How are we led by God's Spirit? I'm Ron your host and I believe that is a question on the heart of every true disciple of the Lord. We don't want to be wasting our time, spinning our wheels, and doing our own thing.
If your like me you have really wrestled with this principle of being led each day by the Holy Spirit. I believe that through the family He is revealing to us that walking with Him and being led by His Spirit is just not that hard. Let's tune into the family and drink in what the Holy Spirit is imparting to us today
Dale:
What are you doing today Lord? Well, I am just going to find out. You look at your schedule of the things that you wrote to get done today. And you start out and God presents things to you. What are you going to do? Do I go left, do I go right? That’s where you can’t steer a parked car. What do you do after you’re in motion and I think that’s where the leading of the Lord comes in. That you are led in motion. Well, how did you get in motion? There is that old saying I got in the way. God is doing something in the earth so I got in the way because I wanted to be a part of what He was doing. And you head out many times in the morning not knowing what is it, whether thou goest? That you know you’re going and that is what is important.
Ron:
I think we are hitting a principle of being led by the spirit but it is by the spirit and is requirement in that and it’s called faith and trust. And so, you move out in faith, you trust the Lord and like Dale is saying, then things begin to happen. Things begin to be presented to you, but it’s not you know well I am going to sit and wait on the Lord and He is going to show me my day and then I am going to do and what he told me to do. Maybe someday we will come to that. I don’t know. I don’t know if God is even that interested in our minds. I think He is more interested in our hearts. You know, trusting and expressing faith in Him. Then our minds and so again we are taking the complication that the carnal mind quote calls spiritual. We’re taking that away and we are saying no. Walking with God does not have to be this complicated, hard thing to walk in the spirit. It’s simply a thing of faith and trust. You have faith, you ask the Father, Father lead my day. Ok, not He just heard you and then off you go. And you are trusting Him to lead your day. And He does. And I think the awareness of that as you do that as a lifestyle I think there will be a growing awareness in you, how much God leading you and a lot of it I think is a surprise.
Dale:
A man after God’s own heart will go after God’s heart. I got a day today, I’m going after God’s heart. What does He want? What’s His thing for today? You start asking questions God is one who loves to give answers.
It’s not my will but thine be done so that the fullness of the Son that dwells in this life that I have offered Thee. That song, it goes on, it’s a song about a person crying out to be pleasing unto the Father. The way we are pleasing unto the Father. The way we fulfill the Father's desires, dreams, hope, word, all kinds of stuff you can throw out there, is that we do His will. And I would say this is a level of maturity. Jesus at twelve knew what to do. And that comes out of a heart, comes out of a spirit, soul, and body set to do the will of God in the earth. And that sounds like something that is a very lofty thing to obtain to. Nah, it’s not lofty but it is attainable. Because you ask God to help you. You say Lord show me the way.
