How to be filled with the Holy Spirit

by A.W. Tozer

I am praying that God may be able to melt away the ice from this blessed truth, and let it spring up alive again, that the Church and the people who hear may get some good out of it and not merely say, “I believe” while it is buried under the snow of inactivity and non-attention.

The Church has tragically neglected this great liberating truth—that there is now for the child of God a full and wonderful and completely satisfying anointing with the Holy Ghost.

Again, I ask you if you desire to have your personality taken over by One who stands in sharp opposition to the world’s easy ways. No tolerance of evil, no smiling at crooked jokes, no laughing off things that God hates. The Spirit of God, if He takes over, will bring you into opposition to the world just as Jesus was brought into opposition to it. The world crucified Jesus because they couldn’t stand Him!

(Luke 11:9–13),

(Sometimes we preachers preach in the third person, and you can develop a habit of thinking in the third person. We don’t talk about “us”; we talk about “they.” I don’t like that. I think we ought to get personal about this.)

Therefore, if you dedicate yourself to the glory of Jesus, the Holy Ghost will become the aggressor and will seek to know you and raise you and illumine you and fill you and bless you.

It is in the Word we find the Holy Spirit.