baptism of fire

Isaiah 28:11-12 KJV With (through our) stammering lips and another tongue (heavenly language) will He speak to this people. To whom He said, "This rest (interior peace) wherewith you may cause the we rest; this is the refreshing; yet, they would not hear (listen/accept/believe/apply to their circumstances)."

Matthew 3:7,11-12 When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them, "...I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One who is more powerful than I, Whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Mark 16:17 These signs shall follow them that BELIEVE. In My name shall they cast out devils. They shall speak with new tongues. (Tongues is our praying out loud in a language, personally unknown to us, and is often a form of praise)

Luke 3:16-17    "I (John the Baptist) am baptizing you with water, but there is One to come Who is mightier than I...He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire."
Luke 11:13    "If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ASK Him," (says Jesus).
Luke 12:49    "I have come to cast fire on the earth and would (prefer) that it were already kindled."

John 1:3    "Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him; this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit."
John 14:17    The (Holy) Sprit dwells with you (water baptism) and will be in you (fire baptism).

Acts 1:4-5,8    On one occasion, while He (Jesus) was eating with them (the disciples) , He gave them this command, "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift My Father promised, which you have heard Me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."
You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."
Acts 2:1-4    When the day of Pentecost came, they (120 believers) were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. (Even Pope John Paul II prays in tongues.   www.sign.org/article.phtml?idnum=16)
Acts 2:38-39    Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off - for all whom the Lord our God will call."
Acts 8:14-17    When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God (Jesus as Messiah), they sent Peter and John to them. When they arrived, they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. Then Peter and John placed their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit (baptism).
Acts 10:38 KJV    God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power, Who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with Him.
Acts 10:44-48    While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message. The circumcised (Jewish) believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles, for they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Then Peter said, "Can anyone keep these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have." So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked Peter to stay with them for a few days.
Acts 19:1-7    1Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples 2and asked them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" 3So he said, "Then in what name were you (water) baptized?" "John's baptism," They replied, "No we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."   4Paul said, "John's (water) baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Jesus." 5On hearing this, they were (water) baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. 6When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied. 7There were about 12 men in all.

Romans 8:26-27 The (Holy) Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we are to pray for, but the (Holy) Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. He Who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the BELIEVERS in accordance with God's will.

1st Corinthians 14:39 NIV Do not forbid to speak with tongues.
1st Corinthians 14:14-15 14If I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. 15What is it then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the understanding also.

1st John 14:16-18 KJV I will ask the Father and He shall give you another comforter, that He may abide with you fore ever...I will not leave you comfortless. I will come to you.

Baptism of Fire Commentary:

Reinhard Bonnke in Mighty Manifestations: The Gifts and Power of the Holy Spirit. notes that John baptized with water for the forgiveness of sins, but that the resurrected Christ baptizes with the fire of His Holy Spirit for the power to do God's miraculous work in this generation.

In The Pentecostal Movement (1964) Nils Bloch Hoel MD incorrectly says that tongue-speaking is a psychological illness, and a tongues-speaker is a subspecies. It is such "theories" that have harmed the psychiatric industry and its patients. His opinion is unscriptural and unGodly.

When we ask Jesus to baptize us with His Holy Spirit, we become equipped to function as His son or daughter. Our switch is turned on to God, so that now at last He can begin to operate through our infant legs and arms to accomplish His will. Now we can begin, in baby steps, to resist evil and to overcome the enemy of depression, suicide, bitterness, anger, rage, indignation, despair, neediness, fear and all those weights which try to overpower us. With the baptism in the Holy Spirit can come the speaking in tongues. Father Hampsch has a very short but extremely interesting video tape "Why You Should Pray in Tongues" which you might want to look at. www.claretiantapeministry.org

Both ancient Greek and modern Olympics runners carry a torch of fire that is never extinguished. Another never extinguishable fire is the Holy Spirit. It burns in our hearts and passions. It burns out diseases. Whether as a parent, ministry or mentor, we can carry the torch to the hurting and to the next generation.   In ourselves we can allow the Holy Spirit to burn out all that interferes with His amazing grace.

