Acts 18,19

When Paul came to Ephesus, he asked the believers, “Have you received the Holy Spirit?” He prayed for a group of twelve after baptizing them in the name of Jesus. He laid his hands on them. They received and began speaking in tongues.

This is the scriptural pattern for receiving the Holy Spirit infilling/baptism. This happened to me when I was 16 years old. I have prayed in tongues ever since.

When our daughter Ashley was born, she suffered a laryngospasm … her little vocal cords sealed off the airway and she started turning blue. When the nurse saw it, she hit the button on the wall and immediately medical people arrived and began working on her. Poor Patty, she was watching it all from her bed, having just given birth. I felt led to begin praying in the Spirit in tongues, under my breath. Praise the Lord, Ashley was OK.

” The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”  [Rom. 8:26]