Anthony's Testimony

October 27, 2007. I spent a lot of time running, running from the Lord. The Lord said “OK, just keeping running.” The Lord made it where I had to come to Him. My son got hurt and he had to be taken to the emergency room and who is not going to go see about their child? Well the Lord said “Now I got you, you have to come now.” I went to the emergency room, where I met Bro Smith and he told me what was going on, my wife had not given me the details. Kreshawn, my son had cut open his leg playing basketball during the church’s Fall Festival. He jumped up to get the ball and when he came down, he fell on a piece of pipe that was sticking out of the ground. My son’s leg was cut open about 6 inches long and 4 inches wide, all the way to the bone. It bothered me when I saw it, as it would any parent. My wife and kids were at the festival but I was not, I was at home, running from God. After Bro. Smith me what was going on, he went back to the Fall Festival, and told Pastor Mitchell what the situation was.

At that time we had an evangelist with us, Bro. Felix Crowder from Indianapolis, Indiana. Both he and Pastor Mitchell came to the emergency room. When they got there I of course recognized Pastor Mitchell and I knew that I had seen Bro. Crowder somewhere before, I knew his face, but I did not know him. Suddenly, I realized that he was a man that I had seen several times in a series of dreams. He introduced himself and talked with me and my son for a while. Soon after, a nurse come in to gave my son a tetanus shot, requiring him to be still for twenty to thirty minutes in order to make sure it took effect.

During that time Pastor Mitchell and Bro. Crowder prayed for my son and his leg, then Bro. Crowder turned to me and asked, “Do you mind if we pray for you?” I said, “Ok”, and they laid hands on me and started praying. At first, I thought I was going to sit there like I have in the years past fighting and running. But God told me, “No more running.” As they continued to pray I remembered what Pastor told me about the Holy Ghost, “If you feel it, do it.” They kept on praying for me and eventually, as Holy Ghost fell in that room, I began to speak in tongues. I am here to say, I have never felt the same since.