“Grieve not the Holy Spirit.” 
              — Ephesians 4:30

All that the believer has must come from Christ, but it comes solely
through the channel of the Spirit of grace. Moreover, as all blessings
thus flow to you through the Holy Spirit, so also no good thing can
come out of you in holy thought, devout worship, or gracious act, apart
from the sanctifying operation of the same Spirit. Even if the good
seed be sown in you, yet it lies dormant except he worketh in you to
will and to do of his own good pleasure. Do you desire to speak for
Jesus-how can you unless the Holy Ghost touch your tongue? Do you
desire to pray? Alas! what dull work it is unless the Spirit maketh
intercession for you! Do you desire to subdue sin? Would you be holy?
Would you imitate your Master? Do you desire to rise to superlative
heights of spirituality? Are you wanting to be made like the angels of
God, full of zeal and ardour for the Master’s cause? You cannot without
the Spirit-“Without me ye can do nothing.” O branch of the vine, thou
canst have no fruit without the sap! O child of God, thou hast no life
within thee apart from the life which God gives thee through his
Spirit! Then let us not grieve him or provoke him to anger by our sin.
Let us not quench him in one of his faintest motions in our soul; let
us foster every suggestion, and be ready to obey every prompting. If
the Holy Spirit be indeed so mighty, let us attempt nothing without
him; let us begin no project, and carry on no enterprise, and conclude
no transaction, without imploring his blessing. Let us do him the due
homage of feeling our entire weakness apart from him, and then
depending alone upon him, having this for our prayer, “Open thou my
heart and my whole being to thine incoming, and uphold me with thy free
Spirit when I shall have received that Spirit in my inward parts.”

On this day...

• Amos 1 - 2024
• Leviticus 25 - 2024
• We must repair the waste of the soul by feeding upon the Book of God, or by listening to the preached Word - 2016
• Without constant restoration we are not ready for the perpetual assaults of hell - 2016
• The heart was made for everlastingness while the brain is suffocating under the cloud of depravity - 2016
• The kiss of death rests upon everything in our world - 2016
• When a man begins praying to God, he is doing that as a natural response - 2016
• The Things That Please God - 2012
• We must stand firm in the Gospel - 2012
• Ephesians 6 - 2012