On
a Cloud of Glory
Mignon Snyder, 1979
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I praise God that He has known me from the foundation of the earth. He knew exactly the choices I would make and when I would make those choices. I believe I was searching for Jesus all my life. God has always been there waiting for me to come to Him, but I looked in all the wrong areas. There was no one to help me understand who He was and what He had done for me. I had lived in the world system all my life and had allowed myself to become hurt, rejected, and full of fear.
One day I was driving in the country. As I passed by a little church, I saw a cross in the yard. I stopped my car, and then I found myself standing at the cross. Before I knew it I was on the ground lying prostrate before God. I remember being there for a long time. As I wept before God I begged Him to take me out of this awful dark world and take me home to be with Him. But this was impossible, because I didn't know Jesus. And even though I was spiritually dead, God had begun a mighty work in me.
Two years later, God led me to the home of a dear friend of my family, I thought, to talk about my Mother's salvation. It came to be, however, that it was for my own reconciliation to God. I had repeated the sinner's prayer a few years before, and I was led to believe that that was all I needed to do. But, there was no conversion, because there was no repentance in my life.
My friend took me to a small church in Illinois; that was in March of 1979. There, a small group of people prayed for me. I was delivered of many things that had me bound in chains of darkness for all of my adult life. A woman came over to me and asked me if I would repeat the sinners prayer again with her. I did not know her, nor did I know she had the gift of discerning of spirits. As I finished the prayer, Jesus came into my life, and a light was turned on within me. It was so illuminating that all the gross darkness I had walked in was gone. God filled me with His Holy Spirit, and immediately I began to speak in tongues. I had a miracle healing in my left arm, and God took my heart of stone and gave me a heart of flesh. I had never known a pure and powerful love such as this.
When I left that little church and those faithful brothers and sisters, I didn't walk out, I floated out on a cloud of glory. I had been transformed, justified, set free to follow and serve my Lord Jesus Christ. He is my peace, my comforter, my counselor, and my redeemer. He is all that I am, and all that I ever hope to be.
You, O Lord, are the fire unquenchable that burns forever. You are the Love that purifies the heart and lights the mind.
Mignon Moore