Intimacy With God

"I came home from work one evening, needing to talk to God about something. There was something on my heart. I wanted to pray but did not know how. So, I lifted my hands in the air in surrender to God."

As a young girl growing up in a religious home, my life was deeply molded by what my parents taught me. They belonged to the Pentecostal church, and they made sure that I was ingrained in the Bible from a very young age.

My understanding of religion at an early age was that there was one rig...