On this Pentecost Sunday, I want to just take a few moments to write about being the joy of Spirit filled Living. One of my favorite things to do is pray for people to be filled with the Holy Spirit. We need the power of the Holy Spirit in our life more now than ever! So often, believers have no idea that we can have this wonderful power from God today. There is a simple prayer to pray if you want to be filled. The prayer I lead anyone in who wants to be filled is this: Jesus, I ask you to fill me with the Holy Spirit, and I will speak in tongues as the Holy Spirit gives me the words. Before we pray this prayer, I mention that you can’t speak with two languages at one time, so only speak the words that are coming from your spirit. It usually feels like silly sounding syllables and often you feel like speaking in tongues is just speaking gibberish, but it is a heavenly language and it won’t sound familiar. I encourage the one getting filled to speak up, but often they just start speaking in tongues in a whisper, which is just as good! The beautiful thing about speaking in tongues is that it isn’t like laboriously learning a foreign language; you get the whole language at one time. Amazing! From the moment you get your new prayer language, I always encourage taking time to pray in the spirit every day! Start your day off that way, as soon as you wake up, and every time you can during your day, pray in tongues! It builds you up on your most Holy faith. Of course the best part of being filled is that you have power to witness. So on top of having a beautiful new language to pray perfectly to our Father God, we are energized from the inside to share the gospel! How cool is that! Let’s get filled, stay full and share the gospel everywhere we go. That’s the power of the Holy Spirit at work in you.