I believe I was blessed with a visit by the Holy Spirit on 1/10/78 at 6:30 A.M. in Huntsville Al.....The following is a reaccountment of that experience:
On the night prior to my recieving what I believe to have been a Spiritual certainty that GOD not only really exists but that HE is personally intrested in me, I was very depressed, to the point that I either wished to die or know for sure that GOD was real. So I lay in my bed and begged the LORD to show me in some way that HE was real and not just someone I had read about in a book and told about by my parents and various churches over the years, if HE didn't exist and was just a fictional character than I no longer had a desire to go on living, doing things I no longer enjoyed Etc. I must have lay there in bed with tears running down my cheeks for an hour or more wishing that the world as I knew it would go away.
Well I finally fell off to sleep and awoke the following morning at around 6:00 and went into the bathroom to shave in preparation for work . What happened next is something that I have never forgotten even though it happened 31 years ago.
As I was standing before the mirror shaving I suddenly had a very warm feeling in the center of my chest that than spred out my arms and down my legs, at first I thought of a heart attact but instantly realized that this was something that felt more wonderful than anything I had ever felt before. There is just no way I can put that feeling into words. At this same time my body felt as though it had no weight, like if I were to jump up I would slowly float down, the lights around the mirror seemed brighter, like they had just been replaced by 150 watt. bulbs, tears were running down my cheeks and bible verses I learned as a kid in Sunday school raced through my mind . With lather on my face I stepped out side and the sky looked bluer and the the air smelled like the clothes did when my Mother used to first take the washing off the line. also I felt a love for everything and every body.
Had this not happened to me and you were telling me this story I'm sure my eyes would be rolling back in my head about now, as it was just to weird, But it did happen, and it happened to me Jan.10,1978. This feeling of euphoria lasted for exactly 9 days and then slowly faided away, Did it change me? Well I no longer doubt that there is a heigher power that I had wondered about before, and that I do matter to HIM, Other than that I can't say it gave me a desire to become a Minister, Evangilest, or Missionary, but it did leave me with a burning desire to read and study the bible and books pretaining to the bible.
I still have a strong interest in the spiritual teachings of GOD as found in His word but it is not as strong as it was at that time, it seems to come and go in waves. But I have never again had that wonderfull feeling I had for those 9 days, I can only assume that after 9 days GOD chose for me to "Live by Faith " and not by my Feelings.
On the night prior to my recieving what I believe to have been a Spiritual certainty that GOD not only really exists but that HE is personally intrested in me, I was very depressed, to the point that I either wished to die or know for sure that GOD was real. So I lay in my bed and begged the LORD to show me in some way that HE was real and not just someone I had read about in a book and told about by my parents and various churches over the years, if HE didn't exist and was just a fictional character than I no longer had a desire to go on living, doing things I no longer enjoyed Etc. I must have lay there in bed with tears running down my cheeks for an hour or more wishing that the world as I knew it would go away.
Well I finally fell off to sleep and awoke the following morning at around 6:00 and went into the bathroom to shave in preparation for work . What happened next is something that I have never forgotten even though it happened 31 years ago.
As I was standing before the mirror shaving I suddenly had a very warm feeling in the center of my chest that than spred out my arms and down my legs, at first I thought of a heart attact but instantly realized that this was something that felt more wonderful than anything I had ever felt before. There is just no way I can put that feeling into words. At this same time my body felt as though it had no weight, like if I were to jump up I would slowly float down, the lights around the mirror seemed brighter, like they had just been replaced by 150 watt. bulbs, tears were running down my cheeks and bible verses I learned as a kid in Sunday school raced through my mind . With lather on my face I stepped out side and the sky looked bluer and the the air smelled like the clothes did when my Mother used to first take the washing off the line. also I felt a love for everything and every body.
Had this not happened to me and you were telling me this story I'm sure my eyes would be rolling back in my head about now, as it was just to weird, But it did happen, and it happened to me Jan.10,1978. This feeling of euphoria lasted for exactly 9 days and then slowly faided away, Did it change me? Well I no longer doubt that there is a heigher power that I had wondered about before, and that I do matter to HIM, Other than that I can't say it gave me a desire to become a Minister, Evangilest, or Missionary, but it did leave me with a burning desire to read and study the bible and books pretaining to the bible.
I still have a strong interest in the spiritual teachings of GOD as found in His word but it is not as strong as it was at that time, it seems to come and go in waves. But I have never again had that wonderfull feeling I had for those 9 days, I can only assume that after 9 days GOD chose for me to "Live by Faith " and not by my Feelings.