Mary943’s Weblog

I want to give a testimony about Abiding Glory Ministries because of something that personally effected me there yesterday.  I have known since I found it that is is a miracle.  I never thought I would find such a glorious army of believers here in Knoxville Tennessee, and I have been so blessed because of this ministry being here.  I had felt alone for so long, then I found a home that is truly after God’s heart.  My sister in law has been a drug addict for quite some time, constantly struggling, desperately wanting to be free.  She is in a bad situation in her home life, which keeps her down in the dirt a lot.  I had been spending the past few days with her ministering to her, and it was miraculous.  God’s glory came in the midst of us and got though to her.  We prayed, and I had not realized that she was not saved, and she didn’t either I don’t think.  I am sure she had prayed the prayer for salvation before, but she told me she knew she had just been reborn.  So her soul was saved.  If that wasn’t wonderful enough, I was with her the next day,and she got even more.   With my personal experience, I tried for three years to “get” the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of tongues, but couldn’t get anywhere.  I never realized that I got it the first time I asked for it, and I made it the hardest thing in the world, thinking you had to be good enough to get it, and something must had been wrong with me.  One day I realized how easy and simple it was and that I had been Spirit filled a long time, and in August of ‘06 I just got revelation of it and my prayer language flowed easily.  I had tried to work so hard for something that had already been freely given.  Five minutes with her, five minutes compared to my 3 years, and she was speaking with other tongues.  To see the look on her face, such shock and happiness.  So she was saved and Spirit filled in two days.  To top that when we went to the Habitation(Abiding Glory Ministries) on Sunday Morning, God blew her out of the water.  She lives with a critical, judgemental, religious spirit at home, and this person would never accept that this “good for nothing drug addict” would be good enough to be Spirit-filled, so I knew she had been questioning her “worthiness” from what she feels at home.  I felt the thickness of God’s presence in the middle of worship, and when the time came for testimonies, she leaned over and whispered, “I’m about to do something that will blow your mind.”  And with that she got up and went up front.  She testified to everyone that she was a drug addict and believes that she has been delivered and that she had been Spirit filled recently and believes that she is gonna be used to reach out and intercede for other drug addicts.  I remember all the people standing up and clapping and rooting for her like four times.  Susan hit everything on the dot when she got surrounded by people with prayer.  She spoke of the pain in her childhood, her insecurities, everything, and that hit her so powerfully because this woman knew nothing about her past.  They wacked her, man!  They got her higher than a kite.  I had been telling her there was no “high” like the most high, and she defintely got “high.”  She is so used to being condemned and feeling unloved, and she got loved on so much yesterday.  I know she has never felt that before in her life, she was literally blown away to be shown the Love of Our God like that.  Then the message was like it was meant just for her, he even called out her name multplie times.  I mean, she recieved so much yesterday, I know her cup is overflowing.  This beat down person came in and was freely given more love than she had ever had.  She recieved a family yesterday with the greatest Daddy in the world.  Words can’t even express.  A life was literally forever changed yesterday, and I just wanted to share.  I am so full of joy, it hit me on such a personal level, because I know she has struggled for so long.  She says that I am the only person who hadn’t given up on her, that believed in her, and now she has a whole army of believers backing her all the way.  Now she KNOWS she is not alone, and that she can do this.  It is soo awesome.  She doesn’t need drugs now, she has a new addiction, the best one, Jesus.