Can You Get the Holy Spirit Back? How?

Chris35 · Jun 24, 2019

On a side note, i doubt it will take you as long as it did for me, so do not fear.

You keep praying for the wrong thing, eg. Asking god for forgivness and to give you back the holy spirit as I did, however he cant because God never took it away in the first place.

It wasnt until i prayed to God for guidance, wisdom, truth and understanding about the devil and the situation, that i began to see and understand in my heart what had happened to me. I also suggest that you do the same.

Hence see the snare. Satan influences and makes us believe that something is wrong. We end up blaming God for taking it away or ourselves, start nagging and praying to God for the wrong thing because of our lack of trust and understanding.

Broken Fence · May 2, 2020

Rosesandthorns said:
I feel The Holy Spirit has left me, I don't understand really what's happening

Greetings Rosesandthorns,
I have felt that way before, I realized that Holy Spirit had not left me, but that I had stopped walking in His presence. So I confessed my short comings begin to seek Him staying in His word, praying, praising. Then Holy Spirit showed me what areas of my life I needed to work on.

Broken Fence · May 2, 2020

Also Rosesandthrons,
Remember the mighty David who encouraged himself in The Lord. Remember God's promises if you have too tell the devil off. Holy Father we ask in Jesus's Holy name that you return onto Rosesandthrons the joy of her salvation.
Lord we come against all the negative feelings and emotions that she feels. We plead The Blood of Christ over her and her situation. Lord we ask that your Holy angels fortify Your position on her life. Lord we plead that You defeat this guilt and shame in her life. In Yeshua's (Jesus's) Holy name. Amen

Broken Fence · May 2, 2020

this is not my name said:
never mind, I missed the fact that there were two pages, so I have read up more. I don't know how to direct message. I joined this to find out if there is hope, because this happened about two weeks ago.

Greetings: this is not my name,
There is hope God will complete the work He started in you. Often times our greatest battle has the greatest growth. The Lord is a helper. Seek Him and all things will fall into place.

Steven Galvao · May 24, 2020

Hey guys I’m new to this forum. I got extremely sick last year from thyroid and self issues and ended up becoming mentally ill for a while. Eventually got so broken and God stepped in and saved my life. I had a super natural calling on my life and walked with the lord for about 6months. I was writing a book about my story and fell short of my task with the lord. I was trying to do everything The lord had asked me to do properly, but our minds always try to think apart what was really going on. Daily my mind was attacking me about Jesus and God being truth even though I knew it was truth and the Devil did not want to give me rest. I had a tremendous experience with The Holy Spirit, and of course my mind always wants to think is it possible for others to feel this without the Holy Spirit like spiritualists etc. At this point though I was trusting the Lord and kept walking with him and faith was having a break through, and I watched a stupid movie called silence and it completely shattered me and my spiritual state. I felt the finest seed sink into my heart and the image of the pastors failing tormented me for 5 months and fells like it did damaged to my brain. I wasn’t able to recover my experience with God. My brain feels super forgetful now and I look at some old materials I wrote and everything seems like make believe. I seem for far from God and even my own mental health I feel like God is finished with me. My story was something beautiful for people to know and I ended up ruining it because I didn’t guard my heart and mind just when I got caught off guard. I look at the BiblE and few like that spiritual Eyes have been closed to the truth. All I do now
Is cry and wish I never watched that movie and suffered so much lose in my life. I’ve repented and prayed and don’t even know what to do. I told God I was his servant and gave up everything for Him now I just sit here looking at the broken pieces. Not knowing if I need mental health assistance or wait on the lord. God, My heart, my brain and purpose were all stolen within minutes. I guess I should have been rooted better in Christ, but everything happened so fast. If someone knows anything that can help, I would most definitely appreciate it. I don’t even know where to start.

Tempura · May 25, 2020

Steven, Silence isn't about priests failing in the end, even if it seems like that on the surface. It's about the essence of faith, and how it remains, even when everything around it is stripped away. Silence isn't a movie that destroys faith, it's a movie about facing the worst, facing the ultimate doubts, facing the ultimate failure, but still, in the end, keeping faith - because we didn't put that faith in there by ourselves, no other human did either, so that spark prevails even when everything around it crumbles. The movie has a happy ending, even if it's a really hard one to watch. The strength of faith overcomes the weakness and failure of a person. Not the strength we perceive ourselves to possess, but the invisible spark of faith. Our plans, no matter how good and righteous, can fail miserably. God however does not, no matter how miserable some things may seem. What was the one guy's name? Ichijiro? He's supposed to be us, even if he can be seen as a villain. We fail, horribly, time after time, but we get up. He always got up. We try again, and leave it all in the hands of God, despite our weakness or circumstances.

