Guiding Me in Prayer

To fully appreciate this story, you would need to have already read my story on The Baptism of The Holy Spirit. So, please kindly read that story first before reading this.

I had been walking on air since the baptism of the Holy Spirit happened to me on Thursday 14th November 2013. The effect of the Holy Spirit baptism left me wanting to do nothing but good. I felt on fire for God, and His commands seemed to be much easier to do than ever before, and I wanted to do them, I wanted to please Him, and I certainly did not want to grieve the Holy Spirit. I was so IN LOVE with Him!

The next day, Friday, I had planned not to do my monthly Night Prayer (praying throughout the night) because I had been ill, but after the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, I just wanted to do it anyway. So, that's just what I did. As I started my night prayer around midnight, I asked the Holy Spirit to be with me, and to my surprise I smelled His scent so strongly in the room. I screamed with joy,

"Hah, He's with me, He's with me!!'

I thanked Him, I told Him just how much I love Him, and I did not want Him to ever leave me! Then, as I began to pray for the people on my list, I was amazed to smell the scent of the Holy Spirit again and again, repeatedly. Depending on who I was praying for, the scent was often quite strong. It was almost as if God was saying,

"Yes, this one is a very important prayer!"

I was praying for a Muslim family, and the scent during that prayer was just overwhelming.

Normally, I struggle through my Night Prayer (especially when I pray on my own), but this night, it was so easy. I smelled the Holy Spirit scent all night; He was with me all night! I watched the sun rose up through my window, and there the scent was yet again present beside me. It was as if He was watching the sunrise with me. It was so romantic. I am so crazily in love with Him, I tell you. It's the most wonderful relationship ever!

Helping Me to Discern

The scent lingered consistently, especially during my daily devotional, but I have also smelled Him as I went about my daily routine. For example:

• • I was asked to distribute leaflets about Bible Study to the houses in my neighbourhood. I had a few hundred in my hand. As I jogged to every house to post the leaflet, nothing unusual happened - however for certain houses, I could smell the scent of the Holy Spirit. I would look around, and there would be no flowers nearby, just green grass and bushes. Yet, when I had posted to houses where there were flowers in the garden, I had not smelled the scent of the Holy Spirit at all. So, it was as if God was telling me which houses would be interested in the leaflet, and which ones would not.

• I was typing an email to my mother in-law about adoption. I had written a few paragraphs about it, but at the end of that email I wrote about my baptism stone - how I still believe in the promises that God had inscribed on that stone. Just as I was writing that paragraph (about the stone), the scent of the Holy Spirit came so suddenly, and so strongly that it interrupted my typing. It was as if God was saying He was pleased with me still having faith in the stone/in Him, when everyone else had given up.