Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

fell, prostrated by the power of God, crying: ‘Let the Lord work!’ My heart isconvinced that I have been warring against the Holy Spirit, but I will grieve it nomore by stubborn unbelief. Welcome, light! Welcome, Jesus! I have been backsliddenand hardened, feeling offended if anyone praised God and manifested a fullness of joyin His love; but now my feelings are changed, my opposition is at an end, Jesus hasopened my eyes, and I may yet shout His praises myself. I have said bitter and cuttingthings of Sister Ellen that I sorrow over now, and I pray for her forgiveness and that ofall others who are present.”Brother R. then bore his testimony. His face was lighted with the glory of heavenas he praised the Lord for the wonders He had wrought that night. Said he: “This placeis awfully solemn because of the presence of the Most High. Sister Ellen, in future youwill have our help and sustaining sympathies, instead of the cruel opposition that hasbeen shown you. We have been blind to the manifestations of God’s Holy Spirit.”All the opposers were now brought to see their mistake and to confess that thework was indeed of the Lord. In a prayer meeting soon after, the brother who hadconfessed that he was wrong in his opposition, experienced the power of God in sogreat a degree that his countenance shone with a heavenly light, and he fell helplessto the floor. When his strength returned, he again acknowledged that he had beenignorantly warring against the Spirit of the Lord in cherishing the feeling he had againstme. In another prayer meeting still another member of the same family was exercisedin a similar manner and bore the same testimony. A few weeks after, while the largefamily of Brother P. were engaged in prayer at their own house, the Spirit of God sweptthrough the room and prostrated the kneeling suppliants. My father came in soon after,and found them all, both parents and children, helpless under the power of the Lord.47