Baptism of the Holy Spirit & the A Team

[Deleted User]

I haven’t personally been baptized in the Holy Spirit. I grew up in a different denomination of church where this type of thing was not emphasized or really spoken about at all. This is something I have had to study more deeply about and am still growing to understand it better every day. I know that in God’s timing, He will baptize me in the Holy Spirit. But until then, I am waiting patiently and am trusting that He will work in me.

[Melany]

Hi was asked when I got water baptized if I wanted to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues. My knowledge of what that meant was very limited and it scared me terribly so while I said yes to the leaders, Internally I told God ‘no thanks.. thats not for me’. Over the following two or three weeks however I became deeply convicted for rejecting that gift in my heart. I was alone in my apartment one evening repenting and crying about it, asking probably for the hundredth time for Him to baptize me. He did.. it was a glorious encounter and hard to even explain how I felt, other than so amazed that Jesus truly did see me and hear me, since I was alone, nobody prayed for me when it happened.. it was just a direct gift and answer to my very private prayers. This was an amazing revelation as I had very recently been saved and was still learning about what direct access I truly had to God

[Lorna Anne]

My experience in the baptism of the Holy Spirit, during my 3rd year in the bile school when they lay hands on me . I ask and seek God in my life. And during my worship time, God pour out his Holy Spirit on me and I started speaking in tongues

[Sharon]

The baptism of the Holy Spirit is such an integral part of the Christian journey, I could never imagine a life without it. I loved hearing the stories about how it happened to each of the Apostolic Team members.

For me, I was in my early teens, in Zion Apostolic Church in Winnipeg, and I believe it was when Frank Kosick was our pastor (he absolutely loved 'young people'). Some of the elders began to hold 'tarrying services' (a term unfamiliar to me) after the morning service. Many of the young people – teens and older – stayed. We just got on our knees, and 'waited on God' as it was explained to us that's what it was, much like the Upper Room in Acts 1, where they waited, continuing in prayer and supplication. I remember the elders (and other men of God) though, fervently praying on their knees as we waited. We did this for several Sundays. During one of these tarrying times, one of the young men all of a sudden began to call out (he was by nature very quiet and reserved), and soon began speaking in tongues, as those around began to pray, and lay hands on him. I just knew this had to be genuine, given his nature! Soon – it was like a little fire began to break out, and spread among those who stayed and were tarrying. Eventually it fell on me also, and I began to speak in this unknown tongue. What stayed with me though, was that is was not just about 'speaking in tongues', but you were truly 'filled with the spirit' sensing the very fire of God surging throughout your whole being. It changes you forever. I could never imagine a life without it. Later on in my life, God laid an intercessory mantle on me to pray through for situations in my own life, for my family, and for many other situations. The baptism of fire takes you into another whole dimension of communion with God and His Holy Spirit.