Being Continually Filled with the Holy Spirit

Bazil Howard-Browne

Dedication

I want to dedicate this book to my best friend and “help meet”, my lovely wife, Ann, who is always there for me and is such a blessing to me and the ministry.

Also to my three wonderful children Bradley, Kayley and Jessica who are the best children in the world that any dad would be proud of. You are all so special. I Love you all.

Foreword

Dear Reader:

I have often been asked, “How do I get filled with the Holy Ghost and stay continuously filled every day of my life through every circumstance?” I believe the book you are about to read will answer those questions.

Today many people are seeking after an experience with God, instead of seeking His face that they may have a personal life changing encounter with Him. But as you seek His face, you will find that God has been waiting on you. That He might come and fill you to overflowing.

Get hungry, get thirsty for God. Then expect Him to do for you what He has promised.

“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled,” Matthew 5:6.

God Bless you,

Bazil Howard-Browne

Copyright

Copyright © 1997 By Bazil Howard-Browne

Unless otherwise indicated, all scripture quotations are taken from the Amplified Bible.

Being Filled With the Spirit

Acts 2:1-4 says, “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. ”

Have you ever noticed something about the day of Pentecost? They were first filled with the Holy Ghost and then began to speak in other tongues. Today people speak in other tongues, but are not filled. So what happens? They leave the church, go out and fill up on the things of the world. God is shaking the church. God is bringing about a change. People coming to church who were dry and dead are being resurrected. God is filling them up with His power and His glory. He is setting people free. God is raising up an army to prepare the Body of Christ for the final outpouring of the Holy Ghost.

Ephesians 5:18 says, “And be not drunk with mine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit. ”

This is a commandment from God. God says, “Do not be drunk with wine, but be filled with the Spirit of God.” The church is drunk on the things of the world. God is removing those things out of our hearts and lives by His power. He is setting us free. He is filling us up with the Spirit of God.

Being Hungry and Thirsty

Many people see the joy, the drunkenness and other great manifestations of the Holy Ghost and think, “Is this all God has for me?” If you think that this is all that God has for you, you are mistaken. God has so much more. All He is looking for is hungry and thirsty people. He needs to find hungry and thirsty people.

Matthew 5:6 says, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. ”

We need to say, “God, come and start a work in my life. Come and change my life. Come and do a work on the inside of me. It is time for change Lord. I am hungry and thirsty for more of you. Have your way in my heart and my life.”

Controlling Spirits

For too long, there have been people inside the church who have been controlling what God does in church. For too long, people have been controlling what the pastor does in the church. You will find the people who control the most are the same people that don’t do anything for God.

What amazes me the most is God always finds someone who never tithes, very seldom attends church, sits in the back seat of the church, never worships the Lord, never raises his hands and never pray in tongues but these are the same people that God gets a hold of and gives direction for the Body of Christ.

Isn’t that amazing? Some people think God is brain dead. God is not brain dead; they are. People think that they always have the direction for the church. Let me tell you something, when God raises a man of God to take a church, God will put a vision on the inside of that man. God is not going to give 20 different people in the same church 20 different visions. That will just bring confusion to the body of Christ. God knows what He is doing and we need to get in line with Him. We need to quit trying to control what God wants to do. Let God be God and let Him have His way.

God Is Shaking the Church

So many people are trying to run the church from the world’s point of view and they are bringing the world’s ideas and concepts into the church. Then they expect God to still bless it. They let the things of the world grow in their hearts and try to implant them into the Body of Christ. It may have been successful for a season, but with the anointing being poured out and with the revival that we see happening in these last days, there is going to be no room for any garbage.

1 Peter 4:17 says, “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?”

God, with the fire of the Holy Ghost, is burning out all of the excess garbage that we want to bring from the world into the church. The fire of the Holy Ghost is burning out all of the garbage in our hearts and lives and setting us completely free.

God is shaping the church. God is cleaning up the Body of Christ. Jesus said he is coming back for a victorious church. When you look at the Body of Christ today, they are not very victorious. Everyone is fighting with everyone else. Churches are splitting down the middle because one side of the church wants to baptize three times and the other side wants to baptize once.

These are really petty little things that will keep us from entering into the fullness of what Christ has for us. Those things that are not of God are going to fall by the wayside. They are not going to be there very long. Those things that are of the Spirit are going to stand. When we go through tests and trials, the things that are of the Spirit of God are going to stand and will come out on the other side stronger than before.

