Pentecost – Day 1: JOY

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 1 – JOY

We started the service by singing:

♫ The joy of the Lord is my strength (x4)

Then pastor asked us to think of JOY. Hearing this word, I was immediately transported to my “Happy Place”.

From previous encounter with the Lord, He most of the time take me to a specific place, where I feel joy, happiness, peace, freedom. My happy place is on a mountain top, facing a colorful valley, with trees, plants, flowers. A river is going through the valley, there is a smaller hill on the other side.

While in my happy place, pastor touched my arm, the Holy ghost power took over and transported me to an other place. I found myself in a middle of a field, with high grass, where I was running. When advancing in this field, butterflies on may different colors, and birds, of many different species and colors were taking off in front before me. I felt full of joy and happiness and was smiling for no other specific reason.

Coming back to the service, I found myself smiling and laughing at anything that would be said. Later in the service, while on my knees, pastor says the Holy Ghost power will come once again. My arms felt numb, as the holy ghost power was entering my body through my arms, and I rolled down on my side on the floor. While on the floor, with my eyes closed, I saw a great light, it was very bright, it was actually flames dancing before my eyes. However, I never felt warm from these flames.

For the rest of the service I was just feeling dizzy, like drunk with the power of the Holy Spirit. I was full of joy, happiness and peace in my heart.

Before closing, we sang:

♫ It’s the Holy ghost power
that is keeping me alive
Keeping me alive, keeping me alive
It’s the Holy ghost power
that is keeping me alive
Jesus is keeping me alive

The Holy ghost power is living inside of me, inside of you, inside of all of us. The Holy ghost power is Jesus’s power, The one Jesus used to perform all the miracles when walking on earth. So this tremendous power, He left with us when He departed for Heaven on the Pentecost day.

Thank you Lord for this amazing experience, to get filled with the joy and Happiness of the Lord, to see the flames from Heaven.

To God all the glory, for great things He has done in my life.

Amen

Hello world!

After some indecisive times on how to share God’s work in my life with the rest of the world, I finally jumped in and there I am with a blog.

I am Pascal, I was born in France, and the Lord called me to Atlantis, near Cape Town, in the Western province of South Africa.

I was born in a Roman Catholic family, was baptised at 8 months old, followed the catechesis as a children, but it stopped there. I am now a member of the Atlantis Heart Ministries, a Pentecostal church, centered on Jesus, and where the Holy Spirit is the program director of our services and meetings.

In this blog I will share God’s teachings, as I received them from church, I will share my testimonies of the goodness of God in my life. The aim of the blog is to inspire anyone to live a better life, to stay focused on the Lord and keep up the faith to be able to walk with Jesus on this earth. I do not pretend I know it all, and I will continue to pray for the Holy Spirit to guide me on what, when and how to share His word. When Moses told God that he did not know what to tell the Israelites to lead them out of slavery, God responded the following:

Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.

Exodus 4 : 12 (KJV)

May the Lord bless you and keep you, May His face shine upon you and be gracious to you, the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace. Amen