Stuart St. Clair, USA -
I was raised in the U.S.A. in a religious family as a Seventh-Day Adventist.
Our family were all Adventists going back several generations, and I went to
SDA schools all the way from first grade until I graduated from university
with a B.S. degree in physics.
As a teenager, I stopped going to church as soon as my parents would let me,
because I didn’t see the point of going to a boring, lifeless place full of
cliques and churchy politics.
When I got to be about 20, I realized that I wasn’t happy.
For the first time I decided to read the Bible to see if it had any answers in it.
I started in the New Testament, and I was amazed at how exciting it was with miracles
and deep parables and even a promise I came across that said that believers would
speak in tongues and be able to pray for miracles, although at that point I really
had no idea what any of that meant because I had never seen it happen.
I decided that I wanted to be a Christian, but I didn’t know how to do that.
Nobody had ever told me. I said a prayer, telling God that I wanted to give my
life to Jesus.
It felt good for a little while, but soon enough the good feeling went away.
Fast forward a few years to 1991, and I was living in England working at a SDA school.
One day I was standing on a street corner, and a man approached me and told me that to
be a Christian I needed to repent, be baptized, and receive the Holy Spirit, which I had
never heard of before. He told me that in the Bible people spoke in tongues when they
received the Holy Spirit, and that it still happened like that today.
I went home and looked up all the scriptures that were on the papers he gave me,
and I was amazed to find that what he said was true.
Soon after that, I went to a church meeting that was exactly like what I read about
in the Bible.
I got baptized at that first meeting, and a few days later I received the Holy Spirit,
speaking in tongues, which was the most awesome thing.
I was delivered from fear of death, and the Lord has given me peace, direction,
and meaning that I could never find before.
My wife and I fasted and prayed when she couldn’t conceive, and now we have two children,
both now Spirit-filled.
I was healed from a strange blood condition when many of the saints fasted for me.
The Revival Fellowship - Fresno USA
https://trffresno.org/
I was raised in the U.S.A. in a religious family as a Seventh-Day Adventist.
Our family were all Adventists going back several generations, and I went to
SDA schools all the way from first grade until I graduated from university
with a B.S. degree in physics.
As a teenager, I stopped going to church as soon as my parents would let me,
because I didn’t see the point of going to a boring, lifeless place full of
cliques and churchy politics.
When I got to be about 20, I realized that I wasn’t happy.
For the first time I decided to read the Bible to see if it had any answers in it.
I started in the New Testament, and I was amazed at how exciting it was with miracles
and deep parables and even a promise I came across that said that believers would
speak in tongues and be able to pray for miracles, although at that point I really
had no idea what any of that meant because I had never seen it happen.
I decided that I wanted to be a Christian, but I didn’t know how to do that.
Nobody had ever told me. I said a prayer, telling God that I wanted to give my
life to Jesus.
It felt good for a little while, but soon enough the good feeling went away.
Fast forward a few years to 1991, and I was living in England working at a SDA school.
One day I was standing on a street corner, and a man approached me and told me that to
be a Christian I needed to repent, be baptized, and receive the Holy Spirit, which I had
never heard of before. He told me that in the Bible people spoke in tongues when they
received the Holy Spirit, and that it still happened like that today.
I went home and looked up all the scriptures that were on the papers he gave me,
and I was amazed to find that what he said was true.
Soon after that, I went to a church meeting that was exactly like what I read about
in the Bible.
I got baptized at that first meeting, and a few days later I received the Holy Spirit,
speaking in tongues, which was the most awesome thing.
I was delivered from fear of death, and the Lord has given me peace, direction,
and meaning that I could never find before.
My wife and I fasted and prayed when she couldn’t conceive, and now we have two children,
both now Spirit-filled.
I was healed from a strange blood condition when many of the saints fasted for me.
The Revival Fellowship - Fresno USA
https://trffresno.org/
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