Experience of the Holy Spirit
Years back I had a charismatic experience of the Holy Spirit in a Leeds Church. I came late to the service and as I came through the door heard loud harmonious singing without intelligible words. I fell to my knees awed by something so out of this world with hundreds of worshippers going with the flow of a holy humming successively rising and falling then dying down to silence. After that silence I heard one or two voices speaking words of consolation as if from God to the gathered worshippers along the lines ‘I love you… I have a way forward for you… trust in Me’. It left an impression deep in my soul sowing the seed of being open to the Holy Spirit’s gifts of tongues and prophecy mentioned in scripture. By contrast in terms of charismatic experience a young couple came to see me who had fallen in love at their workplace. Both were already married and one of their existing partners was awaiting the birth of their first child. As Christians they insisted their relationship was fr...