7 Steps To Being Baptized By The Holy Spirit
7 Steps To Being Baptized By The Holy Spirit
By: R. A. Torrey, 'The Baptism of the Holy Spirit'
ISBN: 0883681773
ISBN-13: 9780883681770
Pub. Date: February 2005
Chapter 23
Step 1
Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior (Acts 2:38)
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Step 2
Renunciation of Sin
The Holy Spirit is a 'Holy' spirit and you can't have both Him and sin.
Any controversy with God about the smallest thing is sufficient to shut one out of the blessing.
If there is anything that always comes up when you get nearest to God, that is the thing to deal with.
If anyone sincerely desires the baptism with the Holy Spirit, he should go alone with God and ask God to search him and bring to light anything in his heart or life that is displeasing to Him; and when He brings it to light, he should put it away.
There is no use praying, no use going to conventions, no use reading books about the baptism with the Holy Spirit, no use doing anything else, until we judge our sins.
Step 3
Open Confession of our renunciation of sin.
Heart repentance alone is not enough. There must be an open confession of that repentance, and God's appointed way of confessing of repentance is baptism (In the Name of the father, Son, and Holy Spirit).
The baptism of the Holy Spirit is not for the secret disciple, but for the openly confessed disciple.
Step 4
Absolute surrender to God (Acts 5:32)
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
It is going to God and saying:
"Heavenly Father, here I am, I am your property. You have brought me with a price. I acknowledge your ownership and surrender myself and all that I am absolutely to you. Send me wherever you will; use me as you will."
The lack of this absolute surrender...
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