HELP WITH RECEIVING BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

THERE ARE A FEW THINGS TO NOTE AND OBSERVE IN RECEIVING THE BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT:

A PERSON MUST ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS SAVIOR BEFORE HE CAN EXPERIENCE THE BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.

WE CANNOT MERIT OR DESERVE THE BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT. IT IS A GIFT. PETER SPOKE OF RECEIVING THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (ACTS 2: 38). JESUS SAID: “IF YE THEN, BEING EVIL, KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS UNTO YOUR CHILDREN: HOW MUCH MORE SHALL YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THEM THAT ASK HIM.” LUKE 11: 13

ALL BELIEVERS ARE COMMANDED TO RECEIVE. “BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT” EPHESIANS 5: 18

WHEN ONE RECEIVES THE BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT, THERE IS AN UTTERANCE BY THE SPIRIT, AND AN EXPRESSION IS MADE IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE. “THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, AND BEGAN TO SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES, AS THE SPIRIT GAVE THEM UTTERANCE.” ACTS 2: 4. THE PEOPLE COOPERATED IN SPEAKING, BUT THE SPIRIT GAVE THE UTTERANCE.

THIS SPEAKING IS A DEVOTIONAL LANGUAGE FOR PERSONAL EDIFICATION AND COMMUNION WITH GOD IN THE SPIRIT. 1 CORINTHIANS 14: 4

YOU NEED TO RELAX AND REST IN THE SPIRIT AND YOU CAN EXPERIENCE THIS REFRESHING.”THIS IS THE REST WHEREWITH YE MAY CAUSE THE WEARY TO REST; AND THIS IS THE REFRESHING” ISAIAH 28: 12

THE BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT MAY COME UPON YOU AS YOU WORSHIP AND PRAISE GOD. ALLOW YOURSELF TO MOVE UNDER THE ANOINTING INTO A DIMENSION OF EXPRESSION THAT IS NOT IN YOUR OWN LANGUAGE. DO NOT BE AFRAID TO SPEAK FORTH THE WORDS AS THE SPIRIT GIVES UTTERANCE.

YOU SHOULD PRAY IN TONGUES REGULARLY. PAUL SAID, “I THANK MY GOD, I SPEAK WITH TONGUES MORE THAN YOU ALL.” 1 CORINTHIANS 14: 18.

PRAYING IN THE SPIRIT IS A MARVELOUS WAY TO COMMUNE WITH GOD. THE SPIRIT KNOWS WHAT IS NEEDED AND GUIDES THE PRAYER. “LIKEWISE THE SPIRIT ALSO HELPETH OUR INFIRMITIES: FOR WE KNOW NOT WHAT MAKETH INTERCESSION FOR US WITH GROANINGS WHICH CANNOT BE UTTERED. AND HE THAT SEARCHETH THE HEARTS KNOWETH WHAT IS THE MIND OF THE SPIRIT, BECAUSE HE MAKETH INTERCESSION FOR THE SAINTS ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD.” ROMANS 8: 26, 27.

THE HOLY SPIRIT IS FOR ALL PEOPLE. JOEL RECORDED GOD’S PROMISE: “ AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS AFTERWARD, THAT I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT UPON ALL FLESH; AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY, YOUR OLD MEN, SHALL DREAM DREAMS, YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS: AND ALSO UPON THE SERVANTS AND UPON THE HANDMAIDS IN THOSE DAYS WILL I POUR OUT MY SPIRIT” JOEL 2: 28, 29. THIS IS TAKING PLACE TODAY IN ALL DENOMINATIONS AND AMONG ALL GROUPS.

THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL ENABLE YOU TO BE A STRONG WITNESS. “YE SHALL RECEIVE POWER, AFTER THAT THE HOLY GHOST IS COME UPON YOU: AND YE SHALL BE WITNESSES UNTO ME BOTH IN JERUSALEM, AND IN ALL JUDEA, AND IN SAMARIA, AND UNTO THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH.”
ACTS 1: 8.

SCRIPTURES ON THE HOLY SPIRIT

“FOR WITH STAMMERING LIPS AND ANOTHER TONGUE WILL HE SPEAK TO THIS PEOPLE TO WHOM HE SAID, THIS IS THE REST WHEREWITH YE MAY CAUSE THE WEARY TO REST; AND THIS IS THE REFRESHING.” ISAIAH 28: 11, 12

“I INDEED BAPTIZE YOU WITH WATER UNTO REPENTANCE: BUT HE THAT COMETH AFTER ME IS MIGHTIER THAN I, WHOSE SHOES I AM NOT WORTHY TO BEAR: HE SHALL BAPTIZE YOU WITH THE HOLY GHOST, AND WITH FIRE.” MATTHEW 3: 11

‘”FOR JOHN TRULY BAPTIZED WITH WATER; BUT YE SHALL BE BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY GHOST NOT MANY DAYS HENCE. ACTS 1: 5

“AND THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, AND BEGAN TO SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES, AS THE SPIRIT GAVE UTTERANCE.” ACTS 2: 4

“NOW WHEN THE APOSTLES WHICH WHERE AT JERUSALEM HEARD THAT SAMARIA HAD RECEIVED THE WORD OF GOD, THEY SENT UNTO THEM PETER AND JOHN: WHO, WHEN THEY WERE COME DOWN, PRAYED FOR THEM, THAT THEY MIGHT RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST: FOR AS YET HE WAS FALLEN UPON NONE OF THEM: ONLY THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS. THEN THEY LAID THEIR HANDS ON THEM, AND THEY RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST.”  ACTS 8: 14 – 17

“WHILE PETER YET SPAKE THESE WORDS, THE HOLY GHOST FELL ON ALL THEM WHICH BELIEVED THE WORD. AND THEY OF CIRCUMCISION WHICH BELIEVED WERE ASTONISHED; AS MANY AS CAME WITH PETER, BECAUSE THAT ON THE GENTILES ALSO WAS POURED OUT THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST. FOR THEY HEARD THEM SPEAK WITH TONGUES, AND MAGNIFY GOD.” ACTS 10: 44 – 46

“AND AS I BEGAN TO SPEAK, THE HOLY GHOST FELL ON THEM, AS ON US AT THE BEGINNING. THEN REMEMBERED I THE WORD OF THE LORD, HOW THAT HE SAID, JOHN INDEED BAPTIZED WITH WATER: BUT YE SHALL BE BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY GHOST. FORASMUCH THEN AS GOD GAVE THEM THE LIKE GIFT AS HE DID UNTO US, WHO BELIEVED ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST; WHAT WAS I, THAT I COULD WITHSTAND GOD.” ACTS 11: 15 – 17

“HE SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE YE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST SINCE YE BELIEVED? AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, WE HAVE NOT SO MUCH AS HEARD WHETHER THERE BE ANY HOLY GHOST….AND WHEN PAUL LAID HIS HANDS UPON THEM, THE HOLY GHOST CAME UPON THEM, AND THEY SPAKE WITH TONGUES, AND PROPHESIED.” ACTS 19: 2, 6

“WHEREFORE, BRETHREN, COVET TO PROPHESY, AND FORBID NOT TO SPEAK WITH TONGUES.” 1 CORINTHIANS 14: 39

“BUT YE, BELOVED, BUILDING UP YOURSELVES ON YOUR MOST HOLY FAITH, PRAYING IN TH HOLY GHOST.” JUDE 20