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Will God guide me?

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Yes, He will.

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He wants to.

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Hi, I'm Leanne Friesman, and this is Restoring Word.

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And today I want to talk about something that I think a lot of Christians want to know about,

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and that's hearing the voice of God, or will God speak to me?

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Well, I can tell you from experience that the audible voice of God is real, but 99%

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of the time you're not going to hear the audible voice of God.

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First off, according to John 16, 13, and this is where I want to take you to in Scripture.

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John 16, 13 says, however, when He, the Spirit of truth has come, He will guide you into

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all truth.

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So first off, first principle is God is a God that will guide you step by step, okay?

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And He's not going to guide you into sin.

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He's going to guide you into His perfect will, okay?

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He won't speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears, He will speak, and He will tell

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you things to come.

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All right, so there's a promise right there.

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He will tell you things to come.

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He will talk to you, but the learning how He talks to you is a process, and honestly,

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I think it's really a journey.

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So what are some things that will help you learn to be led?

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Well, actually some of them are kind of common sense.

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For me, I really have to shut off distractions.

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I have to get quiet.

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My quiet time in the morning is real important to me.

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The other thing is principally if you really want to hear from God, you're going to have

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to repent.

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You're going to have to release.

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You're going to have to let things go.

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You're going to have to look at your motives.

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You're going to have to get all of those things in order.

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Also, He's going to talk to you about what is your spiritual fruit producing, okay?

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He's not going to talk to you in areas of your life where there's sin.

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He's going to talk to you in those areas where you've wanted to hear from Him, where you've

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sought Him.

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I call it in areas where there's clarity.

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Does that make sense?

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He will talk to you.

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I will tell you, though, that some of the best advice I've ever heard is actually from

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Pastor Willie George.

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He talks about how the journey to being led is step by step, and honestly, I really believe

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that is the truth.

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Most of the time when you're hearing from God, it's not this outside audible voice.

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Most of the time when you're being led by God, it's step one, and then it's step two,

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and then it's step three.

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Can I also say another big part of it is divine appointments, okay?

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You're at the right place at the right time speaking to the right person, and then the

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door opens, and you're ready to walk into that door.

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You don't want to walk into doors or step into places or positions where you're really

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not ready yet.

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Now, there are times God does it.

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I can tell you when I started working at Victory Christian School, I had no idea how to train

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worship leaders, but there was going to be a process of the Lord showing me how to do

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that and why certain things were important, why a cappella choral was important, or chording,

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or being able to flow song to song, key to key.

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All of that was a journey.

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It didn't happen overnight, okay?

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He wants to confirm things along the way to you.

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He wants to open doors of favor for you, and he will show you things to come.

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He's promised you that it would.

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Hebrews 5, 14 says, now, in this whole chapter in Hebrews 5, he's talking about the milk

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of the word and the meat of the word.

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When we're a young Christian, we're going to get milk, but later on down the road when

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we're ready to digest it and chew it, he's going to give us the meat of the word, okay?

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But solid food belongs to those who are full age.

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That is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good from evil.

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I love this illustration of exercising walking in truth.

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Why?

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Go to this portion of the scripture.

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Who by reason of use, by reason of use, what am I saying?

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You're going to use the...

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the skill set of being led over and over and over and over.

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And you know what?

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There's going to be trial and error

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and sometimes you're gonna fail,

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but I have really come to the conclusion

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that God gets great joy out of the reason of use

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and they've exercised to discern both good and evil.

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So what?

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When you exercise, you repeat it.

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You take a barbell and you lift it over and over and over

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or you run and you run this and then you run this

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and then you run this and your body becomes ready

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for the next thing.

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Why?

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Because you've prepared for it.

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And God enjoys that journey.

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He loves being in relationship with you.

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He loves walking you through things.

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Man, I wish somebody had told me that years ago

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that I wasn't just gonna get it overnight.

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You know, excuse me.

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I think people just sometimes,

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they just want it right now.

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It doesn't happen like that.

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He loves your journey and he wants you to seek him.

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We're gonna walk with God in every season of our life

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and every season is different.

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Every season has its challenges,

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especially if there's some sort of a spiritual promotion.

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I mean, you're going to have to hear God

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at a different level once you've stepped

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into that next season.

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It's not overnight that it's gonna happen.

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It is going to be trial and error

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and there's going to be at times maybe resistance

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and you're gonna wanna go back into the word

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and you're gonna look for confirmation

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and you're gonna wanna pray and consecrate yourself

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and he will guide you into all truth.

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He will speak, okay?

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But he will speak what the father is saying,

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not according to things that you know, okay?

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It's as the spirit knows.

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You know, oftentimes God asks us to do things

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we can't even begin to wrap our head around.

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We can't even imagine it.

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Someone once said to me, if God asks you to do something

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and it isn't big enough to scare you, it's not him.

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I found that to be true.

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God's ways are not our ways.

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His thoughts are bigger than our thoughts

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and generally he is thinking first and foremost

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about the kingdom and maybe broader

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than our little, you know, area of influence.

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He's thinking bigger.

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He's thinking about the big picture.

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He sees the big picture.

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We don't see the big picture, he does.

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And he's gonna position you at times in the body of Christ.

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And I will tell you, sometimes you have to go

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into a little bit of a journey, okay?

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Because he's training you for the next season.

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You know, don't ever put God in a box.

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He will take you into a different season at times

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because there's revelation in that season

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that you're gonna need for the next one.

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And as soon as you've got it figured out here,

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then he'll lead you into the next season.

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But you've gotta get the revelation here first.

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And that's a really good word for somebody today, okay?

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Don't limit God.

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Don't think, well, I'm just over here

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doing this secular thing.

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No, you're not, you're on a journey.

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And for some reason, God wants to use this season

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in the secular to train you and to pull you back

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into the purpose he has for you next.

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And I can guarantee you, nine times out of 10,

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it's gonna be bigger than what you know.

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It's gonna be over your head.

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But for some reason, God knew you were gonna need

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this revelation in this season to go into the next one.

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And that's how he is.

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That's how he works and that's how he moves.

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You know, he's glorified in your trial and your error.

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He's merciful.

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He is loving.

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He knows when you mess up and he sees your hearts

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and how you deal with that on your journey.

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Can I also say that when you mess it up,

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it produces humility?

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And we all need that, you know?

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Just as soon as we think we've got it all together,

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we have a tendency to, I don't know,

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fall on our face a little bit or stick our foot

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in our mouths or whatever.

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No, he's merciful.

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He's loving.

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He is kind.

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And he will walk you through that next season.

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There's purpose in trial and error, there's purpose in the journey, there's

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purpose in the season. If you're being led into another season, he's going to

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make sure that you have that skill set for the next season and in that he's

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glorified. I love the I love the word and that that Oral Roberts gave years ago, I

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will send them into where my voice is not heard and my voice is heard small

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and in that I am glorified. So God is taking the body of Christ into all

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realms of influence in this season and we're taking Jesus with us and in that

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God is glorified. Have a good week and thank you for listening. Please share

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this with someone that needs some encouragement today, someone that maybe

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is going through a trial they can't figure out but they know God is leading

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them into that next season. Those likes and shares are vital for the growth of

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the channel and I appreciate you taking the time today to do that. Have a good