"Baptised in the Spirit"?

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I have heard that “Baptism in the Spirit” is different than a conversion experience. Has anyone here been “Baptised in the Spirit”? What is it like? I was unable to find a description on the internet.
 
I am baptised in the Spirit. I have danced in the spirit, I speak in tongue. LET ME TELL YOU WHAT IT FEELS LIKE HAVING THE HOLY SPIRIT INSIDE YOU.

I will describe it the same way the bible says ‘I feel a river of living water runing in all my body’ It is amazing. I feel a fire inside me runing for all my body as living water. My body shakes and my tongue talks along a language that I don’t know.

Also, I feel the happiness Jesus promised. This is a happiness that is inside me all the time. If i have money to eat or not always I am happy. And the peace that I got from Jesus is undescriptible. Sometimes you want to have peace and you think well if I live alone I will get it because my family is hard to live with. However, let me tell you that you only get loneliness and frustation but not peace. However, the real peace is in Jesus and Jesus is inside us. This is a peace that never abandons you. You may have problem with everybody in your house but you have a special peace that takes you to happiness that even when around you only there are complains and fights.

I believe in Jesus as my enough savior and helper. I PRISE HIM WITH HAPPINESS NOT WITH SADNESS BECAUSE HE IS ALIVE! I don’t need to ask for help to any other God. Because you can make gods of everything. You can make money a god and say I am secured with my money but the faith in OUR LORD should be enough, you can make your job a god, everything that you give more or equal importance than God/Jesus you turn it into a god. But I may say, even you give less importance is a god because GOD CAN NOT BE SUBSTITUTED WITH NOTHING. You may say "that is not true because I love god more than Saint ? or more than Virgen ? Also, You may say ’ I only honor Mary or Saint S… But God says that he doesn’t share his glory WITH NOBODY. "

But Jesus says:

"He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him."John 14:21

"If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love"John 15:10

THEN, WHAT IS THE FIRST COMMANDMENT? SO WE CAN SAY WE LOVE GOD/JESUS:

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."Exodus 20:4

"Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38This is the first and great commandment."Matthew 22:37-38

HOW TO GET BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT?

FIRST, Agree about that you are a sinner and accept Jesus as your ONLY savior. (that means that you will not pray or ask for favor to any other deity even they are identified as Jesus) JESUS IS REAL AND IS IN EVERYWHERE

SECOND, Read the bible every day. Prise the Lord with all you heart. Don’t fold your knees infront any statue. You better go to a real Christian church there you will learn the real gospel through the bible and get the guide through the BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT. It could be a Methodist, a Evangelic, Pentecostal

MY WEBSITE FAVORITE IS WWW.FREECDTRACTS.COM HERE YOU CAN LEARN MORE THROUGH REAL PEOPLE TESTIMONY
 
Siena said:
I have heard that “Baptism in the Spirit” is different than a conversion experience. Has anyone here been “Baptised in the Spirit”? What is it like? I was unable to find a description on the internet.
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It’s a term for Pentecost. The Apostles were baptized in the Spirit, i.e., they received the Holy Spirit. We receive him too at Confirmation.

Don’t believe what the Protestants tell you, either. Like how you have profess Jesu as your personal Savior. They don’t know what they’re talking about.
 
Siena said:
I have heard that “Baptism in the Spirit” is different than a conversion experience. Has anyone here been “Baptised in the Spirit”? What is it like? I was unable to find a description on the internet.
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As Catholics, we are all “bapized in the Spirit” at baptism. However, we need to revive our gifts when we become older. That’s what the** Charismatic Renewal among Catholics **is doing. It is simply reviving the gifts that we recieved at baptism.

I personally had this experience many years ago. It’s as though a current flows through your body. You receive/revive different gifts. The gift of tongues, prophecy, knowledge, wisdom, healing, discernment, etc.
 
iaskquestions said:
As Catholics, we are all “bapized in the Spirit” at baptism. However, we need to revive our gifts when we become older. That’s what the** Charismatic Renewal among Catholics **is doing. It is simply reviving the gifts that we recieved at baptism.

