Do not quench the Spirit,
Then Adonai said, “My Spirit will not remain with humankind forever, since they are flesh. So their days will be 120 years.
You bore with them for many years and admonished them by Your Ruach through the hand of Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You handed them over to the peoples of the lands.
Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
Many waters cannot quench love, nor rivers wash it away. If one gave all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly despised.
But they rebelled, and grieved His Ruach ha-Kodesh. So He turned to become their enemy. He Himself fought against them.
“O you stiff-necked people! You uncircumcised of heart and ears! You always resist the Ruach ha-Kodesh; just as your fathers did, you do as well.
But if something is revealed to another sitting nearby, let the first one become silent.
Do not grieve the Ruach ha-Kodesh of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Above all, take up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
do not despise prophetic messages,
Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying on of hands of the elders.
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.
So Samuel did what Adonai said and went to Beth-lehem. The elders of the town came out to meet him trembling, and asked, “Do you come in shalom?”
