How is it possible for a person to be baptized with the Holy Ghost and yet not know it?

Thomas R. Valletta

“Too many of us are like those whom the Lord said ‘[came] with a broken heart and a contrite spirit … [and] at the time of their conversion, were baptized with fire and with the Holy Ghost, and they knew it not.

“Imagine that: ‘And they knew it not.’ It is not unusual for one to have received the gift and not really know it … .

“The voice of the Spirit is a still, small voice—a voice that is felt rather than heard. It is a spiritual voice that comes into the mind as a thought put into your heart” (Packer, “Cloven Tongues of Fire,” 8).

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