I personally had this experience many years ago. It’s as though a current flows through your body. You receive/revive different gifts. The gift of tongues, prophecy, knowledge, wisdom, healing, discernment, etc.
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You receive those gifts at Confirmation, because you receive the greatest Gift of them all, the Giver of gifts: God himself.

Also, make sure you’re not joining a group just to get gifts from God; it is spiritually dangerous, and open doors to the devil.
 
BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
by Harold Cohen, S.J. Prior to His ascension Jesus told His apostles, “Before many days you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” He added, “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses” (Acts 1:5-8). The Apostles prayed for the coming of the Holy Spirit with Mary, the mother of Jesus, and a group of about one hundred and twenty. On Pentecost they were “baptized with the Holy Spirit” and were transformed into new creatures, bold witnesses for Christ.
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           Pentecost comes to each of us in the Sacraments of Initiation: Baptism,                 Confirmation, and Eucharist. In Baptism we receive the Holy Spirit and become                 God’s children and members of the body of Christ. In Confirmation we receive a                 new fullness of the Spirit and are empowered to serve the Church and bear                 witness to Jesus.


           Often we do not allow the Spirit we have received to be as active in us as He                 wants to be. To use an analogy, He is like chocolate syrup poured into a glass                 of milk--it goes to the bottom of the glass until stirred up. But when it is                 stirred up, it permeates the milk and transforms it into something new. We can                 learn how to "stir up" the Spirit--and how to receive more of                 Him--from Jesus in the Gospels:
           "If anyone thirst, let him come to Me, let him drink who believes in Me.                 As the scripture has said, ‘Out of His heart shall flow rivers of living                 water.’ Now He said this about the Spirit which those who believed in Him were                 to receive" (John 7:37-39). "If you then, who are evil, know how to                 give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give                 the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!" (Luke 11:13)


           The Lord teaches us that first we must thirst for God; we must desire more                 and more of His Spirit. Then we must believe that Jesus is faithful to His                 promises and will indeed give us His Holy Spirit. Finally, we must ask God for                 the Holy Spirit. We must pray with perseverance, asking, seeking, knocking,                 believing that "everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to                 him who knocks it will be opened" (Luke 11:10). We can follow the example                 of the early Church by praying for the Spirit in union with Mary and the                 apostles as they did at the first Pentecost (see Acts 1:12-14).


           What can we expect when we are "baptized with the Holy Spirit" ? We                 can expect an immediate or gradual experience of deeper union with God, our                 loving Father and with Jesus, our Lord and Friend; a fresh appreciation of                 Scripture; a greater love for others and a desire for Christian fellowship; the                 fuller presence in our lives of the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace,                 patience and more (see Galatians 5:22-23); the receptions of one or more of the                 Charismatic gifts of the Spirit such as discernment, service, prophecy, praying                 in tongues, healing (see 1 Corinthians 12-14). This gift of a new fullness of                 the Holy Spirit is, I believe, the grace of our age. "Ask and it willbe      given to you!"
 
**CONCERNING THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap **
It is important to understand what the Renewal in the Spirit is all about. After the Second Vatican Council, many things in the Church’s life were renewed–the liturgy, pastoral care, canon law, the constitutions and dress of religious orders. Although all these things are important, they are only external things. Woe to us if we stop there and think the task is finished. It is not structure but souls that are important to God. “It is in men’s souls that the Church is beautiful,” writes St. Ambrose…and therefore it is in men’s souls that she must make herself beautiful.

God is Author and Power

The Renewal is a renewal in which God, not man, is the principal author “I, not you,” says God, “make all things new”(Rev. 21:5). “My Spirit–and He alone–may renew the face of the earth” (see Ps. 104:30). From the religious point of view, we tend to view things from a ptolemaic perspective: at the foundation are our efforts–organization, efficiency, reforms, and goodwill. These have the earth here as the center which God comes to strengthen and crown by His grace and our effort.

We must–at this point as the Word of God cries out–”give the power back to God” (Ps. 68:35) because “the power belongs to God” (Ps. 62:12). For too long we have usurped this power of His by managing it as if it were ours, as if it was up to us to “govern” the power of God. We have to totally change our perspective. That is, we have to acknowledge simply that without the Holy Spirit, we cannot do anything, not even say, “Jesus is Lord!” (1Cor. 12:3).

