How to Retain the Holy Spirit

One of the symbols of the Holy Spirit is fire, another symbol is river. And one constant characteristics of whether it is fire or river is that the fire can grow in intensity. It can come down in intensity and it can be quenched completely.

We also know that in seasons, it possible for it to dry up; so that where people stayed before and it was water, they can now walk on it because the river is dry and receded.

The power of the Holy Spirit in the life of a Christian can go up, can come down and can be quenched. The Holy Spirit can go and so it’s of importance the way we keep Him.

Another thing in retain the Holy Spirit is Holiness (That Is Operating God’s Morality): Conducting your life according to God’s moral requirements. The bible says “without it, nobody can see God” (1 Corinthians 3:16 & 17).

People of God, the Holy Spirit lives in you, in our bodies (inside us) and so the bible calls us God’s temple. And so the bible says “if anybody defies this temple which is God’s abode, God will defile the person”. Why? Because the temple of God is holy; meaning we ought to keep this temple (our body) holy because we are the temple.

Therefore, if any Christian wants a constant communion and maintain a good relationship with the Holy Spirit, you must live a Holy life; you must live by God’s standard of morality.

It is not by man’s standard of morality, because so many things man says does not matter with God, and man’s thinking concerning morality is different from God thinking and reasoning concerning immorality. 

In Matthew 7:6, it says don’t give a dog holy things because 1. They don’t know the value; they will destroy the holy thing, they will trample upon it. 

And in this place, Jesus was not talking about the animal called Dog; He was talking about Human beings. And Human beings can behave like dogs; and human beings who behave like dogs (Jesus said), they are not qualified to be given holy things. And if any person is not qualified to be given holy things, that person will not have any relationship or a communion with the Holy Spirit, which is the Spirit of Holiness. 

In Proverbs 26:11, the bible explains that the man who is a fool, who behaves like a dog by returning to his mistakes or his failings the way a dog returns to it’s vomits, cannot be given holy things. 

So, the Christian who makes “a habit of sin” will disqualify himself or herself from a relationship with the Holy Spirit. It is a different thing for a Christian who is living in holiness to stumble and fall into sin; which can happen. And when it happens, the bible requires that you return to God, clean up and continue your journey with God.

But that Christian who moves in and out of sin and it’s habit for whom it no longer matters, is now behaving like a dog. And such Christian will not enjoy a relationship with the Holy Ghost because “you don’t give holy things to dogs”.

#copied from Book: The Power of Revelation (Coming up soon)

 By Pastor Mike Okwundu Onyeka