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View Poll Results: How many times did you ask for the Holy Ghost
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05-29-2010, 02:18 PM
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Re: How many times did you ask God for the Holy Gh
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Originally Posted by Hoovie
I think Blume would know better than anyone of us when the Holy Spirit came into his heart.
Also, I think when we speak of receiving the Holy Ghost in Pentecostal circles there is an implication of speaking in tongues for the first time... that does not take into account the work of the Spirit at conversion (prior to speaking in tongues) nor the Spirit's critical role in our lives each and every day.
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Bravo 
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05-29-2010, 02:20 PM
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Re: How many times did you ask God for the Holy Gh
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Originally Posted by Hoovie
I think Blume would know better than anyone of us when the Holy Spirit came into his heart.
Also, I think when we speak of receiving the Holy Ghost in Pentecostal circles there is an implication of speaking in tongues for the first time... that does not take into account the work of the Spirit at conversion (prior to speaking in tongues) nor the Spirit's critical role in our lives each and every day.
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Do you imply that folks are filled with the Holy Spirit before speaking in tongues?
Or maybe not filled, just only half full?
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05-29-2010, 02:21 PM
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Re: How many times did you ask God for the Holy Gh
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Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson
Do you imply that folks are filled with the Holy Spirit before speaking in tongues?
Or maybe not filled, just only half full?
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I do not think so. I think he simply meant the SPIRIT WORKS, before infilling.
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05-29-2010, 02:23 PM
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Re: How many times did you ask God for the Holy Gh
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Originally Posted by mfblume
I do not think so. I think he simply meant the SPIRIT WORKS, before infilling.
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Thank you Sir.
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05-29-2010, 02:30 PM
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Re: How many times did you ask God for the Holy Gh
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Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson
Do you imply that folks are filled with the Holy Spirit before speaking in tongues?
Or maybe not filled, just only half full?
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Rather than focusing on filled/full, I just think we can acknowledge the Holy Spirit is THE operative force in bringing people to Christ and unto repentance, and in our daily overcoming life in Christ.
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05-29-2010, 02:33 PM
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Re: How many times did you ask God for the Holy Gh
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Originally Posted by Hoovie
Rather than focusing on filled/full, I just think we can acknowledge the Holy Spirit is THE operative force in bringing people to Christ and unto repentance, and in our daily overcoming life in Christ.
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I think its great that you are acknowledging that!
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05-29-2010, 02:44 PM
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Re: How many times did you ask God for the Holy Gh
I was saved (born again) on a Monday night. It was March 28, 1955. I was 17 years old. I didn't even know there was such a thing as a baptism in the Holy Spirit.
Several months later I learned that there was an empowering of the Spirit or a baptism in the Spirit available for me.
I often asked God while praying alone at home, in the woods, on a rooftop, to give me that baptism, to fill me.
Still later (I think it was August 1955) I went to an Apostolic church and prayed for a couple of hours one Sunday night begging and pleading for God to baptize me in His Spirit. The following Sunday night I returned and again pleaded with God for the experience.
More praying at home, then in October 1955 I was baptized in Jesus' name at a nearby UPC church. I was praying for God to fill/baptize me when I was interrupted and asked if I wanted to be baptized. I agreed so that's how I got baptized in Jesus' name. I had been reading and studying about baptism in Jesus name so I was familiar with it.
A month or two (can't remember how long but it was before Christmas 1955) later I started attending a UPC regularly. I would go to the altar on Sunday nights and "tarry" or "seek the Holy Ghost" as it was called back then. I was told to praise and worship God for the experience in hope and expectation so my prayer time changed from pleading and begging to worshiping and praising and thanking God.
After the evening service on May 20, 1956 (just happened to be Pentecost Sunday) while I was praising God I realized something was happening. I would speak out in English and midway in the words it did not sound like English as it came out but instead sounded like some other language. As I continued, the words changed from partial English to completely different sounding words. I was not repeating a single word faster and faster in English so it was not just like saying a tongue twister and getting my tongue tangled up. Neither was I repeating "nonsense syllables" (as some have people at the altar do) in order to "prime the pump" or "loosen my tongue." It just came out in what to me and to those around me was a different sounding language.
So, that's why I said that I asked God "many times" for the Baptism. There was no "sin" or "disobedience" in my life that I know of that would hinder God from giving me the experience prior to when it happened.
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05-29-2010, 02:57 PM
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Re: How many times did you ask God for the Holy Gh
I can't remember. I wasn't in a church and I didn't know how to pray. But the girl who witnessed to me spoke with tongues and I wanted what she had because it was REAL!
I think maybe I prayed a couple of times, once on my knees. I received the Spirit unexpectedly while praying for something else in my apartment.
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05-29-2010, 03:46 PM
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Re: How many times did you ask God for the Holy Gh
I sought God for 5 months before speaking in tongues.
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05-29-2010, 04:09 PM
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Re: How many times did you ask God for the Holy Gh
As per my vote, I live in a state of continual petitioning. 
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