RHIM Daily Devotional 6 June 2021 – How Can The Holy Spirit Be Grieved?

To grieve the Holy Spirit is to cause distress, sorrow and emotional pain to Jesus Christ Himself. [Ephesians 4:30] is a warning directed to those who have believed and have received the Holy Spirit. We are warned not to grieve the Holy Spirit because it is a dangerous thing to grieve the Holy Spirit. I pray for you and I, may we not grieve the Holy Spirit in Jesus Name

Somebody may want to ask, how can the Holy Spirit be grieved? The Holy Spirit can be grieved in so many ways:

▪️ He can be grieved by what we do (our behavior).

▪️ What we think and what goes on in our hearts (the thoughts of our hearts).

▪️ How we behave towards those we are meant to lead to Christ. If we behave wrongly and badly to those we are meant to draw to Christ, the Holy Spirit will be grieved.

▪️ The words we speak at times can grieve the Holy Spirit: [Colossians 4:6] “Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”

Let your words always be seasoned with grace. We must learn to say words that builds up, helps, encourages and benefits others. Word that brings hope, joy, encouragement and pleasure. We should not always bring people down.

Those who have done bad in the past should not be stigmatized because it can hurt them.

▪️ Corrupt communication: Corrupt communication should not be found in the midst of believers.
[Ephesians 4:29] “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”

▪️ What you take into your body can also grieve the Holy Spirit. You should never take anything unclean into your body. That is the reason you must discipline our body. God doesn’t want your body polluted by fleshly lusts and the things to which you give yourself.
[1 Corinthians 3:16] Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?