Join this HeartCry Prayer- Every Monday 11.30am-2.30pm (UK time)
EPHESIANS 4:30-31
“And grieve
not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of
redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil
speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.” KJV
“And do
not bring sorrow to God's Holy Spirit by the way you live. Remember, he has
identified you as his own, guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of
redemption.” NLT
“Don’t grieve God. Don’t
break his heart. His Holy Spirit,
moving and breathing in you, is the most intimate part of your life, making you
fit for himself. Don’t take such a gift for granted.” MSG
OUR WORLD TODAY GRIEVES HIM
- Reject Him, think
they can live without Him, don’t acknowledge Him
- Actually act
against Him in defiance, live for themselves, disdain Him
- Hate Him,
deliberately live apart and in antagonism against Him
- Doing all things that are inconvenient, carrying on as if He is not the one that gives them breath, that wakes them up every morning.
- It is He that
protects them; that extends their lives and stays the hand of the enemy over them so they have many chances to respond to Him
- All manner of
sins and atrocities, our generation invents sins, iniquity that generations
past do not know
- His agony, His pain on the cross has been trampled upon by the foot of men.
OUR WORLD TODAY BRINGS HIM SORROW
- Can you not see His grief, can you see His agony?
- His world is a
far cry from what He created at Eden
- His heart is
breaking over our generation
- He looks around for consolation for His soul and finds none.
- His love, His affection, has been thrown back at His face.
- His hand reached out to save has been bitten time and time again.
- His heart is
bleeding again over families, over nations, over children, over His men, over
His women who have sold themselves to His enemy
- He is crying, He
is weeping again, again, day after day, the Holy Ghost is sorrowing
- He is looking for more people who will give Him succour from the grief of His world.
MY LIFE WILL NO LONGER CAUSE HIM GRIEF
I belong to the new race, the race of those who bring
you joy
Therefore Lord, any trace of the Adamic race that
grieves you in my life, Holy Spirit please uproot from my life violently
How can I be causing grief to the Holy Spirit like the
world?
- Lord, forbid it in my life that I will continue to
grief the Holy Spirit
- Lord, forbid it that I should continue to quench the
Holy Spirit
- Out of my life, You find succour, out of my life you
will find relief
- Holy Spirit, please find room inside my life to live
as you please
- From today, I will no longer take you for granted
EXAMPLES OF WHAT GRIEVES
HIM
Bitterness, wrath, anger, clamour, evil
speaking, being mean, bad-temper, quarrelling, harsh words, dislike of others,
mad, shout angrily, say things to hurt others, doing evil, passion, shouting,
insults, hateful feelings of any sort, cutting, back-biting, profane talk,
insensitivity, unforgiveness.
Are there any still in your life?
Present them before the Lord and ask for
an evacuation and a replacement with the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
- A life yielded to Him will not cause Him grief.
- A life in whom He is the Director and the Controller will not cause Him sorrow.
- Yield your vessel to Him afresh today.
- Make a commitment to yield to Him; to turn the Holy Spirit moment by moment.
- Holy Spirit, please ring Your alarm bell; ring it loudly in my heart, in my spirit, any time I am about to slip into doing anything that will grieve you.
- Please be the umpire for my life, be the referee for my life, blow your whistle, blow it hard and strong any time I am about to engage in any matter that will cause you grief.
- Open the ears of my heart, let me hear your caution clearly, let me hear your restraint clearly and please give me grace to respond.
- Unblock my ears and remove anything that is preventing me from hearing you clearly
