When I just arrived in the United States, my uncle started a church. I was only about 13 years
of age. His number one goal was to raise young people and his desire was that we will all get
filled with the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues. I remember these meetings, where the goal was for
our parents to pray that we all get the gift of tongues and of course, all the teenagers got it
except me. And so I remember pressing into God, skipping my lunch at school, Hanford High School
to go to a baseball field so that I could just cry out to God to give me the gift of tongues. Six
months passed after that and on Saturday 2 p.m on the balcony of my parents duplex that we rented,
I started to speak in tongues. Oh what a joyful day that was. I felt like I got all there is to
God. I felt so good but I didn't know the Holy Spirit. I had an experience. I received the
gift. My prayer language went to another level but the Holy Spirit still remained and stayed
as a mystery like a dove, a wind, a mist, an experience, an anointing instead of a person
that I can know. It was 13 years later after that experience, I was about now 27 years of age. We
had a youth ministry that I was youth pastoring for a while. I didn't see the breakthrough that
I desired. I didn't see the revival that I knew God promised for our church and our youth group
and I was seeking power. I remember actually in fact one time, I decided with my wife to take all
of our savings, I felt prompted by the Lord and to go to another ministry and sow that, all of that
money so that God could bring breakthrough in our youth group. Now I know, we don't buy blessings
but I knew that I had to be desperate in my act of faith and so I come to this ministry and I asked
this pastor to pray for me so that I can receive power. So I can get the impartation, I can have
the breakthrough and he looks at me point blank and he's like, you don't need that. You need to
know the Holy Spirit more than getting the power and it kind of frustrated me because there I was
to receive the impartation and I'm getting this something that I already know. I know the Holy
Spirit. I preached sermons on the Holy Spirit. I am Pentecostal. Our church is Assemblies of God.
I mean, I speak in tongues. I have all there is to have to the Holy Spirit and I was right and at the
same time, I was wrong because I didn't know the Person. I didn't have a relationship. So I leave
this meeting with this pastor, come back home and I changed my prayer. Instead of saying, 'God,
give me power. Give me breakthrough. Bring revival to my youth group.' I said, 'Lord, I want to know
the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit reveal Yourself to me. Jesus, reveal Your Spirit to me.' Jesus is the
Baptizer with the Holy Spirit. I started to have these experiences but most importantly, I started
to get to know the Holy Spirit. Slowly but surely, my character started to change. The fruit of the
Spirit started to develop in a greater measure. It changed my marriage. It changed the ministry and
the power that I was seeking at first, started to flow from the Holy Spirit, from the intimacy, the
relationship with the Holy Spirit. I started to see people getting healed. I started to see people
getting delivered. People start getting saved. We started to baptize kids every single month. There
was just a movement of the Lord that started to take place and now looking back, last nine years
has been life-changing, personally and for my ministry and my family. I want to share with you
about this Person that became real to me, the Holy Spirit. In fact, I want to take you on a journey
to know the Holy Spirit. I know some of you may say, Well, I went to school. I went to
Bible College. I read books already on the Holy Spirit but this is going to be different because
my goal is not to just bring new information, my goal is to bring an impartation and so that you
will experience and have a relationship with the Person of the Holy Spirit.
You can go in your life on your own strength. It's kind of like walking on the train tracks but see,
train tracks were designed for trains not for a walk. Your Christian life was not designed to live
in your own strength, in your own power. It was designed to live by the power of the Holy Spirit
and this book, 'Host the Holy Ghost' will take you on the journey, where you will go
from walking in your own strength to letting the Spirit lead you. Letting the Spirit fill
you. Letting the Spirit empower you and you will go on the journey with the Holy Spirit,
discovering who He is by hosting the Holy Ghost. 'Host the Holy Ghost' is available on Amazon,
Barnes and Noble, Walmart, on my website for a Free download; in Russian language,
in Spanish language, so join me on the journey to know the Holy Spirit as a friend. Let's go!