What Happens When You Grieve the Holy Spirit

“And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”—Eph. 4:30.

Charles Spurgeon shared the following in a sermon featured in the new volume Walking in the Power of the Holy Spirit (emphasis mine):

Very briefly—much too briefly—[I will share on] the lamentable result of the Spirit’s being grieved.

In the child of God it will not lead to his utter destruction, for no heir of heaven can perish; neither will the Holy Spirit be utterly taken away from him, for the Spirit of God is given to abide with us for ever. But the ill-effects are nevertheless most terrible.

You will lose, my dear friends, all sense of the Holy Spirit’s presence: he will be as one hidden from you—no beams of comfort, no words of peace, no thoughts of love—there will be what Cowper calls, “an aching void which the world can never fill.”

There is more: https://www.kevinhalloran.net/what-happens-when-you-grieve-the-holy-spirit/

God’s thoughts of you

Spurgeon’s 15 Tips for a Deep and Effective Prayer Life

http://www.kevinhalloran.net/spurgeons-15-tips-for-a-deep-and-effective-prayer-life/

Why God Delays in Answering Prayer

https://www.challies.com/quotes/why-god-delays-in-answering-prayer/

Atheism

It is a tough battle

It is a tough battle which the Christian is called to fight; not one which the weak and soft might win; no easy skirmish which he might gain who dashed to battle on some sunshiny day.. It is a lifelong war — a contest which will require all our strength if we are to be triumphant, a battle at which the stoutest heart might quail, a fight from which the bravest would shrink did he not remember that the Lord is on his side: therefore whom shall he fear? God is the strength of his life: of whom shall he be afraid? This fight is not one of main force or physical might; if it were, we might the sooner win it; but it is all the more dangerous from the fact that it is a strife of mind, a contest of heart, a struggle of the spirit — ofttimes an agony of the soul.

~ Charles Spurgeon

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