The Baptism in the Spirit is not a sacrament, but it is related to the sacraments of Christian initiation. The Baptism in the Spirit makes real and in a way renews Christian initiation. The primary relationship is with the sacrament of Baptism.

We believe that the Baptism in the Spirit makes real and revitalizes our Baptism. To understand how a sacrament which was received so many years ago, usually immediately after our birth, could suddenly come back to life and emanate so much energy, as often happens through the Baptism in the Spirit, it is important to look at our understanding of sacramental theology.

Catholic theology recognizes the concept of a valid but bound sacrament. A sacrament is called bound if the fruit that should accompany it remains bound because of certain blocks that prevent its effectiveness. Extreme examples of this are the sacrament of Matrimony and Holy Orders received in the state of mortal sin. In such circumstances these sacraments cannot grant any grace to people until the obstacle of sin is removed through Penance. Once this happens, the sacrament is said to live again, thanks to the indelible character and irrevocability of the gift of God. God remains faithful even if we are unfaithful because He cannot deny Himself (see Tim. 2:1-3).

In the case of Baptism, what is it that causes the fruit of the sacrament to stay bound? The sacraments are not magical rituals that act mechanically, without the person’s knowledge, disregarding any response on his part. Their effectiveness is the fruit of a synergy or cooperation between divine omnipotence–in reality the grace of Christ or the Holy Spirit–, and human freedom. As St. Augustine said, “The one who created you without your cooperation will not save without your cooperation.”

The opus operatum of Baptism, namely God’s part, or grace, has several aspects: forgiveness of sins, the gifts of the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity (these, however, only as a seed), and divine sonship. All of these aspects operate through the effective action of the Holy Spirit. But what does the opus operantis in Baptism–namely, man’s part–consist of? It consists of faith! “Whosoever believes and is baptized shall be saved”(Mark 16:16). Along with Baptism therefore, there is another element: the faith of man. “To all who received Him He gave the power to become children of God: to those who believe in His name” (John 1:13).

Baptism is like a divine seal put on the faith of man. Having heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and having believed in it, you have received (of course, in Baptism) the seal of the Holy Spirit (see Eph. 1:13).

Baptism and Confirmation of Faith

At the beginning of the Church, Baptism was such a powerful event and so rich in grace that there was normally not a need of a new effusion of the Spirit like we have today. Baptism was ministered to adults who converted from paganism, and who, properly instructed, were in the position to make on the occasion of Baptism, an act of faith, and a free, mature choice. It is sufficient to read the mystagogic catechesis on Baptism attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem to become aware of the depth of faith to which those waiting for Baptism were led. In substance, they arrived at Baptism through a true and real conversion, and thus, for them Baptism was a real washing, a personal renewal, and a re-birth in the Holy Spirit.

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The favorable circumstances that allowed Baptism at the origins of the Church to operate with so much power was that the grace of God and man’s response met at the same time. There was a perfect synchronization…

God’s Will

Here, then, is what I feel to be the significance of the Baptism in the Spirit. It is God’s answer to this malfunctioning that has grown up in the Christian life in the sacrament of Baptism.

It is an accepted fact that over the last few years there has been some concern on the part of the Church, among the bishops, that the Christian sacraments, especially Baptism, are being administered to people who will not make any use of them in life. As a result, it has even been suggested that Baptism should not be administered unless there are some minimum guarantees that it will be cultivated and valued by the child in question. For one should not throw pearls to dogs, as Jesus said, and Baptism is a pearl because it is the fruit of the Blood of Christ.

But it seems that God was concerned about this situation even before the Church was, and He raised up here and there in the Church, movements aimed at renewing Christian initiation in adults. The Charismatic Renewal is one of these movements, and in it the principal grace is, without doubt, linked to Baptism of the Spirit and what comes before it.

Release and Confirmation of Faith

Its effectiveness in reactivating Baptism consists in this: Finally man contributed his part–namely, he makes a choice of faith, prepared in repentance, that allows the work of God to set itself free and to emanate all its strength. It is as if the light is switched on. The gift of God is finally “unbound”, and the Spirit is allowed to flow like a fragrance in the Christian life.

