Devotions with Pastor Dick Guilfoil

"I indeed..... but He"
Matt. 3:11
“I indeed baptize you with water… but He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire.”
Have I ever come to a place in my experience where I can say –

• "I indeed – but He"?

Until that moment does come, I will never know what the baptism of the
Holy Ghost means.

• I indeed am at an end, I cannot do a thing: But He begins just there
• He does the things no one else can ever do.

Am I prepared for His coming?

• Jesus cannot come as long as there is anything in the way either of goodness or badness.

When He comes

• Am I prepared for Him to drag into the light every wrong thing I have done?
• It is just there that He comes.

Wherever I know I am unclean,

• He will put His feet;

Wherever I think I am clean,

• He will withdraw them.

Repentance does not bring a sense of sin, but a sense of unutterable unworthiness.
When I repent,

• I realize that I am utterly helpless;
• I know all through me that I am not worthy even to bear His shoes.

Have I repented like that?

• Or is there a lingering suggestion of standing up for myself?

The reason God cannot come into my life is because

• I am not totally into repentance.

"He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire." Matt. 3:11
John does not speak of the baptism of the Holy Ghost as an experience, but as a work performed by Jesus Christ.

• "He shall baptize you"

The only conscious experience those who are baptized with the Holy Ghost ever have is a sense of absolute unworthiness.
I indeed was this and that; but He came, and a marvelous thing happened.

• I get to the margin where He does the things no one else can ever do.

Pastor Dick