There is no lottery to determine who will receive the Holy Spirit; only a few are chosen. It’s not a random game. No one is a winner or a loser. God equips those He calls. Power is more than enough for everyone. No one is excluded, and there are no leftovers.
Don’t rule yourself out if you’ve previously been endorsed.
The Bible is precise and without ambiguity. The Holy Spirit baptism is not merely for a select group of people who are “God’s favorites.” God does not favor anyone. We are all His favorites, in actuality.
Acts 2:3 and 4 tell us that there were 120 men and women in the Upper Room on the Day of Pentecost when “divided tongues as of fire appeared to them, and one sat upon each of them.” And the Holy Spirit descended upon them all. It wasn’t a fluke, and it wasn’t a lottery! The 120 were received, and “all” were filled. Their age, race, or social standing were not taken into account, nor was their gender.
Since one flame fell “on each of them,” someone in heaven must have counted the heads. God has a flame for everyone with a head.
You are currently included in His count. You will be given power. (Acts 1:8). Imagine the Holy Spirit’s fire using the top of your head as a runway. He lands and stays still, never taking flight evermore.
On the Day of Pentecost, all 120 of the disciples present in the upper room experienced the Holy Spirit’s baptism. Everyone was included. It wasn’t simply for the 12 apostles that we are familiar with or who accompanied Jesus everywhere. There were some recipients who went unnamed.
They were loyal despite not being well-known. In the Upper Room, they appeared and awaited the promise. When the Holy Spirit descended upon everyone, a blazing flame descended upon each of their heads in the number of 120 devoted people. You will have a blaze of power for your assignment if you turn up.
We are made to be reliant on God’s mercy and strength. Without Him, we are powerless. (John 15:5). His sufficiency is everything we need. (2 Corinthians 3:5).
God gives us His Spirit because we require His consolation, direction, and sometimes even correction. He awakens His strength and gifts in us because we require them for His mission—spiritual tools for a spiritual task.
We do not have a fixed amount of spiritual wealth and power resources that enable us to operate independently. We are not small “Christs” who can live on our own. Like the branches of a vine get sap, we receive from Christ’s fullness moment by moment, “out of” our fullness. We are entire in Him and not vines unto ourselves, leading separate lives. (Colossians 2:10).
To make people think how amazing we are, we are not called to travel the entire world with our own personal power source. For an hour, we could show off our own charisma and set things off, but eventually, fuel in our own personal power plant will run out.
We are merely His power’s conductors rather than its creators. “The Church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all,” according to Ephesians 1:22 and 23. He is supposed to fill and flow through us. Not the source, but channels instead. According to Jesus, “Just as a branch cannot bear fruit of itself apart from the vine, neither can you separate from abiding in Me.” (John 15:4).
May God fill us with his spirit and grant us the power to be victorious over all the vices of the enemy in Jesus’s name.
