Personal Ministry to a Christian Faith

Personal Ministry of Steve Kellar

QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT

October 15, 2008

Quench not the Spirit.

— 1 Thessalonians 5:19

The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that
unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear
it. The checks of the Spirit come in the most extraordinarily gentle
ways, and if you are not sensitive enough to detect His voice you
will quench it, and your personal spiritual life will be impaired.
His checks always come as a still small voice, so small that no one
but the saint notices them.

Beware if in personal testimony you have to hark back and say –
""Once, so many years ago, I was saved."" If you are walking in the
light, there is no harking back, the past is transfused into the
present wonder of communion with God. If you get out of the light you
become a sentimental Christian and live on memories, your testimony
has a hard, metallic note. Beware of trying to patch up a present
refusal to walk in the light by recalling past experiences when you
did walk in the light. Whenever the Spirit checks, call a halt and
get the thing right, or you will go on grieving Him without knowing
it.

Suppose God has brought you up to a crisis and you nearly go through
but not quite, He will engineer the crisis again, but it will not be
so keen as it was before. There will be less discernment of God and
more humiliation at not having obeyed; and if you go on grieving the
Spirit, there will come a time when that crisis cannot be repeated,
you have grieved Him away. But if you go through the crisis, there
will be the pæan of praise to God. Never sympathize with the thing
that is stabbing God all the time. God has to hurt the thing that
must go.

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