God Is Not Confused — We Are

Some people want to argue and nit-pick over the little things. Then, when it comes to the moving of the Spirit of God, they do not know what is happening. They haven’t got a clue. Then they come to revival meetings and see people drunk in the Holy Ghost and laughing uncontrollably with the joy of the Lord and say, “This is not God. This can’t be God. God does not operate like this.” Let me ask you, what is God doing and how does He operate? Is God causing the confusion that you have in your church? Is God causing everyone to gossip about everyone else? Is it God when we backs tab the pastor? Is this the confusion that the Holy Ghost brings? No! That’s the confusion of the devil. It is the confusion of the world. Thank God with this anointing the people that have been a problem in the Body of Christ are either going to have their hearts changed by God or they are getting out.

In these last days with the anointing of the Spirit of God we are either going to get in the move of the Holy Ghost, get out or get run over. God is not waiting for us any longer. God is on the move and we need to move with Him.

The Kitchen Door Is Open

When we come and do a two, three or four week revival, I have heard pastors say to me they are so committed to the church that they will never leave. Yet, when the power of God falls, they are out the door. They cannot stand the heat. If you cannot stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. The fire of God is falling and God is changing His people. We need what we see happening in the church today.

Seek the Face of Jesus

When you come into these meetings, do not come to seek an experience. Do not say, “I have got to seek something, I have come to get the joy, I have come to get drunk on the Holy Ghost.” Everyone in the Body of Christ needs the joy. Everyone in the Body of Christ needs to drink of the new wine of the Holy Ghost.

You are not to seek after an experience or the touch of a man. You are to seek after the Lord Jesus Christ. You are to seek the face of Jesus Christ. I have had people come to my meetings and say, “We have come to check you out, Brother Bazil. We have come to see how similar you are to your brother, Rodney.” At the end of the meeting they say to me, “You are totally different.” Thank God for that. I am not here to imitate him. I am here to imitate Jesus Christ. We need to try to be more like Jesus. Do not come to seek an experience. Come to seek the face of Jesus.

Mark 5:24-34 says, “And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him. And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, when she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. Far she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague. ”

Like the woman with the issue of blood in Mark 5:24-34, we are coming into His presence to touch Him; and when we touch Him, He will touch and change us.

Being Filled — Everyday

God commands us to be filled with the Spirit of God. Being filled with the Spirit of God is a daily occurrence. Do not think you can come to church on Sunday morning, get touched and that is all for the rest of the week. Just a little dab will not do you. If you could look into the realm of the Spirit and see some people, you would see that their spiritual being is really thin, but their physical being may be big and fat. Why? Because they feed themselves during the week on twenty-one big, hot meals. Some people eat once a day... all day.

Physically they are bulging. Spiritually, they go to church on a Sunday morning and get fed one cold snack once a week. Then they wonder why spiritually they are not doing anything for God. There are a lot of people out there whose physical bodies and spiritual bodies do not match up. Then there are those who are the other way around. Physically, they are thin and spiritually, they are fat because they go to church and just gulp and gulp and gulp. They never give anything out. They are spiritually fat babies.

Do not think you can go into church once a week and it is enough. Every day you get up and say, “This is the day the Lord has made, even if it is a Monday morning, I am going to rejoice and be glad in it. Father, I thank You that the rain from heaven falls on me right now, that You fill me up and saturate me with Your presence.” This is something we have to do every day. Being continuously filled with the Spirit of Almighty God is a way of life.

Promise of the Holy Ghost

Luke 11:13 says, “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?”

The Holy Spirit has been promised to us as believers. Most of the time we are blaming God for the things in our lives when we really should get up in the morning, look in the mirror and say, “It is you, you ugly outfit. You need to get your act together.” If there is a problem in our life, it is not God; it is us. God has given us everything. He has given us the Holy Spirit as He promised. The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Godhead. He is our Comforter and our Guide or “paraclete.” This means He has been sent alongside to help us.

Have You Run Dry?

You can get filled today, but two weeks down the road you are dry again. How many of you have seen people get touched and when you see them a month later they look terrible? They do not even look like they go to church. They do not even look like they are saved. They are dry and dead. They have lost their joy and have run dry. You cannot keep living on past experiences that have happened to you. I understand it is good for you to tell people and share the things that God has done for you in the past. I do that all the time. What I am talking about is something God did recently. I can tell you what God did for me in January, 1993. I can also tell you what God had done for me last week. I can tell you what God has done for me today. This is a daily lifestyle; a daily walk with God.

It Is a Way of Life

You can take a glass of water and pour it out so that there is no more water in the glass. It is empty and dry. But you could go to a pitcher and fill it up again. Then you would have a filled glass of water. But this glass of water can also run dry. If you drink it, there is going to be no more water. You would then have to fill it up again and you have to keep on filling it up.

We can be filled with the glory of God today, but two weeks later we can be so dry. This is a way of life, being filled every day of our lives. When you are filled with the glory of God, when you are filled with the Spirit of God, people are going to look at you and see that there is something different.

