I pay close attention when the Holy Spirit speaks to me now. I have had warnings from Him, that caused me to cancel what I had planned to do, because the Holy Spirit stirred so strongly within me that I could not rest until I sought His counsel and changed my plans.
There have been times when I desired to do something, made my plans, moving forward with it, until the promptings from the Holy Spirit became so intense that they could not be ignored.
I had inklings but was unsu...re of what I was sensing, the more I ignored them the more intense the promptings became, then I could do nothing else except obey.
After I obeyed, the promptings left, the fear left and great joy flooded back into my soul. I have never regretted obeying when Christ has spoken to me.
Hebrews 3:7-11
"7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me, As in the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me, And saw My works for forty years.
10 “Therefore I was angry with this generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they did not know My ways’;
11 As I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’”
"7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me, As in the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me, And saw My works for forty years.
10 “Therefore I was angry with this generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they did not know My ways’;
11 As I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’”
When we seek the Lord and obey Him, we enter into His rest! Who knows exactly how many calamities we have avoided because we heeded the voice of the Lord.
1 Kings 19:12 "12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice."
The times I did my own thing, making my own plans there was turmoil until the Lord redirected me and then there was peace. I must say though that the "still small voice" didn't seem so still or so small, when those promptings became intense. They felt more like shouting and warning!!!!
I suspect these promptings were so because God was warning me not to second guess His voice. There was no doubt Who was speaking and there was no doubt as to the peace that returned when I finally obeyed.
I suspect these promptings were so because God was warning me not to second guess His voice. There was no doubt Who was speaking and there was no doubt as to the peace that returned when I finally obeyed.
2 Corinthians 10:5 "5 We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,"
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