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DAY 3: Stay Filled with the Spirit

It’s not enough to be baptized in the Holy Spirit one time. You have to stay filled with the Spirit. As Christians, it seems, we spring leaks. When we read the Book of Acts, we see clearly that the apostles weren’t just filled with the Spirit once and for all on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:4). We also read two more accounts of the disciples being filled with the Spirit in Acts 4:31 and Acts 13:52. If the apostles—who were witnesses of Christ’s ministry on earth, death, and resurrection—had to be filled with the Spirit over and over again, how much more so do we?

I constantly ask the Lord, “Fill me with Your Spirit.” I know I need a fresh infilling. I know a little dab won’t do me. I need “huge draughts of Him.”

When the enemy works to bring death and destruction in our lives, we have to remind ourselves that the Spirit who raised Christ from the dead dwells on the inside of us. Then we need to ask Him to fill us again with that life-giving river. When the enemy comes to frustrate God’s purposes in our lives, we need to remember the Spirit of grace is resident in us and ask Him for more, more, and more.