Guideline Prayer for Baptism of the Holy Spirit
(by Angie Lake)

Here is a guideline of how I pray for someone for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.  (Most of the time.)

First, I lead in a prayer to invite Jesus into their hearts if they haven’t yet done that.  (Revelation 3:20)

Because Jesus is the One who baptizes in the Holy Spirit, I ask the person to ask Jesus to baptize them in His Holy Spirit.  (Luke 11:9-13)  Whoever asks will receive!  Remember it is an act of faith not a feeling!

(Note:  When we are baptized by water, we are baptized in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.  We actually receive the Holy Spirit at that time.  As the saying goes, we have the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit doesn’t have us!   Since we are usually infants at our baptism in the Roman Catholic Church, we are unable to make a conscious verbal decision to profess our faith.  The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is an opportunity for us to yield ourselves to God’s will by professing our faith and by asking the Holy Spirit to take over our lives and asking Jesus to be Lord of our lives.)  (“No one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit”  1 Corinthians 12:1-3

After praying the prayers on the previous page, I place my hands on their heads and I pray out loud asking that Jesus baptize them with His Holy Spirit and with Fire as promised in the Scriptures.  (Matthew 3:11)  I ask that Jesus fill them with His Holy Spirit and to send every good gift upon them.  (Isaiah 11:1-2; Isaiah 61:1-3)