Yesterday, we had a very interesting experience: We met a lovely gentleman at our local Starbucks and ended up inviting him over for lunch to chat about business matters. Over lunch, the conversation turned to the Lord since he had gone to a large variety of churches over the years, somewhat subconsciously searching for truth. After sharing with him our personal testimonies and accounts of praying with many people around the world, we offered to pray over him to receive the Holy Spirit. We was keen, so we all went into the living room to pray, but nothing happened as he sought the Lord. However, right afterward, he started to share how every morning when he wakes, he feels moved to start talking in words he cannot understand – that he feels good when he speaks like this, but he doesn’t know what it is. He demonstrated for us and we knew right then he was speaking in tongues.

We got him to pray one more time and he spoke in tongues along with us – so amazingly clearly and fluently. Suddenly we knew why God had connected us together – he’d received the Holy Spirit many years ago during his search and growing appreciation of God’s creation, but he never knew exactly what had happened to him. We were able to clarify things to him according to God’s Word and he was quite amazed. We then encouraged him to spend time reading the Bible to get to know Jesus and, of course, to continue to pray in tongues daily. We also shared scriptures regarding the importance of full immersion water baptism in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins (as he’d only been baptized as a very young child without any knowledge or understanding). Please join us in praying for him that he will return very soon to be baptized and make a complete commitment to following Jesus Christ.