Prayer Works Morning Devotion: May 20, 2025

"Waiting On The Holy Spirit - Getting Our Hearts Ready for Pentecost"

"Isaiah 63:10 - Grieving The Holy Spirit "

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Good morning. Good morning, everybody. I hope you had a wonderful night and you are excited about this day and wherever you are, if you are home or in a quiet place.

If you can, after you know, after we kind of go through this scripture together, if you can find a nice little place in just pray with me. 

Let's go to the Lord in prayer, Father we thank you for your goodness and your mercy. We come to you this morning as we look at your word. And as we seek communion with you and the spirit and we thank you for this moment that we are together.  

We have a greater understanding of knowing that when we come together in times like this your authority and your power is seen. God bless you that we have access to the Kingdom of heaven and to the throne of grace.  

So as we come together this morning, Lord hear us and hear our prayers. And we ask you, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen. We are in Isaiah 63: 10. And this is what verse 10 says. But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit.  

So he turned himself against them as an enemy. And is fought against them. And but they rebelled and grieved the Holy Spirit. So in turn God turned himself against them as an enemy, and fought against them.  

Brothers and sisters grieving my father-in-law always put it this way. Whatever you do, do not fight the Holy Spirit because you are going to lose. Grieving the Holy Spirit is also mentioned in the book of Ephesians 4 I think chapter 30 somewhere there.  

This is what it means to grieve the Holy Spirit. This disobedience is at the top of the list. Where people refuse to obey his counsel. Because remember, he was given for our counsel.  

So when we refuse this counsel he is grieved. Because you know the end of it, you are going to lose. And spiritual behavior. Where people choose not to be spiritual. It grieves the Holy Spirit because he was sent so that we can be spiritual.  

He will send so that we can find our connection. Spiritual connection that we lost in the garden. When we grieve the Holy Spirit, our attitudes and actions most times are extremely negative and vile.  

Which we are seeing today in this country. Then the Scriptures also talk about, I think Thessalonian about quenching the spirit. He says, quenching not the spirit.

Quenching the spirit is not giving him the liberty to express who he is and what he knows. And some of that is happening in churches, when we choose to just kind of push him aside.  

The worst one is when we use him to validate our sinful nature. Or when we use scriptures to add you against scriptures.

We can't put the Holy Spirit against scriptures. He wrote the scriptures. And when we grieve the Holy Spirit, we lose respect of God, we lose spatial connection. 

And in fact, it actually hinders our fellowship with one another. It brings the vision because the thing that unites you and I is not ideas.

It’s that we have the same spirit functioning in us. Wherever you see division that means the Holy Spirit is not involved and he is grieved.  

It brings sorrow and distress to the Holy Spirit. When we don't know the difference anymore between right and wrong because what's inhumanity that brings order is the Holy Spirit.  

That's how we know somebody is lying and that's how we know another person is not telling the truth. So the evidence of that of grieving the holies, the evidence of driving the Holy Spirit is when you see division.  

Hate, anger, distress, unbelief, lack of respect and all these signs are everywhere in our country. And brothers and sisters, you and I, we have a responsibility and that responsibility is to stand in the gap as intercessors.  

And intercede on their behalf of a society that's being crippled because the we have kicked or we have grieved the Holy Spirit the scripture says after grieving the Holy Spirit, he turned God, turned himself and against them and we don't want that. We don't want the law to turn against us.  

So brothers and sisters wherever you are, I want you to join me in prayer. What's going on is grieving the Holy Spirit. And if it's driving the Holy Spirit, it affects all of us. So wherever you are, if you can find a nice little space to meal with me in prayer.  

And let's pray for this country. Let’s pray for what's going on, we are the antidote. We are the antidote. Let's stand in the gap for this nation. So join me in prayer. Heavenly Father, we come before you today. Our hearts are troubled, Our minds are bombarded by the things that are taking place in this country.  

We have become a godless society. Where we can't even recognize right or wrong. We're a nation full of pockets of groups. People were standing with their own ideas. Resisting to acknowledge even things that are blatantly wrong even right.  

