I went to choir practice last night and ended up coming in at the end of Wednesday night service.  Our pastor asked everyone to stand and lift up their hands and begin to praise God.  He then asked for anyone who had not received the baptism of the Holy Spirit to pray a prayer along with him.  After I prayed the prayer I kept feeling like something was going to happen to me.  A girl a few pews up from me received the Spirit right away, it was awesome!

We went ahead with choir practice, which ended up being more like a worship service.  We were all praising and praying and up out of our chairs pretty much the whole time.  As I started to leave the building, I felt the need to stay there for a little longer.  I saw a lady from the choir walking behind me and I turned to her and asked her to remember me in prayer, and that the doctors keep telling me I can't get pregnant.  She immediately dropped her things and said I need to pray with you right now.  She placed her hands on my belly and began praying for God to open my womb.  After she prayed she looked at me and said, you will have a baby and it's going to be a great leader, it will bring the gospel to many many nations.  !!!  What a prophecy!  She grabbed me and hugged me and began praying with me again and I raised my hands to praise God.  I felt a resistance in me against the Spirit, and then I heard the voice of the Lord say to me…Do not resist Me, Do not resist My Spirit.  At that point I just let go and fell out in the Spirit.  I began laughing uncontrollably.  I knew what I was doing by it wasn't me doing it, it was the Spirit of the Lord.  It felt like someone was inside of my body with me.  Like He was in my lungs and I was breathing Him in and out.  Once I came to, they sat me in one of the pews.  I began praying and raised my hands, the lady began praying with me too.  As I did this, all of a sudden I started shaking uncontrollably and became baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues.  I was saying words that I've never spoken or even heard before, another language.  I couldn't control my mouth, the words just flowed out of me.  When I was speaking this language I could hear them in my head like English.  I could understand what I was saying even though I've never spoken the language. 

Choir practice was over at 9:15, I didn't leave until 10:30.  Mark had pulled into the parking lot as I was in the car calling him.  He didn't come with me and was worried because usually I'm home at that time.  I told him what happened and he was so happy, especially about the part of the baby.  Our baby is going to do great things for the Kingdom of God.  The Lord has done so many great things in my life, and He's only getting started!  He is awesome and mighty!  Praise God!

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We serve such an awesome God!!!!  I went to the doctor yesterday for my biopsy report....NO CARCINOMA=NO CANCER!  I wanted to cry right then and there.  The doctor said he's certain that I'm going to be fine and for me just to do routine follow ups.  I just wanted all of you to know how much it meant that you were praying for me and my total recovery.  The power is prayer is great!  Thank God for my JC family! 

Love to all!  Have a good night!

Pamela

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My surgery went very well.  Unfortunately I contracted strep throat about a day 1/2 before my surgery and that got worse.  I felt no pain during, I was put under by general anethesia.  I haven't felt anything after.  I did however go to the ER yesterday because I was running a temperature of 100.4 from the strep.  I am feeling better today, just taking it easy.  Thank you to everyone who prayed and still continues to pray for me. 

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I prayed for God to come

and take away my sin

even though I was undeserving

I knew I still needed Him.

"Why did you not come sooner"

I heard God ask of me

I thought I wasn't good enough

For I knew all the sins you'd seen.

He said "My child I forgave you

the day My Son died

no sin is too great to forgive

so please don't run and hide".

I fell on my knees

with tears running down my face

never in my life had I felt

the joy of mercy and grace.

God is calling out for us

to seek His face once again

please don't think you're not good enough

to be in the presence of Him.

He loves you more

than you could ever know

would anyone else give up their Son

so to heaven you could go?

By: Pamela J. Scott

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Here are some examples of people who mocked God:


JOHN LENNON:
Some years ago, during his interview with an American Magazine, he said: "Christianity will end, it will disappear. I do not have to argue about that. I am certain. Jesus was OK, but his subjects were too simple, Today we are more famous than Him (1966)." Lennon, after saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, (soon after) was shot six times.

TANCREDO NEVES:
During the Presidential campaign, he said if he got 500 votes from his party, not even God would remove him from the Presidency. Sure he got the votes, but he got sick a day before being made President, then he died.

CAZUZA:
During a show in Canecão ( Rio de Janeiro ), whilst smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some smoke into the air and said: God, that's for you. It cannot be explained how he died.


THE MAN WHO BUILT THE TITANIC:
After the construction of the Titanic, a reporter asked him how safe the Titanic would be. With an ironic tone he said: "Not even God can sink it!" The result: We all know what happened to the Titanic.


MARILYN MONROE:
She was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a show. He is a preacher and Evangelist and the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her. After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she said: "I don't need your Jesus." A week later, she was found dead in her apartment. How she died is still being debated today.


BON SCOTT:
The ex-vocalist for AC/DC on one of his 1979 songs, he sang: "Don't stop me, I'm going down all the way, the highway to hell." On the 19th of February 1980 , Bon Scott was found dead, he choked on his own vomit.


CAMPINAS/SP IN 2005:
In Campinas , a group of friends, all drunk, went to pick up another friend. The mother accompanied her to the car and was so worried about the drunkenness of all her friends that she said to the daughter - holding her hand, who was already seated in the car: "MY DAUGHTER, GO WITH GOD AND MAY HE PROTECT YOU."
She responded: ONLY IF HE (GOD) RIDES IN THE TRUNK, COZ INSIDE HERE its ALREADY FULL." Hours later, news came by that they had been involved in a fatal accident; everyone had died; the car could not be recognized as to what type of car it was, but surprisingly, the trunk was intact. The police said there was no way the trunk could have remained intact. To their amazement, inside the trunk was a crate of eggs, and none of them were broken.


Many more important people have forgotten that there is no other name that was given so much authority as the name of Jesus. Many have died, but only Jesus died and rose again, and he is STILL alive.


PS: If this was a joke, you would have sent it all of your friends. Are you going to have courage to send this on to others? I have done my part, Jesus said: "If you get embarrassed about me, I will also get embarrassed about you before 'my Father.' What benefit does He have, if a man gains the whole world but loses his soul? What can man give in exchange of his soul? (Mathew 16:26).

JOHN 10:10

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Okay, let me just say that before I even start to talk about other peoples language that I am far from being perfect.  It just seems that ever since I've gotten closer in my walk with the Lord and grown in faith, that I seem to pick up on things that I wouldn't have before.  For instance, I was out yesterday after church at a local restaurant with my family.  We were having our own conversation about church and life and so forth when sitting at the table next to us was a group of people about my age.  I tell you I haven't heard such fowl language in all my life!  Every other word was "F" this and "F" that.  Come on, can we not have an intellectual conversation without vulgarity?  I mean, is your vocabulary that limited that you can't think of anything else to use in place of the "F" word?  I was almost under the suspicion that they were talking like that because they heard us talking about church.  Freedom of speech gets you every time.  They have the freedom to offend me with their language while I have the freedom to offend them with vocalizing my beliefs.  I won't back down and I'm sure there will be more of the same coming my way.  I just can't believe that I used to talk like that.   

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