We live in a day and age where the
Word of God and His Spirit, Our Great Helper are devalued - sadly even within
many churches today.
The fact is that The Word and The Holy Spirit really go hand in hand in the
life of the Believer. Why, because the key to living a Spirit-Filled and
Spirit-Led life is taking God's Word and actively living it out in your life.
The more your life is saturated with God's Word the More Sensitive you can, should,
will become to The Spirit's leading.
We can and do sometimes ignore the messages we hear and just the reality we
know tell us that we need The Word of God daily in our lives because,
"I've heard this before". Well maybe you need to actually hear and do
something about it this time!?
We can also do things; we can make decisions that cause us to in essence sort
of "dull" the voice of the Spirit in our lives. We can also blatantly
ignore The Spirit's leading.
You and I need to actively seek to be walking in the Word and in The Spirit and
I think today's devotion is a great reminder from a trusted devotional "My
Utmost for His Highest".
Take this to heart and actively seek God's Word and direction for the Word and
the Spirit each day! Stop trying to do things on your own because to be truly
honest this thing called life, sorry but you don't really "got this"!
You need His Word and His Spirit to truly live and more importantly live for
Him!
Check out the below.
In Christ,
Your Brother and Servant,
rlk
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"Do not quench the Spirit" —1 Thessalonians 5:19
By Oswald Chambers
The voice of the Spirit of God is as
gentle as a summer breeze— so gentle that unless you are living in complete
fellowship and oneness with God, you will never hear it. The sense of warning
and restraint that the Spirit gives comes to us in the most amazingly gentle
ways. And if you are not sensitive enough to detect His voice, you will quench
it, and your spiritual life will be impaired. This sense of restraint will
always come as a “still small voice” (1
Kings 19:12), so faint that no one except a saint of God will notice it.
Beware if in sharing your personal
testimony you continually have to look back, saying, “Once, a number of years
ago, I was saved.” If you have put your “hand to the plow” and are walking in
the light, there is no “looking back”— the past is instilled into the present
wonder of fellowship and oneness with God (Luke
9:62 ; also see 1
John 1:6-7). If you get out of the light, you become a sentimental
Christian, and live only on your memories, and your testimony will have a hard
metallic ring to it. Beware of trying to cover up your present refusal to “walk
in the light” by recalling your past experiences when you did “walk in the
light” (1 John 1:7). When-ever the Spirit gives you that sense of
restraint, call a halt and make things right, or else you will go on quenching
and grieving Him without even knowing it.
Suppose God brings you to a crisis
and you almost endure it, but not completely. He will engineer the crisis
again, but this time some of the intensity will be lost. You will have less
discernment and more humiliation at having disobeyed. If you continue to grieve
His Spirit, there will come a time when that crisis cannot be repeated, because
you have totally quenched Him. But if you will go on through the crisis, your
life will become a hymn of praise to God. Never become attached to anything
that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to
hurt whatever it may be.