When we are in revival meetings I watch people very closely at the beginning. They will come to the meetings and glare at me. I know what is probably going through their minds. They are probably saying, “Who is this ugly outfit coming into my church and doing this? Who does he think he is, this little whippersnapper? I have a good mind to take him out back.” But you know what? As they allow the Holy Ghost to change them, suddenly you see them in a week’s time and they are different. They look totally different. God has changed them by His love and through His power, transformed their lives.

Sister St. Louis

We had a lady that came to one of our revivals in Detroit. She was from St. Louis, so I called her “Sister St. Louis.” She had a powerful testimony that came out of the revival. One day, during the revival, she went to the store and on the way out spoke to the cashier and asked, “Why don’t you come to our church tonight, we are having a revival.” The cashier agreed to come to the meeting. That night she came and sat there, glaring at me. She did not get saved that night. The next night she was back and as I gave the altar call, she came forward and was saved. Instantly God changed her heart.

The next night, the cashier brought her sister and her mother to the meeting. I now have two people glaring at me from the second row and one smiling. But when I gave the altar call, the sister and mother came up and got saved. It was boomeranging all the time.

They eventually brought their father and brother. I still have two people glaring at me from the second row with long faces, but three smiling. When the altar call was given the father and brother came up and got saved. The entire family got saved in a period of one and a half weeks.

One night as we were worshipping the Lord, I looked around the church to see if I could see them. It took me quite awhile before I found them. They were sitting in the second row worshipping the Lord; I did not even recognize them. I thought, “Those people that Sister St. Louis brought in have changed. I can’t believe it! They are so different.” You could see in their faces a glow coming out. They were totally changed! Then they were water baptized and were lying all over the floor drunk in the Holy Ghost. That is the change that God is going to bring into every life that allows Him.

When you are filled with the Holy Ghost, people are going to look at you and say, “You are different. You are not the same guy that we left or use to know.” People I have known for many years have come to America and have said that they can see the change in me. I thank God for that.

Fullness of Jesus

Being filled with the Spirit brings us into the fullness of Jesus. The more time you spend with the Holy Ghost, the more time you spend with God and Jesus. The more you are filled with the Holy Ghost, the more you are filled with God and Jesus. Many times we will come to church, get saved, begin speaking in other tongues, but we still have a void in our hearts. This is because we are not filled with the Holy Ghost. We are not filled with the Spirit of God. So we will fill that void with other things from the world. Then, when we want to communicate with God or get on our knees to pray, it is like pushing against a brick wall. It is almost like nothing is happening. “God, You are not hearing me.” He can hear us, but we cannot hear Him. Our heart is so full of garbage, we are filled up on the things of the world.

You will notice one thing, the more time you spend in the presence of God, the closer you will come to God Jesus and the Holy Ghost. The more sensitive you become to God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost, the more sensitive you are to the moving of the Spirit of God. Before you were filled up, you would drive down the road and say, “Oh, Jesus, I love you so much.” So what. It didn’t really mean anything. But when your heart is changed on the inside, you drive down the road and say, “Jesus I love you,” and the power of God falls on you.

The Joy of the Lord

Being filled with the Spirit brings us joy and the fullness thereof. You cannot be filled with the Spirit and have a long, sour face.

John 15:11 says, “These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. ”

God wants the joy of the Lord to remain in us and wants our joy to be full. It is a joy unspeakable. When people testify of what God has done for them, they speak one or two words and then they cannot say anything. The glory of God falls on them and they fall to the floor. It is joy unspeakable.

When you start to share with people what God has done for you, that same anointing begins to fall. It is as though you live through the whole experience again. When you get filled with the Holy Spirit, there will be evidence of it. If you get filled with the Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit will be evident in your life.

Galatians 5:22-23 says, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. ”

In one meeting that I was in, I was walking amongst the people and laying hands on them. One lady said to me, “Don’t lay hands on me. I don’t need this joy. I’ve got the joy already. I’ve had the joy for many years.” I thought, “Well, we can see the fruit of the Spirit is really evident in your life. We don’t want to have the same fruit that you have in your life, you ugly outfit.”

Before you are filled with the Spirit, there are so many things that you instantly react to. After you are filled with the Spirit of God, things that were so important to you just do not matter anymore. Things that were a major part in your life and things that used to get you riled up, just do not mean anything to you anymore. God comes in. I have seen people with really foul tempers that God has set free; the change is like day and night.

Evidence of Change

If you were standing in front of a jury, could they find enough evidence in your life to say that you were filled with the Spirit of God? A lot of Christians will be found guilty because there is not enough evidence.

