Hello, Bishop!

I just participated in the prayer and sought the Holy Spirit. OHHH! WHAT A DAY!

Today I can say this and be certain that I received the Holy Spirit in my life. It was like you asked during your radio program: “DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF WHAT IT IS TO HAVE THE SPIRIT OF GOD INSIDE YOU?”

Bishop, the truth is that I had no idea what this actually meant. Though I firmly said that I had already received Him. Liar, faker, deceiver, pretender, disgusting and from that to worse… This is how I’ve felt since last night. How could I say that I had the Spirit of God inside me and do the work of God as an assistant, if until then, my life did not fit the profile of a person who is born of God?

So I decided that I was not going to pay any mind to how much time I had been in Church or how long I had been doing the work of God.

Yesterday, during the prayer, I had a real encounter with the Savior of my soul and today was honored with the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Frankly, I thought there wasn’t a solution for me and that not even God wanted me any more. Yesterday I worked as an assistant, but I was determined: I was going to do something or something was going to happen to me. Then, last night, my regional pastor spoke in a very incisive way with the assistants: “Assistant, if you are here and you’re listening to me, then you still have a chance. But it is necessary for you to acknowledge your spiritual situation right now and be honest with yourself.”

Bishop, I have always seen God speaking through this pastor, but yesterday I did not realize that it was God speaking. However, it was as if He were ‘crying out’ to me. After this, I said to myself several times: THIS IS MY LAST CHANCE. AND HONESTLY, I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO LOSE, because the most valuable possession, which is the Spirit of God, was not in me, so I was not sure of my salvation.

Actually, I was the lost coin inside the Church – and I was wearing an assistant’s uniform. I was a ‘jack of all trades’ assistant, a righteous woman of God. Just thinking about it makes me burn with an indignation inside.

My God – now I can call Him my God –, how could you have been so, so, so merciful with me? I had been serving Him without actually knowing Him for such a long time.

I praise and thank God for this privilege and that He had such mercy towards me. Now I want to be for God what I had never been, 100%. And go against the devil with all of my strength to destroy his works.

Bishop, today I am going to go speak to my regional pastor to thank him and confess what I had never said before. What is going to happen? I do not know. And from here on it’s no longer up to me to know or to make plans. Because this life is no longer mine anymore, it now belongs to God. And now it’s 100 % in His hands.

Thank you, Bishop! May God bless you and keep using you in a great way to help those who (like me, were lost inside the Church) are willing to FULLY surrender to God and have Him as the Lord and Savior of their souls.

Indianne Pinheiro