But, above all, the soul-winner must have a personal Pentecost.  Christ does not send us alone to seek the lost.  In the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters of St. John’s Gospel, he definitely promises the Comforter.  And again, on the day of his ascension, he bids his disciples tarry at Jerusalem until the Holy Ghost is come.  Then as they waited, “with one accord in one place,” “a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind filled all the house where they were sitting, ... and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.”  Since that day the one supreme qualification for Christ’s witnesses is the enduement with the Holy Ghost.  He will give a better knowledge of the Scriptures; he will re-enforce tact and earnestness and perseverance; he will give tenderness of heart and the burden for souls.

What a marvelous change the coming of the Spirit wrought in those waiting disciples!  They had forsaken him; they had doubted his word; Peter had denied him.  But now they all became flaming evangels, and “spake the word of God with boldness.”

A personal Pentecost will help the soul-winner to overcome timidity, give utterance and a holy boldness, and make effective the words he speaks.  It is the supreme need of the Church to-day.  God wants men and women in every vocation of life who are Spirit-filled; and who, by diligent study of the Word of God, by prayer, and by Christian testimony, live a Spirit-filled life that is perennial.

The personal worker will succeed only when endued and empowered with the Holy Ghost.  Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman tells of a young Irishman who was a member of his Church, and who had not had the educational advantages many young people have.  Dr. Chapman says: 

“With a heart burdened for the men of the city, I called together a few of the men of the Church, and laying before them the plan I had in mind, told them first of all that we could do nothing without the ’infilling of the Holy Ghost.’

“When this had been explained, I noticed this man leave the room.  He did not return while the meeting was in session.  When I sought him I found him in one of the lower rooms of the church, literally on his face before God.  He was in prayer.

“I shall never forget his petition:  ’O God, I plead with thee for this blessing!’ then, as if God were showing him what was in the way, he said, ’My Father, I will give up every known sin, only I plead with thee for power;’ and then, as if his individual sins were passing before him, he said again and again, ‘I will give them up; I will give them up.’  Then, without any emotion, he rose from his knees, turned his face heavenward, and simply said, ‘And now I claim the blessing.’

“For the first time he became sensible of my presence, and with a shining countenance he reached out his hands to clasp mine.  You could feel the very presence of the Spirit as he said, ’I have received him; I have received him!’ And I believe he had, for in the next few months he led more than sixty men into the kingdom of God.  His whole life had been transformed.”