Do not quench the Spirit.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,
Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you.
But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.
Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
Many years you bore with them and warned them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”
If a revelation is made to another sitting there, let the first be silent.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.
Samuel did what the Lord commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling and said, “Do you come peaceably?”
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