The Baptism in the Holy Spirit | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:43:41 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg The Baptism in the Holy Spirit | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 The Spirit Helps Us Speak Creative Words of Energy and Life https://anitamathias.com/2023/06/18/the-spirit-helps-us-speak-creative-words-of-energy-and-life/ https://anitamathias.com/2023/06/18/the-spirit-helps-us-speak-creative-words-of-energy-and-life/#comments Sun, 18 Jun 2023 19:29:16 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/?p=68240 The Spirit Helps Us Speak Creative Words of Energy and Life Matthew tells us: Then they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, and Jesus healed him so that he could both talk and see. All the people were astonished and said, “Could this be the Son of David?”  Matthew 12: 22-24   […]

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The post On the amazing Baptism in the Holy Spirit–and its limits! first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2018/03/16/on-the-amazing-baptism-in-the-holy-spirit-and-its-limits/feed/ 7 My Experience of The Baptism in the Holy Spirit and of Speaking in Tongues https://anitamathias.com/2014/01/29/experience-baptism-holy-spirit-speaking-tongues/ https://anitamathias.com/2014/01/29/experience-baptism-holy-spirit-speaking-tongues/#comments Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:17:05 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=56802 So here I am, stressed and anxious. Or happy, at peace and joyful. And almost without realizing it, I find myself praying. In tongues. * * * How do I find myself in Oxford, England, in the 21st century, praying in tongues, this ancient First Century gift vividly described in The Acts of the Apostles? Well, 30ish […]

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