Holy Spirit Questions

Blogotional: asks for help with the following questions:

# Absent miraculous signs, how can Finney’s or anyone else’s experience be established as a genuine encounter with the Holy Spirit?

# Is such an experience necessary for sanctification?

# Will this experience always be spectacular, even if not miraculous?

# Where does the spiritual end and the emotional begin? How do we discern that point?

# Is the experience accessible to all? How? If not, why not?

# Are those who have had such an experience better or more connected to God than those that have not?

# Can the evil one create similar experiences? How do you tell between ones originated in the Spirit and in the evil one?

# If ‘faith is the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things unseen’ and grace comes through faith why does God provide such experiences?

Answers by a commentbox to both of us- if I get time I may even have a stab myself