From the Laptop of LaTonya: How I Was Bathed By HIS Presence!

I wanted to take this time to share with you my own experience with JESUS, my grandfather was a Christian, my father is a Christian, but I did not have that as a background for my own life. I had a few experience in church, in my infancy/ toddler stage, being my grandfather was founder and senior pastor of a congregation, but the tradition seemed a bit indifferent to me and I really could not relate to that form of gathering. So after my parents divorce I pretty much start living an unstable life. I was tossed house to house, school to schools, and exposed to so many uncertainties. You know???

And as far as GOD, I didn’t really know what that term meant, but somewhere inside after hearing about him, made me interested in him. Problem was I did not know exactly where to find the answer, my soul craved. Even at the young age of 10, GOD was with me stirring me along, giving me the desire to go to some churches on my own. I remember when I was about 13 years old, when I reunited with my mom after she return to the city, we relocated and there was this one specific church I had seen and I begin to say to myself I’m going to start going there. I did visit once but it still did not have what my soul needed. SO I never returned. Long story short, I went through many unfavorable events that no child should have to be exposed to, yet looking back, I can still see that GOD hand was with me through it all.

The year of 1999 I went through a devastating event with someone close to me that sent me into a deep depression, I became suicidal, and disconnected, & I thank GOD, now, that I he had given me the wisdom to make sure my children was no where expose to this while I was going through this trial in my life. Man! I thought that this was the end of the world and I figured I could not get any lower than I was at that time. I remember that my dad would invite me to church on several occasions and I would just say, ”ok, okay well for now just take the twins”, thinking deep inside I was not worthy of going through those church doors. Furthermore I knew I did not look the part, and I did not want to experience anymore rejections than I had already been through in my life.

Eventually the LORD put that desire in me again to know him, as I had so long ago craved for. So he begins to continually confirm this through prophetic encounters which led me to eventually start asking questions about church, and even got some recommendations where to visit and I ended up at this one particular church and they were some hand-clapping, tongue talking, foot stomping, devil bashing folks up in there, OMGOSH!!! It was an environment of freedom. The liberty that 10 year old girl In me had been searching for, soooo long ago. I can’t even tell what that man of GOD said, all I know when I walked in those doors I knew deep in my heart, whatever the GOD of this church had to offer I wanted it. As I thought, I was at the end of my wit and things couldn’t get any worst for me.

When the altar call came forth I took the hands of my twins who were about 7 at the time and walk to that alter and did externally what I had already decide in my heart weeks ago, internally. And that was the greatest choice, out of my 22 years at that time that I ever made. And from that day forward the fire of GOD has been growing in me in an increasing way. And that is how I came to know the LORD!!! And I long the same thing for you that you begin to experience being bathed by presence GOD!!!

Listen to this dynamic song on such an amazing GOD: