So I said to this minister, "As long as you let women being preachers bother you, it will hinder
you. The devil will use anything he can to get your mind off of God and on something else to
try to bring you into confusion. Just stay open to God and let Him tell you whatever He wants
to tell you. If you knew everything you should know and if you were everything you should be
without the Holy Ghost, what would you need Him for?"
This minister finally received the baptism in the Holy Spirit. And, sure enough, when he was
filled with the Holy Spirit, it was a woman preacher who prayed with him! After he was filled
with the Holy Ghost, he said, "Now I believe in women preachers!" It didn't take him long to
change his mind.
Actually, when you get filled with the Holy Ghost, you will see that a lot of things you thought
were so important, aren't so important after all. And a lot of your prejudices and preconceived
notions will fall away to the truth of God's Word as you get your mind renewed (Rom. 12:2).
This minister went back home and within one month's time he had gotten sixteen believers
filled with the Holy Ghost. Particularly in the days of the Charismatic Movement, one saw
denominational people get filled with the Holy Ghost. That number is still multiplying even
today. For instance, with just this one man in a few days' time after he was filled with the Holy
Spirit, the number of believers filled with the Holy Spirit was multiplied by sixteen. I rejoice in
what God is doing in these days!
To be honest, as a young preacher I didn't believe I would live to see the supernatural in
demonstration as I saw it during the Charismatic Movement of the '60s and '70s. If someone
had told me years ago about what would be happening now, it would have been beyond my
comprehension. Years ago, I never would have believed certain things to be possible that have
happened even in my own ministry!
For example, a minister from the denomination I came from was filled with the Holy Ghost. He
was the pastor of a church with two thousand members enrolled in the Sunday school program
alone. This pastor's deacon was also filled with the Spirit.
In fact, this deacon was filled with the Holy Ghost first. Then the deacon kept talking to the
pastor about it and finally got him to attend a Full Gospel meeting. The pastor saw what the
Bible has to say about the Holy Ghost and was filled with the Holy Ghost and spoke with other
tongues!
This deacon's brother was a member of a Pentecostal church and had been for nearly twenty
years, but he had never received the Holy Ghost. The pastor and the deacon brought the
deacon's brother to the meeting so he could be filled with the Holy Ghost too.
It used to be the other way around: Pentecostal people usually got denominational people filled
with the Holy Ghost! But we have lived long enough to see things change because now
sometimes denominational people are the ones getting Pentecostal church folks filled with the
Holy Ghost!
I preached a meeting in a denominational church in Texas once where ninety-five percent of
the church received the infilling of the Holy Ghost and spoke with other tongues. It was a
glorious service filled with thrilling testimonies, and the service had that warm glow to i BƖ