Have you ever deliberately ignored the Holy Spirit when you felt that He was convicting you of a sin in your life?
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Riley on June 15, 2010 at 9:19 am
The more you sin, the less you know it. Not good to ignore the Holy Spirit.
lyndygayle on June 15, 2010 at 9:31 am
I wish I could say no, but I have ignored the Holy Spirit many times….when I didn’t want to forgive or stop something I was enjoying. I know it is wrong and I am working to listen and obey. It is a daily/weekly battle for me.
censation on June 15, 2010 at 6:30 pm
I don’t think deliberate God just don’t do that. But I’ve often thought he’d turn his back on me when I practice homosexuality, point blank I’m Gay but feels in my heart it’s wrong and he just does not approve so I feel when I talk to him he just turned his head in shame
Mango on June 16, 2010 at 3:19 am
Absolutely! But in the end I gave in and confessed that what I’d done wasn’t so good. I knew that I was jeopardizing my relationship with God if I were to persist in ignoring what I knew was right.
sweetest sacrifice on June 17, 2010 at 1:09 am
hi… i commend your honesty. although according to our pastor, our relationship with God is permanent. you are His child even if you commit a sin, this fact wouldn’t change. but your fellowship on the other hand is affected… would you agree?
peg on June 16, 2010 at 6:45 am
Yes. Sorry to say that I have. Many times. Mainly cause I didn’t want to stop. Thank You Jesus for not giving up on me and gently nudging me to repent and turn back to you. 🙂
Journey4Sue on June 16, 2010 at 11:56 pm
I have ignored the Holy Spirit but
when this has happened it left me with a “sore in my soul”. I knew I wasn’t doing what the Lord wanted of me and until I tried to turn things around I had no peace. I couldn’t be happy about anything! he doesn’t expect prefection from us..He knows we can’t be perfect. But I think He clearly gives us guidance and tender nudges as to what He thinks is best for us. I try to be sensitive to His will now more than ever.
maryanneb47 on June 18, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Journey4Sue I agree with you. I was looking over this question about something that has been bothering me since my husband passed away and I’ve been single since. I’ve practiced something that I wasn’t sure is a sin but that made me feel guilty about. I think the Holy Spirit has been nudging me in which I’ve ignored up until now . Thank You God.
sweetest sacrifice on June 17, 2010 at 12:54 am
yes, i did that. i ignored the Holy Spirit’s conviction. i know in my heart somehow the devil is trying to tell me that it will be ok to commit the sin because God will forgive me soon enough. When I realized how wrong my reasoning is, I came to God with tears in my eyes and just cried out that may He help me overcome my habitual sin.
maryanneb47 on June 18, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Thank You sweetest sacrifice for your comment.
msroby on June 20, 2010 at 1:01 pm
When I was younger and didn’t know much about God, Jesus or the Holy Spirit, I heard things only in my head and thought something was wrong with me when I found out that it wasn’t happening to others. I learned the hard way to listen to this voice. It protected me from harm. An example is that I was driving to work in a blizzard and the voice said: “Stop right now and get out of your car and walk home.” I did what it said to do feeling the urgency of this voice. The next day, when going back to the car to bring it home, I saw from a distance that my car was not going straight on the road the had at some point started to go off the road. On a closer examination, I saw close up that if I had gone just one more inch the car would have gone over the side of the road and into the creek. It was straight down and I’m pretty sure I would have been seriously hurt. Other times, I or another would be driving to somewhere in the dark and the voice would tell me that some particular animal was up ahead. This meant that if we didn’t slow down and look more carefully we would hit the animal. Once I was getting ready to leave the house to go to the grocery store. The voice said to take a pair of scissors. I thought I would be using them inside the store or something, but I didn’t take them as I walked out the door. Before getting into the car I turned around and went back for the scissors. When I got to the store and was looking to park where there was the least amount of snow and ice, it ended up being on the top of the hill and even closer to the front door. I got out of the car and shut the door, when the car started to roll backwards, with my scarf wrapped around my neck and stuck into the door. It pulled me and was chocking me. I got calm some how and reached