What if your spiritual life moved from “I should” to “I want to”? We dive straight into a bold claim with Pastor/Author Dennis Smith: there’s more available than the new birth. The baptism of the Holy Spirit, as he describes it, makes your relationship with Jesus personal, practical, and powerful—turning prayer into a conversation that guides your steps and Scripture into a living voice that reshapes your day.

We unpack the difference between the Spirit’s universal work of conviction and the empowering fullness promised to believers. Dennis shares how Acts 8–9 reframed his expectations and why “be filled” in Ephesians points to a continual, daily dependence. The takeaway is simple and disruptive: ask to be filled in the morning, keep asking as you move through your tasks, and expect evidence in fresh desire for prayer, deeper hunger for the Word, and timely strength in ordinary pressure points like impatience, conflict, and fear. That’s where imparted righteousness shows up—Christ in you, not as slogan but as living supply. Need patience in a grocery line? Ask for His patience. Need courage, forgiveness, or pure thoughts? Draw from His life within you.

We also talk about readiness for the last days without hype. The disciples had proximity to Jesus yet were told to wait for power; Dennis urges us to chase the Giver over the signs. From there, the conversation turns tender as he opens about losing his wife and how the Spirit met him in grief, even revealing the Father’s own sorrow at the cross. Comfort became more than a verse; it was the presence of Christ walking with him. If love intensifies loss, imagine the Father’s love and what it cost. That insight reshaped his worship and his ministry, pointing back to a faith that rests fully on Jesus working through us.

If you’re hungry for a steadier prayer life, practical holiness, and real power for witness, this conversation offers a path: claim the promise, keep on being filled, and let glory within prepare you for glory ahead. If it helps you, share it with a friend, subscribe for more conversations like this, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway so we can keep serving you well.

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