Think about what you did throughout the day. How many times did you do something that you should not have done? If you are filled with the Spirit of God, there will be evidence in your heart and life. People will look at you and say, “You are different. I want what you have.” How many times have you walked into a room full of people, looked across the room and saw someone you didn’t know? When you looked at them, you saw that there was something different about that person. When you finally talk with them, you find out they are born-again and Spirit-filled. You can see instantly that there is something different about a person that is filled with the Spirit of God.

The bottom line of being filled with the Spirit of God is that we need to be empty before we can be filled. We say, “God, I want you to fill me with Your glory. I want to be filled with the Holy Ghost. But Lord, I want to hang on to the things of the world. I still want to do this and that. I still want to live the way I have been living.” The Lord God looks and says, “There is no room for Me in there.”

You need to allow God to come in and empty all of the garbage out of you. When He empties it out of you, then He can fill you up. We must be kept empty of the garbage and we must stay hungry for God.

Hunger From Within

We have people who come into our meetings and say, “I’m hungry. Why am I not being touched?” I say, “Go and get more hungry.” But they say, “You don’t understand, Brother Bazil, I am hungry!” No, you are not really hungry. If you were really hungry, God would touch you. In our mind we may be hungry, but in our heart we are satisfied where we are right now. We are not really that hungry for God to move. Being hungry and desperate for God means saying, “God, tonight I’m not leaving this place until You touch me. God, I’m not going to walk out of those doors until You change my life.” This is true hunger and thirst. If you are saying, “I’m hungry, Brother Bazil, but if God doesn’t touch me tonight, I will come back tomorrow,” then you are not really hungry.

There are degrees of hunger. If you ate a big meal for breakfast, you could probably go through the whole day without eating and even the next day and still be all right. You would still be alive. But if there is someone who has not eaten for three or four days and if they do not have something to eat tonight or by tomorrow, they will be dead. Who do you think is more hungry, you or them?

Total Surrender

People say in their heads, “I want the joy. I want the drunkenness. I want to be filled with the Spirit of God.

I want God to do for me what He is doing in the lives of so many people. But God, I want to stay the same, I do not want to change.” God cannot fill you up and change your heart and life if you do not want to change. You must come to a stage where you say, “God I surrender all to You. Every area of my life I give to You. Everything that is in my heart, I surrender to You. You, can come in any time, day or night and slap me upside the head with a Holy Ghost baseball bat and change me on the inside. If there is something in my heart that should not be there, remove it out of my heart and life instantly. I surrender all to You Lord.”

Paying the Price

You need to be locked in to what God wants you to do. You cannot be locked in, flow and be effective for God while you are filled with garbage from the world. You have to give it up. It is really not worth it. Then we must be ready to receive, allowing God to empty us out. Be hungry for a move of God and then receive what He has for you.

The Bible says, “ ‘Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it’ ” (Psalm 81:10). We have to drink of the Spirit of God, allowing the Spirit of God to come on the inside of us. Ask and you will receive. I cannot change you, but Jesus Christ can. I look at people from the outside and most people look all right. God does not look at the outside; He looks on the inside and sees the change that needs to take place.

There is a price to pay for the anointing of God. There is a price to pay to be filled with the Holy Ghost. I am not talking about money, but about the things of the past that you have to give up. Things that you are doing right now that you have to stop. You cannot hang on to those things any longer. If you want God to fill you up, saturate you with His glory and use you in these last days, you have to give these things up. It might be the price you have to pay; I’d rather pay the price. I said to God, “I’ll do anything. I don’t care what it is. I’ll do anything, I’ll change anything just to spend time in Your presence, to be filled with the Holy Ghost and to do whatever you want me to do.”

People often think that God has touched me because of who my brother is, because of my family or because we have grown up in church all of our lives. No! God is only going to touch you because you are hungry. God is going to touch you because you are thirsty; not because of someone else. I have seen husbands touched and changed and their wives just stand and watch. I have also, seen wives touched and changed while their husbands just stand and watch. Why? Because one is more hungry than the other.

Testimony: God’s Touch on My Life

I was in over one hundred meetings before God touched and changed my life. God had touched me before. He had given me the joy, but it took a hunger on the inside of me. When I got so hungry, desperate and determined, that was the time God could step in and touch me.

South Africa

One time in particular when God touched me, we were still in South Africa and I was standing in the front row worshipping the Lord and said this to Him, “God, I’m hungry, I’m desperate and I’m determined. Tonight I’m not leaving this place until You touch me.” That is just what I said to Him. Sometimes we think God doesn’t hear us when we pray, but He is always listening.

