{"id":13033,"date":"2022-06-07T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13033"},"modified":"2022-06-07T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T20:11:00","slug":"do-i-have-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13033\/do-i-have-the-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I Have the Spirit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have had this question for many years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I speak in other tongues but never experienced the baptism of the Holy Spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">A brother prayed for me one time for the baptism in the Holy spirit and asked me to start speaking out by faith in tongues. I didn&#8217;t feel anything or notice any change but I could speak in tongues. I can still speak in tongues 20 years later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Is this experience right ?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Shouldn&#8217;t I know if I have been baptized in the Holy Spirit?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">God bless you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Daniel<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">=============<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Hi Daniel.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Yes, you should know that you have received Jesus&#8217; baptism, but God does things His own way, and so, we can only say what we think or how we feel about such matters.\u00a0 We here do not believe in teaching people to speak in tongues or in telling people when to speak in tongues.\u00a0 Also, I have made it my practice never to tell people whether or not they have received the Spirit.\u00a0 That is the Spirit&#8217;s job.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>It does, however, sound to me as if you did receive the baptism of the Spirit, but that is all I can say about it.\u00a0 If it means anything to you, you are by no means the only person who has experienced what you are experiencing.\u00a0 My advice to you and to them is that to continue to seek the Lord about this, and I will pray with you that Jesus will make things clear and certain.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>God bless you, and let me know if there is anything else I can do for you.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I have had this question for many years. I speak in other tongues but never experienced the baptism of the Holy Spirit. A brother prayed for me one time for the baptism in the Holy spirit and asked me to start speaking out by faith in tongues. I didn&#8217;t feel anything or notice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}