Salvation is an Internal Experience

Salvation is an internal experience. It is not an external experience of purchasing a salvation ticket and standing in line to enter heaven. Salvation is an internal union of believer and God.
We talk people into praying for salvation and all they have done is outwardly spoken salvation but inwardly the heart remains the same. the heart is stony, cold and unresponsive to the gentle wooing of the Spirit. These people mistakenly believe they are saved and destined for heaven; they continue their daily lives unchanged, unconvicted and unholy.
The inward heart of man, the spirit of the man must be touched in such a way that he sees his sin, his helplessness, the futility of his life and his monumental need for God. Until the knees of his heart collapse and bow before God in humility and true repentance. There is no true abiding in Christ and no union between his heart and God's heart. The heart of man must be convicted and swept clear of his own ways , in all humbleness as he cries to God and the precious Spirit of God begins to hover over his heart and starts to breathe life into him. Then he awakens from his dead, sinful life and receives salvation in his heart and not in his hand.
Man must understand that his relationship with God is not an external relationship with a God who is "somewhere out there" but rather with a God who dwells within us and with whom we are to take on His nature and attributes giving Him complete control.