Many people who first begin to open themselves to baptism in the Holy Spirit will ask: How do I know if I’ve received it?

Today we look at the characteristic features of baptism in the Holy Spirit:

“The characteristics of baptism in the Spirit were summed up well by one of the participants in the 1967 Duquesne Weekend:
Our faith has come alive, our believing has become a kind of knowing. Suddenly, the world of the supernatural has become more real than the natural. In brief, Jesus Christ is a real person to us, a real person who is our Lord and who is active in our lives.

[We read] the New Testament as though it were literally true *now* every word, every line. Prayer and the sacraments have become truly our daily bread instead of practices which we recognize as ‘good for us. A love of the Scriptures, a love of the Church I never thought possible, a transformation of our relationships with others, a need and a power of witness beyond all expectation.

The initial experience of the ‘Baptism in the Spirit’ was not at all emotional, but life has become suffused with calm, confidence, joy and peace.”

(Taken from CHARIS International (ICCRS) Doctrinal Commission on Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Available for purchase on our website and Amazon.)