A journal can serve so many purposes. There are food journals to assist with weight loss, home improvement journals, baby keepsake journals, and travel journals, just to name a few. I started my first journal at age 15 simply because I wanted to remember what it was like to be that age, and realized that if I didn?t write it down, I would forget. Just recently, I began blank book number 12! These simple books, filled with life?s memories, are among my most prized possessions.

But what about a journal for soul? ? a journal devoted to one?s relationship with God? What would such a journal contain? It could be a series of letters to God. Just as sometimes it is easier to write a letter or send an email as opposed to picking up phone or having a face-to-face conversation, it can be easier to speak to God through writing. In this case, this journal would be a form of prayer, a conversation with God. Such a journal might be used to write about one?s relationship with God. It could be a place for indicating where God was for you on any given day. Did you find God in another person, in smile of a child, in kindness of a stranger, or perhaps in creation, in a beautiful sunrise or a crisp autumn day? When did God feel absent? Was there a time that you felt alone and abandoned? This journal might be as simple as a list of positives and negatives.

However, there is a third thing that will occur that some Christians really don't realize or have full knowledge of. At exact moment that we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior and become saved and born again - we also instantaneously "receive" third person of Godhead - Holy Spirit Himself!

The Bible tells us that both God and Jesus live in heaven. However, when we become saved and born again - we literally get to receive Holy Spirit Himself. He literally, and I mean iterally, comes to live on inside of us. As you will see in Scripture verses I will list below - our bodies have now become temple of Holy Spirit because He is now living on inside of us!

According to Webster's Dictionary, word seal means "to confirm, authenticate or guarantee - to pledge." In two Scripture verses I will list below, Bible tells us that we are given Holy Spirit by God Father as a "guarantee" and as a "deposit."

When God says that we are sealed by His Holy Spirit at moment of salvation in Him and Jesus - He is giving us a very powerful revelation on what is actually occurring in spiritual realm. Not only are we receiving presence of Holy Spirit, but we are also being sealed with His presence.

That seal now becomes a very powerful bond between us and God. Though I do believe that it is possible for a Christian to lose his or her salvation per article I have done on that yopic - I believe that it will take quite a bit to break this seal - this bond that we now have established with God and Jesus. This seal is not easily broken.

Here are specific verses from Bible that tell us that we will "receive" Holy Spirit at moment of salvation, that our bodies have now become temple of Holy Spirit and that we have now been "sealed" with presence of Holy Spirit.

1. Receiving Holy Spirit at Moment of Salvation

This first verse will tell us that we receive Holy Spirit at moment of our salvation with Jesus - not sometime later. Here it is:

Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let everyone of you be baptized in name of Jesus Christ for remission of sins; and you shall receive gift of Holy Spirit. For promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as Lord our God will call." (Acts 2:38)

Then notice what verse says next. After you have repented and have accepted Jesus as your Savior - then you will receive gift of Holy Spirit Himself. I believe that this verse is telling us that we will receive Holy Spirit moment we accept Jesus as our personal Lord and Savior. It will happen right then and there - not sometime later.

Some people will get saved and water baptized at same time. Others get saved, and then baptized at a later date. The Holy Spirit will come into you at moment you get saved - not at moment you go through a water baptism. If you go through water baptism at a later date - Holy Spirit is not going to wait until you do that. He will enter into you right at moment that you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior - no matter where that may take place at.

2. Our Bodies Are Now Temple of Holy Spirit The above Scripture verse tells us that we will "receive" Holy Spirit at moment of salvation. So once we receive Him - exactly where does He go? The next set of verses will tell us that He will literally come to enter on inside of us.