Just before daylight on August 20,1988 I sat down to read the scripture for the day from the “Victory Bible reading guide”. Before I opened the Bible I saw a vision that was as clear as if someone had turned a TV set on inside of my mind. I saw curtains stretched out to form a round pen with ropes that went down to stakes in the ground. I was riding a horse around inside the round pen that was under a large tent.

People came in all around the outside of the pen and I was talking to them. At that time The Lord spoke to me and said, “As you teach people to communicate with horses, they will be able to better communicate with each other and some will come to communicate with me.”

I then opened the Bible to read that days scripture and the 2nd verse of Isaiah chapter 54 practically jumped off the page at me. It reads “Enlarge the place of your tent and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwelling,: Do not spare, lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes. For you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants will inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited. NKJ version.

When I read this it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up and I could sense the presence of the Holy Spirit. I knew that was describing the tabernacle in the wilderness but to me it was the confirmation of the vision.

I went out to my arena and began putting together what I had just seen. It took some experimenting to get the right fabric and rope and stakes, but within a few months the product was ready to file for a patent.

My first public demonstration of the Porta-flex was at a Full Gospel Businessmen’s meeting in Lordsburg NM. From there doors began to open to go around to different places and demonstrate the natural horsemanship methods that could be done in the round pen and teach people to communicate with horses.

It only takes about an hour to set up a 50′ diameter pen and it is so lightweight and easy to haul that I took a Porta-flex with me where ever I went. In the beginning I had a small Ford Fairmont car with a luggage rack on top for the Porta-flex. With my saddle and tools in the trunk and a change of clothes and a bed roll in the back seat, I began going around wherever I could find someone who needed help with horses.

Over the next few years I had opportunity to work with every kind of horse from draft horses to miniatures and everything in between. I went to many BLM wild horse adoptions and set up the Porta-flex and would gentle a horse publicly and this would get me in touch with people who wanted help. I would then go to their place and set up the pen; right next to their wild horse’s pen and get the horse into the Porta-flex and gentle it.

Any time that the person that I was working for would want to buy the Porta-flex that I was working in I would sell it and go home and make another one and head out again.

Doors began to open wider for more opportunities to show the Porta-flex to people and I have been coast to coast and border to border of the United States and have been as far as France, Spain, Ireland and up into Canada as far as Calgary.

In 1996 I started going to the Indian reservations to catch wild horses off the range and gentle them in the Porta-flex. My first demonstration was on the Navajo Nation and then I met some people on the Hopi and spent several months trapping and gentling horses there. I later met some people on the Tohono O’Odham Nation and arranged a demonstration with some wild horses that we trapped and brought them into an arena and gentled them publicly.

One time I started a school where I used 4 head of wild horses and three students and we spent 3 weeks together. At graduation they got the horse that they had worked with and a 50′ Porta-flex round pen. We will do that again someday when the Lord supplies the right property.

I continue to this day to do as God said on August 20, 1988 “Teach people to communicate with horses, they will be able to better communicate with each other and some will come to communicate with me.” As you read this I would ask are you one who God is speaking to and wanting to communicate with?

Listening for Gods voice and obeying when He speaks will cause you to be in the right place at the right time, to live a life of peace and purpose. I invite you to contact me.

Steve Harris
221 S. 18th Place
Cottonwood, Arizona 86326 USA
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