Promoted by God

Is the Baptism in the Holy Spirit for today?

"When I returned from the conference in New Mexico, Ida Mae met
me at the door, and she was grinning. Before I could get in the door she
queried, 'Guess what happened to me while you were gone?' In one burst
of speech she said, "I received the baptism in the Holy Spirit, and I speak
in tongues!"

"Now I was really shaken. This baptism in the Holy Spirit must be a
reality, but I could not accept even the testimony of my wife as final
authority. I told her that I had to find it in the Bible.

"For three weeks I poured over the Scriptures and waited before God
in prayer. I was determined to find the answers directly from God and in
the Bible. Didn't I already have the Holy Spirit by being born of the Spirit?
Was this baptism in the Holy Spirit for today? What was the purpose of this
baptism? What were the qualifications for it? Were tongues a part of this
experience? Did tongues have any useful purpose?"

Then, Frank Hammond met the Holy Spirit as baptizer...

"Here I stood, in the middle of a conference, praying in tongues, and
there was no fear or embarrassment. I prayed in a very definite tongue;
then there was a smooth transition and a different tongue began to come
forth, and then yet another distinct language came forth.

"The report of my baptism in the Holy Spirit traveled quickly throughout
the convention, and the next morning I was asked to give my testimony.
A few months later that testimony was published in Voice, the official
magazine of the Full Gospel Businessmen?s Fellowship International. My experience was far from secret."