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Bennett, Dennis                                     Nine O'Clock in the Morning                    Bridge Publishing
Bennett, Dennis                                     How to Pray for the Release of the Spirit
Bennett, Dennis and Rita                        The Holy Spirit and You

Bevington, Guy C Remarkable Miracles
Chapter 8 Instances of Healing admonishes us
"Now here is danger. I never ask people to testify to their sanctification (baptism in the Holy Spirit) until they are sure they are sanctified. I only encourage them to take it by faith if they and I am satisfied that their consecration is complete. Then they may say they have taken sanctification by faith, believe that they are sanctified, and stand on that. Never say that you are sanctified until you know it."

Bishop T J Jakes aired a 3/05 TV program on praise. In it he cites the story of nuns who were locked up in basements and dungeons because they broke out in praise and spoke in tongues. Their peers and superiors considered them crazy or insane. Likewise, the disciples' were called drunks when the fire of the Holy Spirit fell, causing them to speak in tongues or different languages. www.thepotterstouch.org

Borlase, Craig William Seymour www.charismahouse.com
Biography of an African American who helped to launch in 1906 the 312 Azusa Street, Los Angeles, California, USA revival and the Pentecostal movement

Chavda, Mahesh The Hidden Power of Speaking in Tongues www.watchofthelord.com
A hidden treasure of a man; a great mentor. Chapter 3 Opening the Promised Gift shares that speaking aloud in tongues is THE hidden key to moving in the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit baptism, which is available to everyone who takes Jesus as his savior and is baptized in water. Chapter 7 The Secret of Paul's Effectiveness, says Mahesh, is speaking in tongues. Although Paul was a brilliant scholar of scripture and theology, he failed to recognize Jesus as messiah, until God knocked him off his horse. He was introduced to the Trinity and subsequently had ongoing intimate fellowship with the Holy Spirit, initiated through speaking in tongues. It is the Holy Spirit Who personally taught him all that the 12 disciples learned fellowshipping with Jesus! God's wisdom is always imparted from His Spirit to our spirit. It is the mind who accepts or rejects this spiritual wisdom. The human mind is never able to discern/learn Truth, nor is the human body ever good enough to work its way into the graces of God. Christ did ALL at the cross. We either accept or reject what Christ did and the Holy Spirit reveals to us (especially as/when we pray in tongues). Praying in tongues permits the Holy Spirit to do miracles in us and in others, while hiding His work from Satan; the longer/more we pray in tongues, the greater/more complete will be His work.

Chavda's prayer to receive Christ and His Holy Spirit (deposit/contract/engagement ring/prenuptial/guarantee/forgiveness) =
"Dear heavenly Father, I thank you for sending Your Son Jesus Christ to die on the cross for my sins. I believe He died, was buried, and on the 3rd day rose again from the dead. I do repent of my sins and come to You for mercy and forgiveness. I renounce Satan and the kingdom of darkness. I break every family curse over my family and me. By faith in Your promise, I receive Jesus Christ personally as my Savior and confess Him as my Lord. Come into my heart, Lord Jesus, and give me eternal life and make me a child of God. Thank You Lord for accepting me. In the name of Jesus Christ I pray. Amen."
Chavda's prayer to receive the fullness of God's Holy Spirit (wedding ring/empowerment/anointing/fruit/9 spiritual gifts) =
"Now, Lord Jesus, I am thirsty for more of You. I ask You, Lord Jesus, to baptize me in Your Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. By faith I receive Your Holy Spirit now. In the name of Jesus Christ I pray. Amen."

Cho, Rev David Yonggi of Korea http://english.fgtv.com/drcho/main.asp http://english.fgtv.com/yfgc.pdf Books = The Holy Spirit - My Senior Partner Successful Home Cell Groups in chapter 2 God's Reeducation Program says that God explained to Cho, "Think of a marriage...When a man marries a woman, he...loves her and shares his life with her - intimately. That is the kind of relationship you are to have with the Holy Spirit."
Cho, David Yonggi The 4th Dimension - volume 1
In chapter 1 Incubation - a Law of Faith Cho contends that he does not have 1 of the 9 gifts of the Holy Spirit; instead he contends that he has the Holy Spirit, Who has the 9 gifts.

