Because it is the RAW truth, the truth that usually hurts peoples feelings and chases them away.
Because it is REAL! I have been raised in the church since a child and about the age of 16 my father died and I started to “back slide” some but I still have purities of a Pentecostal girl. Long hair, no pierced ears, no tattoos, and not tainted by one evil thing in this world. I was different because I didn’t curse or have fun in the worldly ways. But then I made a mistake and married a unequally yoke person.
That’s a thing suggested to not due in the bible marry unequally yoked, the husband is supposed to lead you closer to God and that only makes you better.
So I started wearing pants, got my ears pierced, and got a tattoo after my separation started. I went to clubs, I drank some (not to drunkenness). Then after so many years of being out of church and God out of sight and out of mind. I started to notice the things I mentioned in other entries here. Sex crazed world, fake friends, being lonely, and so forth. So I promised myself I would start going to a good church or church hunting.
At first I visited a few churches Baptist, Catholic, Non-Denominational, and I felt like the church was just dead to me. I would shake hands with members and the handshake was just dead. The sermons would seem to repeat every time and I was not learning anything at all about the Bible.
Then I found a Non-Denominational church it was great but I feel it was more of a “baby step” to the real truth. I like the church a lot because it had so many activities and I could wear make up and what ever I wanted and not be judged. But I wasn’t learning much of the Bible like I should have been. There was a lesson each week and repeat on Thursdays and Sundays only. There was no LEARNING or Teaching of how to really dig in the BIBLE and learn how to use it and understand it. I found myself just listening to the preacher saying his sermon and believing him, I was still feeling empty some how!
Yes I Spoke In Tongues!
Acts 2:38 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. (If you truly do confess, aim for a better life, thankful for GOD You will receive the HOLY GHOST it is promised to us ALL!)
Then one day at church I had just about gave up on trying in life, I was developing more close relationship with GOD by having to just go to church. So I knew I was moving in the right direction. That day during the worship service the song “I will Rise” came on and I sang along praising to GOD inside my head saying to GOD I will rise to be better from here on out, I am sorry so sorry for turning my back on you, over and over again I kept praying to GOD during this song, IN a church that dose not speak in tongues or have the holy ghost. I spoke to GOD in my heart asking him to really work in me and keep doing what he was doing in my life, I feel the change for the better by me walking closer towards him and I wont ever forget the dark days of my life that way I will never ever want to go back to those days. I was so sincere in this “one on one” prayer to GOD in my heart I felt tears come out the corners of my eyes, and then I just started thanking him for the changes he has done, the gifts he has blessed me with and will bless me with. Then my body started to get really warm and heated and I was with my hands up and open and eyes closed towards heaven. I opened my eyes and noticed I was the only one still standing and singing. This AMAZING breakthrough to a new me! Was so so so so great and powerful that I knew from then on I would not be the same again, A TRUE REPENTANCE AND SOULD SAVING MOMENT! I looked around and felt the whole church was watching me, I didn’t really care but there I knew that just praising him with out emotion and just going through the service IS NOT TRUE SALVATION. Its their baby steps.
New Beginning Again
Ezekiel 46:9New International Version (NIV)
9 “‘When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed festivals, whoever enters by the north gate to worship is to go out the south gate; and whoever enters by the south gate is to go out the north gate. No one is to return through the gate by which they entered, but each is to go out the opposite gate. (Basically when you walk in to the house of God your supposed to walk out different and changed)
Once you feel the emotions of REALLY repenting and praising GOD you will receive the HOLY Ghost and there is none of that “game” of going to church Sunday after spending all night at the club to, do it all over again the next weekend. There will be A HUGE TIDE WAVE OF CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE.
So why I am Pentecostal?
Because of the very fact that I was alone in that church, I really truly did confess for a new beginning, and received the Holy Ghost all by myself I was reminded that THIS IS REAL and I want to be as close to it as possible and learn more and more about it. I was thirsty for more Jesus! I was thirsty for more truth that is proven to me by scripture, not just going with what’s told to me. I wanted to be near others who knew this feeling and will only better me towards GODS will. Remember that I received the Holy Ghost on my own in a Huge Non Denominational Church, during a real heart to heart confessional talk with GOD. I was not following what others did by any means at all. I was just truthfully sincerely talking to GOD.
If your curious as to the BIBLICAL truth of GOD and Receiving the HOLY GHOST I encourage your to read Acts Chapter 2.
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