Tuesday, April 23, 2013

There Is A Baptism In The Holy Spirit

We find ourselves in Acts chapter 10. Cornelius was a centurion. He was gentile and God fearing man. An angel from the Lord told him to go to meet Peter. When he arrived at the place Peter was staying the Holy Spirit fell on the gentiles.

Brothers and sisters, there is so very much I do not understand, but this passage clearly shows that the way the Hebrew believers "the circumcised" knew that the gentiles had received the gift of the Holy Spirit was because they spoke in foreign languages "tongues". After many years I received this baptism. It occurred as I was surrendering my all to the Lord Jesus Christ. All I can say about it is seek the Lord with all of your heart.  Surrender yourself to the Lord. He is truly the only safe place. He will give you the gifts he wants to. He will not force them on you. Do not be afraid of his gifts. That comes from the old nature and the devil.

Acts 10 ISV
44While Peter was still making this statement, the Holy Spirit fell on all the people who were listening to his message. 45Then the circumcised believers who had come with Peter were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the gentiles, too, 46because they heard them speaking in foreign languagess and praising God. 

Then Peter said, 47No one can stop us from using water to baptize these people who have received the Holy Spirit in the same way that we did, can they?t 48So Peteru ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus the Messiah.v Then they asked him to stay there for several days.

Earlier I was singing to the Lord and so many of my words are in this song. 


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