Sheila Gained Confidence Through the Holy Spirit

I thought I was perfectly OK the way I was. Why should I go along to a church speaking in this stupid language that nobody understands? I thought no, that’s not for me. I’ve always believed in God so I thought I was alright.

It’s been 34 years now and it only seems like yesterday that my husband Len was baptised and filled with the Holy Spirit and completely changed.He always worried so much about bills that came in, and he always had to be on the go. It was just like somebody had said ‘slow down Len, calm down’ and I thought, what if there’s something in this? I was stubborn and I thought ‘what happens if God doesn’t want me?’ which was really the base of my fears. I worried about the scripture ‘many are called but few are chosen’ that somebody had once quoted to me. Was I one of the people he wasn’t going to choose?

Pastor John asked us “would you like me to come around and see you?” I said “ok, but it has to be Friday”. He said, “Friday we normally go to meetings but I will come and see you”. I’ve never had somebody put themselves out for me so I didn’t really believe that he was going to come. I even wrote on the calendar: ‘Pastor John coming, ha, ha, ha!’. As if he’d do anything for me, but he did. He arrived at the time he sadid he would and by the time he left that night, I was fille with the Holy Spirit the only way you know how - speaking in tongues. I was an extremely shy person but the Lord has given me so much confidence, to be baptised and to even talk in front of other people.

One day I woke up feeling very peculiar, I had appendicitus. I bruise very excessively when I have an operation. This time I said ‘Lord I don’t want to be bruised’ and it’s the first time I’ve ever come out of an operation without any bruising.

We’ve come across many situations - financial difficulties, my father was killed in a car accident in Germany and Len had prostate cancer. The first thing we’ve done in all of these situations is pray, only to feel peace and to experience healing every time. I honestly don’t know how we would’ve handled these things without the Lord. I’d like to thank him for choosing me.

Sheila is a member of The Revival Fellowship - Adelaide, South Australia