A short testimony

I used to not know who I was, I used to try and be what people wanted me to be. Around one group of friends it was a drunk who loved to party. Around another group I would be geeky and around my parents I was quiet and polite to a fault. I was brought up Catholic and had knowledge of scripture and could tell you all sorts of things about my religion but that was all it was to me, a religion. God seemed like some unknowable distant person. As I got older I became more and more lost, I took on a mindset of well I can do whatever I want and just go to confession and it would all be ok. I started to party more and more thinking I would find fulfillment in living the typical college kid life. One day I realized how empty I was, that I had become something that as a child I never wanted to be. I had noticed a change in a friend of mine who I had know since I was about three years old. He had gone from being an angry shy and sad guy to just having such joy in his life. I wanted to have that so I asked him about it and he invited me to church. I went with him and it was completely different from anything I had ever seen. People were lifting their hands and speaking in tongues during worship. Eventually the pastor started praying for different people, I kept hoping he wouldn't come to me but he did. As he prayed for me I felt like I was being held but there was noone touching me. Suddenly i just started to feel like my heart was on fire, it was a literal burning in my chest, I didn't know what to think of it. I dont remember too much of the service but things started to change over the next couple of weeks. I would drive to LSU and could still feel the flames in my heart, I stopped cursing, drinking, smoking and my cravings for ciggarettes were gone. One day I decided to buy a bible and I started reading it. One night I read out of Luke when Jesus had been resurected and visited His disciples. After he had left they said to each other, when he spoke was it not like fire burned within our hearts. From that point on I devoted my life to Jesus Christ. I have been baptized by fire in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. I have a personal and intimate realtionship with Jesus. So much of my life has been changed and I praise and glorify God for it, I have found my identity in Him, I have found purpose in Him.