After 30 years of attending church in Cessationist denominations, I learned the truth. It is true; the truth shall set you free. I realized that 1 Cor. 13:8 was not the completion of the Bible that no one but clergy could read, when I read to the bottom of the chapter and learned it was the second coming of Christ when we see Him face to face! EPIPHANY!!! But even then, it wasn't until the verse containing the true meaning of the truth shall set you free - freedom from sin, John 8:32-36, that I was baptized with the Holy Spirit. He doesn't give us the gifts of the Spirit until we repent from sin, and He empowers us first with death to sin, the born again of the Spirit experience.
The first supernatural thing that happened to me was my first answer to prayer. Imagine going to church for 30 years and NEVER receiving an answer to prayer. I was a closet unbeliever in God because we had no tangible relationship. I reasoned it would be better to believe in God, just in case He was real and there was eternal life, than to openly deny God and suffer the consequences. I think many Cessationists are in the same boat, which is why they are Cessationists in the first place. I heard one famous Cessationist say that if the gifts were real today, then he would have some of them. Another time I heard him again on the radio say, we can pray to God, but He only answers us through the Bible. It is obvious he never received a supernatural answer to prayer either. At least he could make money from his preaching; even if it was false. Why else choose that profession without a real relationship with God?
God's answer to prayer to me set off a chain of events in my life and within 2 weeks I started to question my unbelief, and repented. That repentance, exploded into seeing a vision from God, and then hearing His voice. Just one powerful word. It was as loud as thunder. It shocked me to my core. HE IS REAL! Then I just knew He was going to speak more, so I listened, and he spoke 8 sentences! They seared right through me, and my brain will never forget one word. Yes, I was baptized in the Spirit, and from then on I began to receive ALL He has for me, and it doesn't seem He is through yet.
Talk about a relationship with God - Wow! And people don't believe me when I say I am free from sin. Why would I when God is walking beside me step by step.