“Do you know what’s wrong with us? Many of us, we’ve been robbed of our inheritance… When I read the Puritans, When I read the Reformers, when I read the early Baptists and the early Presbyterians, the Dutch reformed guys, the early guys that didn’t have to deal with so many heretical movements about the Holy Spirit, they could talk freely about the Holy Spirit and the fullness of the Holy Spirit and the power of the Holy Spirit. They could talk freely about the manifest Presence of Christ in prayer.
They could talk about all the things we’re afraid to talk about because our inheritance has been robbed from us by all these false movements that borderline on blasphemy with regard to the Holy Spirit.
Young person, listen: you can’t live the Christian life just with Bible study. You need prayer, and prayer is more—it’s so much more—than intercession… Prayer with your boots on is you interceding, fighting down in the trenches, crying out to God. There’s nothing fun about that. And if that’s all you do in prayer, you’ll never be a person who prays.
You need to pray with your boots off… Communion… I will not back down on this. You need to cry out constantly for greater and greater and greater manifestations of the power and life of the Holy Spirit in you. To live a godly life unto God. And that’s what’s lacking.
Even people who have great knowledge cannot apply that knowledge even though they can write it on an examination. They cannot apply it because it’s a work of the Holy Spirit. It is more than material. It is more than knowledge…It is life. It is power. And you need to seek Christ in the Word of God, but you need to seek Christ on your knees. Never contrary to the word of God, but on your knees. To know Him, His life, His power. To know Him.”
— Paul Washer