So I've got some great promises for you today about how he will teach you.
Psalms 25, starting in verse 4, show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths.
Lead me in your truth and teach me for you are the God of my salvation.
From you I will wait all the day.
He wants to teach you, but you know, in that process, you're going to have to wait on him.
You're going to have to pursue him.
You're going to have to get in his presence and just invite him in.
He doesn't come where he's not invited.
He's a gentleman.
When you invite him in and you ask him into the journey, he will begin to move in ways
you cannot even fathom.
Well, how do you know he's moving?
Well, you know, it's kind of like watching the wind.
Sometimes you can't see the wind, but you can see the effect that the wind has on the
trees.
You'll see him moving.
You'll perceive that he's in it.
He wants to lead and guide you.
Matthew 6, 33, we talked about this before, but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his
righteousness.
Then all the other things will be added unto you.
So if you want to be taught by him, you got to seek him first and invite him into the
teaching process and he'll come.
This is beautiful.
Psalms 21, 1 through 5.
To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
Oh my God, I trust in you.
Let me not be ashamed.
Let not my enemies triumph over me.
Can you just hear David crying out to God?
God, don't let my enemies triumph over me.
Indeed, let no one who waits on you be ashamed.
Let those, indeed, let no one who waits on you be ashamed.
Let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause.
Show me your ways, O Lord.
Teach me your paths.
Lead me in your truth.
For you are the God of my salvation.
I wait on you.
I wait all the day.
The Holy Spirit is your teacher.
He is your guide.
He is your comforter.
He will begin to show you things.
He dwells within you.
He will manifest in whatever way you allow him.
It will bubble up inside of you in dreams or visions.
Many times the Holy Spirit would speak to me through my students.
I think it's one of the reasons why I love working with special ed kids so much because
there's just so much unconditional love.
They just love purely and innocently.
And I see the presence of God in them in spite of their challenges.
The Holy Spirit is your teacher.
Look at John 14, and this is in verse 16 and 17.
And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another helper, that he may abide in you
with you forever.
The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it doesn't see him, nor it
knows him, but you know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
The Holy Spirit dwells inside of you.
He wants to show you.
He wants to teach you, and the greatest way that he will teach is by trial and error.
You will learn when he's in something by doing it over and over and paying attention
to what the Holy Spirit inside of you is saying.
You'll get that feeling inside of you, and you'll know, okay, I'm going this way.
Oh, that's, that feels right.
Yes.
I, you know, I have audibly heard the voice of God on one occasion when I was at the University
of Northern Iowa, and it was a very difficult time in my life.
I was seeking God.
I didn't know what to do.
I was really frustrated with my major.
I was running into all kinds of challenges with it.
It just didn't feel right, and I cried out to him, and he audibly spoke to me one night,
but the majority of the time, that's not how he leads.
It's in still, quiet places.
It's in his word.
It's at the piano.
It's worshiping in my car.
It's vacuuming the floor and seeking him.
It's sitting in a recliner at three o'clock in the morning with a hot cup of coffee waiting
on him.
He will teach me where to go.
He will teach you.
By trial and error, through his word, through the saints that are round about you, through
ministers of the gospel that are preaching truth and the scriptures under an anointing.
He will teach you and show you if you will just tune in to him.
I love the illustration I used in one of my books, they're available on Amazon.
We used to have this big helicrafter radio, it's actually still at the cabin, we've never
taken it out, we've got a little cottage up in the Canadian wilderness, and it's my favorite
quiet place in the whole world.
And my grandfather at night, he had this great big antenna off the chimney, and he would
turn that on and he would try to pull in the news broadcasts out of Omaha, Nebraska, we're
all the way up in Canada.
He took a device and he tuned it in, he focused a signal so he could receive information.
And that's what we do by faith, that's what we do when we seek him.
We eliminate all of the things that are distracting the pure sound of him, and just like when
you dial in that radio to the exact signal, all of a sudden the signal becomes clear,
and you hear, and you are taught by him.
The Holy Spirit wants to teach you, but you may have to eliminate distractions, you may
have to focus your signal, you may have to make a decision to tune into what he is saying
to you so that you can receive and you can be taught.
He's a good father, he's faithful.
Thank you for listening today, please like and share this, I'm always humbled by the
people that message me that tell me that they've gotten something out of simple exhortation.
That's kind of how I look at it.
The purpose of this is to encourage you to trust him, come back into relationship with
him.
He's a good father, and his plans for you are for good and not for evil.
He's going to give you a future and a hope.
Trust him.
Have a good day.
Amen.