A Little Bit of Heaven Here
A Little Bit of Heaven Here
Excerpt, Pp 50-51
I was so GLAD, I went home that night, and my sister and I, we just TALKED. We just kept talking and talking and talking about the church, and I was talking about EVERYTHING. And then that night I just fell right off to sleep. And I slept so GOOD, I didn't wake up once during the night. I slept till TWO o'clock on the dot the next afternoon. And I haven't had a TOUCH of asthma since then. I haven't had any problems with my asthma since. The doctors always told me, "You will GROW out of it," you know. But what's the use of me spending my LIFE growing out of it, and when I get older, I'll be too old to enjoy being out of it? Jesus did for me in one NIGHT what those doctors couldn't do for me in just about all my life.
So the next day after I woke up and I realized how GOOD I slept, I said, "Something MUST have happened, I can't WAIT till Friday." We were just talking about the church every night. We sat there and talked about the church, and one night my sister and I, we stayed up about three HOURS singing! Just singing church songs, something just came over and we were singing so loud that the people out in the street heard us. They said, "What are those girls up there doing, singing those church songs?" And we were just singing and singing and finally I fell asleep. But when Friday came, I was feeling sick. I had pain before the service, but when I left the service, I was in high spirits. I just felt so GOOD. It felt like my mind was just off to a DIFFERENT dimension. I was real quiet and I was just meditating on the Lord.
And then Tuesday came again. Rev. Greer called everybody up to the altar after the message. I always go up to the altar, I go up there and ask for assurance or a double portion of the Spirit. So, I went up, and this time I really FELT something come OVER me. My right hand would shake and I couldn't control it. It was just SHAKING. And then when I left to go back to my seat, Rev. Greer said, "Hug somebody, and shake their hand; and tell them, 'I feel GOOD'." And I just felt like a COMPLETE different person. You know how they say, like you've been born again, that's JUST how I felt; like something came over me, and I just felt completely DIFFERENT. And right there, following my heart, like my spirits were LIFTED. Like I felt my body was real LIGHT. It felt like, inside it just felt CLEAN. You know, it just felt like a new FRESHNESS, like a new start, like I had completely different BODY. And I went home this time and I was in real deep meditation in the Spirit.
The next service was Friday, and something said, "You get up when he says 'testify.' You testify, or your healing won't be complete." So he called people up there to testify, and I was just as nervous, and he said, "Anybody here been HEALED since you've been here stand to your feet." And I stood up. And everybody looked at me like I'm CRAZY, because I'm young, but I went up there and I told my story, and then I went back to my seat, and I felt real good about it. And then Prophet had the prayer line, and I was in the prayer line, and I came up to him - first time I went up - he said, "Lord, FILL her with the Holy Ghost," and I started to walk away, and that's all I remember. I started to walk away, and something HIT me, felt like someone had pushed me, and I fell. But I felt something RUSHING through my body like a warm breeze, like someone had BREATHED on me, and something just RUSHED right through my body. And I didn't know WHAT happened. When I got up it was still on me, but I got back to my seat, and I got out some more money. I got in line again, and I put my money in the basket, and Prophet touched me, he touched my forehead and he touched my face. And he said, "Look at me," and I looked, and he said, "There's something God wants you to do." He said, "The Lord has a work' for you to do." And so I said OK and I went back to my seat.
When I went home that night my mind was in a deeper thought, and this time not only my MIND was - off, but my whole BODY. It was in the Spirit. And Rev. Greer said, "When you leave the church, be still," and I was. I didn't say anything. And when I went home that's when Christ had really started working in my life. I didn't even have the desire to do the things I used to do. I was surprised MYSELF. When this girl was sitting arguing with my sister, now, if that was the OLD me, I'd be down that girl's throat and probably THROW her out or something. But it doesn't get to me any more, because I KNOW now that I'm a different person, and living a whole NEW life. I'm still the same person, but I've just put out the bad part of me, like, put out the negative part, and added the positive. I learned to control my anger, and I'm just starting to UNDERSTAND people, because I know people have problems, because I was there before. And I can talk to people better, and if they say something, I won't get offended or anything. It's just being HAPPY. Like they say, goodness brings goodness. When I'm being good to people it usually comes back to me. If I'm being nasty, it will come back to me, but what I'm trying to do is live up to being a good person. I'm trying to live life to the FULLEST.
Now I'm ready to stand, you know, like a ROCK. Before I just felt like a little pebble, if something would just come along, it would blow me away. Now I feel like a big brick WALL. NOBODY can knock me down. Everybody has strength and energy, but when you accept Christ and you receive the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost is the activity of Christ in you. And it seems like the Holy Ghost, or the activity of Christ in you makes you much stronger because it makes you feel much HAPPIER. You feel that He's WITH you; also He lifts your spirits higher and it seems like He gives you more energy. Like everybody has their own battery, but when you have Christ in you, Christ is the second battery, your source of power that makes you combine BOTH powers together, and it gives you one great BIG power, that's what it seems like. And when you accept Christ it seems like you have the knowledge how to USE your energy, how to strengthen it and how to get what you want.
Excerpt, Pp 143-144
It was Sunday morning a few weeks ago, I was up early. I always get up before the family gets up. I read my Bible and I was on my knees praying over on a chair, and something happened to me that was just so DIFFERENT. I already had the baptism of the Holy Spirit four years before, so I had the speaking of tongues as evidence, but THIS time, the Spirit took me to a DEPTHS of tongues. And as I began to speak in a depths of tongues this mist came down on me and it overshadowed me and I was aware of a presence of someone, but I couldn't look up. And the whole room LIT UP like sunshine. And something went into my HEART. I'll never IN MY LIFE put it into words what I FELT. It was something that took my heart and did an operation on my heart and put in something else, like it put ANOTHER heart in, like somebody was pouring honey in there. The Bible tells us that we all have a heart of stone, but when we come to God we find a heart of flesh. And this is what happened to me, God gave me a heart of flesh. And all I could do was cry. I cried and I spoke in tongues and I cried. I couldn't open my eyes because the presence was there. And when I got up I stumbled into the bathroom and I was saying, "Yes, Lord, yes, Lord, YES LORD!" And I fell to my knees and I thought I had passed out, but I came back up again, because it was steeling my heart. And the presence was still here, and I kept saying, "YES, Lord!" And I was stumbling and the room was lit up. It was just lit UP! Every time I tried to get up, I'd fall back down again, and the presence was just there. It was such a TALLNESS, a BIGNESS. But I couldn't LOOK at it, but I knew it was THERE. I knew it was on the right of me. And then I don't know how long the Spirit had me, but after a while it went back up, it disappeared. And I just sat there, but I had a LOVE, if that door had moved and come to me, I could have HUGGED that door. This is what I had within my heart. I had such a compassion and LOVE, I can't DESCRIBE just what it was, but it was SUCH an experience.
So then in the service that next Friday, Bishop Greer said, "Somebody has had an unusual visitation from the Lord." And he said, "If you raise your hand," he said, "God has prepared that person for a work." He said, "It was a most unusual visitation." Well, it was me he meant, but I didn't raise my hand because I wasn't sure. I thought maybe he meant somebody else. Afterwards I wrote Rev. Greer a note and I gave it to him, and then that Sunday he said it WAS me, and he said, "Something happened to you," he said. "There's a brightness in your face." He said, "Something happened to you," he said. "It's your calling. God is getting you ready for your calling." I said, "I know." And that's EXACTLY what was happening.
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