Christian - How long after you trusted Jesus as your Savior?

Question

If applicable - How long after you trusted Jesus as your Savior were you baptized in water?
How about baptized in the Holy Spirit?

AdoreHim - Why, in the book of Acts, did some receive the Holy Spirit some time after they believed?

Answer 1

I've trusted Jesus all my life and I was baptized when I was 10.

Answer 2

I trust Jesus as my savior since the age of 3. The pastor would not baptize me until I was about 9. I was baptized in the Holy Spirit about at age 20.

Answer 3

I accepted Jesus on Sept. 15, 1982.
I was baptized in the Holy Spirit on Sept. 16, 1982.
I was water baptized about four years later.

Some do not understand the difference of having the Holy Spirit within them from conversion, to the Baptism in Holy Spirit.

Baptism means "immersion". Nothing more, nothing less. Not all believers have been immersed in the Holy Spirit. Just as not all claiming to have been baptized were immersed. The practice of "sprinkling" someone that hasn't made their own personal choice is only symbolic.

God bless you keep you
Daniel

Answer 4

Well for me i was at a baptizing when i became saved and ran to the water to be next in line to be baptized. As for baptized in the Holy spirit.Alot of people have the wrong idea about the Holy Spirit, when you become a Christian the Holy Spirit is in you. God will not abide in a unclean "UNHOLY" body.

I've been on the winning side for 5 years now. Glory be to God.

Answer 5

I was baptized at seven but did not receive the holy spirit until I really accepted God in my life. The baptism of the holy spirit was an awesome experience for me. That is when I truly begin to feel His presence and love for me.

Answer 6

After asking Jesus Christ to come into my heart and save me and he did I was immediately baptised in the Holy Spirit, It was about 8 months later when I got water baptism. During Jesus's time some people were not immediately baptized by the Holy Ghost because they had absolutely no clue Jesus had risen from the dead. The had only been baptized by Johns baptism, which was by water only. Once they had the knowledge which the Apostle Peter turned loose on cornelious did they receive the Holy Ghost as Peter explained to them that Jesus had risen from the dead and was sitting at the right hand of the Father, of course the Bible says that God knows who is his and he isnot going to let someone go to hell for not knowing the truth, thats why I love the day of Pentecost, what a day in Christian History, Praise the Lord!!! My question to you now is have you been saved, have you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, here is a sinners Prayer, if you will Pray this believeing you willbe saved, Just say Dear Jesus, I just ask you right now to come into my life and save me, I admit and confess that I am a sinner. I believe that you came and died on a cross for my sins, and that you rose from the grave as a perfect sacrifice to cover the sins of all mankind. I do believe you are the Son of God and I ask you to make me one of your children in the Kingdom of Heaven,and be my Lord and Saviour, in Jesus Name Amen, If you Prayed this Prayer with a sincere heart you are now saved, You should feel a burden being lifted off your heart and the days will seem brighter as Christ begins a work in you, find a church, and start reading your Bible, may God Bless YOU!!! If you have any questions please feel free to email me. Mercy and Grace have been applied!!!

Answer 7

I don't remember but I was about 12 when I was baptized in water and about 14 when I was baptized in the Holy Spirit.

Answer 8

Water baptism has no spiritual meaning. Jesus never water Baptized, but John the Baptist did. What did he say ? "I John, (the Baptist) merely baptize you with water; He Jesus Christ is come, and He will (eternally) Baptize you in the Divine Fire of God's Spirit."

Have any here been Born Eternal in Jesus and God as One Spirit here Who gives freely this Sacred, unspeakable Fire Baptism ? Many have. Blaise Pascal, Charles Finney and others have so testified. I am Spirit Born in this Sacred Vision of God and Jesus here as our True Light of God on May 24, AD1977 and forevermore and in Eternity. I know Him; and I Know that He does infinitely love and spiritually Guide and protect and transform all humans who are sincere of heart.

All humans who now believe in our loving Father God are Spirit Baptized even though they may not know this yet. ...but being aware of God's and Jesus' One Combined Divine Light --Fire Baptism -- does not make one higher than other believers --just more stimulated to do God's will forever as a perfecting ambassador of Jesus Christ.

See and believe Jesus Words of John 12:31-32 and John 16:7-16. Also Rev 21:3-7 They are so spiritual and profound that few human ministers even talk much about them in His Reality here.

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Answer 9

"sprinkled" as an infant
accepted Jesus as my Savior (included receiving Spirit) at 7
baptized in the Spirit (allowing the Spirit free reign in my life) at 15
"immersed" at 34

Answer 10

The moment I received Christ , Received the Holy Spirit. It says in the Bible- that he who has Christ has the Spirit, he would does not have Christ does not have the Spirit. I was baptized in water- maybe 5 years after becoming a Christian- it was a step that I knew I had to take in obedience to Christ. Baptism of the Holy Spirit is at the time of conversion.

Answer 11

All my life. I was taught about Jesus, and taught to pray, at an early age, and never doubted Him for a minute since.

Baptism in the Holy Spirit - my own Christian baptism in infancy has been enough for God to give me all that I need to know God and love God, and to trust God's personal care for me..