Clark, Randy There Is More www.globalawakening.com
In chapter 13, Randy says that he received his prayer language/tongues in 1971, but that it did not coincide with his receiving the baptism in the Holy Spirit. He notes that many Pentecostals believe that speaking in tongues must come at the same time one is baptized in the Holy Spirit, as evidence of receiving the baptism in the Holy Spirit; while many Evangelicals believe that the Holy Spirit baptism must come at the time of conversion.
Randy notes that John Fletcher (John Wesley's associate) taught that one can have many effusions/pouring outs of the Holy Spirit (one at salvation/water baptism, one at confirmation/Holy Spirit baptism/speaking in tongues, plus other effusions as God deems expedient).
Randy urges us to be continually filled with the Holy Spirit, resulting in (1) a deepening relationship with Christ and (2) much fruit.

Copeland, Kenneth Kenneth Copeland Ministries John G Lake www.kcm.org
Many people believed that John Lake had received the baptism of the Holy Spirit due to his healing ministry, but in fact it was later that he received the baptism in the Holy Sprit, and God confirmed it by announcing, "You are now baptized in the Holy Spirit." (Remember, God also made an announcement when the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus like a dove right after He was baptized in water by John the Baptist.)
Speaking in tongues is considered by many to be evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. In one of John Lake's services, a teenage girl named Hilda Daniels chanted in a foreign tongue (which a fellow from East India recognized). The message was an explanation of salvation. Lake shared a similar experience where he spoke (witnessed of Jesus) in a tongue (Italian of Naples, Italy - unknown to him) for 15 minutes to a group of laborers at the train station in Logansport, Indiana.
(Please take note/warning that some men not of God also have this skill, but it is of the unholy spirit!)

DeGrandis, Father Robert in The Ten Commandments of Prayer recommends that we pray in tongues to allow the Holy Spirit to minister to the root cause (such as deep emotional problems) of physical ailments. Any one who has been baptized in the Holy Spirit can pray for himself or for another this way, using tongues (another language; sometimes called the language of angels; a second known language, but unknown to the speaker). Father warns us regarding praying, in any capacity, including tongues, to be persistent and not to quit: Life, marriage, as well as the baptism in the Holy Spirit has a honeymoon period. The honeymoon always ends, at least for awhile. Then comes the school of hard knocks, such as Moses and his nation encountered in the desert. In the desert of life we experience growing pains.
We finally get enlightenment. Then the emotional/maturity cycle begins again.

King, Patricia 2/19-23/07 Sid Roth radio broadcasts Supernatural Encounters with God. http://www.sidroth.org/radio.htm Listen - (Real Player) Mon Tue We Th Fri (Media Player) Mon Tue We Th Fri Download (mp3 file) Mon Tue We Th Fri
Order cassette #DC1527 Order CD #DD1527 Order Book - Spiritual Revolution Tuesday and Thursday broadcasts discuss translation. Thursday broadcast shares God's instruction for her to build up her spirit man by daily out loud (1) violently/ aggressively/tenaciously pray in tongues plus (2) declaring/proclaiming her attributes in Christ. (Likewise, we can declare in advance the attributes in Christ belonging to those for whom we intercede! We declare that the stone thrown away by the builder has become the chief cornerstone. We declare with Joseph that what the enemy intended for evil, God intended for good. Likewise, we stand with Christ on the neck of the enemy and declare that he is under our feet. Likewise, there will be more than double for the trouble. Amen and amen.)

MacNutt, Francis Deliverance from Evil Spirits www.christianhealingmin.org
Chapter 23 Baptism in the Holy Spirit shares, "When a group prayed for me as if I were to receive the Spirit (baptism) for the first time, nothing much happened. But the next afternoon, when a few friends prayed for a release in me of the gifts of the Spirit (which I had already received in (infant water) baptism, confirmation and ordination), I was overwhelmed with joy, and a wave of laughter swept over me."
"One of the purposes of this immersion in the (Holy) Spirit is empowered ministry, as Jesus promised His disciples after His resurrection." (Remember, Jesus' disciples did have a healing/deliverance ministry before Jesus died; however, each lacked courage/authority/boldness/character/confidence needed of leadership, until after the Holy Spirit baptism, which came only after Christ was resurrected.) "Even Jesus in His human nature needed to be empowered by the (Holy) Spirit before He began His public ministry, preaching, healing and casting out evil spirits...Look at the example of Jesus, Who walked with God for 30 years, then needed a new dimension of union with the Spirit to empower Him for ministry. I need that empowering, too...
Padre Salvador Carillo...told them (priests in Mexico City) they should not get trapped into trying to figure out too much theoretically. The main thing they should ask themselves was whether what happened to the apostles at Pentecost had happened to them. Where they eager to preach the Gospel? Where they healing the sick and casting out evil spirits?...
"Tradition says they (the 12 disciples) were ordained at the Last Supper, almost 2 months before Pentecost. Yet they were not ready for ministry until the Spirit descended on them at Pentecost."

