5.4. OPTIMIZACIÓN DEL CONTROL INTERNO DE PROCESOS DE
5.4.3. Flujo de Contrataciones Directas actual y lo propuesto
I read another testimony just after World War II of a denominational missionary to Africa. In 1946 this woman missionary returned to the United States for the first time after ministering without a break for 37 years in the bush country of Africa. When she first arrived in New York City, she was overwhelmed by all the noise, traffic, and crowds of people.
She said, "I just had to shut myself up in my hotel room, and I stayed there for five days away from everything. But I did listen
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to the radio, and I heard a broadcast from Glad Tidings Tabernacle, located there in New York City. I called the hotel desk and found out that the church was within two blocks of the hotel where I was staying. I thought, Well, I believe I'll just get out
and go to that church Sunday night. I believe I can do that. By then I'll have been in the city for seven days, so I think I'll be adjusted to city life enough to go out in public.
"So I went to the Sunday night service. After the pastor's message, he gave an altar call and sent the people who came forward to a downstairs prayer room. Then when the service was over, I went over and introduced myself to the pastor's wife. I told her what denomination I belonged to and that I'd been a missionary in Africa for 37 years. She and her husband welcomed me and showed me around the church."
The pastor and his wife took the missionary downstairs to their large prayer room, where altar workers were praying with the people who had answered the altar call. Some were praying for salvation, while others were praying to be filled with the Holy Spirit. As the missionary observed, several believers in the prayer room burst out speaking with other tongues.
The pastor's wife explained to the woman, "Those folks are being filled with the Holy Ghost."
The missionary replied, "Well, I've never been around Pentecostal people, but I've heard folks talk about them. Is that strange language I hear those people speaking what you Pentecostals call the baptism in the Holy Ghost?"
"Well, you're hearing them speak in tongues, which is the evidence of the Holy Spirit's infilling," the pastor's wife said.
"Why, I've had that for the past 37 years!" the missionary woman exclaimed. "I knew that God had blessed me, but I didn't know what to call it!"
The missionary explained to the pastors: "When I first arrived in Africa years ago as a young single missionary woman, I had all these glamorous ideas about being a missionary. But when I got over there, I found out it was tough!
"After just a few months, I knelt down on my knees in my little thatched roof grass hut and prayed, 'Lord, I believe You called me. I
believe Your hand is on my life. But I just don't have what it takes. I need more of You, Lord!'
"I just kept praying that way whenever I could. But one day I felt desperate, and I cried out in prayer, 'Lord, I can't go on! I know You sent me, and I hate to disappoint the people who are supporting me. But unless I get more of You, I'm going to have to give up and go home!'"
The missionary continued, "Suddenly I started speaking strange-sounding words, just like these people here are speaking, and later I started singing those same strange words. I got so joyous and happy doing it that I thought, God gave me something to help me along! I didn't know it was a gift available to everyone! But every day since then for the past 37 years, I've gotten alone with God and communicated with Him in that strange language. And I often sing that way too! It just builds me up and blesses me so much!"
This missionary woman's testimony shows that it doesn't matter so much whether a person knows what to call the baptism in the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues. The main thing is to receive this supernatural blessing!
I remember hearing another testimony along that line, this time from a Full Gospel missionary. He told me about a time when he was invited to preach at a denominational church in the capital city of an African nation. The elderly pastor of the church was an American who had been there for 35 years without ever returning to the United States. The Pentecostal missionary decided to preach a salvation message instead of a subject like the Holy Ghost that might be controversial.
This church had one of those old-time "mourner's benches" at the front of the sanctuary where people would gather around to pray. After the missionary's salvation message, seven people came forward to the altar to pray for salvation.
The Pentecostal missionary told me, "I didn't even pray with those seven individuals. The church altar workers gathered around them, and then the pastor invited all the Christians to come around the altar and pray as well. Then three of the seven who came to get saved suddenly began speaking with other tongues!
"I thought, Dear Lord, I've messed up here! So I ran over to the pastor and tried to apologize. I said, 'Brother, I didn't want to
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create any problems. I just preached a salvation message! I didn't mean to start something.'
"The pastor asked me, 'What are you talking about?'
"I replied, 'Well, those three believers are speaking with other tongues. They got filled with the Holy Ghost!'
"The denominational pastor exclaimed, 'Is that what you Pentecostal people call the baptism in the Holy Ghost? Why, for the past 35 years, all my converts have experienced that! We just call it "getting sanctified"!'"
Well, whatever people call the baptism in the Holy Ghost, God has made this precious gift available to all who call on His Name! Any believer anywhere just has to be hungry for more of God and get filled with the Spirit!