We don't know where the lines are anymore. And your children are suffering in the midst of all this chaos. But we understand this one thing. That there's a greater authority that exists through us which comes through the power and the force of the Holy Spirit.  

So, Father, as a people, as your children, we repent on the wickedness in our society. Deliberate or undeliberate, unrighteous bloviant, unholiness. We repent Lord on behalf of this country. 

We see the mockery of God. We see the debauchery and unrighteous behavior through leaders. The church has become a mocking stock. Where we cannot even recognize the Holy Scriptures. Full of ideas that push the devil's agenda. Impairing your children from accessing his holy place. 

We don't even know what to expect in churches anymore. We have pastors in sins. Agendas in churches, tables full of money changers in churches. We are grieving the Holy Spirit because of our greedy.  

This idea of self rule that exclude all principles. We repent for the confusion that is coming from puppets. That gives us that is contrary to what this Kingdom stands for in the name of freedom, we have brought confusion to ourselves.  

Sexual immorality is everywhere in government in church. We can't even recognize the church anymore. We repent, we repent of the daily violations that we are seeing from leaders that goes against any divine principle that you have given us.  

Day-to-day, we hear things, Lord that we can't even understand. That's unbelievable for us to even fathom. Father I pray for this country, have mercy on us. We had grieved the Holy Spirit and we are grieving him because of disobedience.  

The challenges we face is because we have removed ourselves from your presence. We  have leaders amongst us who don't care about spiritual things. Who grieve you and we repent on their behalf.  

Discontinued violation that we have on the church and your Holy Spirit. We've dishonored you in so many ways. Truth can no longer be celebrated, can even know what truth is. We repent on the bar for this nation.  

Parents who have dishonored your leadership and willingness to love spirituality, injustice all across the nation. Heinous crimes being committed right in front of our nose because the Holy Spirit has been pushed out.  

Great season being used there's a way to put others down. We repent for the systematic operation that seek to perpetuate itself in this country. We come against any form of thievery stand against it Lord.  

We table this prayer before the course of hearing and we ask you Lords to come on our behalf lest we perish with the sinners. So give our leaders, have mercy on them. Give an opportunity to repent.  

We want your presence as your children. We desire it because we know it is the counsel we need to sort out this mess. Forgive the church that should know better. Touch leaders that have violated your statues left, right and center that has brought unholy spirits and mix them with your Spirit and it grieves you.  

Brought Greek gods in the church and mixed it with the church, and it grieves you, Lord. Have mercy on us. We have taken oaths that we should not take. And the word is very clear that we should not mix these churches so have mercy on us.  

Have mercy on the church. Forgive church leaders that are manipulating saints and yes, the spirit of left us without counsel, without direction. And we are praying, Lord, that you may have mercy on us to take just treats the wrong doctrines and brought the world into the church.  

And Father, I pray that you have mercy. Have mercy on us. We’re grieving the spirit. And we are grieving this spirit as a Nation. Corruption running rampant and scripture says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom just the beginning.  

And Father, we have lost our fear. Political leaders have lost all fear. They've exalted themselves and made himself above God. And I know it grieves you so you have mercy on us.  

We cry out for this country. Have mercy, Lord lest we perish and godly doctrines everywhere. Plundering resources that belongs to you. We live amongst demonic filled people. That seeks to oppress others under the sum of the devil, and we pray, Lord, that it shall not be so.  

Father, we come against this system of oppression. Come against men and women that don't stand for spiritual things. We asked for justice because it is for justice that Jesus came, we ask for it.  

We pray, Lord, that may you exonerate us from all this debauchery that is going on around us. We command, the spirit of God to now occupy every unoccupied space. Teach us how to believe in you again, teach us how to be meek, teach your church leaders to be meek.  

Teach us how to repent because the word says if my people who are caught by my name will humble themselves can from their wicked ways and seek my face. Only then will you hear from heaven and heal this land.  

So I pray for every church leader across this country. That may we turn from our wicked ways, humble ourselves and seek your face so you can heal this nation. We have grieved the Holy Spirit Lord and we don't want you to turn against us.  

