First Baptist Church St. Paris

``What we see in the beginning of the gospel of John, Jesus institutes a new era where you can receive the holy spirit and never have to ask for it again and again and again. I believe that the scripture teaches that when you confess Jesus as Lord and come to know Jesus as your savior, you are given the Holy Spirit at that moment in time, and the Holy Spirit never leaves you. If you're truly one of God's, it never leaves you. Our prayer is not give me more of the spirit. The prayer probably ought to be, Lord, make less of me so I'm aware of the spirit that's already in me.