Testimony of Jeff Arnold

there okay well I married my wife I was in the Air Force during 62 to 66 - last year was Vietnam and I met my wife in Topeka Kansas I married my wife and we moved to Florida I went to college in Miami to be a court stenographer we I decided to take off the one semester and give myself a break because I was going to college six hours a day I was working eight to ten hours at night it was rough well my wife and I were not really getting along very well my wife was sober as a judge I was a drinker I was a dancer I was a honky-tonk ER she was none of that were you a good dancer excellent dancer I mean I could move and groove baby I could throw down and my wife didn't even know how to dance and but because I was a drunk I was drinking all the time she was infuriated on knowing to me I found out years later it's because her dad became an alcoholic her mother died when she was 2 they moved to Arizona because she had tuberculosis she died her dad could not handle he was like 27 years old and he had four children and no wife he worked for the railroad so he gave the kids up to an orphanage and the orphanage took the kids and my wife was raised from one office to another orphanage okay she comes out she goes she gets a dot adopted by an aunt well fortunately for her the aunt is a saint in brother Fred Kenzie's Church in Toledo Ohio so my daughter is Ray I mean my wife is raised in that church as a little girl she gets baptized in Jesus name but she never received the Holy Ghost well when she was like 14 and 15 she left and she just lived on her own and just worked and she was working in a concession business that I used to do part-time in the Air Force and that's how I met her okay well when we come down and we're getting ready to get divorced we were going to Miami divorce court well the Lord will be up in the middle of the night it was it was so amazing because we didn't own a Bible we didn't pray we didn't talk about God we were just sitters and something just shoved me during the night and I woke up and I thought maybe I heard of a window crack or a door I didn't what was going on I get up looked around nothing happened went back the next night same time boom something just shoved me a push me freaked me out I thought maybe I was getting the DTS because I was drinking all the time so I walked all around lit up a cigarette drank a can of beer sat there 2:30 in the morning trying to figure out what happened third time it pushed me I got up I'm freaked out I'm standing in the dark my wife sound asleep and I hear this voice in the back of my head in my head not outside in my head you're almost out of time it's time to get right with God freak me out so I go over and I wake my wife up and said Patti it's so funny if if the Lord would call me to be a missionary to China would you go with me and my wife wakes up and says missionary China Jeffrey stop drinking and get back to bed and I say to her baby I'm as sober as a judge on Sunday I think God's talking to me and Patti says who's talking to you said God's talking to me we need to go to church well later she told me she said well I was willing to try church to save our marriage well I worked with a Baptist guy who went to Anita Bryant's Baptist Church Northwest 54th Street in Miami we went down to that service was packed it was packed we were way in the back she was sitting over here I was sitting over here well they did this story and what AIESEC all they did their standard Billy Graham junk you know just before the guy got died he accepted the Lord as Savior and and he died went to heaven well I had my head bowed well I'm listening to that story and in my mind I'm saying there's a bunch of crap said I've heard this since I was a kid just accept the Lord and you're saved and I'm going I don't believe this junk well when I open up my eyes my wife comes to me and she's she's crying she said Jeffrey let's go to the altar you have to understand you need to take a bus to get to the altar it's way way down Ennis the people in that building I said all the way down there so I get up my went with her well this is funny we're the only two people in that whole big church that knelt down to pray all the other people that came forward seven eight nine people they just lined up in front of preacher and we're up there praying we're two kids twenty-one years old and and he said well thank God for mr. mrs. Smith except that the Lord is the savior gonna get an amen mr. mr. Jones just came here from Illinois and they're transferred we cept them and fellowship but we're praying this little guy walks over says this sir if you just accept the Lord as your Savior sign his card you'll be saved so I signed a card well they go with a patty on the other side and she's crying and bawling and he says just accept this card and you'll be saying well it's like she threw a hand-grenade in a small bathroom because all of a sudden she said saved well I haven't even got the Holy Ghost yet I haven't started talking in tongues well when she said that this guy said tongues Holy Ghost wait a minute and he takes off and goes in the back well they bring back three or four elders to kind of deal with this witch or whatever she was this is all happening in front of thousands of people in this church and so they're trying to counsel her to talk to her now you understand something I've been