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The Holy Spirit Must Not Be Grieved During Worship Services

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The Holy Spirit Must Not Be Grieved During Worship Services

Monday 08 September

Text:  Malachi 1: 6 – 8  
Key verse: Ephesians 4: 30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
The worship assembly must submit to the Holy Spirit to guide and direct them throughout the service time. Love must rule the hearts of the worshippers: love for God and for their neighbor. The ministers should minister in love. The worship service must be properly organized, providing for no confusion in the assembly. The practice of going to drop offering in the altar during sermon, ministration in songs, etc, to indicate that one is enjoying the ministration or that the one performing is doing so by the Holy Spirit, does not only lack decency, but serves as a temptation to pride to true ministers who delight in humble service before God. 
Besides, the people who do this distract the attention of the congregation and the ministers they seek to applause. Such acts are motivated by the flesh and should be discouraged in the worship assembly. There is time for offering and there is time for ministration. The preacher should treat the worshippers with respect and understanding. Instructions such as, ‘Stand up’, ‘Sit down’, ‘Kneel down’, ‘Jump up’, ‘Say to your neighbor’, ‘Hold your neighbor’, ‘Shout halleluiah’ ‘Say Amen’ and such like, must be given with care and wisdom, considering the individuality and sexes of the worshippers. 
While wisdom in ministration may require some of these to be employed, their excessive use may destroy the solemnity of worship and make the worshippers weary of the worship service. The worship service should seek to give salvation to sinners, restoration to the backsliders, edification to the believers, ministry to the needy, holiness and fitness for heaven to all worshippers. The worship activities should be such that at the end God is glorified, the ministers and worshippers are blessed and joyful, the sinners and newcomers find Christ and all testify that God is truly in the assembly of His worshippers, I Corinthians 14:24, 25; Matthew 18:20.

Thought for the day: Ensure that God is glorified, worshippers are blessed and sinners find Christ in the course of worship.

Song for the day: Praise God Alleluia, Praise God Amen…

Bible reading for the day: Ezekiel 44-46   
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