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He Was My Champagne; Now He Is My Bread. My Changing Experience of the Holy Spirit

Anita Mathias — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:42:02 +0000

My first conscious experience with the Holy Spirit was also my most dramatic. I strayed into a Charismatic meeting at my ancestral hometown, Mangalore, India, when I was 17. My father was patronising and mildly amused, and flatly refused to take me again. And so I went to the visiting Spanish priest preaching the retreat, […]

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My Experience of The Baptism in the Holy Spirit and of Speaking in Tongues

Anita Mathias — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:17:05 +0000

So here I am, stressed and anxious. Or happy, at peace and joyful. And almost without realizing it, I find myself praying. In tongues. * * * How do I find myself in Oxford, England, in the 21st century, praying in tongues, this ancient First Century gift vividly described in The Acts of the Apostles? Well, 30ish […]

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Praying in African

Anita Mathias — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:13:00 +0000

And here’s my funniest moment from River Camp, the Pentecostal Family Camp I’m hanging out at. Irene, praying in baby language! Irene was lying on the floor, trying “soaking prayer” with the adults for the first time ever. A lady came and prayed with her, she said. “First she prayed in English, and then […]

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