How to Recieve the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

When you receive Jesus Christ as Lord of your

life, spiritual death is taken from you and you

become a new creature in Christ. And without the

Holy Spirit, your new birth wouldn't be possible.

But even after you become a new creation, God's

desire and plan is that you receive the Baptism in

the Holy Spirit.

The Baptism in the Holy Spirit is received by faith.

Jesus said in Luke 11:13, "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?" When you

ask in faith, the Holy Spirit comes to live in you.

And when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, as in

the book of Acts, you speak in tongues.

Speaking in tongues simply is speaking in a

language that only God understands - even you

won't understand it. This happens as the Holy

Spirit prays through you about things you may not

know about or may not know how to pray about

(Romans 8:26).

The Holy Spirit was sent to be our helper. So when

you pray in tongues, what actually happens is that

the Holy Spirit searches your heart and prays

through you the perfect will of God (Romans

8:26-27). You actually utter secret truths and

hidden things which are not obvious to the

understanding of your mind (1 Corinthians 14:2,

The Amplified Bible).

To pray in tongues, you need to realize that

speaking with an unknown tongue is the voice of

your heart. Speaking in a known tongue is the

voice of the human mind (unless one of the vocal

gifts of the nine gifts of the Spirit is in operation).

The Holy Spirit of God will give you utterance, the

same as your mind gives you thoughts to speak

(Acts 2:4).

To speak in tongues, you must cooperate with the

Holy Spirit. The Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians

14:14, "For if I pray in an [unknown] tongue, my

spirit [by the Holy Spirit within me] prays, but my

mind is unproductive..." (The Amplified Bible).

Notice that it was Paul who did the speaking. Ask

the Holy Spirit to take charge of your tongue, then

yield your tongue to His use. You cannot speak in

your own language and tongues at the same time,

just as you cannot speak in English and French at

the same time. When your voice and tongue begin

forming syllables around the expression that your

heart desires to release, you will also speak in

tongues. It will be your tongue, your breath, your

vocal cords and you will be actively forming

words. You will supply the sounds, but the Holy

Spirit will supply the words - words unknown to

you. It may seem awkward to you at first, but

continue. Like a child learning to speak, you will

grow.

Finally, as you seek the Baptism in the Holy Spirit,

you need not wait to get a word from God about it

- you already have His Word - nor do you need to

wait around for the Spirit. The Spirit of God

entered His ministry on the Day of Pentecost and

He has been here ever since. He has never left!

Furthermore, you need not be concerned over

being deceived by the devil and ending up with

something that is from the devil. When you ask

your Heavenly Father for one of His promises - as

the Baptism in the Holy Spirit - you can be

confident that the gift given is from God, not Satan.

Remember, Luke 11:13 says, "...how much more

shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to

them that ask him?" So if you want to receive the

Baptism in the Holy Spirit, ask Him now.

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