The Jesus Freak in Me
  Mark, my wife's cousins husband is a very wealthy man. He was in town promoting a multi level marketing program called Kevin Trudeau marketing. I was building a fence between my house and my neighbors property. I just hated how his leaves would cross over into my yard. In reality, if things weren't to my satisfaction,I would get angry. Here comes Mark and his buddies in a $200,000 bus. I wasn't interested in the mlm program but when Mark started helping me build the fence, I felt obligated to listen to what he had to say. We went inside and he started to explain the program to me. At first I didn't understand it, but then it was like a light bulb went off in my head. I was struck with more clarity,excitement and enthusiasm than I had ever felt in my life. I not only understood it, I could VISUALIZE promoting and profiting from this program. I wrote him a check for $1,100.
The next day I went into work and called a meeting with my boss and managers. I was so excited! I told them I was a new person, that they would have to get me a secretary, I have shined my shoes and was going to be top salesperson! Of course this was way out of character for me. They issued me a slip to go get a drug test which I failed for I was still smoking pot. I told my manager after finding out the results that if smoking pot made you feel this way,everyone would be doing it.Refusing to enter rehab,I quit that position. I immediately found another job the next day.I poured all my heart,soul and energy into the MLM, spending about all the money I had. Unfortunately, Kevin Trudeau was a typical MLM concept and I got out of it. The good thing is I left with the remembrance of the incredible drive and positive thinking,one of which I had never felt before. I also had the opportunity to attend the Peter Lowe success show. What a uplifting experience. The one point they all made was the secret to their success was God. I knew god had touched me and answered my prays from when I prayed in the shower. The only problem was I thought It was all about money and that he was going to make me rich. I was making very little money when the opportunity to start my own business came about. I went for it! Unfortunately this would mean my wife would have to go back to work. She was not very happy about it and told me "show me the money". She didn't think I would succeed nor did my dad. Who could blame them,I never was successful. The one person who did think I would succeed was my best friend Dwayne. He could VISUALIZE it.I worked day and night going from six accounts to twenty.I made goals and wrote on paper if I called on accounts every day,I could get where I needed to be. Great things started happening. I was very motivated and did what ever it took to prove I would be successful. But it was still all about the money. I realized God had to take me from job to job to get me where he wanted me.I recalled a former boss told me one day"take your focus off money(paycheck)and focus on the sales calls.Later on I learned this was true. Keep the focus on God the rest shall fall into place.

One day in August 2001, My wife came running in from out doors screaming "I ran over a snake with the riding lawn mower and almost stepped on it"!I ran outside,grabbed a shovel and chopped its head off. I felt rather spooky about it for copper heads look rather demoniac. The next day I had a strange feeling and went back to where I killed the snake and behold,there was another one twice as big. I grabbed the shovel and started chasing it through the woods,I couldn't catch it but recall the evilness in its eyes. It's as if it knew I had killed it's mate. That night I started feeling very strange. I was adjitated. My wife took the kids and went to her moms house. The battle had begun.
