As I mentioned yesterday, the Baptism with the Holy Spirit enhances your ability to connect spiritually with the Lord. Let me go into more detail on what I mean. When I pray in the spirit, my human spirit is talking to the Lord without the involvement of my mind. This direct spiritual connection to the Lord is so vital to effective prayer, for it enables you to pray the perfect will of God over a person or situation. It’s make prayer limitless! But another part of this

But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit (Jude 20). One of the great benefits of receiving the baptism with the Holy Spirit is the ability that comes with it to pray in tongues or pray in the Spirit. Praying in tongues is God’s method of bypassing the human mind in prayer and allowing spirit to Spirit communion with God. Some people would lead you to think that there is little value in praying in tongues. But let me ask

Three things happen to the person who receives the baptism with the Holy Spirit. They receive boldness to witness, an increase in understanding of the word of God, and they receive a new way to pray! Acts 1:8 reads: 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. The Greek word for power here is dunamis and from this word we get our English words dy