In addition to the renewal of the grace of Baptism, the Baptism in the Spirit is also a confirmation of one’s own Baptism, a deliberate “yes” to it, to its fruit and its commitments. As such, it is also similar to Confirmation. Confirmation is the sacrament that develops, confirms and brings to completion the work of Baptism.

From it, too, comes that desire for greater involvement in the apostolic and missionary dimension of the Church that is usually noted in those who receive the Baptism in the Spirit. They feel more inclined to cooperate with the building up of the Church, placing themselves at her service in various ministries both clerical and lay, to witness for Christ–to do all those things that recall the happening of Pentecost and which are actuated in the sacrament of Confirmation.

The Baptism of the Spirit is not the only occasion known within the Church for this reviving of the sacraments if initiation. There is, for example, the renewal of the baptismal promises in the Easter Vigil. There are also the spiritual exercises and religious profession, sometimes called a “second Baptism.” At the sacrament level there is Confirmation. It is not difficult to discover in the lives of the saints the presence of a spontaneous effusion, especially on the occasion of their conversion. The difference with the Baptism in the Spirit, however, is that it is open to all the people of God, small and great, and not only to those privileged ones who do the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises or make religious profession.

The Will of God in History

Where does this extraordinary force that we experienced when were baptized in the Spirit come from? What we are talking about is not just some theory, but something that we ourselves have experienced and therefore can say with John, “What we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what our hands have touched, this we also announce to you, so that you too can be in communion with us (see John 1:1-11). The explanation of this force is in the will of God because God was pleased to renew the Church today by this means, and this is enough.

There are certainly some biblical precedents, like the one told in Acts 8:14-17, when Peter and John, having heard that Samaria welcomed the Word of God, went there, prayed for them and laid hands on them so they could receive the Holy Spirit. But these biblical precedents are not sufficient to explain the vastness and depth of the contemporary manifestations of the Spirit.

The explanation, therefore, is in God’s plan…

What does the Baptism in the Spirit consist of, and how does it work?

In the Baptism of the Spirit, there is a secret, mysterious move of God that is His way of becoming present in a way that is different for each one. Only He knows us in our inner part and how to act upon our unique personality. There is also an external community part which is the same for everyone. This consists mainly of three things: brotherly love, laying on of hands, and prayer. These are non-sacramental but simply ecclesiastic elements.

From the Father and Son

Where does the grace we experience in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit come from? From those around us? No! From the person who receives it? No! It comes from God! We can only say that such grace is related to Baptism because God always acts with coherence and faithfulness. He honors the commitments and institutions of Christ. One thing is certain–it is not the brothers who impart the Holy Spirit, but they do invoke the Holy Spirit on the person. Only Jesus may give the Holy Spirit.

As to the manner of this grace, we may speak of a new coming of the Holy Spirit, of a new mission by the Father through Jesus Christ, or a new anointing corresponding to a new degree of grace.

Full article is here
ccrno.org/RC.ConcerningBHS.htm
 
I was baptised is the Holy Spirit, during a weekend retreat for Catholics. People laid hands on me and prayed in tongues.

I was also prayed over for deliverance, and now I am able to pray in tongues.

For more information, please PM me.
 
I was baptised in the spirit and prayed over for deliverance but I didn’t let anyone lay hands on me because it made me nervous.* I guess I am weird about people touching me.* So they just simply prayed outloud in the room with their hands raised in my direction.* I was extremely skeptical and a little weirded out by people who spoke in tongues but I must admit that I felt something.* My whole body relaxed and was so relaxed it went comfortably numbish with a slight tingle.* My mind quieted and was completely clear.* I basically had nothing to say which is REALLY strange for me.* I was so at peace and so comfortable and remained in this state for a good hour afterward.* The next day I noticed that people whom I’d see every day in the hallway but never spoke to, went out of their way to say hi to me which really was strange but nice.Overall I felt more at peace with myself and everything that goes on around me.* I never got the gift of tongues.
 
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