This is the personal relationship that becomes established. It is a wonderful thing to know God. It is even more wonderful when God knows us. He can only recognize his own if the Holy Spirit resides in us. Such people are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day.
Religion is a practice of rituals and ceremonials which can easily stifle the move of the spirit.
Religion does not normally invite the Spirit of God but rather religion seeks its own. Religion practices the doctrine and commandments of men, laying aside the commandments of God. In rejecting God's commandments they make the Word of God of none effect. Religion is formalism. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.