"The Battle"
After my wife and kids left, I played my drums and sang to my favorite group Matchbox 20. I was feeling elated. I had never felt so good,yet so strange. I had a lot of energy yet confused. I recall the lyrics from the first song on the first album of matchbox 20. The first verse was "I wonder what it's like to be the rain maker(God)". Another verse was "From some other planet,I get this funky high on the yellow sun" Another verse was"I wander what its like to be a super hero".Keep these verses in mind for they play a big part in my experiences. I began to feel high as a kite with more energy than I had ever felt before as if God was lifting me up and expanding my mind.I felt Gods presents unlike never before. I went down stairs and started watching the church channels. Everything I heard seemed to be directed to me personally. I began calling the prayer lines(Benny Hinn and Jessie Duplantis). I wanted to share my experiences with anyone who would listen but to no avail. After hours of calling the prayer lines,they put a block on my phone number,understandably so.I felt as if I were going through a "battle" Between good and evil. I was looking for any justification for what I was seeing,feeling and hearing on TV.I was searching for a logical explanation. I VISUALIZED myself on a stage talking to people about my experiences and how I could bring them to Christ.I started praying. GOD gave me my first vision. God spoke to me and said" I am going to show you in it's simplest form how to get closest to me". The vision was a story book page of a straight train track with the most beautiful train on it. Jesus was the conductor,this train went up to the mountains and down in the valley but always stayed straight.Many tracks crossed but only the straight track,the track of righteousness, would lead to the promise land.While on this train,I could lift my head up through the clouds and see the promise land. The tracks that crossed,were the tracks of sin. If I got on one of the trains that were on the crossing tracks,it would take me away from Jesus and would began to go into the darkness. If I found myself on a track of sin,there would always be and track to take me back to the righteous track but the darker it got the more difficult it would be to find the track of righteousness. This vision is as vivid today as it was when I received it.Another vision from God was like a 9 volt battery. God said"Son,you are like a 9v battery,I've taken all the negative energy out of you and filled it with positive energy".To elaborate on the positive aspect he gave me another vision.The world is like a negative forest,work your way through the forest by not giving up for there are many hidden positive pockets. When you find one,stay there and what you see will be good.Therefor in every situation there is something good in it. Find it and focus on what was good about it.Please keep in mind,up to this time in my life,I had never read the bible.By this time it was about 5:00am. I was really struggling with what was going on with me.I then felt compelled to walk outside. I looked up and saw 7 planets,one being earth. God spoke to me and said "Yes my son,it is I,you father in heaven you have won the battle" I was so elated.I later learned that I was not hallucination. Every 100 years the planets line up and in august 2001 it was their time to lined up again.
Keep in mind,when I say"God talks to me" it's as if your conscience is speaking to you not voices. After seeing the planets I felt compelled to go door to door and preach. After no success,I went back inside and got a gallon of water.In the meantime me neighbor called the police. I walked outside and started staring at(the funky)sun.the police got there and one of the officers said"isn't that hurting your eyes"? I said no it feels good.(Please never stare at the sun).They took me to the hospital. Incidentals a year later I went to the eye doctor to get some new glasses which I had been Wareing glasses for 2 or three years and I told the eye doctor what I had done.Rather shocked she said"No Mr. Baker you have no damage whatsoever from looking at the son". What a miracle for I had stared at the sun for close to and hour total.God saved my eyes sight.After going to the emergency room my friend Dwayne,dad and wife were extremely concerned,they didn't know what had happened to me. The doctors were going to transfer me to the hospital so my dad and wife were going back to the house. I insisted they not go back for a battle had taken place. My wife later told me that when they went to the house it was filled with flies.I was transferred to the hospital and imagined being in a normal hospital with my own room.We got to the hospital the guard escorted me to my quarters and it hit me! I was in a nut house!I was so frightened for about 10 seconds when a calm came over me and God told me"Do not be afraid,you are here for a reason". I immediately started talking to the other patience. I talked to the other patients about my experiences, they seemed interested. The next day I was outside in the court yard sun gazing,meditating and focusing on God. I was sitting on the ground and people started sitting around me. I started telling my story.I recall pacing the halls one night with numbers filling my head. I knew what numbers were good for me and bad for me. I had a vision of a date-030504. But it didn't seem wright I would go back and forth in my head with 030504 which felt smooth in my head but when I would say 050304 it hurt my brain. My mother died on 050304.The next day I would walk around preaching,the fire alarm kept sounding. Alarms would go off for no apparent reason,the place seemed to be in chaos. I remember telling the guy that was fixing the alarm"You cant turn that off". By the seventh day I was back down to earth and ready to go home. I sat with one of the nurses and asked her if strange things were going on the day the alarms sounded.She looked at me and said"Yes Ray,strange things were going on". I left the hospital and went back to work.(more to come)4 more events, Signs,mind over madder,seeing the soul,forgiveness