Status Updates From Sensitivity of The Spirit: ...

Oswald Chambers once asked a provoking question: "Am I
close enough to God to feel secure when He is silent?"
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The things that grieve the Spirit are listed in Ephesians 4:30-5:7
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Find out what pleases the Lord.
-EPHESIANS 5:10
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Whenever God says, "Stay," it is with a definite purpose. We will
never be sorry when we remain where we are, even though we may not
know the reasons at the time, if God says we must.
I continually hear of more and more people who leave secular work
for Christian work. They assume their new sphere of work will be
"spiritual." 😎

Adjusting to the Dove must often be done without knowing why the
Spirit is leading in a particular manner.
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Jonathan Edwards taught us that the task of every generation is to
discover the direction in which the Sovereign Redeemer is moving,
then to move in that direction.
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Return, 0 holy Dove! Return, Sweet messenger of rest! I hate the
sins that made Thee mourn And drove Thee from my breast.
-WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800)
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You can step out of a flowing stream, but you can never step back
in at the same place. Seldom is everything exactly as it once was. We
must adjust to what God has for us now-not then.
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Bitterness, or resentment, is one
of the chief ways we grieve the Holy Spirit. 💘🕊️

"Do not put out the Spirit's fire" (1 Thess.
5:19).
....Paul's warning
not to quench the Spirit can only mean that sometimes the Spirit's fire
can be put out. 💔🕊️🔥

The apostle Paul admonished us, "And do not grieve the Holy Spirit
of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption" (Eph.
4:30). The Holy Spirit has feelings, and we can hurt His feelings when
we grieve Him by the things we do. The Greek word translated "grieve"
(lupeo) comes from lupee, which means "pain" or "sorrow." It is the
opposite of joy.
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It is my view that the genuine presence of the Holy Spirit is not as
common as we may want to believe. It is also my fear that many of us
have run slipshod over this matter and have forgotten that the Holy
Spirit is a very, very sensitive person.

A healthy fear of grieving the Spirit should not lead you to being
afraid to enjoy life to the full, to laugh uproariously with friends or to
make common-sense decisions day and night. God is not
unreasonable. His commands are never "burdensome" (1 John 5:3).
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the words of the Episcopal rector who shocked
many Christians by his comment on a national radio broadcast: "If the
Holy Spirit were totally withdrawn from the church today, 90 percent of
the work of the church would go on as if nothing had happened." The
same thing can happen to you or me.
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The truth that alarms me most is the possibility of
grieving or quenching the Holy Spirit without knowing it-the painless
way in which the anointing can be lifted from me.
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