When I Got the Holy Ghost... How About You? - Page 2

KeptByTheWord · #11 03-09-2012, 03:16 PM

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!

KeptByTheWord · #12 03-09-2012, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Bro. Robbins

these testimonies are great... keep them coming... they are inspiring to me.

I agree! (Amazing that we can agree on this huh!)

Hoovie · #13 03-09-2012, 07:37 PM

I was born again after listening to prayer on a tape with Vesta Magun teaching. I turned the tape off to see if the "feeling" was coming out of the speaker. I put my hands over the speaker... Still I felt the Holy Spirit pierce my heart. I cried and prayed to the Lord as I had never done before as an Old Order Mennonite.

The following year I attended a campmeeting where TF Tenney preached and I spoke in tongues after going through the prayer line.

Sherri · #14 03-09-2012, 08:18 PM

I was 15-1/2 and at Illinois Youth Camp. Bro. Kaske had preached and it was the first night, I believe. They tell me that I danced all over the front of the tabernacle, but I don't remember any of it, except I do remember speaking in tongues for the first time ever. I had prayed for the Holy Ghost for 7 years. I think I just never understood how easy it was to receive it!

johnny44 · #15 03-09-2012, 08:46 PM

[QUOTE=Sherri;1147070]I was 15-1/2 and at Illinois Youth Camp. Bro. Kaske had preached and it was the first night, I believe. They tell me that I danced all over the front of the tabernacle, but I don't remember any of it, except I do remember speaking in tongues for the first time ever. I had prayed for the Holy Ghost for 7 years. I think I just never understood how easy it was to receive it![/QUOTE]Ain't that the truth!It took me I would say like 35 years before I recieved the H.G.After I recieved it I was amazed how easy it was.

The Matt · #16 03-09-2012, 08:49 PM

About 6 or 7 years ago, my old pastor told me to run a lap around the church to take authority over the cigarettes that had me bound, halfway through I fell to the ground overcome with the spirit of God, started speaking in tongues.

faithit166 · #17 03-09-2012, 09:13 PM

1 was 26 years old and alot was going on in my life i was searching for something but just wasnt sure what exactly i remember being in my bedroom one day and on the tv this preacher said just come as you are and i thought you want me to come as i am im living with a man im not married to fornicating doing drugs cussing like a sailor and you want me to come as i am , i found myself kneeling down at the side of my bed just telling god how sorry i was for messing with the quiji board and told him how sorry i was for all the bad i had done and everyone i had hurt,i suddenly began to crying confessing i said lord there are so many churches out there and i do not believe they are all of you i dont know where to go all im asking from you is to lead me to that one church that will take me straight up to you i will go anywhere,within a week or so a lil ole lady came to my rummage sale i was so drawed to her that i found myself standing in front of her asking mam where do you go to church faith apostolic she said i asked what she believed she threw at me acts 2;38 but she said she believed in living a holy life anyways she invited me to church that night but i told her no maybe another time she gave me her number and left my sale i went inside my house and while setting at the table i felt this strong urge to go but thoughts messed with me this went on for 20 min or so then i just made up my mind i was going no matter what i called her told her i would go (later on she told me right at the time i called she was on her knees praying i would change my mind lol gods good isnt he,i got picked up in her van that night went to this church cried the whole way there i grew up in this town all my life this church was always here but i never ever went til now i went down to the alter i repented and started praising him all the sudden from the bottom of my feet to the top of my head was like a rushing mighty wind that went thru me i opened my eyes i was dancing all over the place all my tears were gone i never felt so clean before i remember telling the pastor to take me take me to be baptized when i came up out of the water i was praising him and i started speaking in this other language and i have never ever been the same again,

RandyWayne · #18 03-09-2012, 10:21 PM

I was praying during the first song or two of song service and asking God to "please give me the holy ghost". I asked again and again and finally uttered the magic words "Please forgive me", and within a fraction of a second I spoke in other tongues in the same way that a person occasionally wakes up in bed with a sudden jerk.

Mystery for receiving the Holy Ghost solved!

Jay · #19 03-09-2012, 11:12 PM

Mom went was agreed to visit a church that a young lady in her school attended. The young lady had been teased and Mom wanted to make her happy. When they were in the service, she had never seen such before in her life. The people were raising their hands in worship, and there was a lot of expression. Mom thought that she would be fine as long as the other young lady was not acting that way. She was.

Mom started to cry during the song service, and did not understand what was happening. They explained repentance and took her to the altar. She knelt and being very shy, she prayed in a very tiny whisper. After a time she started speaking in tongues with the perception that she was going at the top of her lungs. However, she was so quite that they had to place a microphone to her lips, and one lady put her ear to the speaker in order to hear her. There was no preaching that night.

Praise God for the way that He moves with His mighty power.

hometown guy · #20 03-09-2012, 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by BrotherEastman

I remember when I was 9 (1978) in Oxnard, California under the pastor of Rev. Kenneth Fields. I remember saying to myself that I was going to go to the alter with the specific intent on getting the Holy Ghost. Bro. Fields and my dad was praying with me for just a few minutes when I started speaking in tongues with tears rolling down my cheek. Bro. Fields asked my dad if I had the Holy Ghost; when my dad said no, Bro. fields said "well he has it now." That was a wonderful experience that I shall never forget.

Bro. Fields was also my pastor.