My Experience Of Converting To Pentecostalism

I would like to share my experience of converting to Pentecostalism for this week’s reflection assignment. I believe that this experience has changed my perspective on my life and this will impact my work and my goals at Colorado Christian University. I have developed a different relationship with God through this experience and I know that it will directly impact my goals because it has impacted my heart.
My father was raised Lutheran and we have attended the same church our whole lives.
Our family has attended the same church for over 200 years now. My mother was Baptist but followed my father to his church and this is how I was raised. I was baptized and later confirmed. I married in the church and I baptized two of my children in the Lutheran …show more content…
Finally, after losing a family friend at the young age of twenty-three we were all saddened and shaken. My older sister and her husband decided to attend church with my younger sister.My brother-in-law received the Holy Spirit by proof of speaking in tongues and was baptized. This was huge for me because my brother-in-law was an atheist. This spurred new hope within me. I attended church the following Sunday. My husband was filled with the
Holy Spirit by proof of speaking in tongues that Sunday before my very eyes. I wanted God to fill me so bad it became so very real for me and I became so very desperate for God. I did not receive that day and I wanted to walk out of that church again. I could not leave that day though because my ten-year-old son was earnestly watching me. He cried because he too wanted to speak in tongues. So I continued to seek God. I read the Bible more earnestly and searched the pages for ways to achieve this great gift. It felt like for the first time I was reading the word of
God and was receiving peace for reading his word.
The day I received the Holy Spirit by proof of speaking in tongues started with a …show more content…
There are no words to describe the experience and no possible way to describe the emotions that I felt. I felt as if I had conquered the hardest battle, completed the longest race, achieved the greatest award, and overcame the

SCHWARTZ.SESSION1.JOURNAL 4 biggest obstacle in life. I had been chosen by God and his love for me was so great that God gave me proof by enabling me to speak in tongues.
This experience has changed my heart. I am no longer bitter about things of the past. I am no longer ashamed of things that I have done or have not been able to accomplish. I know this will affect my academic work because I want to do all things for God’s glory. I want to give as much of myself as I possibly can so that I can share my testimony with others at
Colorado Christian University.
I know that this experience will influence my actions because the Holy Spirit is working through me for the good of God. This will give me different goals as my journey develops here at Colorado Christian University. I know this because it is the reason that I am attending CCU.
If I had not converted to Pentecostalism; I would have not taken the thirty-day challenge with
KLOVE, and I would have not known about