Instruction in receiving the Holy Spirit (English / Chinese)
Instruction in receiving the Holy Spirit.
If you want to receive the Holy Spirit, and to experience the working of the Spirit, the direct way is to get to know God through being taught Christian faith and praying for the infilling of the Spirit. If you are not already baptized, you after being taught may be baptized to become a part of the fellowship of Jesus’ disciples. The laying on of hands just after baptism with the water is a prayer for the Holy Spirit.
However, you may yourself pray for the gift of the Holy Spirit
Dear God. I’m longing after a new life which is indwelled by you. I long to live according to your will. I long for a new power and energy to serve other persons and my fellow creatures. Cleanse me from everything that will not prosper and thrive in concert with your sanctity that I know from the life of my Master Jesus.
[You may mention to God some of that of which you know that it harms your relationship with God, your neighbour and your own true nature].
God, I open my heart to you, to Jesus, and to your Holy Spirit. May your Holy Spirit be lavished upon me and fill me with your Spirit. I pray in the name of Jesus Christ.
When other disciples of Jesus is present and assist you in prayer, they may lay their hands on your head and praying for you to receive the Spirit. When the first disciples prayed for people, they did it this way, and the Holy Spirit made his presence manifest.
The first Christians experiences powerful manifestations of the Holy Spirit following this kind of prayer. Many prayed in tongues, i.e. they received a kind of prayer language of sounds that the holy Spirit created in them, and even though you can’t understand the sounds or ”words”, they nevertheless are felt to be a communication with God. Other experienced to receive messages from God; you have an idea of what this means, if you read Listening to the voice of God above. But even if you don’t experience powerful manifestations you should be assured that your prayer is heard. The first fruit of the prayer for the Holy Spirit is an inner peace and comfort, and little by little you look upon yourself and the surrounding world with new eyes. But it may also happen that the Spirit manifests and then you shouldn’t repress what comes, but just let the strange sounds come over your lips as a prayer from the depth of your soul, a sighing or even groaning with God’s Spirit.
領受聖靈的指引 – instruction in receiving the Holy Spirit – in Chinese
若你想領受聖靈，以及經驗聖靈的工作，直接的方法就是透過所學習的基督教信仰認識上帝，並以禱告祈求聖靈充滿。若你並未接受洗禮，經過學習後你可以接受洗禮成為耶穌門徒的一分子。用水洗禮後的按手祈禱正是祈求聖靈。
然而，你也可以自己祈求聖靈的恩賜：
親愛的上帝，我渴望一個有你居住其中的新生命。我渴望按照你的旨意生活。我渴望有新的力量服事他人及眾生。潔淨我，脫離一切有違那我從主耶穌生命所得知的、並不使我在你的神聖中發旺生長的事情。
［你可以向上帝提及那些對你與上帝、他人及你自己本性之間關係有害的事情。］
上帝，我向你、耶穌和聖靈打開我心。願你賜下聖靈，是我充滿你的靈。奉耶穌基督的名禱告。
當其他信徒在場藉著禱告輔助你，他們可以按手在你頭上，並祈求你能領受聖靈。門徒最初為人禱告的時候，他們也是這樣做，然後聖靈顯示了自己。
緊隨基督徒初次經驗聖靈大能的顯示的，正是這種祈禱。很多人用方言祈禱，即是他們領受了聖靈在他們裡面創造出的一種禱告聲音的語言，即使你不能理解那些聲音或「字詞」，他們誠然感受正在與上帝溝通。其他人經驗從上帝領受信息；若你閱讀上文聆聽主的聲音，你就知道這是甚麼意思。 但即使你沒有經驗大能的顯示，你也應放心自己的禱告已蒙垂聽。祈求聖靈的第一個果效就是內心平安與安慰，你能逐漸以新的眼光看待自己和週遭的世界。但這也可以發生於聖靈顯現的時候，那時你不應壓抑，就容讓你的唇舌溢出奇怪的聲音，就正於從你靈魂深出溢出的禱告，聖靈那說不出的歎息。
