The Lord continues to impress upon me how important it is that I know the Holy Spirit has been given to me and lives in me. Consequently, living a life that does not quench the Holy Spirit is vital to my daily walk with Jesus.
Activities that quench the Holy Spirit are:
- Gossiping, or talking about other people in a negative manner. My mom deflects gossip by saying something positive about the person a remark is made about. This is a truly useful technique that works!
- Cussing - This includes camouflaged cussing, or using words such as fricking, in place of the "F word". LMAO is in the camouflaged cussing category.
- Telling White Lies - God doesn't have degrees of lies. A lie is a lie. My husband told me early in our marriage,"Do not ask me a question unless you really want to hear the truth." He is not going to tell me a white lie to keep from hurting my feelings.
Accepting, as a fact, that my body is a temple of the Holy Spirit helps me to make wiser choices. What Would Jesus Do?, or WWJD, is a slogan that crosses my mind often because I do not want to be "in the realm of the flesh", but "in the realm of the spirit." I treasure the Holy Spirit and strive to be a better person today, than I was yesterday.
1 Corinthians 6:19 NIV- Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
James 4:5 NIV - Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?
2 Timothy 1:14 NIV- Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you.
Romans 8:9 NIV - You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.
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