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If you are a Christian—if you’ve repented of your sin and placed your faith in Jesus Christ to receive his sinless life, sacrificial death, and glorious resurrection for your own—you are forgiven and free and you are fellowshipping with God. Right now. Right this very second you are enjoying God’s presence, closer than the hair on your head and the skin on your bones. And this is what the Holy Spirit is committed to doing in your life: making you more and more aware of your closeness with God through union with Christ and continually making you holier as the outworking of that union.

Do you apprehend God’s presence?

The promise of God’s presence has been sounded loud and clear. Jesus said he would send you his Spirit. And to anyone who believes in him, he has granted this promise.

He has even promised that we would be baptized by the Holy Spirit. What on earth can that mean?

Well, it’s not really something on earth but rather something in heaven. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is the believer’s immersion into the life of the Spirit. It is a subsuming of our spirit by the Spirit of heaven, making us citizens of heaven as we live and breathe today! Because of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, you are not just sitting in that chair right now reading this book, but are also “seated . . . with him in the heavenly places” (Eph. 2:6). It is because of the baptism of the Holy Spirit that you are not just tucked into your bed right now reading this book, but also “tucked into” God with his Son Christ Jesus (Col. 3:3).

The time has come to walk by the Spirit.

And the Holy Spirit, who is God, can be trusted. He can be trusted, above all, to lovingly provide us with all we need for all our days—and then some.

“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” (Luke 11:13)