" I've got a feeling oooo ooo "

[W2L]

God bless you for blessing me. When we're weak we're strong.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

Is there a feeling associated with having the Holy Spirit inside of you? I mean a literally feeling in your body, like one you would get after drinking alcohol.

It differs. Sometimes I feel nothing at all, but *know* He's making His presence known.

Your question reminds me of
Jer 23:9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.

Good times living in that passage, thanks for the remembrance.

 

[crossnote]

Is there a feeling associated with having the Holy Spirit inside of you? I mean a literally feeling in your body, like one you would get after drinking alcohol.

I'd say, it's possible, I have it, but not required as we are to walk by faith, not by feelings or sensations.

 

[nicolelovesjesus]

Is there a feeling associated with having the Holy Spirit inside of you? I mean a literally feeling in your body, like one you would get after drinking alcohol.

it's not easy to describe, but you know it when you feel it. the first and strongest time I've felt the presence, everything around me sort of stopped in time and it was just God and me in that movement, I had extreme chills and couldn't help but fall onto my knees and I just started crying. I think I experience it less intensely when I'm singing a song that has a lot of emotion, and a lot of times during baptisms. I think it's a kind of high that is unlike anything else. God is so so good

 

[W2L]

I'd say, it's possible, I have it, but not required as we are to walk by faith, not by feelings or sensations.

Joy, a fruit of the spirit, isnt required?

 

[Natsumi Lam]

Yes..all over electricity and fire in your belly.

 

[Cement]

i sometimes get these spinal and head tingles that ebb and flow like waves that are distinct from ASMR when I would think and ponder about God

 

[Tree of Life]

Is there a feeling associated with having the Holy Spirit inside of you? I mean a literally feeling in your body, like one you would get after drinking alcohol.

No not really. My favorite description of what it's like to be filled with the Holy Spirit is having an overwhelming sense that the gospel is true.

 

[aiki]

Is there a feeling associated with having the Holy Spirit inside of you? I mean a literally feeling in your body, like one you would get after drinking alcohol.

No, there is no sensation or impulse that signals the presence of the Holy Spirit within. You will not find any place in the New Testament that urges believers to look for, or operate upon, a basis of feeling, sensation, or impulse in their walk with God. Looking for such things comes from a desire to make God accessible to the five human senses, to have a sensual experience of God. But such fleshly, carnal thinking leads to the blasphemous behaviour of people like John Crowder who "toke" the Spirit, or get drunk in the Spirit, or "soak" in the Spirit. These efforts to reduce God to a sensual experience have produced some of the most grotesque and blasphemous practices I have ever seen! Steer clear!

 

[Gregory Thompson]

 

[Maria Billingsley]

Is there a feeling associated with having the Holy Spirit inside of you? I mean a literally feeling in your body, like one you would get after drinking alcohol.

Alcohol and the Holy Spirit are opposites. What you might have experienced is the FHS.

 

[Calvin_1985]

Is there a feeling associated with having the Holy Spirit inside of you? I mean a literally feeling in your body, like one you would get after drinking alcohol.

There's definitely feelings that come experience with Holy Spirit. Sometimes when I've been in deep communion with Father, I can feel what "High" but it's not a narcotic or intoxicated type high, but sheer completion. It's a peaceful state of being with joy, confidence, Love, mercy, compassion. These things all produced good feelings of pleasure when we are following Jesus. It's when we mess up that are joy is disrupted. Many things stem from it but it's nothing that harms you in anyway.We are all humans with emotions that are intertwined within the fabric of our lives. Father doesn't condemn us for having feelings when we experience him, he created us with emotions. I've had all sorts of emotions towards Father overtime, but He always redirects me to Jesus when I get off course. Emotions come from all angels of our relationship with him. Just like when a man finds a Woman or a woman finds a man, the expression of their Love for one another is often intertwined with their emotions. Same with our relationship with Father, emotions stem from our hearts expression. Not just feelings and emotions, but they are present. Why limit that?

 

[Chris V++]

I do think Joy qualifies as a feeling. It's been called 'joy unspeakable.' Also there is a 'peace that surpasses understanding.' You've heard of people talk about those 'mountaintop experiences.'

They don't last forever and usually- in my case at least, depression ensues.

 

[PoppyB]

Is there a feeling associated with having the Holy Spirit inside of you? I mean a literally feeling in your body, like one you would get after drinking alcohol.

In my experience most of the time I don't feel him inside me I just trust that he's there. But occasionally I felt him physically. I sometimes used to feel a pressure on my head as I prayed as though someone's hand was on me. And another time on a crowded bus as I considered his presence I spoke to him in my head and told him I knew he was near me and was he sitting next to me? He wasn't. Was he standing next to me? He wasn't. Well where are you Lord I asked and a tingling began in my toes and worked right up my body to my head. I couldn't keep the big smile off my face that cold, wet October day , and almost laughed out loud as I realised he was telling me he was within me. A remarkable experience.

 

[Maria Billingsley]

its more of electricity entering your body, but positive loving energy you can fell all over your body. Its one of the best felling ever in life.

Electricity? That is not the description of the Holy Spirit. He is not a feeling. He is all knowing. This is why He is the WORD.

John 19
7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;
10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.




Blessings

 

[ilovejcsog]

i sometimes get these spinal and head tingles that ebb and flow like waves that are distinct from ASMR when I would think and ponder about God

I had that when I was told my daughter was dead. You are the first to describe it correctly.

 

[Danielwright2311]

Electricity? That is not the description of the Holy Spirit. He is not a feeling. He is all knowing. This is why He is the WORD.

8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;
10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.




Blessings

Then you have never had the holy spirit enter into you then.

Dont tell me how it fells, I know, I have had the holy spirit enter into me many times.

Its like telling a licensed builder how to build.

The truth is it is like electricity entering into you with the feeling of love and fullness and truth.
If you never felt this, then all I can say is when you praise God fully in praise with all your heart, the spirit of God will enter into you and you will fully fell it happen.

 

[W2L]

I do think Joy qualifies as a feeling.

joy
/joi/
noun

1. 1.
   a feeling of great pleasure and happiness.

 

[W2L]

They don't last forever and usually- in my case at least, depression ensues.

Depression is not uncommon in the Psalms. Its comforting to know.

 

[Christopher0121]

To paraphrase ST. Paul, we walk by faith, not by sight, and still less by feeling.

NOWHERE does the Bible associate ANY feeling with having the Holy Spirit.

How could the Apostles have received the Holy Spirit with flaming tongues of fire, spoke supernaturally in other tongues, received impressions from the Holy Spirit through prayer, unleash the power of God to heal the lame, cast out devils, see visions, and receive conviction from the Spirit... without them "feeling" anything???

I'm of the Pentecostal flavor of Christianity. I can attest to feeling tingling (the electricity like charge people are talking about), deep emotional impressions and leadings, even the sense of the power of God being released through prayer.

Now, I know this isn't necessarily the topic of this thread... but it might have some bearing. In my studies and experience with the Holy Spirit I've actually been heavily criticized by my peers in ministry. Why? Because in discussing prayer cloths, miracles, sanctification, casting out demons, dreams, and visions... I've discovered what I was calling the "power of God". This "power" is a part of God's nature, and is activated and experienced through faith. By just studying the Scripture, I came to a conclusion that there is a "power" of God that we can experience, much like the heat and light we can experience that comes from the Sun. As I dug deeper I discovered the Orthodox teachings of God's "energies". I thought it was interesting how studying Scripture could lead an ol' Pentecostal boy like me to an Orthodox understanding of something. lol