My First God Encounter

I probably already mentioned this in my first blog, I didn’t encounter the Holy Spirit until I was 11 years old.

I was about to go on my first missions trip to Rwanda, Africa and that didn’t make Satan happy. He would whisper cruel things about black people and then tell me that the terrible things that he saying were my own thoughts. I believed the lies that he was telling me. This made me think that I was a prejudice against black people. I couldn’t bear to live with my shame. I cried so much and even contemplated taking my own life. I thought that I was beyond forgiveness.

One day when my family and I were driving home from visiting my Uncle Mark we decided to stop at a ice cream shop. I declined my parents offer when they asked me if wanted ice cream because I was too depressed to care for it. My mom decided to stay in the car with me and talk while my brother and my dad went to go get the ice cream. She told me that “Satan wants me to live in chains, but God can set me free if I let him”. Suddenly the Holy spirit reminded me of a song called “No More Chains” by Nicole Nordeman. This particular song had never made sense to me before this moment. God used the hard times I was going through to help me see the meaning behind the song and he used the song to help me get through the things I was going through. Satan didn’t stop tormenting me, but with the Holy Spirit’s guidance and training I was able to learn how to resist Satan’s lies.