The day is saturday 25th July - 2009 .
Time check 10pm. My lovely sis had earlier invited me to attend an overnight prayer. Apparently, she was handing over as prayer secretary for her Class.
I contemplated calling her, i felt tired and i thought i needed sleep. But i had this strange desire to attend prayers because i felt empty and lost. I postponed the call till i finished De-ja-vu ( movie by denzel ). The movie eventually ended.
I called her around midnight and she asked me to come over. I drove about 15km in the night to a place i had never been to in anticipation of what was to come.
I arrived at the church building entered through a side gate. One of her friends opened the gate for me. We entered the church and the service began. You can guess who took center stage at the pulpit ! Sis herself. Inside me i thought ... wow.. she is an upcoming pastor.
She introduced the quior and left the stage. An hour later 4 men of God are introduced. ( a prophet, Healer, Teacher and pastor )
Little did i know this would be my first real experience of what i always saw on TV. I dont know why but earlier in the week i kept questioning whether God was actually real (yet i know for a fact that he is real )
its as if these men were here to finally remove any doubts i had.
The prophet first walks on stage and with arrogance asks us to respond to his " praise GOD ". it was prolly around 2am by this time. He talks a couple of things and speaks about a lady with some ailments who God was to heal that night. He then introduces the teacher ( a man of God ).
The teacher , a humble fellow i must hasten to add taught for about 1 hour. He then called in the "Fire guys " ( the 3 musketeers ).
The prophet walks on stage and we all start to pray ! Suddenly the place is filled with screams and some are slain. I too join in and pray. The men of God move through the church touching some and praying for them individually. Somehow i was scared about being touched myself. However, inside me i really wanted to experience the holy spirit within.
I shook at some point uncontrollably. I was afraid whenever some fell down as if they were demon possessed. After some time i opened my eyes to find everyone praying while some just kept quiet and continued to stare. ( interesting i thought to myself ). why were they just looking and not praying ?
I cant descern how the holy spirit works so i cant speak with authority on this. I sat down again and looked around while praying in my heart and singing songs of praise. Wow... i thought to myself - this stuff is real.
It all went on till 7:30am the next morning.
Throughout the day, i felt a strange peace and prescence.
