From Cocaine To The Calling Series

The first person I called was a girl named Teresa Smith because I dated her in high school. One night I had picked her up at her church and when the doors opened I saw people running and dancing in that church to loud music and had thought that was weird. I told her that God had just spoke to me and I wanted to know what church she went to. So I went to church for the first time on Sunday morning. Teresa explained that the church was a charismatic church. I was introduced to the pastor who said I needed the Holy Ghost. Someone carried me into a little room and explained that I needed to baptized with the Holy Spirit. He instructed me that if I did not speak in tongues to not worry that I had already received the Holy Ghost and they could teach me how to speak in other tongues. It did not register with me, nor did it seem right that someone would have to teach me how to speak in tongues, I shook his hand and left.

Driving home, a few days after the night I repented of my sins, I pulled my car over and began to pray, "God, I don’t know anything about the Holy Ghost, but whatever you’ve got for me, I want it". I started walking on a golf course and cars were passing by, and I said, "God, I want the Holy Ghost". Then all the things I had done started coming to my mind and I thought that I was not good enough to get the Holy Ghost. But it had been four days since I’d taken cocaine or alcohol, since I’d cussed, lied, stolen or been scandalous. I began to praise God for the best four days of my life and just then I began to feel something coming on me right there on the side of the road. I lifted my hands and felt something like I’d never felt before and God baptized me with the Holy Ghost and I began to speak with other tongues as God gave the utterance. I started leaping for joy! Those cars passing by were honking and making fun of me. They probably thought I was high on drugs ! They didn’t realize that I had just been delivered from drugs and was feeling a power like I’d never felt before. God put me on a high that cocaine could never give. God gave me joy like sin never could give. The power of the Holy Ghost is greater than anything in the world! It is peace, joy unspeakable and full of glory. This is what I had been searching for, this is what I had been longing for, and now I finally found it ! Yes it was the power of God !

I want to reach for someone here tonight that perhaps you can relate to my story, you have been searching for that thing that will fill the emptiness inside, the void inside, well my friend you’re not going to find it in drugs, you’re not going to find it in alcohol, sex, rock music, or any other device of the world ! The only real peace, the only real joy, the only real happiness is found in Jesus Christ ! Call on Him now, He is as close as the mention of His Name !

John 9:25

He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see!

Acts 5:39

But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.