thrown out of whorehouses I've been thrown out of the hotels I've been thrown out of bus stations I've been thrown out of bars this is the first time in my life I've ever been thrown out of a church and it was a goodness of God that Pastor turned around and said would you please escort this couple out of my sanctuary they are disturbing my service so he asked us to go out I was vilified if my wife hadn't been with me I probably would have jumped through the plate-glass window and went out and got drunk he took us in a back room they started talking to us and giving us all these scriptures I didn't know nothing I knew Playboy magazine and bars that's all I knew well all of a sudden my wife who is very introverted very quiet really shy in five minutes she turned into a Strong's exhaustive concordance she started quote inscription boom boom boom I mean just like you got the with this chick come fine I've been married to her for years you ain't never said nothing about God since we knowed her she knew all these scriptures acts 2:38 John 3:3 five I mean it's just like where's all this well she jumps off and they she says to them Jeffrey these guys are lying to you well I feel bad we're in the back of a church you know I'm going by a liar she said when I was a little girl I went to a Pentecostal church and I got baptized in Jesus name and when people received the Holy Ghost they spoke in tongues supernaturally says they're lying to you you don't get saved just by saying I believe in Jesus well they started convincing us know that she's mistaken that only happened on the day of Pentecost that doesn't happen today well we're in this big to do and I'm saying oh let's get out of here so I said look I'm very sorry for all the problems thank you very much and we went outside we're out in the middle of a hot Florida Sun and we're outside debating my wife says not Jeffrey you can go back here if you want to I am NOT coming back to this church I said why he said first place these people believe in three gods I don't believe in three gods I believe one god I said oh my god the Indians only believe in one God what kind of crazy junk is that so she said you take me to a apostolic Pentecostal Jesus name Church and I said who's on watch that kind of church I've been to Baptist I've been to Presbyterian I went to the Catholic Church I've been to Foursquare he said you take me to church the baptized in Jesus name believes in the Holy Ghost I said what in the world's the Holy Ghost she says the Spirit of Jesus comes and lives you I have no idea what she's talking about well we go home look in the yellow pages we can't find an Apostolic Church which the church in Toledo was first Apostolic Church she says here's the United Pentecostal church I think United Pentecostal the same as Apostolic let's go there so I walk in there a handful of people down by a railroad track banging on tambourines throwing oil on people's heads people screaming and yelling I'm thinking many's people that rejects from Barnum & Bailey Circus man I'm gonna get out of here well I stay there for two or three weeks this is so cool we didn't go back for a week or two sister Swynford who was the pastor sends us a note we still have the card it was a picture of five little puppy dogs in a basket and it said counted noses last week guess who came up missing and it so touched my heart I told Patti I said those are nice people they're a little weird but they're nice people let's go back so we went back to servers well you got to understand something the power of breads of God has awakened to me three nights in a row I have no doubt what it is but I can feel it well while sister Swynford is talking the Spirit of the Lord starts moving into place and I feel this almost like a chocolate milkshake from the top of my head comes down over me through my belly into my feet and back again my hands are tingling is shaking see I work for the power company and we used to go in substations and when you went into substations you have to have a hardhat and you had to be back or something because there was an energy field that came out of the regulators and that of the transformers made - hair on your arm stand up that's what I'm feeling sitting there and I turned his sister Arlen I've kind of like with my fingers I said patty what is this she said what I said this don't you feel this well she didn't feel nothing I said what is this so she says you're feeling the Holy Ghost I said well what's the Holy Ghost she said it's the spirit of Jesus that comes to live in you and I turned to her and I said we're staying here and she looked at me because she thought later she told me I thought you're gonna leave because of all the carrying on going on I said we're staying here she said why I said because this is the same stuff that woke me up those three nights in a row so I was introduced to Pentecost not through a Bible study but through the power and presence of God although I didn't understand it well we got into church she cleaned the bathrooms I cut the lawn I fixed the bus I would pick up kids I was the best slave they ever had jack of all trades master of none and I just thought of going to the Pentecostal church and then eventually we both got baptized we both received the Holy Ghost and the rest is history Wow

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Published: Thu Mar 26 2020