This is my experience and thank God for more of Jesus !
I had sought for more of Jesus through the infilling of the Holy Spirit for a few months before I was filled. During a seminar service in Jan. 1980, my raised hand in answer to a question showed that I was the only one in the service who had not yet received the infilling of the Holy Spirit. After the service, the minister asked if I believed that God would fill me there on the spot. I said yes, and as he laid his hands on me, I began to speak in other tongues as the spirit gave me utterance. As the tongues continued, I felt God’s presence as a new spiritual energy, along with being “drunk in the spirit”. This initial “surge” continued for several days. My friends & co-workers noticed more positive changes in me, the first ones being after I repented & accepted Jesus in Jan. 1979.
For me, the key element here was faith. I believed that God would fill me then & he did. The scripture the minister read prior to the laying on of hands was
John 7:37-39. (KJV)
" In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given: because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)"
God’s presence was and is as rivers of love, joy and zeal to me. This is not to say that the BHS/HGB (Baptism in/with the Holy Spirit/Ghost) or the initial infilling/reception of the Holy Spirit/Ghost happens to everyone this exact same way. This is my experience and thank God for more of Jesus ! He will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask of Him. (
Luke 11:13)
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