“I recall the exact spot where I was kneeling in prayer in my study. It was a quiet moment, one of the most quiet moments I ever knew.
Then God simply said to me, not in any audible voice, but in my heart, `It’s yours. Now go and preach.’ He had already said it to me in His Word in 1 John 5:14-15; but I did not know my Bible as I know it now, and God had pity on my ignorance and said it directly to my soul.
“I went and preached, and I have been a new minister from that day to this.
“Sometime after this experience (I do not recall just how long after), while sitting in my room one day, suddenly, I found my-self shouting (I was not brought up to shout and I am not of a shouting temperament, but I shouted like the loudest shouting Methodist), ‘Glory to God, glory to God, glory to God,’ and I could not stop. But that was not when I was baptized with the Holy Spirit. I was baptized with the Holy Spirit when I took Him by simple faith in the Word of God.”
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