Acts 11:1-27
New King James Version (NKJV)
Peter Defends God’s Grace
15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, as
upon us at the beginning. 16 Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John indeed baptized with water, but you shall
be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ 17 If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who
was I that I could withstand God?”
There are different ways to receive the Holy Spirit.
Some churches may say you can only get it by saying “Jesus,Jesus” nonstop until
you start speaking in tongues, others say you have to lay hands on the person,
and some say that you already have the Holy Spirit in you when you confess
Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
You have to openly invite the Holy Spirit to come in
you and the initial evidence of it is the ability to speak in tongues. Some
people may not want the infilling for the Holy Spirit, but they have to know
that with the indwelling comes power-power to perform miracles, heal the sick,
raise the dead, to pray the things that you don’t know to pray and so much
more. There is no reason not to yield to the Holy Spirit and ask Him to fill
you with the evidence of speaking in tongues.
Acts 13:1-3
King James Version (KJV)
13 Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain
prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and
Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the
tetrarch, and Saul.
2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost
said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
3 And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands
on them, they sent them away.
Another way to become filled with the Holy Spirit is
to have someone like a pastor or another believer to lay hands on you and pray
for the infilling. This is just another way to receive the Spirit.
Others may receive it when they’re alone in their
room praying. Just know that the Holy Spirit has to be invited in in order to
have that power and to speak in tongues, which also leads to the development of
the fruits of the spirit…
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