McDonnell & Montague, George Christian Initiation and Baptism in the Holy Spirit Liturgical Press
Abbreviated version is called Fanning the Flame. "Jesus, Who will later send the Holy Spirit upon the community (Luke 24:49; Acts 2:33), Himself receives the Spirit at His baptism, or at the very least a new manifestation of the Spirit upon Him, since His conception, and that the Spirit endows Him with prophetic and healing charisms for His ministry."

Prince, Derek Rules of Engagement www.derekprince.org
Fruit and gifts of the Holy Spirit are different. "A gift comes through a single brief impartation, but fruit comes through a slow process of development. Receiving a spiritual gift does not, in itself, change a person's character...When we pass from time to eternity, we will leave our gifts behind, but our character will be with us forever." "Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'" Matthew 22-23

Roberson, Dave    The Walk of the Spirit - The Walk of Power    www.daveroberson.org
Subtitle = The Vital Role of Praying in Tongues                          Portrait Version
Book shares how Dave and Donner, his sister, learned to move mountains by praying up to 8 hours in tongues. The Lord shared with Dave that there is a "spiritual law" - praying in tongues edifies one personally and spiritually; praying in tongues supernaturally builds faith or spiritual backbone/muscle. Dave contends that the dividing line between Christians with spiritual power and Christians without power is (the absence or presence of) speaking/praying in tongues, the 8th office of the Holy Spirit, which is the foundation/door/switch for all spiritual power/gifts/fruit/muscle of the Holy Spirit. For instance, a pastor may be intellectually qualified but spiritually disqualified, if he does not receive/refuses the gift of tongues. Praying often in tongues allows our private tutor the Holy Spirit to minister to our human spirit, to remove our old nature, to remove the enemy's nature, and to impart His nature into us. (Actually what a wonderful thing to do in a mental hospital. Any patient can cry or sing aloud in holy tongues and accomplish more healing in one week than the doctors can accomplish in one year.)
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Book is for personal NOT commercial use. Is copyrighted.                       6/12-16/2006 radio broadcast - www.sidroth.org
Dave Robertson Ministries, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA http://www.daveroberson.org/
Dave contends there are tongues for personal use & for public use. The following is how Dave translates
1st Corinthians 12:30 Have all the gifts of healing? (In public places) do all speak with tongues (that need to be interpreted)? (In public places) do all interpret (the tongues spoken in public)?
1st Corinthians 14:18    " I (Paul) thank my God, (that) I speak (pray privately) with tongues (that supernatural language of edification that allows/imparts/downloads the Holy Spirit's revelation knowledge) more than you all."
Chapter 7 Praying Out the Mysteries of God's Plan notes that the second we are born again into God's kingdom (when we ask God to forgive our sins and ask God's Son Jesus to be our Lord), a book/seed/blueprint of God's perfect will/plans for our life is deposited inside our spirit. Each time we pray in tongues, we allow the Holy Spirit to water/nurture/download into that seed.
Chapter 8 The Channel Through Which the Holy Spirit Speaks reminds us of Jesus' Words.
(Matthew 11:7-14 NKV     7Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, "What (who) did you go out into the wilderness to see?... 9 A Prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet, 10for this is he of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send My messenger before Your Face, who will prepare Your way before You.' 11Assuredly, I say to you, among those who are born of women there has not risen a greater (person) than John the Baptist; notwithstanding, He Who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. 12From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence; the violent take it by force. 13All the prophets until now prophesied until John. 14If you are willing to receive it, He (John) is Elijah who is to come.
Matthew 11:18-19 NKV   18John came neither eating nor drinking; they say, 'He (like Jesus) has a demon.' 19The Son of Man (Jesus) came eating and drinking; they say, 'Look, a glutton, wine-biber, and a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'.)
[Consider - John (the Baptist), Jesus' 1st cousin may have had a deposit of God's Holy Spirit while in in womb.
Luke 1:41,44 NKJV When Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that babe (inside her) leapt in her womb; Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit...As soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leapt in my womb for joy.)
John's wilderness life probably allowed the Holy Spirit to minister to his human spirit/soul/body. Dave reminds us that the more we pray in tongues and allow the Spirit to do His work in us, the more God will be able to use us. John's (and Christ's) life is an example to us of how to doggedly/tenaciously clamp onto the goal (our reason for existence) for which God Himself designed in our lives.]

