When I Got the Holy Ghost... How About You?

[KeptByTheWord]

As long as I can remember, going to church has been a part of my life. I used to be scared I wasn't going to heaven, and couldn't sleep at night, thinking about the rapture and not being ready.

Our church was having revival, and I was 5 years old. I remember being at the front of the church with several of my friends praying around me. As I heard them begin to speak in tongues, I wondered why I wasn't, and then I opened my eyes, and realized it wasn't just them speaking, but I was too, and all three of us received the Holy Ghost with the initial evidence of tongues at the same time. It was a glorious experience, one I have never forgotten.

I remember asking my mom on the way home or later that night, if Jesus came back, would I go to heaven now. I was so scared about that!

That has been over thirty years ago, and my walk with the Lord Jesus has been wonderful, and more precious than anything else to me. There have been many battles, mountains, valleys, storms, and yet, each day that I walk with the King of Kings, I realize how much I need HIM each and every day, and that I am NOTHING without HIM. I must decrease, so that He can increase in my life.

When I realize just who I am in the light of eternity, and just how BIG God is.... it puts my life into perspective, and helps me to know how very blessed I am to have the Spirit of the God who created this universe living and dwelling inside of me.

What a privilege we have been given, to have the Spirit of Jesus living in us, and along with that, a promise of eternal life with Jesus. This is true living indeed!