Now let’s get to the part where God really showed up in a big way. This past Sunday they held the first class of a leadership university at the church. It’s basically a video school; the lectures/classes are on DVD. David is attending the classes but I’m not at this time. One of the lessons Sunday was “The Holy Spirit” by Dr. A.L. Gill. His lesson included teaching on the baptism in the Holy Spirit, and concluded with a chance to pray to receive the baptism. David prayed and received the baptism in the Holy Spirit, and began speaking in an unknown tongue! He’s been a Christian since 1996 and he’s 45 years old. He prayed in the Spirit (in tongues) on the way home from church that night. I wish I had been there to see it.

In an earlier post, What shall I blog about? My Christian walk part 1, I mentioned that I got saved when I was 11, and I rededicated my life to the Lord when I was 13. Shortly after that I also received the baptism in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. That milestone revolutionized my walk with the Lord and all the rest of the way through school I was a Jesus freak. I deliberately avoided being “just like everyone else;” I did not want to be a part of the world’s system.

DC Talk – Jesus Freak

I never spoke in tongues around my husband, nor did I talk with him about being baptized in the Holy Spirit, basically because I didn’t know how to approach him with it. I got the idea he thought there was a big hype factor in it, and that the best way for him to come around was to have a spiritual epiphany and experience it for himself. And it happened, and I am in awe and can’t thank the Lord enough. Now I feel we can move forward hand-in-hand together in our Christian walk, as we are both filled with and led by the Spirit.

I’ve been weary with daily life and the things of this world for several years, I’ve even dealt with depression, but over the last few days I’ve been listening to the music of Keith Green again for the first time in about 6 or 7 years. Once again I felt the Holy Spirit literally pouring out of the speakers, and the tough layers of skin, like bark, are starting to peel away from my heart. I will post more about what I’ve been going through in recent years when I feel ready, but for now, be blessed with this song. Keith Green made this demo shortly before his very untimely death in 1982 and it was never recorded in the studio. It made its way onto a video called First Love: A Historic Gathering of Jesus Music Pioneers that was a reunion of 1970s Jesus Music artists – they were the earliest players of contemporary Christian music.