How do I know I received the Holy Spirit if I didn't feel anything?

Chuck Smith, Living Water, chapter 25: I think something similar happens when we plead for a sign from heaven to prove that God has filled us with His Holy Spirit. Sometimes, in His mercy, God does give us that sign - but then He says to us, "You've had the holy tingles and you believe. But blessed are they who believe without the holy tingles." We are to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit by faith. There may be tingles or there may not. The gift of the Holy Spirit is received by faith apart from evidence. Certainly evidence will come, but the evidence isn't the proof. Faith receives without evidence. From Chuck Smith's books, used by permission of The Word For Today.

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