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Top Ten
Ways To Quench The Spirit
by Sergeant Steve
Simms
“Quench not the Spirit” is one of the most disobeyed
scriptures in the New Testament.
So how do we quench the Spirit.
Here are the Top Ten ways.
10) We teach people that God isn’t speaking to human beings
nowadays.
9) We freely indulge our desires to the point that our heart
gets so hard that we no longer hear what God is saying to us.
8)
We tell the Holy Spirit that we will do what He wants later,
or when we are older.
7) We intentionally disobey the direct commands of Scripture.
6) When we are with believers, we pretend that we are better
Christians than we really are.
5) We ignore the guidance of that our conscience gives us.
4) We care more about what other people think about us than we
care what God thinks about us.
3) We believe that because of grace it doesn’t matter if we
obey God or not.
2) We let our pride keep us from doing anything that we
consider to be humbling.
1) We force
people to quench the Spirit by programming church meetings to
the point that no one but the preacher or someone on the
program is expected or allowed to initiate anything in the
meeting.
Here’s a quote from C.T. Studd:
“How little
chance the Holy Spirit has nowadays. The churches and
missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they
practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work
themselves.”
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