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Testimony: Fresh Wind
New's testimony "Fresh Wind" on 5/27/2013, 7:55pm...
I'm seventeen years old and have grown up in an atheist household, with a sister who considers herself to be wicca. Some two years ago, I knew something was missing in my life. I started going to a roman-catholic church. The service was alright but really it was the bible study that I loved. When bible study stopped, I slowly drifted out of church. I moved back to the United States that summer and after a while, a friend recommended his church. I started to go to the youth group there and encountered Holy Spirit for the first time. Since then, I haven't looked back.
I play guitar and sing in the youth worship band now and over winter break I went to a christian youth conference in Toronto: Fresh Wind. God had been moving in my heart since I first encountered Holy Spirit, but there was something special about this conference. Holy Spirit just kept filling me up. Each session was a renewal of Holy Spirit flood. I knew that I was being prepared for something, and that I just had to be patient. I realize now that sometime around the beginning of the conference, God had gifted me with enough discernment to understand the conference for what it really was, and not for what others said to me. God led me to know which speakers were meant for me and which ones were not. God also led me to be patient and pray when any of the worship leaders were not being led by Holy Spirit. Throughout the first few days of the conference, God filled me with joy and Holy Spirit and helped me to be patient while He prepared me.
On the last day of the conference, my whole youth group was brought before everyone and the church founder prayed over us. Again, God filled me with Holy Spirit but asked for patience. I prayed over my friends while they received what God had for them. Later, I was called to leave the group and go by myself. We had a huge line waiting for prayer. I took a spot and began praying on my own. One of the girls from the worship band prayed over me and I could feel Holy Spirit overflowing. I had to lay down, and after a little while God gifted me with tongues. I prayed to God and worshiped Him in our private language for a while. When a calm settled over me, I prayed over others for a while, although I still felt that God was preparing me for something.
We went to the pool at the place where we were staying and Holy Spirit began to move through me stronger than ever. There was a spiritual filth that was settled into the place. I prayed over the pool along with two friends. We prayed and rebuked the evil that had settled in so deeply there. When we got back to our room, however, it was clear that whatever evil was in the pool had followed us up. We all felt unclean, as if something bad was following us. Holy Spirit told me that one of the girls needed to pray for the strength of God rather than personal strength. She sat in her room to pray while the rest of us rebuked the evil that had followed us. After some time, the dark retreated but Holy Spirit let me know that it was still in the room, only with our friend. We pulled her out but it something in her demeanor had changed.
She didn't want to talk to us and refused to be touched by oil that we had blessed. We prayed over her, but it was obvious that my friend had given in enough that we had to break through the evil trying to take her before she would be at peace. I'm grateful that God didn't give me the ability to see the demon the way it truly appears, because the look in my friend's eye when we began to rebuke the evil was frightening enough. After a while, my friend was free of the demon hanging over her and the room was clean again. Since then, God has only grown in me and grown His gift of discernment in me. I love it when He shows me something or leads me to do something that gives me just a little taste of how smart He is. I'm always telling god how happy I am that He's so much smarter than me. It's a beautiful thing.