I Thessalonians 5:19 - "Do not quench the Spirit."
This very short verse Paul spoke holds such great power and insight. Yet, it has often been used with limited revelation or overlooked, altogether. Many have used it to say we should not hold back praise as we feel the fire of the Spirit in our bellies when we are in a church service. This is true. Others have used it to say do not hold back a prophetic word when you feel it in your spirit. In many cases this is correct. Yet, the timing of the release must be discerned. Still, others may feel something at various points during their day but not recognize it as the Holy Spirit. They just call it "something".
The Holy Spirit is more than a feeling and more than just something. The Holy Spirit is God. He is the person of God with us. The Holy Spirit is the one that performs the will of God the Father in the earth through all that He created. God the Father gives the command and the Holy Spirit carries it out. "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." The beginning of what? The beginning of time. Time has not always existed, eternity has. God always was and is and He will always be in the now. Therefore He says He is, "I Am that I Am." (Exodus 3:14). Time was one of the creations of God (Genesis 1:5)
John 1:1-4 says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men."
As I mentioned in Part I of this series, God the Father speaks the command and the Holy Spirit is the Word that comes from Father's mouth and fulfills it. Because the Holy Spirit always fulfills the Word of the Father, no word that comes from God's mouth falls to the ground. It is always performed and fulfilled, meaning the intent or purpose of the word God speaks is carried out. Why? Because the Holy Spirit is life. The Word cannot die because it is life, itself. No darkness can understand it or remain in its presence (John 1:5). In the beginning, God breathed into man's nostrils the breath of life, not the breath of existence... You see, so many things were created by God through the Holy Spirit so that they then existed. But it is only man whose nostrils He breathed the breath of life into so that he would become a "living" being (Genesis 1:7). What is life? The Holy Spirit, as we just read in John.
When the Spirit was breathed into Adam and Eve they were in constant communion with God because God lived in them. It was from this place they received dominion over all the earth (not other men). Once they fell, the fall was their separation from the Holy Spirit. God still spoke to them, but He no longer dwelled in them. Christ came to restore the Holy Spirit back into man so that He can be reconcilled to God and retake His place of Dominion over the earth. What is the Holy Spirit dominion that He seeks? The Kingdom of our God should rule and have dominion over the Kingdom of this world. Those that belong to the Kingdom of God must be filled with God, the Holy Spirit, which is the Spirit of Christ in you. This same Spirit that created all things needs to dwell in you so that through your mouth and body He can establish God's Kingdom, His authority, over everything and circumstance in this world.
As long as you accept Christ and His Spirit in you, there is a hope that God will be glorified in the earth through you (Colossians 1:27). That hope is fulfilled when you don't quench the Holy Spirit but allow Him to move through you. When you let God move through you to speak or do whatever He commands, you are exercising your dominion and establishing the Kingdom of God over the Kingdom of this world. This is why all sins will be forgiven except the blaspheming of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 12:31-32). If you deny the Spirit, absolutely nothing can happen for you or through you. God moves through faith. Doubt or denial stops His movement. If you deny the Spirit, you are opposing the will of God for the earth. You are opposing His Kingdom and its manifestation. For your own sake, be filled with His Spirit and do His will. For the sake of God's glory and the building up of His Kingdom, let the Holy Spirit fill you and use you to execute His will in the earth. Seek God's face continually and be led by the Spirit. This is the coming of the Kingdom of God in power, authority, dominion and love. Let peace abide. Love the Lord God-Father, Christ the son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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