Every year, in my Church (Atlantis Heart Ministries), we celebrate the Pentecost with a 10 days festival. Which include an evening service everyday.
This year, the celebration started on the Pentecost Thursday, the 18 May 2023, with the culmination on Sunday 28 May 2023.
The Pentecost celebration is always filled with the presence of the Lord and many miracles take place. I would like to share my personnel feelings, testimonies and messages from this celebration.
DAY 5 – Surrender
The praise and worship session was powerful and the church filled with the presence of the Lord. Once again I was touched while worshipping, and I fell on the floor once more. After some time, I felt like I was going out of my body. It was the first time I experienced that feeling, it was a wonderful feeling and an amazing experience. I was feeling so out of this world, that I told God that if this is an Heavenly feeling, then I want Him to take me with Him. I would not mind leaving the earth, leaving my wife, my kids, my family, etc.. behind to experience that feeling for ever. No answer came back, I could fell me going back to my body, I could again feel the floor under me, I could feel the cold in the air. Then I went back on my knees.
I was a bit sad and disappointed that God sent me back to my body. But still filled with this amazing experience I continued to worship the Lord, my God for who He is for me, I thanked Him for His goodness, His mercy, His presence in my life.
Then I got touched again and felt one more time to the floor. This time I experienced the great Comforter. It felt like giant arms around me and I felt relieved, comforted from the ending of my earlier experience. I felt much better, no more sadness, no more disappointment.
Pastor delivered the message from the Lord, on the importance of surrender ourselves to Him. We cannot expect God to perform miracles in our life if we cannot surrender ourselves to Him. For Him to perform His wonders, He must be in control. He added that a person can definitely not surrender if they have foreign gods, because they will make sure to keep you down, they will make sure you do not get your blessings, they will make sure to block anything coming from God.
Joshua 24: 22-24
22. And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. 23. Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel. 24. And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
Joshua was asking the Israelites to leave the statues they made from themselves to worship. But now a days, people have again mage themselves some gods, which controls their life. If you are addicted to something, then it is a foreign god to you.
- Money.
- Lust.
- Smoking.
- Alcohol.
- Work.
- Jealousy.
- Drugs.
It is time for us to leave these foreign gods behind and come to Jesus.
It is time for us to believe that Jesus dies for us all. Imagine that when He was hanging on the cross, He was thinking of you, He was thinking of your difficult times, and that you will need Him to carry you through.
It is time to trust Jesus, He will make sure you do not suffer from withdrawal symptoms from your addiction. He created you, He knows your body, He knows how bad you have damaged it, its heavenly work, with your addiction.
The time has come to love the Lord our God, leave everything behind, and follow Him. The path to Heaven is small, compared to the big road going to Hell. God never said it will be easy, but He said He will be there every seconds of your life to support you.
Matthew 9:9
And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.
Lets all be like Matthew, a tax collector, hated by most, rejected by his family. He had collected earthly treasures, as he was praised and well paid by the romans. But when Jesus called Him and asked him to follow, He packed his bag, left everything behind and followed Jesus…
May God bless you and keep you
May He shine His face upon you and be gracious unto you
May He lift His countenance upon you ad give you peace.
Amen