We see things so differently. I was already having a crisis of faith when I watched the movie, and it helped me get perspective. I wasn't afraid of my failure anymore, and I wasn't tormented about the things I didn't know or couldn't prove. I could just leave it all to God, give all my burdens, even the state of my faith, into His care.

You don't have to repent over watching a movie, you don't have to suffer like that. You haven't ruined anything. God does not pick up a person with His love and Spirit and then throw them away. You don't have to trust your ill feelings one bit, no matter how loudly they may roar. We can trust God's power and love through our feelings, through our circumstances, through our weakness, through our lack of understanding and through our lack of clarity. Depending on God, instead of ourselves. No matter how weak or lost we are. Self-reliance is something many of us will get rid of.

Mental health assistance can be good, I've needed it a lot. Can recommend. You shouldn't suffer like that. Also, we have no way of knowing about many physiological issues we might have.

But your life is hid with Christ. If we don't see it, even if we thought it wasn't so, we hope for what we can't see. We grasp Christ through our failures, and we shouldn't look at the strength of our grip, but His strength, who is on the other end. His strength will not waver, and we can take it by faith. Said a prayer for you brother. I believe things are much better than you think.

Steven Galvao · May 25, 2020

Brother, I appreciate your reply. I wish you would have wrote this 5 months ago! My trauma and Corona Virus did not really allow me to get the help right away and things spiraled out of control. My faith was already weak then and my mind always attacked everything when it came to God even when He was clearly talking to
Me daily. I would explain this too anyone else and they wouldn’t understand. I’‘ve also said a little prayer for you and hope that God does big things in your life. And I will take that recommended help if you have someone specific.

Tempura · May 25, 2020

Steven Galvao said:
And I will take that recommended help if you have someone specific.

Sorry brother, I live in Finland, and even the people who helped me are probably retired now. But even then, help didn't come right away. Some people weren't right for me, some treatments didn't work, but the trick is to not give up. If something doesn't work, we're wiser already because of it. I also went through the medicine carousel, and eventually some of those meds started working after trying out several that didn't. I was a mess, so of course some hospital trips were needed too. Therapy was good. I lucked out, and got a good one, even if I was way too rebellious for it, and I quit it a few times only to come back later. Eventually something just clicked. The main point of therapy is to recognize harmful thought patterns and get to a point where we don't feel like we have to be at their mercy. So look around, plenty of information on the internet, and if you know people near you, you might want to ask them too.

Please know that many of us are broken in our own ways, very confused, feeling like we're trapped, doomed or you name it. We can feel everything pressing us down, but we don't have to believe those "voices". We aren't given the spirit of fear. It can be a long road to learn how to live with it and how to fight that, but it's better if it's long and thorough, instead of getting something right now that we will lose the next day. And always think of Christ as an immovable rock. We waver, He simply doesn't. He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, and in the midst of all our storms, He is one powerful constant who will keep us. We can draw so much hope from that. He is the foundation, and it is good that He is, because in ourselves we will often find turmoil and winds going wherever they please. But He came for us, and He will not be moved away by our weakness, fear, illness, brokenness or failure. God is good, and even the most miserable of us are not a challenge to Him. We go to Him as we are, we don't have to pretend to be stronger than we are in the moment.

One day at a time brother. God is good. He's got you. Christ be with you, as He already is, no matter how you feel. Thank you for your kind prayer.

Steven Galvao · May 26, 2020

Tempura said:
Steven, Silence isn't about priests failing in the end, even if it seems like that on the surface. It's about the essence of faith, and how it remains, even when everything around it is stripped away. Silence isn't a movie that destroys faith, it's a movie about facing the worst, facing the ultimate doubts, facing the ultimate failure, but still, in the end, keeping faith - because we didn't put that faith in there by ourselves, no other human did either, so that spark prevails even when everything around it crumbles. The movie has a happy ending, even if it's a really hard one to watch. The strength of faith overcomes the weakness and failure of a person. Not the strength we perceive ourselves to possess, but the invisible spark of faith. Our plans, no matter how good and righteous, can fail miserably. God however does not, no matter how miserable some things may seem. What was the one guy's name? Ichijiro? He's supposed to be us, even if he can be seen as a villain. We fail, horribly, time after time, but we get up. He always got up. We try again, and leave it all in the hands of God, despite our weakness or circumstances.

