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How to Pray for the Release of the Holy Spirit: What the Baptism of the Holy Spirit Is & How to Pray for It

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I read this book, desperate to do accomplish what the title of the book suggests. I was more than pleased with the outcome! For a while, I've been praying and praying for the "release" of the Holy Spirit, but something was hindering Him from revealing His power in my life. This book showed me what it was and I was able to be touched by the Lord like never before. If you really want a closer relationship with God, please read this book. The "release" of the Holy Spirit will bring you closer to God like you'd never dream of. This book is not intimidating at all for babes in Christ like myself. Please read this book if you want to "pray with power."

This book is great and it is written out in plain, easy to understand language! He uses great word pictures to explain things and thus any prior struggles with understanding or comprehending the Holy Spirit and the Baptism in the Holy Spirit are all cleared up for you here. What a blessing this book was for me and I've already recommended it to others. After three years of trying to 'receive' the Holy Spirit...i read this book and after doing the things it instructed and then applying it I am now exhibiting my prayer language! The book was easy to read and can be read in a matter or hours. Read this and be on your way to an exciting life in the Spirit of God.

There are many Christians who have misconceptions and fear about the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. This book answers every question with scripture and gives leaders and lay people tools to lead others to the power of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. This book combined with the "Holy Spirit and You" and the Bible are the best resources available for those desiring to recieve. I thought they were so powerful that I have bought a large stock to just keep giving away to anyone who desires to experience the release of the Holy Spirit as God intended as the norm for all Christians. Mis-education and fear have kept main-line churches from receieving and using the gifts and tools that God intended for us to have. Dennis Bennet is a normal traditional Episcopalian priest who approaches the topic with clarity.

I read this book in one evening and received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit as soon as I put the book down. This is a must read for anyone seeking the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Also a great teaching aid in helping others receive "release". Easy to read, and very down to earth. A must for every Pastors library.

How to Pray for the Release of the Holy Spirit is a book of both spiritual and historical significance. The late Dennis Bennett's experience as an Episcopal priest who began speaking in tongues in the late 1950s and the events that followed (see his book Nine O'Clock in the Morning for a firsthand account) is widely considered to have marked the beginning of the charismatic movement in the mainline Protestant and Catholic churches. As the movement expanded in the years that followed, Bennett himself remained active and taught many people about the Spirit-filled life, inviting them to yield to the Spirit's work and leading them in prayer for "the release of the Holy Spirit" that equips believers through spiritual gifts for Christian witness and service.

This book delivers the content of these teachings. Bennett seems to have written it for the purpose of helping other people teach on this topic in the same way he did; accordingly, most of the text is essentially what the speaker might say to an assembled congregation, small group, or retreat gathering. He goes so far as to include bracketed comments and bits of advice for leaders at specific points in the teaching; for example, questions or objections they might anticipate on certain topics and how to respond to them. These additions, while useful for speakers, would be distracting to those who use the book in personal study and confusing to those for whom the teaching is new. They should have been put in an appendix.

While the author's foundational teaching on the work of the Holy Spirit is mostly uncontroversial, he enters more divisive territory with his heavy emphasis on the gift of tongues. The upshot of his teaching on this topic is close to the Pentecostal view of this gift as a necessary initial evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit (though he himself doesn't use this term). This will be either a positive or a negative aspect of the book depending on the reader's own stance on the issue. A "prayer language," states the author, is available to every Christian who asks for one, implying that unaddressed sin or other spiritual impediments are the cause of unanswered prayers for this gift. The biblical support for the author's position, which has created tragic and unwarranted feelings of insecurity in many believers about their own standing in the Lord, is shaky at best. A more balanced perspective on these issues is available in several other books, including The Baptism with the Holy Spirit by R. A. Torrey (briefly) and Receiving the Power by Zeb Bradford Long and Douglas McMurray (in greater detail).

Nevertheless, God has used Bennett's teaching about the Holy Spirit, theological hiccups and all, to bring personal renewal and spiritual empowerment to the lives of countless believers. It is deserving of careful reading and prayerful reflection.

I really enjoyed the simplicity of this book. It explained everything very well and can easily be read in one or two evenings. This is a great book for explaining one of the Gifts of the Spirit to Christians. It also was a very good reference for how to release the Holy Spirit and let the Spirit flow more freely in our Lives.

I read this book, desperate to do accomplish what the title of the book suggests. I was more than pleased with the outcome! For a while, I've been praying and praying for the "release" of the Holy Spirit, but something was hindering Him from revealing His power in my life. This book showed me what it was and I was able to be touched by the Lord like never before. If you really want a closer relationship with God, please read this book. The "release" of the Holy Spirit will bring you closer to God like you'd never dream of. This book is not intimidating at all for babes in Christ like myself. Please read this book if you want to "pray with power."

This book has really given me an understanding of who the Holy Spirit is and how He works in our lives. It gives real world knowledge that is easy to follow and understand. I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a greater understanding of the Holy Spirit.

The book was very informative. Easy to understand the terminology. I would recommend this book for others to read.

If you are looking for biblically and doctrinally sound information about the wonderful Holy Spirit, who is the Third Person of the Trinity, then you will gain much from reading this book. It is a classic.