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My name is Lucille. I live in Michigan. I am out of a family of 12 children. My parents didn’t teach us children about salvation or being born again. They were good moral parents. When I growed up I got married at the age of 18 to a man that knew something about God. He took me to a church in West Virginia where people worshiped God and praised the Lord. I desired the joy I seen manifest in those people the first time I went but I didn’t know how to get it. I kept going to church. One night in a revival meeting I went to the altar. I didn’t know how to pray. I didn’t know what to say. But the Lord helped me. I said Lord if you will save me I will serve you. I didn’t know how to receive the Lord. I kept going to church and to the altar, I wanted to get saved so bad but I didn’t know how. The last time I went to the altar to get saved, Jesus truly came into my life that night. May 29th 1947. He forgave me all my sins and set me free.
2 Corinthians 5:17 says "old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." My whole life became new that night. We lived in a coal camp. We had prayer meetings about every night there. Then someone told me about the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. When anyone told me about anything God had in store for me, I wanted it. I started going to the altar seeking God to baptize me with the Holy Ghost. I was willing to die on the altar for that great powerful blessing and the Lord filled me there. That is such an experience to receive a baptism of power. That power and anointing has sustained my life all these years, praise God. Matthew 3:11 (John said) I indeed baptize you with water...but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear, He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire. ( * More scripture on baptism with power, John 20:22 & Acts 2:1-4)
I growed in the Lord. I learned the Holy Ghost is a leader, a teacher and a guider into the ways of all truth and the truth will make you free. It did me and still does.
Later on in my life I read Psalms 37:4. It says "delight thyself also in the Lord; and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart." I had such a desire for Jesus to come and talk with me. I would leave puddles of tears on the floor begging Him to just come and talk with me. It didn’t matter what He would say I just wanted Him to come and talk with me. One night after midnight in the early hours Jesus took me into a deep sleep. He showed me and my family living in a 5 room log house. I had 3 little babies. One was dead, one was alive and one was almost dead. I had them babies all rolled up in a big blanket to keep them warm. My daughter Jannie was a small child and I had her laying in bed with them babies. All of a sudden Jesus come through the door. He didn’t open the door He come through it. He was bare footed and had a white gown on with big sleeves. His hair was shoulder length and His eyes were so full of compassion I couldn’t help but stand and look in His eyes. When He come through the door them babies come alive. He and I walked through the house together and never uttered a word. But when we got in the last room there was no furniture in that room but it was spotless. We walked out into the middle of the floor. I stood facing Him. With my right hand I took His right hand. I kissed His hand and then set down on the floor like a little child and folded my legs. I looked up at Him and said: Jesus since you are here in person I want you to tell me how to live a close Christian life. He had the Bible on His left hand and He read to me out of the book of St. John. Then He gradually vanished out of the room. Then I stepped down into the kitchen. I met my son Bennie. He was about 8 years old. I said to him: Them babies are not dead, they’re alive. They came alive when Jesus come through the door. After I waked up from that visitation I pondered them babies in my heart because in real life I didn’t have 3 babies. Jesus told me the meaning of them babies. He said: There are 3 classes of people in the world. There’s a dead class, a lukewarm, and alive, and the instant the people will open their hearts and let me come in they will come alive.
He don’t force Himself on no one. Whosoever will, let him come to Jesus and He will give eternal life to who comes and asks Him to come into their hearts. Jesus don’t turn no one away, He’s so full of Mercy and love.
My husband and I have 10 children which 5 of them are mentally impaired. At one time I had 4 in diapers. 3 of them were on bottles. They didn’t have Pampers back then. We have 3 of these children at home here. They are adults. They are like little children living in adult bodies. We have to bathe & wash their hair. 2 of them feed themselves & go to the bathroom. One of them is 50 years old; she can’t set alone nor stand alone, nor walk. She is like a 2 months old baby. She knows her name. She has never talked. The other 2 can’t carry on a conversation but can tell me what they want. We take them to church all the time. They enjoy church. My husband & I have been married 59 years, I am 77, he is 81. The Lord knew what my journey was ahead of me, but I had no idea. If I hadn’t of gotten saved and Baptized with the Holy Ghost in the beginning I could never stood up under the pressure of life that I have been through. Jesus Christ has been my life, my joy, and my peace...my strength through it all. Anyone that don’t have the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, I’d advise you to seek for it. You receive it by loving and worshiping Jesus. He is the Baptizer. You receive power after the Holy Ghost comes upon you. I’m so glad I learned about such a powerful blessing.
I pray my testimony will bless whoever reads it and cause you to draw neigh to God and be open to Him to receive from Him. God bless you.
There is not enough space to tell all that God has done for me all the years I’ve known Him personally. |
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