My brother, Rodney, was standing on the platform. I said to the Lord, “God, as I am speaking to You right now, You are my Father and I know You hear me. As I am speaking to You, so You can speak to Rodney. You can tell him to call me out.” You see, I really wanted to make this hard. I said, “God, I want You to tell Rodney to call me out and pray for me that the same anointing on him comes on me.” I thought, “This is going to be hard for God.”

For about twenty minutes I just kept shouting on the inside. While everybody else was worshipping, I was shouting, “God tonight is my night! You are going to touch me. I will not leave here. I am desperate! I am determined!” I wanted God to see that I was desperate. Then my brother stepped up to the podium, grabbed the microphone and said, “Bazil, come here.” I looked at him and thought, “What does he want?” Here I was shouting to God that Rodney must call me out. When he called me out, I thought, “What does he want? Can’t he see that I am praying?” How dumb can you get and still breathe? He called me out and said, “God said I must call you out and pray that the same anointing that is on me comes on you.” I thought, “Really?” I was amazed. I don’t know what I was expecting God to do. Sometimes we ask God for things and when He gives it to us, we say, “My God! I did not think You were going to give it to me!”

Stuck on the Floor

So Rodney prayed for me. The power of God hit me, I fell to the floor and got stuck there. You say, “Stuck to the floor?” Yes! When people used to say to me, “I was stuck on the floor (or chair),” I would say, “Give me a break. That is not how God is going to touch me. That is for everybody else.” You say that to God and you will see, it is not for everybody else; it is for you.

You see, we grew up in a church where when you were prayed for and you fell, you stood right up and went back to your seat. We do not pick people up off of the floor. We leave them down there. That is God’s operating table. Why would you be knocked over by the power of God just to get right up again?

When you are on the operating table of a doctor and you are having your appendix out, do you just get up from the operating table and say, “Oh doc, I am just going to get a Coke. Just hang on for me.” No! You stay where you are until he is finished. When God is operating, so many people get up and leave halfway through the operation. I think that is why God wants to stick some people on the floor just to get their attention.

Just Sticking Around

For the first fifteen minutes I tried to get off of the floor. I thought, “This is crazy.” I kept pulling my head off of the floor and it kept popping back down. It was like a magnet was pulling my head to the floor. I said, “Well, God, I’m obviously going to stick around here for awhile. I am not going to go anywhere because I can’t get off of the floor. Do whatever you’re going to do.” I was on the floor for two hours and forty-five minutes. That was only the beginning. God put on the heart of my wife and myself to leave South Africa and come across to America to join my brother, Rodney, for a year in the ministry, and then go off on our own.

I know of people who have been touched in that way and then say, “Now I’ve got everything. Hallelujah!” Then you see them down the road and they are dry.

But, that was just the start. God started to work in my heart, but it wasn’t the end, thank God. It was just the beginning. During that week I received the joy. I started laughing; it was wonderful. I was lying under the pew laughing uncontrollably. I thought that it was a bit “way out there.” You see, I was ultra-reserved; extremely reserved. For me, laughing in church like this was a no-no.

Coming to America

God began working in my life over a period of time. We came to America in October of 1992. We joined Rodney for the whole year of 1993.

Now here I am in America and in my brother’s meetings where everyone is laughing uncontrollably and I am getting embarrassed for them, seeing them being touched and drunk in the Holy Ghost. I’m saying, “Jesus help me. What have I gotten myself into?” You see, I had already run dry. I thought, “This is really not necessary.” I was working for the ministry, so I had an excuse that I needed to be available to do my job. So I would go to the book table and keep myself very busy. I had to watch everything with one eye just so I could keep in touch with it; but not too much.

Hunger Comes

During the month of November, God began to work in my heart and life. Then in the month of December we were staying in Orlando, Florida when I began to get hungry. I was listening to Rodney’s 1991 campmeeting tapes. My mother stood up to testify. I had never heard her testify like this before. I have known my mother for many years and my mother would not do anything like this in the natural. I got so drunk driving down the road, I nearly drove off the side. I said, “God, if You can do that to my mother, You can do it to me. Not just like that, but something a little bit quieter than that. If You can touch her, You can touch me.”

God kept working in my heart through December. He began changing some things and I began to get even hungrier. It was like God started to drop a hunger into my heart for more of Him.

We flew on the first of January to Ketchikan, Alaska. We were going to hold a two week revival there. In the plane, I said to Rodney, “I’m hungry and thirsty. I want God to come and change me, but I also want to be available because I am working for the ministry. It is not going to be very good if you are always looking for me and every time you need me, I am on the floor. How much work can I achieve from the floor? Not much.” Some of my concern was real, the rest was an excuse. I said, “If you see me sitting in my chair and not really entering in, you know I am getting ready to take care of the book table.” He didn’t say anything. I don’t even know if he heard me.

