My husband and I have been attending a class on Sunday mornings at church about the Holy Spirit. It inspired me to share my testimony about how I was filled with the Holy Spirit as a child and received my Heavenly prayer language. I hope this testimony inspires you to receive for yourself!
I received my heavenly prayer language when I was around eight years old. There was nothing fancy about it. No church service. No soft music. No one even prayed for me. It was just me, God, and some ugly yellow carpet.
Our family moved into a ratty rent house when we moved from Nebraska to the Texas Panhandle. It wasn’t pretty. It desperately needed remodeling and cockroaches visited the kitchen at night. My room sported a yellow carpet—making it the brightest room in the drab house. But that didn’t keep it from being my hide-away. One day in the solitude of my bedroom with the door shut, I decided to listen to one of my dad’s sermons on cassette (I believe it was about God’s peace). I remember pressing stop and then saying quietly, “God, I want to pray in tongues like Mom and Dad.” Immediately, I began to pray in my heavenly language. I was shy back then, so I didn’t tell anyone. But when my younger brother received his prayer language in a prayer meeting weeks later, I wouldn’t be left behind. I announced, “I can do that too!”
Years later, this experience reminds me of these truths:
- We don’t need a clean, church-like environment to experience God.
Consider Paul and Silas and their nasty jail cell. Their heart-felt praise invited God’s supernatural power that knocked the doors off their jail cell!
Around midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening. Suddenly, there was a massive earthquake, and the prison was shaken to its foundations. All the doors immediately flew open, and the chains of every prisoner fell off! (Acts 16:25-26, NLT)
- We can receive from God with the faith of a child.
God delights in the simplicity of child-like faith! Whether it’s trusting Him for salvation, healing, or the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, humble trust is all He requires.
Jesus called a little child to him and put the child among them. Then he said, “I tell you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven. So anyone who becomes as humble as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven” (Matthew 18:2-4, NLT).
- To receive, all we need to do is ask.
To receive from God, we must ask with that child-like faith. God doesn’t hold anything back. When we ask, He’s always generous to give!
“So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him” (Luke 11:13, NLT).
P.S. I recently drove by that dingy rent house. It had been remodeled. Goodbye, yellow carpet. Hello, Holy Spirit!
Additional verses on the Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Luke 24:49; Acts 2; Acts 11:15-18; Acts 10:45-46; 1 Corinthians 14:1; 1 Corinthians 12:31)
Christa Madrid 
Thatâs a good article! I remember the prayer meeting at Marciaâs house.
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I didn’t remember where the prayer meeting was, but I do remember the excitement in the back of the car on the way home!
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