How Do I Get Guidance from God?

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How Do I Get Guidance from God?

I. Introduction

A. John 16:13a (NLT) “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth.”

II. How Does the Holy Spirit Guide Us?

A. By helping us remember what God has

1. God’s is found in God’s !

2. John 14:26 (NLT) “But when the Father sends the Advocate as my representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you.”

3. You have to get the Bible your mind first before the Holy Spirit can remind you of it!

B. By inspiring in our minds

1. Myth: God only to certain .

2. Job 33:14-16 (NLT) ¹⁴For God speaks again and again, though people do not recognize it. ¹⁵He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they lie in their beds. ¹⁶He whispers in their ears and terrifies them with warnings.

III. How Do I Get Guidance from God?

A. I have to for it!

1. Psalm 27:11 (NLT) Teach me how to live, O LORD. Lead me along the right path.

2. Be in asking God for guidance.

B. the Instruction Manual (the Bible) on a regular basis.

1. Psalm 119:9 (NAS) How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Your word.

2. Set aside a time to “check in” with God!

C. and wait for God’s guidance.

1. Psalm 46:10a (NLT) “Be still, and know that I am God!”

2. Proverbs 14:12 (NAS) There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

3. Psalm 25:9 (NLT) He leads the humble in doing right, teaching them his way.

4. “Humility” – – on God

IV. How to Test If an Impression Is from God or Not

A. Does it with the ?

1. Luke 21:33 (NAS) “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.”

B. Does it make me more ?

1. James 3:16-17 (NAS) ¹⁶For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing. ¹⁷But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.

C. Does my church family (and especially my church leaders) this impression?

1. Proverbs 24:6 (NAS) For by wise guidance you will wage war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.

2. The church is part of a “checks and balance” system for our own !

D. Does it concern something that I am for?

1. There is the spiritual gift of prophecy, but be very careful about personal prophecies that are .

2. Don’t worry about finding out God’s will for ! Just work on finding out God’s will for yourself!

E. Do I sense God’s about it?

1. I Corinthians 14:33 (NAS) For God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.

2. drives us compulsively. God’s Spirit draws us .

3. John 10:27 (NAS) “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.”

V. Conclusion