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

by Reuben A. Torrey

It is not for us then to select some gift and look to the Holy Spirit to impart the self-chosen gift; it is not for us to select some field of service and then look to the Holy Spirit to impart to us power in that field which we, and not he, have chosen. Rather, it is for us to recognize the divinity and sovereignty of the Lord, and put ourselves unreservedly at his disposal. It is for him to select the gift that he will, and impart to us that gift, and it is for him to select for us the field that he will, and impart to us the power that will qualify us for the field he has chosen.