Summary

My name is Katherine Olen and I’m 32 years old from Anaheim, California. I grew up in a loving Christian home yet struggled with a legalistic mindset and a lukewarm approach to my faith. Though I attended church regularly, I never truly grasped the power of the Holy Spirit or the reality of spiritual gifts because of a cessationist upbringing. Over time, through a life-changing experience at a large youth conference and a powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit that left me crying for days, I began to question what I had been taught. I discovered that spiritual gifts are very much active today—especially the gift of exhortation that God placed in me. My journey took me through seasons of doubt, personal grief, and even health challenges, including stressful medical ordeals. With deliverance prayers, fasting, and persistent seeking, my husband and I experienced true freedom from the strongholds of the enemy. Today, I am passionately engaged in ministry and worship, using music and testimony to encourage others to embrace the living God. I testify that Jesus and the power of His Spirit have transformed my life and continue to work mightily in our generation.

Time Chapters
  • 02:00 Growing Up & Legalism
  • 03:30 Youth Conference & Prayer
  • 04:45 Holy Spirit Overwhelm
  • 07:00 Questioning Spiritual Gifts
  • 09:00 Family Trials & Grief
  • 12:00 Health Struggles & Healing
  • 17:00 Embracing Ministry & Worship
  • 27:00 Final Exhortation

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Catherine actually grew up in the church, where she oscillated between a legalistic mindset trying to earn salvation through works OR a more lukewarm mindset of hyper-grace where she saw sin as no big deal.

Because of a more cessationist upbringing that denied the healing and power of God for today, she was tempted back to the world over and over again throughout her teenage and college years, never truly surrendering to the Lord until 2019 when she then discovered her spiritual gift of exhortation.

This, of course, led to an understanding that despite what she learned in Bible college, the spiritual giftings were indeed real. From there, she and her husband went through deliverance and have been walking in freedom ever since, sharing the gospel and ministering to others.

Catherine’s Instagram: @cco_clay_co
Catherine’s YouTube channel: @kcshininghislight

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