s yours! _Have you got it?_ If not,
deal with the Lord about it at once, somewhat after this manner, "Lord
Jesus, Thou dost command me to be filled with the Spirit. I take Thy
command and make it my prayer, 'Lord, fill me with Thy Spirit.' Thou hast
told me that 'all things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye
have received them, and ye shall have them' (Mark xi. 24). It is Thy
desire to fill me; it is my desire to be filled. I have made, 'Lord, fill
me,' the prayer of my heart. I claim the Fullness. I believe for it. I
receive it now by faith. I _have_ received it. I have it. It is mine.
Lord, I thank Thee for filling me, even me, with Thine Holy Spirit." And
the blessed business is done! It is yours to believe, to receive. It is
_His_ to fill. Go on your way now, reckoning that you are filled, and God
will make the reckoning good. It is _yours_ to _keep believing_. It is
God's to _keep you filled_. Stagger not at the promise of God through
unbelief, but be made strong in faith, giving glory to God. Some object
to this quick, almost instantaneous, and easy way of receiving this
greatest of the New Testament blessings. But every objection urged against
receiving the Fullness of the Spirit in this way, applies with equal, if
not greater force to a sinner receiving the pardon of his sins when he
comes to God at the first. It is always in grace that God deals with the
sinner, and justifies him the instant he believes in Jesus. It is always
in grace that God deals with the justified one, and fills him with the
Holy Ghost the moment he receives the Fullness by faith. Eternal life is
the gift of God, and all the sinner has to do is to take it. The Holy
Ghost is a gift, and all God's child has to do is to take it. But some
will still object, and say that it is necessary to spend some time
"waiting" on God for the Fullness before we can get it. A night of prayer,
or a half night at least, a more or less protracted season must thus be
spent before we can hope to receive the blessing we desire. Of course not
one word can be uttered against spending seasons of prayer by day or by
night in waiting upon God. We have the example of the Man of Prayer
Himself before us in this. But this much must be said, that many a one has
spent whole days and nights and weeks in earnest crying to God for the
infilling of the Holy Ghost, and all in vain. All in vain? Why? How?
_Because of unbelief._ If you want to fill a corked bottle with wa