"Rejoice always" and "Pray without ceasing" were circled in my Bible because most of us understood how important it is to worship and praise Him so that our heart may open it's door for Him to come in to sit down with us. So that we may talk to Him without ceasing. But we overlooked the part about how we need to listen to the Spirit. A two-way conversation is when we will talk and then listen in turns. So we need to listen to the Spirit to increase our discernment.
"Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies, but test everything; hold fast what is good." After we rejoice in Him and give Him thanks in everything, talking to him. We need to listen and see what the Spirit is trying to tell us through firsthand (directly from God) or secondhand (prophecies) voices and test them. Once we discern our position, we must hold fast to what is good. We must stay in that position even if our human thoughts told us to move! Do not move until God moves you to another position because you wouldn't want to "quench the Spirit". You wouldn't want to put out the unshakenable flame in each of us. Hold fast to what is true.
Sometimes we forgot to sit still after praising Him. Sometimes we forgot to turn on our Holy Anticipation. Take time to pause after reading some powerful words. Take time to pause after doing many tasks. Take time to pause like how a Good Samaritan paused to help the helpless. Don't quench the Spirit by doing any of dead duties like how a priest and a Levite didn't pause in order to do their dead duties. So they weren't able to discern what God wants them to do. It's better to sacrifice our reputation so that we won't quench the Spirit. A Good Samaritan didn't care about his reputation (or his humanly thoughts), but he cared about God's reputation (or God's thoughts).
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