We see things so differently. I was already having a crisis of faith when I watched the movie, and it helped me get perspective. I wasn't afraid of my failure anymore, and I wasn't tormented about the things I didn't know or couldn't prove. I could just leave it all to God, give all my burdens, even the state of my faith, into His care.

You don't have to repent over watching a movie, you don't have to suffer like that. You haven't ruined anything. God does not pick up a person with His love and Spirit and then throw them away. You don't have to trust your ill feelings one bit, no matter how loudly they may roar. We can trust God's power and love through our feelings, through our circumstances, through our weakness, through our lack of understanding and through our lack of clarity. Depending on God, instead of ourselves. No matter how weak or lost we are. Self-reliance is something many of us will get rid of.

Mental health assistance can be good, I've needed it a lot. Can recommend. You shouldn't suffer like that. Also, we have no way of knowing about many physiological issues we might have.

But your life is hid with Christ. If we don't see it, even if we thought it wasn't so, we hope for what we can't see. We grasp Christ through our failures, and we shouldn't look at the strength of our grip, but His strength, who is on the other end. His strength will not waver, and we can take it by faith. Said a prayer for you brother. I believe things are much better than you think.

D.Ama · Dec 13, 2020

Steven Galvao said:
Hey guys I’m new to this forum. I got extremely sick last year from thyroid and self issues and ended up becoming mentally ill for a while. Eventually got so broken and God stepped in and saved my life. I had a super natural calling on my life and walked with the lord for about 6months. I was writing a book about my story and fell short of my task with the lord. I was trying to do everything The lord had asked me to do properly, but our minds always try to think apart what was really going on. Daily my mind was attacking me about Jesus and God being truth even though I knew it was truth and the Devil did not want to give me rest. I had a tremendous experience with The Holy Spirit, and of course my mind always wants to think is it possible for others to feel this without the Holy Spirit like spiritualists etc. At this point though I was trusting the Lord and kept walking with him and faith was having a break through, and I watched a stupid movie called silence and it completely shattered me and my spiritual state. I felt the finest seed sink into my heart and the image of the pastors failing tormented me for 5 months and fells like it did damaged to my brain. I wasn’t able to recover my experience with God. My brain feels super forgetful now and I look at some old materials I wrote and everything seems like make believe. I seem for far from God and even my own mental health I feel like God is finished with me. My story was something beautiful for people to know and I ended up ruining it because I didn’t guard my heart and mind just when I got caught off guard. I look at the BiblE and few like that spiritual Eyes have been closed to the truth. All I do now
Is cry and wish I never watched that movie and suffered so much lose in my life. I’ve repented and prayed and don’t even know what to do. I told God I was his servant and gave up everything for Him now I just sit here looking at the broken pieces. Not knowing if I need mental health assistance or wait on the lord. God, My heart, my brain and purpose were all stolen within minutes. I guess I should have been rooted better in Christ, but everything happened so fast. If someone knows anything that can help, I would most definitely appreciate it. I don’t even know where to start.

Hi Steven how did you find out you had a thyroid issue and what are the effects of it?

D.Ama · Dec 13, 2020

Chris35 said:
I went through something similar. I believed the holy spirit left. It wasnt untill 15 years later that i began seeing the truth.

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

What your experiencing at the moment, i dont believe it comes from God. Satan hates God, and God loves people more then we can comprehend. Now satan cant do anything to God himself, so what does he do? Satan loves to attack his children, especially new ones that are yet to build a foundation. He tries to make us believe we have been seperated them from God's love any way he can.

I have been attacked many times in my life, i know he can bring in bad feelings, to the point of panic and fear. Satan found an opening and is using it, to make you believe God has left you

The good news is, nothing can seperate you from God. When Satan attacks, he is full of lies, gods word is truth. Rebuke the lies and stand firm on the truth. Keep moving forward, and it will pass.

Remember Jesus has conquered Satan, he can only hold you down for awhile, and put stumbling blocks on your path. In the end, your in gods hands and nothing can snatch you away. You will always find your way back to him.

Hi chris, whats your story and how did you recover?

Chris35 · Dec 13, 2020

aiki · Dec 16, 2020

this is not my name said:
wondering if anyone has been through experience of grieving Holy Spirit to where the blessed Holy Spirit left them, and got back with Jesus Christ in fellowship somehow. there is more to this, but that is simplified version for now.

