I Began Praying In The Spirit In 1996, What Happened To Me Back Then Is Not A Daily Occurrence In My LIfe Now. I Will Share Some Of My Journal Entries From March, 1996

As I was walking this morning I felt impressed upon me to share with you a bit more about how I became filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in tongues. I would like to state that I am not ashamed of praying like this in the least bit. I derive strength when I pray in this manner and I am not some off-the-wall type of weirdo that is on a bus, plane, train, etc. speaking in this manner of prayer out loud as to broadcast it for others to hear. You just may never know if you are seated next to me and I am in prayer. For my prayer seems to be internal when I pray like this. Now, there are occasions if I am in a church service and the pastor asks for the congregation to pray in tongues, I do. Even at that it is not some weird, crazy fashion of prayer either. It is done in order just like the bible says it should be done. At times there are those in the congregation that are given the interpretation to speak forth but done in an orderly manner. Do not knock it or mock it for your very life may depend upon it one day. What do I mean by that...you attend a church probably as a visitor and you are really dealing with something very serious in your life and only God can break through for you in in this very situation. This particular church may not even be accustomed to operating like this on a regular basis but the pastor senses an urgency for the people to pray in this manner and all of a sudden a little old grandma type of woman has the interpretation and brings it forth. Not with shouting and loudness but in a demure manner and tone of voice. No one else that is a member of that congregation even has a clue to what the meaning was. Guess what you did for it was just for you. You may have even felt uncomfortable sitting in this church and experiencing this happening. God will find you and get you the very word or words you need even if it is not in a conventional way that you are accustomed to. Be thankful that He loves you so very much and will make a way for you to get what you need.
I must share with you now that what I will share with you in my journals today was fresh to me back then. I believe God used me in this fashion because I had no bible knowledge back then or ministry knowledge either. Remember, back then was when He was awakening me in my walk with Him. Even the Catholic Church did not know what to do with me when I would share with the priests what was happening to me. As I shared with you in previous writings, they sent me to two different spiritual advisers, they did the best they could to help me on my walk with Jesus.
In my current walk with the Lord I still pray in the spirit but the visions do not happen frequent at all. I probably should not have just said that, watch, I will probably get one now. It really has been years since that has last happened in my life. Now, I see He uses me in dreams and in interpretation of dreams. Even when I feel prompted to pray in the spirit it is very seldom that I even ask for the interpretation. I trust Holy Spirit enough to know that He knows what He is praying through me the open/willing vessel.
Just imagine for a moment now what it must have been like for my family and friends back then when I would innocently share with them what was happening in my life. Probably the biggest mistake I made was to share with others that had no idea what I was talking about. I learned the hardest lesson the hard way by living and experiencing it. Choose wisely who you share these type of things with. There is a Scripture verse that warns of casting your pearls before swine. Trust me when I say this, swine are not just unbelievers it can also be church people that you innocently go to and share what the Lord is doing in your life and because they can either not believe or they are jealous of you for whatever reason they can mock you either behind your back or sneer at you when you speak to them. Really place caution in your life of who you share these things with. Above all other things, trust in the Lord with all your heart, mind, soul, body and spirit and HE will make a way for you. He truly will.