When I got saved I always wanted to be filled with the Holy Spirit. I have received two times in my life the touch of God and when He touched me some power went from my head and through all my body, but I wasn’t aware that it was the Holy Spirit who touched me. Later in my life, I came to know that Holy Spirit only touched me two times. Now I always want that touch to happen in my life when I start to pray but after praying I will found myself asleep. For the past several years, I haven’t received his touch. Also in all those years, I have been backslid many times. I hope you understand that only my desire is to be filled with Holy Spirit, but I am not able to be filled. Yesterday also I was praying but I found myself sleeping because I get tired when I am praying and I give up also easily. Can you tell me why this is happening to me and what shall I do to overcome this?<\/p>\n\t
People have taken on numerous ideas about how the Holy Spirit operates, but the sad thing is that they don’t look at God’s Word to see what God says happens. I would like you to read “All Feeling, No Proof<\/a>” and “Distinguishing Faith and Feelings<\/a>.” I would like you to look through your Bible and find any indication that the Holy Spirit chooses to operate in the manner in which you stated.<\/p>\n You see, the big problem that I have is that you had a feeling that you attributed to the Holy Spirit — a feeling that served no purpose. Yet, God doesn’t do things in such a purposeless manner. For a better idea of what it means to have the Spirit dwelling with you, see:\u00a0Indwelling<\/a>.<\/p>\n Regarding prayer, see:<\/p>\n Question: When I got saved I always wanted to be filled with the Holy Spirit. I have received two times in my life the touch of God and when He touched me some power went from my head and through all my body, but I wasn’t aware that it was the Holy Spirit who touched…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[86,1510],"class_list":["post-32403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-holy-spirit","tag-prayers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13667,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/paul-was-filled-with-the-spirit-before-he-was-baptized-so-wasnt-he-saved-before-baptism\/","url_meta":{"origin":32403,"position":0},"title":"Paul was filled with the Spirit before he was baptized, so wasn’t he saved before baptism?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I figured I would just point out two significant points in the Bible. 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