so as you know, that I repented that day…
but you see things with God are non-stop, well I started to read the bible more carefully and randomly. I have told you that I was an Armenian orthodox back then, but there was this place where people went to pray it was a place near Beirut and I heard that people were being healed there. so I was curious to know. they told me about a lot of miracles happening so I wanted to go. I thought that miracles have stopped happening in our days and those things were in the past. I had a friend who used to go there to worship and told me to come, and I did.
so I was there and I was just staring at people, not concentrating on what that man was talking (*who later on became my pastor) I was busy checking people and what they were doing…
I would see someone waving, someone crying, someone on their knees some were like acting weird to me because we usually didn’t see that in the Armenian orthodox church. so I kept staring and all of a sudden people started talking in tongues, I knew about it but I have never seen someone talk like that loud and I was like “what’s going on?” so that was weirder.
people talking in tongues? huh? nowadays? why?
so I didn’t battle about it, because it was written in the bible then why wouldn’t it be…
and I started praying to God to give me the gift of speaking in tongues because He gave it to my friend (yeah that’s jealousy). so I kept praying and praying but nothing happened…
I knelt, I begged and still nothing happened.
and one day when I was there worshipping I was so furious and mad that God is not giving me the tongues. I mean the pagans once they believed, they received and I surely did believe. so I was so angry and suddenly the man said “ whoever doesn’t have the tongues let him come forward so we would pray for it” and I went to the front he put his hand on my head and prayed and I felt fire all over me and felt this anointing cover me up but NOTHING happened and I was angrier now and when I got back to my seat I saw Jesus smiling and He was gorgeous and so beautiful, His smile oh I can’t forget, it was so sincere so pure, but I was so selfish so blinded about that gift that I totally forgot and didn’t care that He was smiling and I angrily asked Him “ Lord I don’t have the tongues and you are there smiling why?” but He replied with a wider smile and disappeared.
I was desperate and was losing hope. when the next Saturday arrived I was there again worshipping and praying for my brother to be saved because it was the first time He came to a worshipping night and suddenly I had this feeling on my tongue like it was shaking alone, it was coming from the back of my throat to my tongue so I thought I make a sound and there it was, I was speaking in tongues! Hallelujah! all the people around me were congratulating me and my brother was astonished it was great!
when we were heading back home my brother started asking me questions and by the time we were in the house he said he wanted to repent, and I was like ”what? right now?ok..”
and I prayed a prayer and he repeated and suddenly he was shaking under my hand and that night he also received the gift of speaking in tongues! hallelujah!
isn’t that great I am very sure that God was waiting for that moment He cared about saving a life more than giving a child what they want! so I didn’t see it then.. I only saw what I wanted but God had greater plans.
this is how I got the tongues and how my brother was saved …
when something you want is being delayed it means something greater is being prepared wait for it…
