Helen's Testimony

Last year I had an amazing time at Soul Survivor, just as I did this year, though last year I was afraid of the Holy Spirit and what effect it had on people so didn't get prayer to receive it. This time I had a lot more trust in God, so at Soul Sista (a seminar especially for girls) Becky, Jade and I bravely went to the front along with other girls to get prayed for, and our sins forgiven. As I was being prayed for by a girl, she started speaking in tongues and I had no idea what was going on, next minute I was rocking and the girl helped me fall back, I was familiar of my surroundings but did not want to wake up as I was happy with the Holy Spirit inside me. I then woke up with all these girls standing up still being prayed for, it was tight and was funny how there was still room for me to be laying down there!

I also went to discussion about being an artist aswel as a Christian on my own, where everyone voiced their opinions on the topic, some of it didn't seem relevant to me as I am a student and a teacher and examiner marks my work, so I plucked up the courage to tell the group this. After the discussion a worker of the artshed (gallery of chrisian art at the festival) told me about her experience when she was in art college and a christian and it really inspired me in my own work which was cool.

The last day at the morning session, I felt I needed prayer about a situtation going on at home. So the girls laid their hands on me and we were sitting down and they started praying. Even as I was sitting down God made me start rocking and wanted me to fall down, so I did and tears rolled down my face, within no time at all I was crying so much and breathing heavily, everyone had to keep passing me tissues. It was like I had bottled all this emotion up and was then letting it out for hours. I started talking to some of the youth group and they fully understood me and let me tell them all the details of my story, which I hadn't really done before, so this was a bit of relief for me too.

There are still some things I want changed, but I will keep working on growing my faith and then I will think about Baptism, maybe...

Helen Williams