How do you know if you’ve been baptized by fire? What does it feel like?
- Denise R Dahlheimer
- Feb 11, 2021
- 1 min read
When the fire of the Holy Spirit gets in a person, that person’s life changes at that instance. And they are propelled constantly forward to things that are good and right. The call of things from the dark side lose their wooing strengths.
As for the feeling…for me… when I pray in tongues, when I sing along to worship music, when I paint or when I blog what I have painted… I get a catch in my throat, tears well up in my eyes and the knowing of just how grateful I am that Jesus loves me envelopes all of me with hope. And other times I can sit quietly and just be. Which is what my ministry is about. Hope. That yes you were supposed to be born. That there is a reason you are here. You matter. You make a difference.
Baptism by fire has burned up the old man in me and changed my heart in ways that could not have imagined.
I first spoke in tongues at age 12 and my grandparents saw and remarked in the change, even though I had many years of sanctifying me that lay ahead! And, the same fire of Baptism is still burning away the remaining spots and wrinkles at my sweet age of 73! Glory to God!