Then I said to God right there on the plane, “God, I’m hungry and I’m thirsty and whatever you want to do, come and do it.” I never said another word. God sees our hearts. If you tell God that you are hungry and thirsty, He is going to show up and touch you. But He is not going to show up and touch you if you are hungry and thirsty in your head. When you get hungry and thirsty in your heart, that is the time God will move upon you. Now remember this. I had been in over one hundred meetings. I had been touched in the past. I had laughed a bit, cried a bit and had been stuck on the floor but, I had never had a life-changing experience. That is what it is all about. Our lives need to be changed.

Revival Begins

We arrived in Ketchikan, Alaska. The first week I was working as I had always done in every meeting, catching everyone and taking care of the book table.

I did not go to the meetings and say, “Oh, God, you’ve got to...” Some people get themselves so worked up in the flesh that God cannot do anything for them anyway. For me, it all began on Tuesday night during the second week. About a quarter past nine at night, there were bodies lying all over the floor. It looked like a battlefield. The power of God started to fall in an incredible way. We began singing a worship song. I lifted my hands and started to worship the Lord; as I did, the glory of God began to fall on me. My brother, Rodney, saw the anointing on me and walked over to me.

When I first began to tell my testimony, I always said that he came over and laid his hand on my belly. But he said he did not do that. He laid his hand on my head. I did not feel him touch me on the head. I felt a hand being pressed into my belly. As I did, the power of God hit me and I spun around and fell face first on the floor behind where I was standing. Then God opened my eyes into the realm of the Spirit. It was like I had stepped right out of my body and stood there; I could see everybody standing and praising the Lord.

I saw an angel standing at the front of the church. He began to work his way toward me. People say that if he was an angel, he would have flown to me, but he walked just like you and I do. He was weaving through the people, finding the best route until he reached me. He stood right above my head. In his hands, he had a clay pot or vase and he began to pour it out on me. Out of this pot came a thick, rich, golden, honey-like substance.

If you have ever changed the oil in your automobile, you know that when you put oil in, it has a rich, golden color. This is what the liquid from the vase looked like, but it was as thick as honey. He poured it on my head and as he poured, I began to get drunk. The more he poured, the drunker I got. My life has never been the same since.

I was still lying face first on the floor. When I looked around, I saw a man standing there. He was a fisherman from Alaska. I called to him because I knew this man was hungry. He came over to me, got down on his hands and knees and put his face next to mine. I tried to tell him about the previous time I was stuck on the floor, but when I started to speak, I stopped and looked around to see who was talking. Every word I spoke was slurred. They were the words of a drunk man.

We have grown up in a Christian home. I have never been drunk in my life. I do not know what it is like to get drunk in the natural. I have heard of people getting drunk in the natural. I have heard of the way people talk when they are drunk, but it had never happened to me. Now I was lying on the floor in a church meeting totally drunk. Suddenly, I realized it was me. I was the drunk one.

God Speaks to My Heart

God started to speak certain things about our ministry to my heart while I was on the floor. One of them was that He has called us to carry the fire. God said, “I’m placing a fire on the inside of you to carry wherever you go. Wherever you go, you are going to find hungry and thirsty people. When you do, leave that fire that I have given you behind with them. They, too, will carry the fire and go and find hungry and thirsty people, and they will spread the fire.” The fire of God, the revival fire, will begin to spread. Pastors’ lives will be changed, people will be changed, churches will be changed because of My fire, the fire of the Holy Ghost. There is no stopping this revival. There is no stopping the move of the Spirit of God. God is going to move. I became totally lost in the Spirit.

When I eventually pulled myself off of the floor, it was half past one the next morning. I was on the floor from quarter past nine to half past one the next morning. I did not know it was half past one. I picked myself up off of the floor and climbed into a seat. Everyone had gone home. The place was in semi-darkness. There was only Rodney’s music minister and the fisherman that I had called over to me while I was lying on the floor. He stayed because he wanted to see what was going on. He was hungry.

Uncontrollable Joy

I was sitting there trying to get myself together and I looked to the back of the church. Right at the back of the church sat a dear old lady. Still to this day I do not know what had happened to me. I started laughing uncontrollably. I laughed so hard, it was the first time I laughed uncontrollably to that extent. The joy was not coming out of my head, but out of my belly. I felt it bubbling out of my belly. I laughed so hard that night that I felt like my eyeballs were going to pop out of my head. Every now and again I would push them back in to make sure that they were still there. It was uncontrollable joy.

