WIND FOR YOUR SAILS 111the Holy Spirit.
You've never seen the wind, but you have certainly seen
the results of the wind. The tree bends. The flag waves.
And the ship begins to move. Oh, the force of it.
You don't have to see the Holy Spirit to know that He is
alive. You can feel the evidence in the power He gives you.
Once He fills you, seeking a confirmation is an exercise in
futility. A man once asked: "Benny, tell me. Am I filled
with the Spirit?"
I said, "Brother, if you don't know, then you're not!"
You don't have to ask when you see the results. Those who
question their infilling have never received it.
It Starts with Salvation
You may ask, "How do I become filled with the Holy
Spirit? If I speak in tongues, is that the sign?"
The Holy Spirit is present from the moment you ask the
Lord Jesus Christ to forgive your sin and cleanse your
heart. If you do not believe that, you don't understand the
Trinity. As Paul wrote to Titus, "He saved us, through the
washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ
our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we
should become heirs according to the hope of eternal
life" (Titus 3:5-7).
But now we are talking about the infilling of the Holy
Spirit with the evidence that has been experienced by
literally hundreds of millions of people worldwide. The
statistics are overwhelming. I know that some still like to
argue the point, but a man with an experience is never at
the mercy of a man with an argument.
I'll never forget the first few days after I was born