Hi.
I’m really enjoying these new thoughts on the Spirit. I was sitting here thinking about this morning’s meeting, and Jesus brought to mind how I received the spirit as a small child. I was about 6.5 years old, and a group of us kids were “playing meeting”. One of us would be the preacher, one a singer, shouter, testifier, etc. Well, this particular time, it became real to me and the grown-ups got involved.
I didn’t speak in tongues, but kinda stammered and made a “wooing” sound. I remember feeling like I had received the holy Ghost, and I have always considered that my spiritual birthday, but I also remembered feeling unsure because I didn’t speak in tongues.
A year later, almost to the day, Rebekah E. went to be prayed for, and that’s the day she received the Spirit, and that day was the first time my utterances began sounding like tongues. I never really felt like I had a big holy Ghost testimony; I was just a small kid and didn’t have a big deliverance from sin, but thinking about it today, I thought, “Well hey! That was big!” As a small child I had a testimony that makes what we are learning about the Spirit ring even more true! That has touched me this morning!
Ashley