THE BIBLE PRAYER LINE – Bible Questions Answered
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Bible Questions Answered:
“Are we supposed to pray for the holy spirit (Luke 11:13) to be in our lives?...”
Alex/ Barre, Vermont U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
Luke 11:13 KJV
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your Heavenly Father give The Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?
At the time of this writing, The Holy Spirit had not yet been given.
John 16:7 KJV
Nevertheless I tell you The Truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, The Comforter (God, The Holy Spirit) will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send Him unto you.
The coming of The Holy Spirit:
Acts 2:1-4 NLT (The Holy Spirit Comes)
1 On the day of Pentecost all the believers were meeting together in one place.
2 Suddenly, there was a sound from heaven like the roaring of a mighty windstorm, and it filled the house where they were sitting.
3 Then, what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them.
4 And everyone present was filled with The Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages, as The Holy Spirit gave them this ability.
(These 120, experienced both the baptism and the enduement of power of The Holy Spirit.)
Since Pentecost, all those who come to The Lord, are baptized into the body of Christ, by The Holy Spirit, it is something The Lord does, and we do not need to pray for it.
“Pastor, just who says so?”
Good question, The Apostle Paul says so!
Baptized In The Spirit, And Into The Body Of Christ:
I Corinthians 12:13 KJV
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:13 ASV
For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.
l Corinthians 12:13 Darby
For also in [the power of] one Spirit *we* have all been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or free, and have all been given to drink of one Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:13 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free; and in one Spirit we have all been made to drink.
1 Corinthians 12:13 1599 Geneva Bible
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews, or Grecians, whether we be bond, or free, and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:13 Living Bible
Each of us is a part of the one body of Christ. Some of us are Jews, some are Gentiles, some are slaves, and some are free. But the Holy Spirit has fitted us all together into one body. We have been baptized into Christ’s body by the one Spirit, and have all been given that same Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:13 Wycliffe Bible
For in one Spirit all we be baptized into one body, either Jews, either heathen, either servants, either free; and all we be filled with drink in one Spirit. [And soothly in one Spirit all we be baptized into one body, either Jews, or heathen, or servants, or free; and all we have drunk in one Spirit.]
1 Corinthians 12:13 Young's Literal Translation
for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,
John 7:37-39 KJV (Jesus Promises Living Water)
37 On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, “Anyone who is thirsty may come to Me!
38 Anyone who believes in Me may come and drink! For The Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of Living Water will flow from his heart.’”
39 (When He said “Living Water,” He was speaking of The Spirit, who would be given to everyone believing in Him. But The Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet entered into His glory.)
Everyone who receives The Lord, is baptized in The Holy Spirit!
In I Corinthians 12:30 NLT, Then, the Apostle Paul, asks an all important question!
I Corinthians 12:30 NLT
Do we all have the gift of healing? Do we all have the ability to speak in unknown languages? Do we all have the ability to interpret unknown languages? Of course not!
Well if the 9 gifts of The Spirit, are “not,” had by all, certainly they are “not,” the baptism of The Holy Spirit, for the baptism of The Holy Spirit,is given to all!
What then are the 9 gifts of The Holy Spirit, they are gifts of The Holy Spirit's enduing power!
Luke 24:49 KJV
And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
The “Enduement of The Holy Spirit,” takes tarrying, waiting upon The Lord, and the laying on of hands of those who have received this gift.
Prayer:
James 1:17 KJV
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from The Father Of Lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
