The document outlines how to be filled with the Holy Spirit, emphasizing belief in Jesus, the desire for the Spirit, and the laying on of hands for prayer. It describes the common experiences of receiving the Holy Spirit, including sensations like heat and joy, and highlights the gift of tongues as a prayer language. The overall message encourages believers to seek the Holy Spirit with an open heart and faith in God's promises.

1. How Can I Be Filled
With The Holy Spirit?
Bible Readings:
1 Corinthians 12:1-11 (page 813)
John 7:37-39 (Page 757) 1
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2. Believers
Receive the
Holy Spirit
“As soon as [Peter and John]
arrived, they prayed for these
new believers to receive the
Holy Spirit.The Holy Spirit had
not yet come upon any of them,
for they had only been baptized
in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
Then Peter and John laid their
hands upon these believers, and
they received the Holy Spirit
(Acts 8:15–16, NLT)
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3. How to
Receive the
Holy Spirit
• Affirm your belief in Jesus as the
One who has died for your sins.Affirm
your love and commitment to Him.
Do this in a short prayer.
• Desire the Holy Spirit. Want to
receive Him. Be thirsty for Him.Ask to
be filled with the Holy Spirit.
• Receive. The one who is praying for
you will gently lay their hands on you
and pray.
• Jesus promises that when we ask
for the Holy Spirit our heavenly Father
hears and sends the Holy Spirit to us.
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4. How to
Receive the
Holy Spirit
• “For everyone who asks, receives.
Everyone who seeks, finds.And to
everyone who knocks, the door will
be opened.“You fathers—if your
children ask for a fish, do you give
them a snake instead? Or if they ask
for an egg, do you give them a
scorpion? Of course not! So if you
sinful people know how to give good
gifts to your children, how much
more will your heavenly Father give
the Holy Spirit to those who ask
Him.”” (Luke 11:10–13, NLT)
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5. What Happens
When the Holy
Spirit Comes?
• Everyone’s experience is different and
unique.
• Common sensations:
• Heat
• Tingling
• Trembling
• Feelings of peace and joy
• “On the last day, that great day of the
feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying,
“If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me
and drink. He who believes in Me, as
the Scripture has said, out of his heart
will flow rivers of living water.”
(John 7:37–38, NKJV)
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6. What Happens
When the Holy
Spirit Comes?
• What you feel is not as
important as what Jesus
promises. He is faithful.
• Inner reservations:
• Fear of letting go,
embarrassment, the
unknown.
• The Holy Spirit is a good gift
and no one who has let go
has ever regretted it.
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7. What Happens
When the Holy
Spirit Comes?
• The Gift of Tongues (prayer
languages)
• “All of them were filled with the
Holy Spirit and began to speak in
other tongues as the Spirit enabled
them.” (Acts 2:4, NIV84)
• “The circumcised 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. ” (Acts 10:45–46, NIV84)
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8. The Gift Of
Tongues
• The gift of tongues is a prayer language.
• The Holy Spirit uses your tongue and voice to speak
directly to God.
• Explained in detail by Paul in 1 Corinthians 14.
• Three important results of using the gift:
• It helps us to pray or praise when we don't know
what to say with our minds.
• It strengthens the presence and power of the
Holy Spirit in us
• Thirdly it helps us to connect with God to release
the other gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit.
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9. Prayer to
Receive
Dear Lord Jesus we want to
obey whatYou said.We come
beforeYou to ask for the Holy
Spirit to fill this place and each
waiting heart.
We come toYou thirsty and
tired.
We are empty.
Please pour outYour Spirit
into us. Refresh us. Renew us;
ready to loveYou and serveYou.
Amen.
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