Hotel Experience

We went back to the hotel about two a.m. and knocked on Rodney’s door. He opened the door, looked at me and said, “What happened to you?” He never should have said that. The power of God fell on me and I fell over onto the floor and began to laugh uncontrollably. I was drunk all over again. I was slapping the floor. We were on the second floor of the hotel. You do not want to make a noise at two in the morning in Ketchikan, Alaska. If they throw you out, you are going to freeze because there isn’t another hotel for miles.

He quickly pulled me into the room and calmed me down. He sat me down in a chair and told me, “Never mind, you can tell me later.” Then about fifteen minutes later after I had gotten myself together, he asked me, “What happened to you? What did God do for you?” He never should have said that. I slipped out of the chair, onto the floor and began to laugh uncontrollably. I was drunk in the Holy Ghost. He grabbed me quickly and put me back into the chair and told me not to worry about it. I could tell him tomorrow. I never could do that either.

Those that have seen me in my brother Rodney’s meetings know that when I get up to tell this testimony, the fire of God falls on me. I cannot even speak. I try to tell the people that we were worshipping the Lord and all I can get out is, “We were, we were, were.” That is as far as I can get on a good night. I can never get my testimony out.

More in ’94

I said to God one day while I was preaching, “Why can I speak and give my testimony in my own meetings with a lot more ease, but in my brother’s meetings I cannot?” God told me that He uses me as a sign and a wonder in my brother’s meetings. Every time I testify in his meetings, I end up on the floor. God said, “What would be the use of you testifying in your meetings and you end up on the floor? That would not benefit anyone.”

In January, 1994, Monday night campmeeting, Rodney asked me to testify. The power of God fell on me. I have never felt the anointing touch me so strongly. I thought God was going to kill me. I started complaining right there on the platform. I said, “God this is unfair. I have come to America. I have worked a whole year with my brother, Rodney, like you wanted me to do. Now, this year, we are starting on our own. You have touched my life and have changed me and I am going to my first revival. At least get me out there and let me have two weeks of my first revival. Then you can kill me and take me home. I’ll be ready then, but not now. I want to have at least one revival before I go to heaven.

Still Hanging Around

Well, I am still here. It was not God’s intention that night to kill me. The anointing was so strong on me I thought that was what was going to happen. In actual fact, every now and again I had put my hands across my chest to try and hold myself together. I thought my whole chest was going to explode. The fire of God just fell on me. I stepped over into a trance, I got totally lost in the Spirit of God. When God’s anointing falls on you, He’ll get your attention and tell you the changes that are to be made.

Seeing a Vision

I saw a vision of hills, valleys and flatland. I saw the fire of God burning out of the ground. God said to me. “This is the fire that you are going to carry wherever you go. The fire of God, My fire,” the Lord said, “will be burning across the land wherever you go.” It was a confirmation to me of what God was going to do.

Now we have seen this ever since we have been on the road. Pastors have been changed, churches have been changed, people have been changed. God is still not finished with me yet. I am going to get some more. I am more hungry right now than I was in the beginning of 1993 because I know what God has done in my heart and life. I know how God has changed me. God wants to do the same for you. He is not a respecter of persons.

You just have to open up your heart and open up your life. Tell God to come and do whatever He wants to do. Say, Come and change me in any way you want to, Lord I am hungry and thirsty for more of You.”

Sinner’s Prayer

Father, I come to you in the name of Jesus. Lord, You said in Your Word if I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and that God has raised Jesus from the dead, I would be saved. So Father, right now I confess Jesus, You are my Lord and Savior. Come into my heart. Take out the stony heart and put in a heart of flesh. Change me, Lord. Change me, Lord. Let me never be the same again. I thank You, Lord, from this moment on that You are my Father and I am Your Child. When You come back for me, I’ll be ready and waiting. I love You, Jesus. Thank You, Lord, for saving my soul, for making me whole, for setting me free. Use me, Lord, in these days. I ask this all in the name of Jesus. Amen.

If you have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, I would like to hear from you, that I may rejoice with you and pray for you. I would also like to send you a tape that I believe will be a real blessing to you.

Scripture References

John 3:15-17 says, “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. ”

Acts 2:21 says, “And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. ” Acts 4:12 says, “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. ”

Acts 16:31 says, “And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. ”

Romans 10:9-10 says, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

Romans 10:13 says, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. ”

Ephesians 2:8 says, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.”

John 6:47 says, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. ”

John 11:25 says, “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. ”

Romans 6:22-23 says, “But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. ”

Romans 8:2 says, “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. ”

1 John 5:12 says, “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. ”

John 8:36 says, “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”

Matthew 1:21 says, “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. ”

Matthew 18:11 says, “For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. ”

Luke 19:10 says, “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. ”

About Bazil Howard-Browne:

Bazil Howard-Browne is founder and President of Bazil Howard-Browne Evangelistic Ministry, Inc. He along with his wife, Ann, have been called by God as missionaries to the United States from South Africa. In 1992, they and their three children, Bradley, Kayley and Jessica came to America. Bazil worked alongside his brother, Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne, in the ministry for one year. God's power and anointing continued to increase in his life to minister the Word under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit with signs and wonders following.