The Holy Spirit doesn't come and go from those whom he has spiritually-regenerated. When he takes up residence in a person, he's there to stay.

Hebrews 13:5
5 Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, "I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU,"

Romans 8:35-39
35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 Just as it is written, "FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED."
37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.
38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 10:27-29
27 "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;
28 and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.
29 "My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

No one comes into relationship with God on their own merits, by dint of their own righteousness. The ONLY reason God accepts any of us is that we have placed our trust in Christ as Saviour and Lord. Only by this means are we able to enter into God's kingdom; only through the Redeemer, Jesus Christ the Righteous, are we adopted into God's family. Christ's righteousness is perfect, you see, which is the only sort of righteousness God will accept. Born into sin as we are, our righteousness can never be perfect which is why we so desperately need Jesus in order to come into relationship with God. When a person trusts in Christ, the Holy Spirit comes to live within them and in doing so gives them a second spiritual "birth," making them "dead unto sin but alive unto God," placing the believing person in Christ and clothing them in his righteousness.

Again, this is the sole basis upon which a person comes into relationship with God. Entering into God's family has nothing at all to do with a person's good works. And since good deeds having nothing to do with being saved, they have nothing to do with staying saved. We are adopted by God because of Christ. Period.

So, when you grieve the Spirit, there is no dissolution of your salvation, which is what it would mean for the Spirit to leave you. There may be a fracture in your fellowship with God, your intimate communion with Him, but you can never sever your relationship to Him as His child. See the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Not once in the parable did the Prodigal ever cease to be his father's son.

Fellowship with God is obtained by:

Repentance from sin - changing your mind about what is sin and recognizing and rejecting the lies you've embraced that have led you into sin. (James 4:7-10)
Confession of sin - Agreeing with God that your sin is, in fact, sin - against Him, first of all. (1 Jn. 1:9)
Submission - Yielding yourself to God, moment-by-moment throughout each day, to control and transform as He wills. (Romans 6:13-18; Romans 8:14; Romans 12:1; James 4:7; 1 Peter 5:6)

Chris35 · Dec 17, 2020

From research, A lot and i mean alot of Christians actually go through this, times when they feel lost, dead, and very far away from God. For me, there has been some great days, and some really bad ones.

A lot post and it may seem like they have figured it all out and have a perfect relationship with God, which can make you seem that your so far off the track. However I'm sure that the majority have had times of struggle in one way or another.

Don't judge your walk with God by the walk of others, all I can really do is tell you the holy spirit hasn't left. Jesus promised us he would not forsake.

I encourage you to stop focusing on what you think you have lost, and keep pressing forward. Keep getting to know God, keep applying the things in God's word in your life. There is hope in Jesus, and things will get better.

There is a lot of encouragement from verses people have posted, to keep on pressing forward.

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Again a promise, hope and direction

Unqualified · Jan 1, 2021

I did not have the Spirit first 21 years of being Christian- always in fornication. I never prayed or read the Bible believing. But when I decided to obey him and did... he saved me.

Lex'EEE · Mar 3, 2021

How are you today? How are things?

just one of you · Apr 6, 2021

this is not my name said:
I felt like He was ripped from me one day, and then the next day I felt terror, and verses kept coming at me that were about how I should be willing to die for my Savior, how He is worthy. How I should have submitted and done what I thought the Holy Spirit was telling me to do out of faith, and that I need to walk in obedience, but am wondering how to get the Holy Spirit back, so that I can have the strength and the faith to do what was asked of me, which might be impossible for me to do by my own strength. But all things are possible with God. it seems like food has now proven to be a stumbling block for me, and every time I eat, or at least when I overeat, I get guilt. and now I am not sure if the door will open up for me to do what I thought God asked me to do. I feel like I am walking around against God's will all day. He is perfectly just. I read people say to repent, but in order to do that I might need to do something that I am unable to do unless God is giving me power to do it. I am in a rut.

