Trust and obey

On 4-4-84 the Jesus I knew about, became the Jesus that I knew personally. That was the day that my birthplace of Iowa was changed to the Kingdom of Heaven. This world is not my home, like Abraham, I am just an alien, a stranger on this earth, I am longing for a better country than the USA, a heavenly one!( Hebrews 11:13-16). It is an awesome thing to become a child of God, and to know Him personally and intimately! According to Jesus in John 17:3 and John 3:3-8 we cannot have eternal life and go to heaven when we die without this personal, intimate relationship with Him. The good news is that Jesus wants us to enter into this personal intimate relationship with Him. He loves us sooooo much and wants us to spend eternity with Him. If you have not already done so, please invite Him into your life today! He has extended His personal invitation to you in His Word(Matthew 11:28-30, Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23, Romans 7:21-25, Romans 8:1-4, Romans 10:1-13, 1 John 1:5-10, 1 Peter 1:23, Hebrews 4:12) and by His Spirit(John 3:5-8, John 6:44, 63-65, John 20:22, Acts 1:4-8.)
In May of 1988 , I was spending some precious time in this personal intimate relationship with Jesus out under the stars on the side of my house. I was worshipping and praising Him, telling Him how much I loved Him and wanted to know Him even more intimately. According to Matthew 5:6 when you hunger and thirst for God like this He will fill you! And so it happened that night. It felt like I just floated to the ground. And as I lay there on the ground, with tears running down my face, this Jesus just held me in His arms and filled me with his love. (Romans 5:5) I received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as described in Acts 1:4-8, 2:4). I just began to speak to Him in my new heavenly language ( referred to as unknown tongues or other tongues) I did this for quite awhile, then I paused, and what flowed out of my mouth next was the english interpretation of what I had just said in the unknown tongue. To this day, I remember that the Lord was expressing to me how much He loved me and how pleased He was that I desired to know Him more and have this increasingly intimate relationship with Him. He then shared how He had wonderful plans for my life and would use me to help others to know Him in ways that would amaze me and then he closed his response by repeating these three Words to me three times: Trust and Obey!