Holy Spirit to speak with other tongues is a big step toward being able to fully yield all of your
members to God; for if you can yield your tongue, you can yield any member of your body to
God.
Speaking in tongues is the initial evidence of the infilling of the Holy Spirit. God has given us
this wonderful spiritual gift to bless us, edify us, and refresh us throughout our lives on this
earth. Let's receive what God has provided, and enjoy the benefits of speaking in tongues!
1 Howard Carter, Questions and Answers on Spiritual Gifts (Tulsa, Oklahoma: Harrison House, Inc., 1976), p. 120.
Chapter 10 Seven Steps To Receiving the Holy Ghost
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you
for ever;
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither
knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
— John 14:16,17
This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the
promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
— Acts 2:32,33
This lesson has a twofold purpose: Number one is to help those who have not yet received the
infilling of the Holy Ghost. Number two is to help Spirit-filled believers pray with those who are
seeking to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Any layperson can take the following seven
steps and help any Christian get filled with the Holy Ghost without any tarrying or waiting.
I was preaching in a certain meeting once where about sixty-five people had been filled with
the Holy Ghost. In one of the daytime services, someone asked, "What are we going to do
when you leave, Brother Hagin?"
You see, all that the people had known in the past was to struggle and struggle in order to get
believers filled with the Holy Ghost. One of the women who was an outstanding altar worker
said, "In every meeting, I always pray with people to receive the Holy Spirit until my throat
almost gives out. And after the meetings sometimes I've had laryngitis for a month."
I told them about these seven steps to receiving the infilling of the Holy Ghost. That night
seven believers came forward to receive the Holy Ghost, but I didn't pray for them. Instead, I
prayed for the sick who came forward for healing and sent these seven people into a prayer
room, telling the altar workers, "All right, go back there and get them filled, following the
instructions I gave you earlier today."
They went to the room and came out in ten minutes' time with six of the seven having been
filled