Dear Brother Sergio,

As I read the first chapters of The Fire of His Holiness, He revealed to me that what had happened to me three and a half years ago was the baptism with fire you wrote about.

I am Nazarene and was sanctified in 1977--I walked in holiness as I knew it ever since, being careful in obedience to the voice of the Holy Spirit. But, when He created hunger in my heart for more of God, I squelched Him, believing that to seek more than I already had would open me to the work of Satan. Time after time through the years He came and I withdrew, grieving Him. Little did I know I was building a glass wall, block by block, between my spirit and His FULL working!

But in March, 2000, in an act of extreme obedience to Him, He baptized me in an immersion of Himself that absolutely revolutionized my prayer life and love for His Word. He wakened me at night to mentor me in prayer, and to teach me spiritual warfare. However, I still had much of my former prejudice and that glass wall. So He showed me further places in which to shed the good in favor of His ultimate Will. . . .

Since then He has tutored me in wonderful ways to learn these ways of the Holy Spirit that come only by revelation and living with Him in His Word. But I still did not fully see how it fit with what I had experienced as entire sanctification so many years ago. The last piece of the puzzle was fitted by reading your book, for it was then that He showed me He had baptized me with fire!!

Thank you for writing in obedience and love to Him! The fellowship of your pages are and have been precious to me.

Doris, Illinois