Our Guest Myles Kilby
SID: I’m here with Myles Kilby and Myles says as a young boy your godmother took you to church and someone prophesied over you. What was that?
MYLES: Sid, when I was seven years old my godmother would regularly take me to church and I really remember it very vividly. I can see it like it happened yesterday. But I received Christ in that moment at the age and the women around me began to start prophesying about my calling and how I was called to preach the Gospel and how God was going to begin to use me. And so they would say, “He’s a preacher. He’s a preacher.” And so I’m stepping into that.
SID: Well, he got started early but at 20 he received what’s known as the baptism in the Holy Spirit. He was immersed in the Spirit of God and this was not just a normal thing. Some strange wonderful things started happening to you. Tell me about the time you were immersed.
MYLES: Yes, when I was immersed with the spirit, baptized in the Holy Spirit, there was an impartation of fire in my life. I immediately began to speak in supernatural languages and tongues, which was an incredible experience but experiencing the power and the presence of God just in an incredible way and it was like everything from my past or through my teenage years that I experienced that was difficult, it was like that was completely washed away out of my life, removed from my life and so really the Holy Spirit was breaking things off that needed to be removed. He was filling me with his presence and it was really a life changing experience.
SID: But it got even better than that. All of a sudden you started really hearing God’s voice clearly.
MYLES: Yes, Sid, I began to really hear God’s voice with great clarity. My focus during that time was developing intimacy with the Holy Spirit, spending time in his presence, cultivating that in my life and as … Sid, as I began to cultivate that in my life, praying in tongues, really seeking God’s face, worshiping, I began to hear God’s voice just with great accuracy, great precision, just sensitivity is how I like to describe it, becoming sensitive to the voice of God.
SID: But then one year later, you think that’s something, I mean, that would have been enough as we say at Passover. That would have been enough but then a year later another supernatural event.
MYLES: Yes, and so a year later, then I began to … the experience that I had in that encounter was the baptism of fire. It was a complete immersion—
SID: And in the Bible it says you’ll be baptized in the Holy Spirit and fire. Most people don’t notice that, and fire. Is it like literally a real fire? What does it mean, and fire?
MYLES: Exactly. So the baptism in the Holy Spirit and fire, it’s like a complete immersion. The Holy Spirit, God is an all-consuming fire and so when he comes and manifests through fire he consumes everything about you and it’s a purification. He releases his passion. So you’re passionate for the Messiah. It releases a purifying presence but God really sets you on fire and for prophets he imparts that fire to prophesy.
