If You Would Only Ask: Why God Gives His Spirit-and What Happens When You Yield - Paperback

Many believers know how to quote Scripture. Fewer know how to live under its authority.

In If You Would Only Ask, Eld Joel Latimore Jr. returns readers to a foundational biblical truth often overlooked in modern Christianity: God gives His Spirit to those who ask-and governs the lives of those who yield.

This book is not an argument for emotionalism, excess, or religious display. It is a sober, Scripture-anchored examination of who the Holy Ghost is, what He has done throughout biblical history, and what He continues to do in the lives of believers who submit to His leading. Drawing carefully from Genesis to Acts, the teachings of Jesus Christ, and the witness of the early church, Latimore demonstrates that the Holy Ghost is not optional, symbolic, or secondary-but essential to obedience, discernment, holiness, and spiritual maturity.

Through clear teaching and pastoral insight, the book addresses:

• Who the Holy Ghost is according to Scripture

• The promise of the Spirit spoken by the prophets

• What Jesus taught about the Holy Ghost

• How the Spirit operates in the life of the believer

• Pentecost as fulfillment, not innovation

• Discernment, deception, and spiritual governance

• What the Holy Ghost has done-and what He will do for those who yield

Rather than elevating personal experience above Scripture, this work testifies to Scripture through lived obedience, emphasizing that transformation does not come from knowledge alone, but from surrender to the Spirit of God.

The invitation is not complicated.

Ask.
Receive.
Yield.

If You Would Only Ask is written for believers who desire more than religious familiarity-those who are willing to be led, corrected, restrained, and transformed by the Holy Ghost.