Bondman, I just read your last message. It was soooo encouraging to hear your continued message about the Holy Spirit.
I had never realized that you must keep being filled with the H.S. every day. So that means if I just keep on going the way I am, I will stay filled and grow too! What a blessing. I think my pastor thinks you have to speak in another language to be filled because it is "the evidence." I'll study the scriptures you gave and maybe ask him about it.
I also want to thank you for your encouragement that I may already be filled:
"Wow, prayed out loud. Proud of you, hon! And about not being filled with the Spirit - how do you know you're not? You've sought this, asked for it. And you can most certainly be filled without realising it! If you felt a freedom in prayer, that sounds like the Holy Spirit to me, so I'm rejoicing for you! Because like I wrote, one does NOT get filled at a specific date AND STAY FILLED FOR EVER!! It's not a once for all thing like our conversion. It's a daily thing. It's a process. Some can tell you when they feel they were first filled; many of us cannot. Does it matter? What matters to me is that I keep being filled with Him today, and every day! And once again it's The Amplified Bible that speaks the truth:
I did feel like my prayer in front of the two girls was annointed. It was so amazing to me, that after I prayed, I mentioned it to them. What a trip!
I think I can go on now and feel the assurance of His filling me. Bondman, you are such a good teacher. Your simple, but profound messages bless so many of us.
If I knew how to, I would put a big kissy icon about right here.
Carry on!!!