11月25日
标 题：消灭圣灵感动
经 节：不要消灭圣灵的感动。（帖撒罗尼迦前书五章19节）
我们不能阻止神完成在我们周围所行的工，但是，我们可能会在生活中消灭圣灵的感动。神给我们自由，能反抗圣灵在我们生命的作为。当我们忽略、不顺服、或拒绝圣灵的感动，也就消灭了神在我们身上的作为。先知以赛亚形容这结果是：“你们听是要听见，却不明白；看是要看见，却不晓得；因为这百姓油蒙了心，耳朵发沉，眼睛闭着，恐怕眼睛看见，耳朵听见，心里明白，回转过来，我就医治他们。”（以赛亚书六：9-10；马太福音十三：14-15）
一旦犯了罪，圣灵会让我们知道自己需要悔改。如果常常忽略祂的警告，不肯悔改，你的心会对神的话语愈来愈冷漠。如果圣灵向你启示神的旨意，而你拒绝有所行动，总有一天，圣灵的声音会在你的生活中销声匿迹。如果一再拒绝圣灵的感动，你不再能听见神的话语。如果一再扼杀神给你的话语，你无法再敏锐察觉祂的声音，祂将不再赐下祂新鲜的话语。要留心提防自己抵挡圣灵的感动。圣灵的话语可能不总是让你觉得很自在，但祂的话语将领你到丰盛之地。
Quenching the Spirit
Do not quench the Spirit. (1 Thessalonians 5:19)
We cannot prevent God from accomplishing His work in the world around us, but we can quench His Spirit in our lives. God has given us the freedom to withstand the Holy Spirit’s activity in our lives. When we ignore, disobey, or reject what the Spirit is telling us, we quench His activity in us. The prophet Isaiah described the result: “Hearing you will hear and not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive; For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them” (Isa. 6:9; Matt. 13:14–15).
When you sin, the Holy Spirit will convict you of your need for repentance. If you habitually ignore Him and do not repent, your heart will grow hardened to God’s Word. If the Spirit speaks to you about God’s will for you, and if you refuse to take action, a time will come when the Spirit’s voice will be muted in your life. If you continually reject the Spirit’s promptings, a day will come when you no longer hear a word from God. If you repeatedly stifle God’s word to you so that you are no longer sensitive to His voice, He will not give you a fresh word. Be wary of resisting the voice of the Spirit in your life. You may not always be comfortable with what the Spirit is saying to you, but His words will guide you to abundant life.