It happened to me too..I had a period of resisting the guidance of Spirit, fell in some weird situations and started to lose control over sin which in the beggining was sooo natural and strong.. I get what you're talking about. It's not just you cannot feel something nice from the Holy Spirit, its a state of terror, spiritual death and emptiness all over.. I had multiple panic attack per day for 2 months, now Im still not recovered, my body is in a state of shock, freezed, my nervous system is blocked.. I stabilized myself recently with preachers who teach that salvation or the seal of God cant be lost, but it penetrated only mentally, so that I rest a little bit from that terror, but its still going on in my heart and soul.. I believe there are a lot of warning verses and if God doesnt asure me Im fine with Him, no "convenient" teaching will.. I see this was long time ago, I hope you're still on this chat.. how are you now?

just one of you · Apr 6, 2021

Steven Galvao said:
Hey guys I’m new to this forum. I got extremely sick last year from thyroid and self issues and ended up becoming mentally ill for a while. Eventually got so broken and God stepped in and saved my life. I had a super natural calling on my life and walked with the lord for about 6months. I was writing a book about my story and fell short of my task with the lord. I was trying to do everything The lord had asked me to do properly, but our minds always try to think apart what was really going on. Daily my mind was attacking me about Jesus and God being truth even though I knew it was truth and the Devil did not want to give me rest. I had a tremendous experience with The Holy Spirit, and of course my mind always wants to think is it possible for others to feel this without the Holy Spirit like spiritualists etc. At this point though I was trusting the Lord and kept walking with him and faith was having a break through, and I watched a stupid movie called silence and it completely shattered me and my spiritual state. I felt the finest seed sink into my heart and the image of the pastors failing tormented me for 5 months and fells like it did damaged to my brain. I wasn’t able to recover my experience with God. My brain feels super forgetful now and I look at some old materials I wrote and everything seems like make believe. I seem for far from God and even my own mental health I feel like God is finished with me. My story was something beautiful for people to know and I ended up ruining it because I didn’t guard my heart and mind just when I got caught off guard. I look at the BiblE and few like that spiritual Eyes have been closed to the truth. All I do now
Is cry and wish I never watched that movie and suffered so much lose in my life. I’ve repented and prayed and don’t even know what to do. I told God I was his servant and gave up everything for Him now I just sit here looking at the broken pieces. Not knowing if I need mental health assistance or wait on the lord. God, My heart, my brain and purpose were all stolen within minutes. I guess I should have been rooted better in Christ, but everything happened so fast. If someone knows anything that can help, I would most definitely appreciate it. I don’t even know where to start.

Hi, dear brother.. It happened to me too. I was very passionate for Gids Kingdom and had so beautiful relationship with Christ.. I wont go in details here but..I had exactly the same thing happen to me. Its called dissociation (depersonalization/derealization) and its caused by severe stress and anxiety. I thought I conpletely lost my spiritual life, I looked at the things I loved, at Bible, it all looked strange and as fiction.. I hope you are better now, I see this was long time ago.. if you're still on this chat, let me know

Job405 · Apr 21, 2021

I believe I have maybe done the unforgivable sin. I became a Christian in spring 2019 and I did fall in love with God but didn't have the best relationship with Him. I still sinned and was disobedient to God, He wanted me to do some things and I didn't do them. As a result demons began attacking me with evil intrusive thoughts.

Then one evening in October 2019 I got a very strange intrusive thought that stood out from the mish mash of blasphemies. It was something like "Obama is a vampire". I got the stupid idea into my head, "This is a silly thought. What would happen if I said it out loud?", and so I did. I think my sin was threefold: I lied, tested God and obeyed a demon.

Almost instantly I felt a feeling of terror beyond anything I've ever felt, like I had done something very bad, and the word "UNFORGIVABLE" appeared in the eye of my mind. Since then I have been tormented by demons, even until this very day. It's like there's one demon inside my head and it can read my thoughts, and I can talk to it through my inner monologue. Mostly what it does is torment me with blasphemous thoughts and it tries to demoralize me, to make me think its all over and I should give up. I do get some rest while sleeping, thanks to God, but it keeps going all day long.

I'm not sure I have really heard anything from God since that faithful day. And I don't know if the Holy Spirit can share the same body with a demon. Because this demon can control my body if I allow it, I have tested this (probably not a good idea).

God doesn't seem to hear my prayers anymore. I would ask you guys to ask God what my situation is with Him. Tell me if He allows you to do it. I just want to know the truth! My name is Johan and I am from Finland, if that helps your prayers. Thanks.

Trenton Miller · May 23, 2021

Sand here. Losing hope, then regaining then losing it, then regaining it. Wake up scared every night, more scared now that I don’t worry as much. I want to worry and change, struggling to. Lost the Holy Spirit, getting worse. Anyone wanna talk?

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