Timothy Holloway
Grace Bible College
GEN123 College Writing and Research
Professor Harrell
June 8, 2013
One of the most important moments in my spiritual life was when I was prophesied to about the calling on my life and when I received my gifts of the spirit. I was in church on September 10, 1999 and my pastor at the time was praying for people to receive healing, blessings, confirmations of Something God had spoken to them and to be released from unclean spirits through the laying on of hands and the movement of the Holy Spirit. The church was a small mobile home unit in a rundown part of Panama City, Florida which seated maybe 40 people. It had cheap, white paneling on the walls and bluish-grey hard knit carpet on the floor. My pastor was dressed in a grey three-piece suit standing in front of the church facing the congregation and the co-pastor dressed in a two-piece tan suit was standing to his right ready to catch anyone who was overcome by the Holy Spirit. I had seen people with severe colds healed instantly, I saw an elderly lady who walked with a limp because one leg was shorter than the other have her leg grow to equal the other leg in the pastors hand. The week before a female church member who for 15 years was living her life in a wheelchair because she was paralyzed from the waist down after attempting suicide stand up and walk. I saw these miracles and many more happen in this church. I knew that by the leading of the Holy Spirit that anything was possible because of the miracles I had seen God manifest there. It was to my turn to receive prayer and I was ready to receive whatever God was going to reveal to me that day. The night before I was in my co-pastors home discussing the Holy Spirit and was baptized in the Holy Spirit. I stepped up to the pastor and waited for him to lay hands on me and begin to pray. The Holy Spirit began to move and the pastor began to pray in tongues and he revealed to me