1 Thess – Quench not the Spirit----(Do not subdue his positive attitude concerning YOU).
Moods Swings of The Holy Spirit
Convicting, counseling, compassion, commanding, conquering, communion and cleansing
Mood Defined - A conscious state of mind or predominant emotion. The moods of the Holy Spirit are the frames of mind he uses to express himself, revealing His divine purpose for particular situations.
1. The Convicting Mood – 16:8 – And when He is come, he will Reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of (God’s) judgment. Reprove – To correct. Conviction is meant to correct bad behavior. Conviction brings a feeling of guilt. Correction should bring Improvement in your life. If you cannot be corrected you will quench the Spirit of God this is to the church. Because He is quenched every day concerning the sinner man or woman. Ecc 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
2. The Counseling Mood –Transforming our carnal minds to understand spiritual truths as we begin to think the thoughts God intended for us to think by the counseling or teaching mood of the Spirit. St. John 14:26 - But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. St. John 16:13 – How be it when the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth for he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. (HE WILL NOT GIVE YOU ANYTHING THAT IS NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH HIS WORD). (HE CAN GIVE YOU A REVELATION OF THINGS THAT CAN DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY AFFECT YOU CONCERNING YOUR LIFE AND EVEN THINGS CONCERNING THE LIVES OF OTHERS THAT ARE CLOSE TO YOU).
· What is truth – – The Word is Truth. He will guide you into what is right or correct for your life. His guidance never
Contradicts His word.
3. The Compassion Mood – Human emotions without God do not express true compassion. True compassion is a passion moved by love and sorrow. To suffer with another feeling his distress and desiring to show mercy to him. St. Luke 19:41-44 (Read) Jesus weeps for the city of , because they rejected the Grace of God, which rejection would usher in the wrath of God. They did not recognize the time of God’s visitation unto them.
· He wept through the eyes of revelation
· When people come to alliviate your distress this is God’s compassion. Certain medications can also be that WAY OUT for you from God. 1 Corinthians 10:13-There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that you may be able to bear it. GOD WILL NOT PUT ANYTHING ON YOU THAT YOU CANNOT BEAR.
WHERE DO TEMPTATIONS (trying times) COME FROM. 1. Self overindulgence or overcommitting yourself doing more then you should be doing can bring afflictions. 2. Satan entices us to do evil-and when we give in we INVITE TROUBLE! 3. Disobedience to God –for the wages of sin is DEATH. 4. The sinful indulgences of the world. 5. Ungodly aquaintances. 6. God.
4. The Cleansing Mood – In His cleansing Mood the Holy Spirit may seem angry and harsh to us. His anger is not against us but against the sin that threatens to destroy us. He uses the Cords of Conviction to Cleanse us. St. Luke 19:45 – And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought, 46 – Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but you have made it a den of thieves. (Their sales must have been somewhat illegal).
Jesus zeal was motivated by divine indignation at the defilement of the temple that God had intended to be a house of prayer, of power, of purpose, and of purity. He made a whip of small cords and drove out these persons.
Many times we feel the whip of Cords driving out the wicked thing that is defiling our lives.
· Many will seek to make the house of God a Den of Disobedience.
5. The Commanding Mood – St. Mark 4:38 – They awoke Him (Jesus) and say unto Him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? He arose and rebuke (commanded) the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace be still. The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Through Prayer God can command the storms in our lives to be still. James 5:16-17-The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much
Through obedience to His Word God can command the trials in our lives to go only as far as he intends for our Good. Romans –All things work out for Good to them who love God. (Love is to Obey).
Through Faith in God He can command the Demons to stay off of us through sickness and disease. St Mark 5:34 – Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
Sharon Therese Spencer
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