On this Friday, before I go into a weekend Revival, and many of us go into a weekend of chores, errands, and of course church... I hoped to start an encouraging thread that would possibly bring some smiles and some fond memories.
Another post made me look back to 25 years ago, when I as a young Independent Baptist boy walked into a Church of God and received the Holy Ghost. I had never even heard of such teaching, but that night while the preacher was preaching in this 11 week Revival, a sweet little Holiness woman stood up and gave a message in tongues. During the interpretation, I felt the need to run to the altar.
Somehow, I knew in my spirit, that what she had wasn't optional, or an add on, but was something I needed to be able to live for God. I was lacking. The Holy Ghost was leading me into that Truth, not one person. By the time the interpretation was over, I was making my way, along with 8 of my school friends to the altar.
Evangelist Perry Stone, as well as his dad got ready to lay hands on me. Brother Stone said to me, "When we lay our hands on you, I want you to believe like you never have before." It didn't take pleading, begging it just came.
1 hour later, I came to underneath the first pew. There was a black lady kneeling over me praying... and she said, "Young man, do you know what you've been saying?" I told her no. She said,"I'm a professor at Lee College, I teach Hebrew. For the past hour, you've been recitingthe Lord's Prayer and the 23rd Psalm over and over again in Hebrew..."
I've failed the Lord so many times... never been worthy of Him, but today as I have been sort of taking inventory... tears begin to roll down my face as I think about that night...
So...
could you share about when you received the Holy Ghost? Please, if you don't believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost, etc, then please don't make this a thread to argue that... okay? Please?
But those of you that do believe in this teaching,
could you share your testimony of when you got the Holy Ghost? I look forward to hearing your testimonies.
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. -
Revelation 12:11
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