We Need the Holy Spirit

In order to be a good soldier in the service of our Lord Jesus Christ, it is not enough to just be saved. You also must be baptized with the Holy Ghost!

In Paul’s time, some believers didn’t even know there was a Holy Ghost. “He said to them, ‘Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?’ So they said to him, ‘We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.’” (Acts 19:2, NKJV). These people were saved, but it is clear they were not filled with the Holy Ghost.

I believe we are saved through the power and ministry of the Holy Ghost. But Scripture tells us that in addition to this, there is also a baptizing, an infilling that the Holy Ghost does.

Jesus did not send his disciples into the world until they had been baptized with the Holy Ghost. The disciples had pure hearts and faith to heal the sick, and they were witnesses to his resurrection. They were even willing to die for Jesus, so what more could there be?

Clearly, there was more! “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth” (Acts 1:8).

Do you really want the Holy Ghost? You have to be convinced this is for you. You must come to the place where you know you are nothing, have nothing, and can do nothing without the power and leading of the Holy Ghost.

Every hour of the day, multitudes worldwide have read of this promise in the Bible or have heard it preached. So they cried out in prayer and were baptized with the Holy Ghost.

“And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh… I will pour out my Spirit in those days and they shall prophesy” (Acts 2:17-18). He is yours for the asking: “How much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” (Luke 11:13).