Baptism of the Holy Spirit [Updated, Annotated]: How to Receive This Promised Gift

by Reuben A. Torrey

it is when we bring ourselves, a whole burnt offering, to the Lord and lay ourselves thus upon the altar, that the fire comes and God thus accepts the gift. Here we touch upon the hindrance to the baptism with the Holy Spirit in many lives: there isn’t total surrender. The will is not laid down, and the heart does not cry, “Lord, where thou wilt, what thou wilt, as thou wilt.”[2]