Grieving and Quenching the Holy Spirit 5-22-25

I felt the need to write about these bad doctrines that are keeping God’s people in bondage. After adding about the Holy Spirit being quenched and grieved in the last message, I was led to continue so the eyes of those walking in darkness will be opened to the truth and what is expected of the church.

How would you feel if you gave someone a valuable gift and they never used it? You thought enough of them to bless in a way that the gift would be so beautiful that it would be worn so people could admire the beautiful gift. Brothers and sisters, how do you think the Holy Spirit feels when we grieve Him? What does it mean to make the Holy Spirit sad?

We don’t get along with each other; there is bickering and quarreling among us, and that makes the Holy Spirit sad. Not only that, we limit His power working in and through when we grieve and quench the Spirit of God.

I don’t know about you, but I want to be pleasing to God so the Spirit’s power can be manifested and be a blessing to others. I always place emphasis on, who are you going to please, people or God?

Please don’t allow the devil to have you continue believing that it is okay just to go to church, be an usher, greeter, deacon, and so on. You have been given gifts (ministry, gifts, assignments) to edify (encourage others). Those ministries in the church are okay to be a part of if the Spirit leads you, but there is more to it than that.

As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God (1 Peter 4:10). We are stewards who God has entrusted His many precious grace gifts to build each other up. But the devil does not want us to know that, therefore he does everything possible to keep us ignorant.

I wrote to you before that this has nothing to do with salvation (no one worked to get saved – Ephesians 2:8-9). However, once we are saved, God has purpose for us here on this earth, if that were not true, He would have saved us and taken us straight to heaven. God loves us so that He included as fellow laborers with Him. For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building (1 Corinthians 3:9).

My personal experience over many years: The Lord will use you at any place and at any time; your gifts are not just limited to the church. We are called to go outside or beyond the walls. It can be on your job, at a store, our walking, and so on, and the Lord will place people in your path to minister to.

Another reason the gifts are not functioning in the church is because the focus is on the leader more than the other parts of the body of Christ. The other reason is the leader may not understand that he is the only one to function in his gift.

Whatever the case may be, it harms the people of God because they are at a loss as to what their gifts may be, or they may think their gifts are not good enough, or as important as the office of the pastor.

FYI- the Holy Spirit is the power working in all the gifts, the gifts He distributed to the saints; the gifts given by Jesus Christ, and the gifts (ministry) given by Father God.

There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 

There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. 

And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all  (1 Corinthians 12:4-6). This scripture is another confirmation of the Trinity- God in Three Persons.

His handmaiden, Betty A. Burnett ~ burnettministries.org