So have mercy Lord have mercy. Teach us how to be integrous. To just how to love one another again to have self respect. To have respect for others. Call an end to injustice. Call honest leaders, men and women who care about spiritual things to rise up.  

Remove all these dishonest political leaders who lack integrity. We know you're working something in behind Lord. But Father, we ask you be of mercy on us. We ask that you raise a generation of leaders, church leaders, political leaders that care about spiritual things.  

We have grieved you and we are grieving you and have mercy on us, Lord. We want to stand in the number as the righteous so this nation can be saved. We will find ourselves in you. Still holding on to the statues and the values of this Kingdom. So that we don't grieve your spirit.  

God thank you that when we pray, you hear us. Too many problems to mention. Too many challenges all happening at once. And in the midst of all this others two parties. Nor understanding the signs of the times unaware that you are so near.  

So as we play our role and our part. I ask you, Lord, that may your spirit be so strong in us. And may you not deprive us of your Holy Spirit because of sins of others and the sins of this nation.  

So as we hunger and thirsty after you and hunger and thirsty after righteousness. Lord I pray for a visitation. Just to remind us that you are still our anchor. That you're still walking with us. That you're still counseling us. That your promises are still yay and Amen that you will never leave us to the forsaken us.  

So I pray Lord take your place again in our country. Take your place again in the church. Take your place again in pastors hearts. Father, I pray that is there any men who are using the church as a means and the way to manipulate others I pray for an expedient removal, give them an opportunity to repent.  

If they choose not to pray for an expedient removal because we know you want to do something through the church, that this violation Lord. The equality of Holy Spirit and grieves the spirit of God that brings counsel and fellowship.  

So if there's others who are impeding this move of God, I pray, Lord that may they be removed from in name of Jesus. But first give them an opportunity to repent. If they choose not to over years we are in need of the Holy Spirit.  

We are losing our ways. Which truth cannot be recognized anymore right and wrong does not exist anymore. The lines are so blurry and every day we are bombarded by things that we cannot understand.  

We can't keep up but our eyes are on you. We look to the hills where our health comes from. And we know our help comes from the Lord who created the heavens and the Earth. That your eye is on the sparrow, you are aware of it all, you see it all. 

Nothing hidden from your sight. Every square inch of the earth, under the presence of the almighty. We are not trying to figure this out, Lord and we know that our ways are not your ways.  

So as we yield to you, we are confident of the fact that that you will exonerate us in the midst of all this chaos. We ask you to be present in our fellowship and I pray, Lord may you come forth every single one of us. When we hear things that are despicable and challenging.  

May you console us and remind us that your presence is with us. We will never grieve you because we are in desperate need of the Holy Spirit in these treacherous times. So we come against every ungodly leadership, wherever it is found. Raises a standard in us.  

I pray Lord when you hear us, when you hear us. I pray that as we go through this day insulate us. Lead us, direct us, commune with us, counsel us, shepherd us. Lead us to the path of righteousness.  

Open our eyes and open our ears. And we pray Lord that we’ll continue to give you things. We know you are near. We know you are near. So, Father, we hold on to these values to these statutes. And we asked, you know, to guide us as we go through this day.  

May your presence be so strong within us as a source of comfort, encouragement. So we thank you that you are our Father and we are your children. As we take all this prayer before the courts of heaven now rule on our behalf.  

Send angels on assignments to deal with things that we can deal with. And we ask in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to now lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For thine is the Kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever, Amen.  

Brothers and sisters walk with the Lord. Don't grieve his spirit and remember, we are the antidote. The things that we see, God has raised us to be the difference maker. Hold on to your values.  

Your statues don't get pulled with the things of this world. And may the Lord bless you and may the Lord bless your families, may the Lord bless the works of your hands. May the Lord to bless the works of the one who sent you. May He you comfort you.  

May He console you, may He encourage you. May He motivate and inspire you in all the things that you desire to do for yourself, for your family, and for your Kingdom. Love God, love people and love His spirit. We'll see you tomorrow.