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The Holy Spirit loves when you do this.

Now, I want to mention seven things that you can do today to bring joy to the Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit is a person, He is God, and he can be pleased or he can be grieved.

One time I was reading a book by RT Candle and he shares about a British couple who accepted

a call from their denomination to be missionaries in Israel.

And there was a house provided for them near Jerusalem and they moved into their new house

and they've noticed

that a dove have come to live in their house. They were honored to be living near Jerusalem

and were particularly thrilled to have the dove come and live there. They considered it somewhat

like a seal of approval from God a, that they were in the right place.

A husband noticed an unsettling pattern in the dove's behavior.

Every time they would slam the door shut or there was a lot of noise in the house,

if they raised their voice, the dove would be disturbed and flutter off,

sometimes not returning for some time.

And this worried the husband. So he felt that they were in danger of frightening the dove

permanently. With this in mind, he brought this matter to his wife. And he asked her, he said,

have you noticed that every time there's a lot of noise if we slam the door that the dove flies

away? And the wife responded, yes, it makes me feel very sad. I'm afraid the dove will

fly away and never come back, she replied. Well, said the husband, either the dove will adjust

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