Pastor John,
What a sweet night this was 🙂 There were so many good things to think about and be thankful for and enjoy! I was so thankful to see and feel Junior have such relief. I felt it! While I was listening to the testimonies about Natalie, all I could feel was how real things are! God really is real! He really does things. He really talks to people and moves things around. He really does heal people and answer prayers. He really does hide things and reveal things in His time. He really is real! Some people don’t know how real He is. I felt it all inside with every story and with every face full of thankfulness.
Then when you were talking about Julie getting the holy Ghost there, it was thankful some more. I remember her so adamant before we came that she was going to get it. It was matter of fact but humble at the same time. Tomorrow will be 20 years since I came the first time that April with them when she got it. I remember because it was the day after my 16th birthday 🙂 I hadn’t even been in a room with the power of God, had never seen anything like that, but fell in love with it when I saw people praying for Julie and she received the spirit! She provoked me to jealousy 🙂 It was overwhelming and I cried and didn’t know why! I felt like Rob did. I cried when I left. I knew you were family. And here I am, exactly 20 years later, tomorrow!
And where else can you find the music that we have!? I was telling my dad and a few others a little testimony the other day about that. Sometimes I like to switch on the Christian radio station to hear some of the music, some of which I really have come to love because of the feelings of sincerity and prayer. But this time that I did, there was a song about the cross and coming to it and the cross, the cross. So I switched back to my CD and immediately Gary said, “You gotta have the holy Ghost!” I shouted and sang that at the top of my lungs, it felt so good! Then I went about my errands and later on the way home switched back (there’s a couple songs I like to listen for 🙂 ) and they were asking people how important it is to go to church. Of course the answers were that it’s very important and then some reasons. So, I switched it back to my CD and Gary sang, “We’re not Rome!…” Shewee. It was so good again! We have so much more than that! One thing I love about our music is that it is full of truth, along with good feelings! That is so important! Those songs tonight felt so victorious because we know the truth. We know how big God is because we’ve felt it and lived it. It’s something more than words. I just feel so thankful for them!
I love you! I love everyone I saw tonight! I could’ve been Gary walking over to hug you! I’m pretty sure he felt that I wanted to so he did it for both of us <3 Thank you, Jesus, for abundant life!
Leah