Saturday, March 24, 2018

Be led by the Spirit, or don't go.

Greetings:
Following the leading of the Holy Spirit is a personal thing, a key aid to our own prayer life and essential if we are to walk in the will of God.
The Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 8:14, “As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God”
Soak up Romans 8:26-27 in the Amplified Bible to more fully understand the workings of the Holy Spirit. It reads, “So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groaning too deep for utterance. And He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the [Holy] Spirit [what His intent is], because the Spirit intercedes and pleads [before God] in behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God’s will.”
In 2 Corinthians 5:7 Paul writes, "For we walk by faith, not by sight."
This means that 'walking in the Spirit' or 'being led by the Spirit' is a faith thing that is contingent on our belief. To be led by the Spirit, we have to put in the prayer time to hear God's voice through the Holy Spirit.
We can't just say, "Ok God, I'm ready. Lead me by your Spirit."
We need to spend time in God's Word. We need to spend time crying out to God for guidance. We need to listen to what The Spirit is telling us.
If we don't hear anything, then, we shouldn't do anything. We must be patient and let The Holy Spirit reveal God's plan to us.
We can be grateful for Biblical scholars and we can read their helpful commentaries. The Lord will use them to teach us something, but we are not dependent upon them.
In reality, the Holy Spirit is our guide and teacher.
Remember to listen to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Let our actions line up with what is written in the Word of God. It requires the operation of the Holy Spirit, to understand, to grasp the immensity of those tremendous, awesome things that we read about in God's Word.
Let us be thrilled with the excitement of what God has set before us.
Be blessed.


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