Roberts, Evan http://www.sermonindex.net/modules/myalbum/viewcat.php?cid=6 web site rather than book
"At 13 years of age he began to develop a heart for a visitation from God.
He later wrote, 'I said to myself: I will have the (Holy) Spirit.'"
http://www.welshrevival.com/lang-en/1904evanroberts.htm "One night he was woken from his sleep and led into a deep communion with God for hours. This experience was to continue every evening for the next few months until he went away to the school at Newcastle Emlyn"...to prepare for "the Presbyterian Ministry...
2 weeks after arriving at the school, Evan attended a Convention at nearby Blaenanerch...It was here that he received what he termed as a fresh ‘Baptism of the Spirit’ as he responded to the prayer ‘Bend me oh Lord’."
He shared this 4 part message "with his home youth group at Moriah Loughor...
1-Confess all known sin; 2-Deal with and get rid of anything ‘doubtful’ in your life; 3-Be ready to obey the Holy Spirit instantly; and
4-Confess Christ publicly."

Roberts, Oral When You See the Invisible, You Can Do the Impossible www.orm.cc
The book's introduction states strongly that one reason the elderly author is vibrant/young in spirit is due to praying in and interpretation of tongues.
Chapter 20 Why I Make No Decision or Attempt Anything for God without First Praying in the Spirit and Planting a Seed of Faith shares that both Oral and Evelyn prayed in tongues in crisis or great joy, but not daily. Suddenly (when Oral was in desperation, on his knees, in tears) the Holy Spirit flowed up in tongues. Next the English translation poured forth. Each only lasted approximately one minute. Oral asked the Lord to let this happen again and again. God granted this both for him and later for his wife.
1st Corinthians 14:13-15 TNAB 13One who speaks in a tongue should pray to be able to interpret. 14If I pray in a tongue, my spirit is at prayer, but my mind is unproductive. 15So what is to be done? I will pray with the spirit, but I will also pray with the mind. I will sing praise with the spirit, but I will also sing praise with the mind.
7/14/02 Praying in the Holy Spirit Oral Roberts http://www.winninginlife.org/archives/speakers.htm M9 16k 18k 100k 300k

Likewise, Merlin Carothers in Prison to Praise www.foundationof praise.org shares that the Lord instructed him first to pray softly in unknown tongues and then to speak out the translation. One key to operating in God's will and His power is to NOT think/argue/debate/discuss but to immediately obey God. If you consider the thought/command to be a contradiction to scripture, then you should test the spirits.

Woodworth-Etter, Maria Signs and Wonders publisher www.whitkerhouse.com
Chapter 4 In the Work shares, "All who were present came to the altar and make a full consecration and prayed for a baptism of the Holy Spirit and of fire, and that night it came. 15 came to the altar screaming for mercy. Men and women fell and lay like dead. I had never seen anything like this. I felt it was the work of God but did not know how to explain it, or what to say....
The Spirit of God brought before me the vision I had before I started out in the work of the Lord, and said, 'Don't you remember when you were carried away and saw the field of wheat and the sheaves falling? The large field of wheat was the multitudes of people you are to preach the Gospel to. The falling sheaves is what you see here tonight, the slaying power of God. This is My power. I told you I would be with you and fight your battles; it is not the wisdom of men, but the power and wisdom of God that is needed to bring sinners from darkness to light.'"

In this generation many respected main line fundamentalist churches have forbidden and warned their members not to speak in tongues or be associated with those who do, because of danger of being contaminated by Satan who can speak in tongues. Yes, Satan and his kingdom can speak in tongues, but such is only mimicking of what the Holy Spirit does in and through His kingdom kids. Satan is a copy cat. Never let fear, ignorance, tradition, or church dogma be your boss; you may lose out on what Father God has given you an an inheritance in Jesus Christ. Be sure to have read the Bible from beginning to end, so that you will know what is in the "will" of Jesus Christ. Do not be ignorant of what He has left you. Claim your inheritance!