Azusa Street Testimonies

[votivesoul]

I have been in meetings like the one described by Brother Bartleman. It was what I longed for and hoped to see in my former assembly, but could not help bring to pass, when ego got in the way.

After leaving, it wasn't but a couple of weeks that the Lord led me and my family to where we belong. The first meeting, I went by myself to check it out, and Jesus applied a charismata of healing upon me for my soul.

The second meeting my wife and children came with. There I saw the Lord standing in the midst of us, sitting in a circle as we were, Head of the Church, Sovereign Over All, silently receiving the worship we gave him.

It does not happen all the time, but often enough to note it, that the heavenly song mentioned frequently at the Azusa meetings, comes to us, though it is patently clear that sometimes, upon those of us which it comes, there is hesitation and uncertainty, as if something about it might be considered out of order, or disruptive of something the Lord might be doing in and for another sitting by.

We may yet achieve the liberty necessary to fulfill His will in this matter.