God is so good to me! All kinds of craziness happened last night. Here in Austria, Fr. Brad has a prayer group every Tuesday where we do praise and worship, a teaching, then prayer ministry (praying over people). The teachings the last few weeks have been all about healing and the healing of my heart came from the services we had about that. Last night, we talked more about physical healing and I received healing in my foot. I fell down some stairs a few weeks ago and it kinda messed up my left ankle. I had surgery on my left ankle about a year and a half ago. Ever since I fell down the steps, there's been this kind of ache in my ankle, so I asked Fr. Brad if he could pray over it. He did, and it doesn't hurt anymore!! Praise be to God!!
That's not the only thing that happened last night. I received something I've been wanting for a long time. Last night, I was baptized in the Holy Spirit. The extremely simple way to explain what Baptism of the Holy Spirit is a deepening of the Spirit within someone. Usually when someone is Baptized in the Spirit, they receive a gift of the Spirit. Well, last night, I got one. I received the gift of tongues and I was INCREDIBLE! It started when Fr. Brad was praying over me and he asked me if I wanted the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. I said yes and he said, "Well, prepare yourself because God's gonna give it to you!" Then he asked if I wanted the gift of tongues, I again said yes and he began explaining to me how it was going to happen. He started speaking in tongues (his dialect is ancient Chinese, which is SWEET!!) and told me to repeat what he says, each time getting a little faster. As I repeated what Fr. Brad said, I had my hands open and then I literally felt the anointing of the Spirit. It was physically heavy and Fr. Brad started laughing because he was so happy and then he told me that his knees went weak. He asked me if I could feel it and I smiled and said "For sure." I was talking in syllables and then all of the sudden, it wasn't me repeating Fr. Brad anymore. It was syllables that I wasn't hearing, they were coming from my mouth, but they weren't me.
I got it. The Lord gave me the gift of tongues last night and it was crazy incredible! God is so good to me and I don't deserve a single thing He's given me. He's blessed me so much because I've gotten into His Word. I find the principles and LIVE THEM. Living them is the most important part. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him and He will make your paths straight. -Proverbs 3:5. The Lord has made my path straight because I'm relying totally on Him. I haven't cut in over a month and yesterday when I was telling Fr. Brad about our mission trip to Romania, he asked me how I looked at cutting now. I told him that I think it's a thing of the past. Of course it will always be there, but now it's not a constant thought in my head. It's just a little something there from time to time.
Praise God for all of His goodness!!!
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