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The Holy Spirit and You: A Study Guide to the Spirit-Filled Life

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This is an excellent book for anyone only recently introduced to the works of the Holy Spirit, or for the 'mature' Christian seeking a better understanding of how the Holy Spirit's gifts function in the church today. Written from the perspective of someone who started out totally ignorant of the Spirit and His work, the book takes nothing for granted and explains everything clearly and with Scriptural references. A book that I keep several copies on hand - to give to friends and new Christians seeking to understand gifts like tongues, words of wisdom and miracles. THE BEST introduction for those with no knowledge or past experience with the Holy Spirit that I have ever found.

In this book you will find the best description of what the baptism of the Holy Spirit is about!! Includes also a biblical description of each gift of the Spirit and its application for today. In the last section you will find insights about how to walk in the Spirit. Since the very first time I read it 22 years ago, this book assisted me in my christian walking. I strongly recommend this book to every honest believer who is looking for the release of the power of the Holy Ghost in his/her life!!!

This book is a must read for all christians. It takes you from start to finish...everything you ever wanted to know about experiencing the Holy spirit in your life. What a great resource. The information and application of it is life changing!

Father Dennis Bennett wrote this book to simply give his curious readers a look inside the charismatic experience that was taking place at his Episcopal Church in southern California but little did he know that this book will literally launch a new movement within the evangelical church world. From this book has come millions of charismatics within mainline denominations such as Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Roman Catholics, and many others.

The book is written in a autobiography style with Bennett adding verses of Scripture here and there to help the reader see the teaching of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues (Acts 2:4). In short, Father Bennett wants his reader to know that this is indeed an experience with the Spirit but he wants you to see that it is based on Scripture.

While you might read this book and not agree with Father Bennett over the Spirit-Baptism, you can't help but to realize how hungry for Jesus we truly need to be and how God wants us to be on fire for Him (Romans 12:11-12; 1 Thess. 5:19).

All the time in the media you hear "Buy this. Buy that. It will change your life!" Yeah, right.

But this book really did change my life. I got curious about this thing called "the Baptism of the Holy Spirit." Someone loaned me the book. I saw a little prayer in it for receiving "the Heavenly languge of tongues". I read it out loud, with virtually no forethought and no real expectations of anything happening. Suddenly my jaw dropped and I was able to speak in tongues!

Not only that, but within several days another change, totally unexpected, could be seen. I had this new inner peace inside so that my formerly very bad temper was so removed from me that people who worked with me years later could hardly believe I ever had a temper! Victory over a nasty temper was by no means the only blessing that came forth, either.

I have not read this book for over 10 years. There might be things I would nitpick about now that I am a more matured believer. Or maybe not. In any case, I will always be grateful for it.

After reading the Bible I knew there was much more that I had not been taught in my Presbyterian USA church. I had an incredibale spiritual transformation at 16 and all I knew was that I had been "born again". 20 years later I begin to search and found this book. I knew that I could relate to an Episcoplian Priest. He explained a prayer language (tongues)and helped me to understand exactly what it was and how to actually activate it in my life. A MUST for those who are digging deeper and that believe.

This is a very thorough, comprehensive overview of the gifts of the Spirit and its workings. It taught me so much and helped me grow in my faith.
Bennett backs up his teachings with Scriptural references throughout the book, which is also helpful

God used this book to change my life. It explains the truths of scripture in a way that people have to respond to. It is a great, common sense, how-to-guide to get to know the God of the Bible and understand it fully and simply. I can't say enough good things about this book. My life was never the same after I prayed the prayers in it. Buy it!

First off all the edition that I received needed to be proof read because the amount of typos and errors was a bit much.

Though this text is a classic I found it not as thorough or as in depth as I was looking for. The authors tended to stray into other areas that had nothing to do with the chapters they were writing under. For example, the chapter on Discerning of Spirits took a massive detour into a step by step instructional on deliverance. I understand that discernment is needed in deliverance but I was looking for an in depth look at the gift and not a sidebar on deliverance that take over the rest of that chapter.

The final chapters toward the end had a few interesting nuggets but I would not recommend this book to anyone, novice or advanced Christian. It is a classic text but not as practical as I had hoped. There's no heresy in here mind you but its not a very good resource on the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit.

I recommend
The Beginner's Guide to Spiritual Gifts

A wonderful encyclopedia of what God, in His love for us, wants to do for us and through us by His Holy Spirit in us.

Among other things, it explains *word of* wisdom and *word of* knowledge. They're not wisdom and knowledge. They are practical gifts that could remedy situations large and small: the first is a *message* from God to explain a given situation. The second prescribes what to do about it.

Too often, we hear sermons on I Corinthians 12 that end with the Love chapter, 13. This book explains interesting points in 14, and more.

Our lives are much richer when we let the Holy Spirit minister in fullness as He chooses in our lives. But if we don't know what He would like to do, we may close the door. Then we miss out on the fun, joy, excitement, and serious, practical ramifications of seeing the Lord really move in our lives.


Using much Scripture and personal experience, Dennis Bennett shows that God is very practical and wonderful, if we'll let Him do what He wants to do.