for the scissors and cut that scarf off of me. It saved my life. I made up my mind right there and then to never ignore the voice in my head. My husband learned to listen to what I told him about what the voices said and it amazed him over and over again, never being wrong. The hard part was not knowing why I was to do what I was being told to do. Sometimes it seems ridiculous but it would always be something unexpected. It made me think I was crazy because who hears voices in thier heads? Crazy people, right? I only found the courage to tell one counselor about this on one day. The very next day the voice said to go to a certain room at that moment. I went not knowing what to expect and a gentleman was in the room. He said to me; Well hello there, you must be the one that my daughter told me about. It was the counselors father who also had this gift. He didnn’t really tell me what it was, he just told me to not be afraid and just follow what it tells me and I will get to a great place in my life. I didn’t speak of this to anyone else after that. I grew up with teh voice and could hear it clear as day. When I found Jesus, and realized that it was the Holy Spirit, I was better and relieved and didn’t fell I was crazy any more. Now the voice is not so loud as it was, it is way more subtle. It’s there and I can still hear it softly, and I just don’t question it anymore and am sure that it His will being done through me.
I may have just found him but He had always been with me.
Three times my hands and face ended up in a large fire ball. Everytime there was a witness to this. After the flames went out, I had not been burned at all, not one single hair touched. While in the fire balls the voice just said not to move and I didn’t. Then it was water, large bodies of water and I got baptised and it stopped. It would be three months later that my husband who was not a Christian served me white paper [divorce decree], well it was actually mailed to me from him but the same thing. He was a very abusive man and I put up with it for 20 years. Then it was over. I know that man would have killed me if it hadn’t been for the divorce to separate us. My heart was heavy for I feared the divorce would anger God and I wouldn’t get into heaven. For another year and a half, I read the Bible and studied and enjoyed learning from the Bible. But I was in yet another relationship not so great at all. I kept asking if i was wear I was suppose to be and it was always yes. Then when the relationship ended, I asked a question at the beginning of this relationship. If I would have had Jesus with me through my life, would it have saved the marriage and would it have been good. The answer was right in front of me. I had Jesus with me and and learning all the time and it couldn’t and didn’t change the person in my life, then it was clear for me to see what was and wasn’t my responsibility in that relationship. I couldn’t have changed him at all. And like a mountain of weight was lifted off of my shoulders.
I can’t live without the Holy Spirit and if I want what is best for me, I need to follow whatever it says.
Ciera on June 20, 2010 at 4:13 pm
You are lucky msroby. I have a really hard time telling what is the Holy Spirit and what is just me. I tend to feel guilty about everything, even things that don’t make any sense to feel guilty about. At one point I was struggling with feeling suicidal, and felt really guilty about asking for help, but I really wanted to live so I didn’t listen and did ask for help. I still do not know whether that was the Holy Spirit trying to tell me something or just me and if God is mad that I wanted to save my life and didn’t trust him to do it for me or if he really did want me to ask for help.
tim gustafson on June 21, 2010 at 5:20 am
Wow, this is a really good and honest discussion from everybody! A wise man explained it to me like this: The devil tempts us by saying,”It’s ok to sin, God will forgive you.” But then, if we give in to the temptation, he says, “Wow, you are so bad. God will never forgive THAT.” That is NOT the Holy Spirit. He says, “Don’t do this, it’s selfish and wrong.” But if we give in, He reminds us, “God forgives you, welcome back!” And I feel again the loving arms of my heavenly Father, who loves me with perfect love.
maryanneb47 on June 19, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Work-in- Progress, I think we’ve all been there a few times . I just keep coming back and Praise and thank God for His patience and that I keep coming back to Him. I talk to Him, praise Him, read His Word, and learn something every day. I thank Him for dying on the cross and forgiving my sins daily and never lose sight of Him much anymore because the more I talk to Him He strengthens my faith and my love for my Lord everyday.