My baptism in the Holy Spirit
Sweet sweet Lord,
I love you so much
English is not sufficient to say how I feel
I’m reminded of my days as a brand new convert
I was one or two weeks old as a new believer
Sitting in a room with others who were praying
I said I love you God
I love you God
I love you God
Over and over and over
I had no idea how to pray
All I knew was the Lord’s Prayer and the Hail Mary
I had never even heard the term speaking in tongues
I knew nothing of a heavenly language
Only what I'd seen and heard since my totally radical conversion
That too was way out of my know world
As I said the words
I Love you God
Repeatedly
The words leaving my lips began to change
It was one absolutely amazing experience an experience I had never imagined
My mind has never conceived or imagined it
Not unlike my experience on May 31, 1981, just a week or two earlier
As the words leaving my lips began to change
I remember the sensation of thinking I had to keep saying these words or I would forget them
It was a small fraze
One I’d never heard before
38 years later I recall it phonetically went like this
Un a new must aa
I couldn’t believe I was speaking this language I had not learned
I said these same words over and over
Afraid of losing them
Yet so excited and astonished
This small phrase was my new heavenly language
Approximately a week later
We had begun recording the Sunday night album show
On the radio while we were at church
Then listening to them during the next week
I had begun enjoying the album show
Ever since discovering the Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxies
And Journey to the Centre of the Earth
One day I was listening to the recorded album show
When what I heard totally shocked me
A voice said "in my country, we say un a new must ay which means
I adore the light that shines from within you"
38 years later, I can still feel the thrill when I think of that moment
Tingles up and down my spine doesn't quite cut it
I am trying to write about a supernatural experience
One too incredible to describe
I was actually saying to God
I adored the light that shone from within Him
It still blows me away
After hearing these words in English
My new heavenly language grew
It shifted, it changed
New words joined my vocabulary
New songs came from my lips
A whole new vocabulary had been given to me
I could still say 'un a new must ay'
But it was I who was saying it
No longer The Holy Spirit within me
When I share this experience
I still feel His awe
I am so aware of the WOW factor
Astounded, mind blown
Blessed beyond all measure
Grateful
It reminds me of the day in church many years later
A European friend and new Christian
Excitedly told me that one of the musicians was saying the most beautiful words to God in her language
Of course he was speaking in tongues
God's heavenly language
Until this moment my friend thought everyone was just making it up
He was saying something similar to
I adore the light that shines within you
Thank You Jesus
I truly do adore the light that shines within You
I can't imagine
Don't want to imagine
A moment in my life without You
