Cheryl Parrott - a divine encounter

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Although I believed in God, and sometimes talked with him while camping out in the bush I was not a Christian, Jesus was not Lord of my life. I had not asked him into my life. However at the age of 44 that was to change. I met a lady on the train station and we subsequently became friends. She was a very strong Christian. She invited me to a revival meeting but I refused, she persisted to the point of being intimidating and I kept refusing, in the end (to get her off the phone) I told her I would think  about it. When I hung up the phone and started to walk across the room an audible voice said "Go to the meeting." I was really
spooked because I was the only one in the house! All the hairs on the back of my head stood up! But at the same time a deep peace fell upon me and I knew in my heart I was going to the meeting!

At the meeting the presence of the Holy Spirit was very strong (although I didn't know what it was) They sang worship for the whole night, at one point about half way through the night I walked up the back of the hall and all of a sudden I was caught in a beam of light and "frozen" mid stride I couldn't move.(Like a "beam me up Scotty movie!!) I looked around me and above me to see where the light was coming from but it wasn't coming from anywhere but when I looked down I could see the circle of light around me. I was definitely NOT caught in a spot light or any down lighting and of course the other weird thing was that I was "frozen" to the spot mid stride. As I stood there looking around wondering if others could see all of this and would notice I felt the most incredible sensation. I felt like I was standing under a shower but instead of water, love was being poured upon me, as it touched my head it actually went through my head all the way through my body to my feet and this continued the whole time I was "frozen" in the beam of light.

Then as suddenly as it came it went and I continued walking as if I hadn't even stopped. I knew my life had been changed in that moment of time, but I didn't know how. I didn't tell anyone! (Would you?) But from that moment I was focused on God in a new way. All of a sudden I wanted a Bible and went to purchase one. I found I deep need to find a spiritual home and found the church that God wanted me to grow up in. But I still hadn't given my life to Jesus, I still hadn't asked Him to be Lord of my life.

To be honest I didn't want to be a Christian. The Christians I had had contact with seemed to me to be boring and dull and I thought I had an interesting life and I didn't want to give it up! God had other ideas.  He took me to a business conference in Hawaii and there I met a lady from Alaska (as you k

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