Beginning January 1, 1994, he has carried Revival across the United States, spanning from Florida to Alaska, and from California to New York and Hawaii. Many have experienced the healing restoring power of God in Bazil's meetings. Witnessing many salvations, the churches are being stirred up to bring in the lost and the backslidden in heart as they are witnessing the Power of God to save and restore lives in these meetings.

There has been a special anointing over this ministry in seeing people come into financial freedom and the abundant provision God has for them. There have been countless testimonies of financial breakthrough in the lives of people, as they have acted on the Word of God in sowing and reaping. Church finances have doubled and sometimes tripled after a week of revival meetings. The truth holds within itself the power to free up finances in the local church. As the Word is sown in truth, the harvest has been financial breakthrough for the church corporately and the people individually.

For a listing of audio, video and books visit www.bhbem.com

Table of Contents

Being Continually Filled with the Holy Spirit

Dedication

Foreword

Copyright

Being Filled With the Spirit

Acts 2:1-4 says, “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. ”

Ephesians 5:18 says, “And be not drunk with mine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit. ”

Being Hungry and Thirsty

Matthew 5:6 says, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. ”

Controlling Spirits

God Is Shaking the Church

1 Peter 4:17 says, “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?”

God Is Not Confused — We Are

The Kitchen Door Is Open

Seek the Face of Jesus

Being Filled — Everyday

Promise of the Holy Ghost

Have You Run Dry?

It Is a Way of Life

Sister St. Louis

Fullness of Jesus

The Joy of the Lord

Galatians 5:22-23 says, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. ”

Evidence of Change

Hunger From Within

Total Surrender

Paying the Price

Testimony: God’s Touch on My Life

South Africa

Stuck on the Floor

Just Sticking Around

Coming to America

Hunger Comes

Revival Begins

Uncontrollable Joy

Hotel Experience

More in ’94

Still Hanging Around

Seeing a Vision

Sinner’s Prayer

Scripture References

John 3:15-17 says, “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. ”

Acts 2:21 says, “And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. ” Acts 4:12 says, “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. ”

Acts 16:31 says, “And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. ”

Romans 10:9-10 says, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

Romans 10:13 says, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. ”

Ephesians 2:8 says, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.”

John 6:47 says, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. ”

John 11:25 says, “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. ”

Romans 6:22-23 says, “But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. ”

Romans 8:2 says, “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. ”

1 John 5:12 says, “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. ”

John 8:36 says, “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”

Matthew 1:21 says, “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. ”

Matthew 18:11 says, “For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. ”

Luke 19:10 says, “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. ”

About Bazil Howard-Browne:

Table of Contents

Being Continually Filled with the Holy Spirit

Dedication

Foreword

Copyright

Being Filled With the Spirit

Acts 2:1-4 says, “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. ”

Ephesians 5:18 says, “And be not drunk with mine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit. ”

Being Hungry and Thirsty

Matthew 5:6 says, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. ”

Controlling Spirits

God Is Shaking the Church

1 Peter 4:17 says, “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?”

God Is Not Confused — We Are

The Kitchen Door Is Open

Seek the Face of Jesus

Being Filled — Everyday

Promise of the Holy Ghost

Have You Run Dry?

It Is a Way of Life

Sister St. Louis

Fullness of Jesus

The Joy of the Lord

Galatians 5:22-23 says, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. ”

Evidence of Change

Hunger From Within

Total Surrender

Paying the Price

Testimony: God’s Touch on My Life

South Africa

Stuck on the Floor

Just Sticking Around

Coming to America

Hunger Comes

Revival Begins

Uncontrollable Joy

Hotel Experience

More in ’94

Still Hanging Around

Seeing a Vision

Sinner’s Prayer

Scripture References

John 3:15-17 says, “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. ”

Acts 2:21 says, “And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. ” Acts 4:12 says, “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. ”

Acts 16:31 says, “And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. ”

Romans 10:9-10 says, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

Romans 10:13 says, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. ”

Ephesians 2:8 says, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.”

John 6:47 says, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. ”

John 11:25 says, “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. ”

Romans 6:22-23 says, “But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. ”

Romans 8:2 says, “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. ”

1 John 5:12 says, “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. ”

John 8:36 says, “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”

Matthew 1:21 says, “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. ”

Matthew 18:11 says, “For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. ”

Luke 19:10 says, “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. ”

About Bazil Howard-Browne: