Understanding the Anointing’s relationship to the Baptism of the Holy Spirit?

Acts 1:6–8 ESV

6 So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

The Baptism with Holy Spirit and Fire

Luke 3:16–17 ESV

16 John answered them all, saying, “I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 17 His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

Three different baptisms

Baptism by John into Water

Matthew 3:11 ESV

11 “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

John, or in our case, another believer baptises into water as an outward expression and deceleration of repentance and accepting Christ into our hearts. It is a death, burial, and resurrection into the life of Christ.

Baptism By the Spirit into the Body

1 Corinthians 12:13 NKJV

13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.

Baptism by Jesus with the Holy Spirit & Fire

Jesus is the one who baptises us with the Holy Spirit.

How do you receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit?

Ask Jesus expecting to receive

Ask Jesus to baptise you in the Holy Spirit

Accept by Faith expecting to receive

Act in Faith upon what you asked

One of my mentors, Bob Fitts, Sr, was a Baptist Pastor who took prayer walks up a hill behind his house. On these prayer walks, he would ask God to baptizes him with the Spirit and give him a prayer language. This went on several times. Over and over he went on this prayer walk and begged God for the empowering of the Holy Spirit. Over and over, he came away not receiving.

Later, he came to understand that he asked without expecting to receive. He was not praying in faith. He told the Lord that this was the last time he would ask for the Baptism of the Spirit because he was going to accept it by faith! That night, after that prayer, the Holy Spirit flooded him and he burst out in a new prayer language. His entire ministry changed as he began to move in a Fresh Anointing.

Your Heavenly Father wants to give the Holy Spirit to those who ask

Luke 11:5–13 ESV

5 And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, 6 for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; 7 and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’? 8 I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs. 9 And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 11 What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; 12 or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

You will not receive a counterfeit or demonic Spirit

When you ask for the Holy Spirit, God will not give you a counterfeit! A scorpion is a counterfeit of an egg, a snake is a counterfeit fish, a stone is the counterfeit of Bread.

Luke A. Dedication in Prayer: Praise and Petition (11:1–13)

11:9–10. Jesus got to the point of his parable: Ask God. Seek something from God. Knock expectantly at God’s door. Admit you are in a position of need and helplessness. Depend on the Father’s goodness and love. If a human fearing shame will open the door, certainly the loving Father you pray to will open the door and provide what you need. The person who truly prays the model prayer will find his prayers answered even when those prayers are petitions for personal need.

11:11–13. Jesus used a farfetched illustration to make his point. No human father of any worth would listen to a son asking for something to eat and reach down into a snake pit to give the child a dangerous animal. The father meets the child’s need rather than scaring or harming him. Similarly, a request for an egg is not met with the gift of a stinging scorpion. Compared to God, we all stand as evil sinners. We cannot compare our love and goodness to God’s. Still, we know how to give what our children need. We can be good to them. How much better will the divine Father treat us! His better gift surprises us. It is a concrete gift of the Holy Spirit. That gift ensures we get anything else we need, for the Holy Spirit becomes God with us, directing us to where we need to go to serve God and to meet our needs. Thus, pray to God in the spirit and words of the model prayer. Expect to receive what you ask for if God is your Father. And ask especially for the Spirit so that all your petitions will be answered.

Butler, T. C. (2000). Luke (Vol. 3, pp. 185–186). Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers.

The outpouring of His Spirit on the church

Acts 2:1–4 ESV

1 When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.