LIVING STREAMS DEVOTIONAL
By Pst. Ezekiel Atang
JULY 2025
THE SPIRIT LED LIFE
(Romans 8:14 KJV)
Monday, 28th July
DO NOT GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT II
Ephesians 4:29-30 KJV
“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. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption”.
Our walk with the Holy Spirit is the most crucial part of our Christian lives, because it is He who makes the Christian life possible in the first place. Without Him, Christianity will be a flop, a drag and a very difficult venture. We were not designed to practice Christianity or live the faith all by ourselves. Life is a lot better and easier with the help of the Holy Spirit in our daily living, (but) we must learn to know the ways of the Spirit.
There are people that will not get the Holy Spirit to spend an hour with them, due to their grievous ways. The Holy Spirit is a gentle Spirit but He is resilient, He can survive all manner of things, and He can be easily grieved. One way the Holy Spirit is grieved is by corrupt communications from our mouths; Words are life carriers as well as death, words give life and death. You can’t have the Spirit of life in you and be communicating death. You must represent the Spirit you carry by your words and actions.
The Spirit in you is a Holy Spirit, as such the words of your mouth has to be holy and decent. The Holy Spirit is immediately grieved the moment you engage in vulgarities and indecent talks of any kind. There are jokes that cause grief to the Holy Spirit, and you are supposed to shy away and cringe from any kind of joke or talk that will grieve the Spirit of the Lord that lives in you. The longer the Holy Spirit can live in you without grief, pain or heart ache, the better your life gets. The more you do things that please the Holy Ghost, the more powerful your life gets each day. Receive grace to retain, maintain and walk with the Holy Ghost in Jesus Name.
Action Points/Prayer
i. Lord, I am sorry for the times I grieved Your Spirit.
ii. Lord, help me to do things that encourage Your Spirit in my life in Jesus Name.
iii. I receive grace to run away from anything that will hurt or grieve your Spirit in Jesus Name.
Nugget
The longer the Holy Spirit can live in you without grief, pain or heart ache, the better your life gets.
For Further Reading and Meditation
MORNING
Exodus 37; Acts 11
EVENING
Isaiah 37
For Feedback & Enquires, please send a mail to ghormedia@gmail.com