{"id":13159,"date":"2015-08-13T11:06:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T15:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=13159"},"modified":"2015-08-13T15:12:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T19:12:44","slug":"do-not-quench-the-spirit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=13159","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDo Not Quench the Spirit\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"key-verse-box\">\n<p><strong>Do not quench the Spirit. \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=31&amp;search=1+Thessalonians+5%3A19\" target=\"_blank\">1 Thessalonians 5:19<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><!-- .entry-meta --><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"top-rule\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"post-content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Su5DG8pQMB8\" width=\"560\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe voice of the Spirit of God is as gentle as a summer breeze\u2014 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 \u201cstill small voice\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1+Kings+19:12\">1 Kings 19:12<\/a>), 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, \u201cOnce, a number of years ago, I was saved.\u201d If you have put your \u201chand to the plow\u201d and are walking in the light, there is no \u201clooking back\u201d\u2014 the past is instilled into the present wonder of fellowship and oneness with God (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+9:62\">Luke 9:62<\/a>\u00a0; also see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1+John+1:6-7\">1 John 1:6-7<\/a>). 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 \u201cwalk in the light\u201d by recalling your past experiences when you did \u201cwalk in the light\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1+John+1:7\">1 John 1:7<\/a>). 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>August 13 2015<\/p>\n<p>Journal Entry for Today-JDV<\/p>\n<p>Lord, I did a\u00a0 digital search to gain opinions and Bible Commentary about how we might \u201cquench the spirit\u201d. In a blog called <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jesus Plus Nothing<\/span>, it said\u2026.. <em>How can we quench the Spirit? By not doing the things that give him access to control our lives.<\/em> That sounds a lot like the teaching You have given us, and keep reinforcing daily: surrender our lives, <em>decisions, and day to day activities to You<\/em>, be connected to You in everything, be curious about how you will respond and make our paths straight and immediate obedience when You speak to us through whatever vehicle or mechanism. Is this the issue and question for today? How to avoid quenching the Spirit?<\/p>\n<p>And God says\u2026\u201d <em>Yes, that is the lesson for today. To remind and reinforce one more time the notion that you engage and ignite the Spirit of God in your life when you surrender your life to God. And it does not just mean surrender your life in the sense that you know Jesus as Savior and Lord of your life, but in addition you also surrender your day to day living as outlined by Paul and translated by Eugene Peterson in Romans 12:2 (MSG): Take your everyday, ordinary life\u2014your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life\u2014and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don\u2019t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You\u2019ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not quench the Spirit. \u20141 Thessalonians 5:19 \u00a0 The voice of the Spirit of God is as gentle as a summer breeze\u2014 so gentle that unless you are living in complete fellowship and oneness with God, you will never hear it. 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