmed with the strangeness of what was happening to me, I also felt a strong conviction that it was God and that He had more things planned for me in the future.
The "strange" (charismatic) Christian couple that I had called for understanding, were just as amazed as I was about what had happened to me, but they did confirm that it was God calling me to become a child of His and that perhaps I needed the gift of tongues for my destiny or life purpose. They explained the biblical gift to me the best they could. They also invited me to a bible study that night which I agreed to go to. While I was there, I began to experience another strange phenomenon.
I suddenly felt like I was going to cry uncontrollably after a young father spoke about his grief over his wife's death earlier that year. What he was saying was certainly sad, but what was building inside of me was way more than what was warranted for the situation. I felt this tremendous pressure building up in me until I knew I was going to have to break down and wail. I slipped out of the house, ran across the yard and managed to throw myself behind a large rock before the dam burst. I was crying, wailing and almost beating the ground with the agony of the inner pain and grief that I felt for the young father. I seemed to be pushing something away from or out of him. At that point I knew nothing about weeping intercession or travail. Instead I thought I was going crazy and I was mortally embarrassed at the thought of anybody seeing or hearing me in this state!
The couple who brought me, eventually found my hiding spot and took me inside to a back bedroom. They told me as I continued to cry and moan that I must be called to intercede in prayer for others and that the intercession that I was experiencing would probably push the young man through to the next stage of grief. According to them, he had been stuck in the step of depression and anger for far too long. I later found out that he was remarkably different after that night and moved on into a healthier cycle of grieving.
Five years later, my spiritual journey continued as I had graduated from Youth With a Mission's Schools of Discipleship and Evangelism and from Pacific Lutheran University. I had landed a teaching job at the Puyallup Tribal School in Tacoma, WA but decided instead to continue on with Youth With A Mission as a full time missionary with the Carrier-Sekani Tribe in Central British Columbia. It was during this time that God told me I was an Apostolic/Prophetic Intercessor called to lay foundations for the New Jerusalem. Of course at the age of twenty-two, I had no idea what He was talking about but I knew that I had a lifetime to find out and fulfill my destiny!
At the age of twenty-seven, in 1991, I met and married my wonderful husband ,Glenn Freeman, and over the course of the next nine years God blessed us with four precious children: Katherine, Alison, Anna and Joseph. Before Glenn and I had met each other, God had told us individually, that we were to home school and disciple our future children from birth through highschool. In the process of time, after we began to have children, He led us to call our combined efforts Destiny Directed Home Learning and Discipleship.
As I said before, I am passionate about these particular subjects and thus would love to talk with you more about each one. I am in the process of writing a foundational segment for each catagory and will add current thoughts and insights as time goes on.