It was supernaturally more than I could imagine than Aladdin’s magic lamp, Superman’s “up-up and away” and Captain Marvel’s “Shazam”. The population at the little church grew. My students at Texas A&M University noted my changed demeanor and swarmed me. Subsequently, I learned the power of the word, prayer and calling upon the Holy Spirit. My demeanor changed to smile and my eyes opened. “Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, and Father". I became a member of the family of God per Gal 4: 6. The more I praised and spoke in tongues the more I could feel His power overwhelm me with a warm, glow of love and healing as when Jesus drove out mute and deaf spirit of a boy on a high mountain after Jesus’ transfiguration: “they brought him (boy ) unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming” per Mark 9: 20. The Holy Spirit separated me from Satan and I was made whole. I was a needy, hungry, miserable low-life quite desperate for God’s power. There wasn’t anything I did not need nor anything that God had that did I not want. I cried “Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble” per Ps 143:12. I was the proverbial “lost sheep” alone and vulnerable to Satan’s wiles. I was the epitome of Romans: 26 having infirmity and an abundance of not knowing.Īs I repented of my sins and Jesus forgave, tons of burdens were lifted and I knew I could have a relationship with the Father if I obeyed His word. I did not know what it really meant to “be” a Christian. I was received by Christ with little knowledge of scriptures and theology. They asked me what I wanted for prayer and I’d say “every thing”! Yes, I’d say every time I went forward. the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered” per Rom 8:26. I was pleading and crying to God to help and clean me I was surrendering I was unburdening I was simply letting loose my woes and flesh to God where “………. I could hear them and myself speaking in a lilting song like spiritual language which to me said praise the Lord, praise God, and help me per Eph 2:5 “Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved )”. The Holy Spirit puts words, languages and understanding of speech into us. were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance”. When I reached the alter so many hands were on me, lifting my arms, and I began to utter sounds as I joined those around me as Act 2: 4 “…. I could barely see the pastor, church elders, and light. The place was packed with people, but all I could hear was praising. I heard the pastor's call to “come to the alter” as my feet seem lifted off the ground to glide me from the rear-most row of the store-front “Living Word” ( The Pentecostal Church of God ) Church in Bryan, Texas. I reckon what I see to be the work of God to “set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come” per 2 Cor 1: 22. I live in a “new hope” for a kingdom that is yet to come, in that hope in me that kingdom has already arrived. I now know the future of the kingdom of God today by the Holy Spirit, which I received because He has already been poured out. What happened in between is super naturally astonishing seeing that: “faith is the evidence of things hoped for, the substance of things yet unseen” per Heb 11:1. However, this was no dream we were awake. I recall the fictional Dorothy in the “Wizard of Oz” starting in a small cottage in Kansas. It all began in a small storefront church in a small town in Texas (STIT) and ends in a small community in Florida. Saved, Sent and Settled: Hello Saudi Arabia: (6,608 words)
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