Will God guide me?
Yes, He will.
He wants to.
Hi, I'm Leanne Friesman, and this is Restoring Word.
And today I want to talk about something that I think a lot of Christians want to know about,
and that's hearing the voice of God, or will God speak to me?
Well, I can tell you from experience that the audible voice of God is real, but 99%
of the time you're not going to hear the audible voice of God.
First off, according to John 16, 13, and this is where I want to take you to in Scripture.
John 16, 13 says, however, when He, the Spirit of truth has come, He will guide you into
all truth.
So first off, first principle is God is a God that will guide you step by step, okay?
And He's not going to guide you into sin.
He's going to guide you into His perfect will, okay?
He won't speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears, He will speak, and He will tell
you things to come.
All right, so there's a promise right there.
He will tell you things to come.
He will talk to you, but the learning how He talks to you is a process, and honestly,
I think it's really a journey.
So what are some things that will help you learn to be led?
Well, actually some of them are kind of common sense.
For me, I really have to shut off distractions.
I have to get quiet.
My quiet time in the morning is real important to me.
The other thing is principally if you really want to hear from God, you're going to have
to repent.
You're going to have to release.
You're going to have to let things go.
You're going to have to look at your motives.
You're going to have to get all of those things in order.
Also, He's going to talk to you about what is your spiritual fruit producing, okay?
He's not going to talk to you in areas of your life where there's sin.
He's going to talk to you in those areas where you've wanted to hear from Him, where you've
sought Him.
I call it in areas where there's clarity.
Does that make sense?
He will talk to you.
I will tell you, though, that some of the best advice I've ever heard is actually from
Pastor Willie George.
He talks about how the journey to being led is step by step, and honestly, I really believe
that is the truth.
Most of the time when you're hearing from God, it's not this outside audible voice.
Most of the time when you're being led by God, it's step one, and then it's step two,
and then it's step three.
Can I also say another big part of it is divine appointments, okay?
You're at the right place at the right time speaking to the right person, and then the
door opens, and you're ready to walk into that door.
You don't want to walk into doors or step into places or positions where you're really
not ready yet.
Now, there are times God does it.
I can tell you when I started working at Victory Christian School, I had no idea how to train
worship leaders, but there was going to be a process of the Lord showing me how to do
that and why certain things were important, why a cappella choral was important, or chording,
or being able to flow song to song, key to key.
All of that was a journey.
It didn't happen overnight, okay?
He wants to confirm things along the way to you.
He wants to open doors of favor for you, and he will show you things to come.
He's promised you that it would.
Hebrews 5, 14 says, now, in this whole chapter in Hebrews 5, he's talking about the milk
of the word and the meat of the word.
When we're a young Christian, we're going to get milk, but later on down the road when
we're ready to digest it and chew it, he's going to give us the meat of the word, okay?
But solid food belongs to those who are full age.
That is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good from evil.
I love this illustration of exercising walking in truth.
Why?
Go to this portion of the scripture.
Who by reason of use, by reason of use, what am I saying?
You're going to use the...
the skill set of being led over and over and over and over.
And you know what?
There's going to be trial and error
and sometimes you're gonna fail,
but I have really come to the conclusion
that God gets great joy out of the reason of use
and they've exercised to discern both good and evil.
So what?
When you exercise, you repeat it.
You take a barbell and you lift it over and over and over
or you run and you run this and then you run this
and then you run this and your body becomes ready
for the next thing.
Why?
Because you've prepared for it.
And God enjoys that journey.
He loves being in relationship with you.
He loves walking you through things.
Man, I wish somebody had told me that years ago
that I wasn't just gonna get it overnight.
You know, excuse me.
I think people just sometimes,
they just want it right now.
It doesn't happen like that.
He loves your journey and he wants you to seek him.
We're gonna walk with God in every season of our life
and every season is different.
Every season has its challenges,
especially if there's some sort of a spiritual promotion.
I mean, you're going to have to hear God
at a different level once you've stepped
into that next season.
It's not overnight that it's gonna happen.
It is going to be trial and error
and there's going to be at times maybe resistance
and you're gonna wanna go back into the word
and you're gonna look for confirmation
and you're gonna wanna pray and consecrate yourself
and he will guide you into all truth.
He will speak, okay?
But he will speak what the father is saying,
not according to things that you know, okay?
It's as the spirit knows.
You know, oftentimes God asks us to do things
we can't even begin to wrap our head around.
We can't even imagine it.
Someone once said to me, if God asks you to do something
and it isn't big enough to scare you, it's not him.
I found that to be true.
God's ways are not our ways.
His thoughts are bigger than our thoughts
and generally he is thinking first and foremost
about the kingdom and maybe broader
than our little, you know, area of influence.
He's thinking bigger.
He's thinking about the big picture.
He sees the big picture.
We don't see the big picture, he does.
And he's gonna position you at times in the body of Christ.
And I will tell you, sometimes you have to go
into a little bit of a journey, okay?
Because he's training you for the next season.
You know, don't ever put God in a box.
He will take you into a different season at times
because there's revelation in that season
that you're gonna need for the next one.
And as soon as you've got it figured out here,
then he'll lead you into the next season.
But you've gotta get the revelation here first.
And that's a really good word for somebody today, okay?
Don't limit God.
Don't think, well, I'm just over here
doing this secular thing.
No, you're not, you're on a journey.
And for some reason, God wants to use this season
in the secular to train you and to pull you back
into the purpose he has for you next.
And I can guarantee you, nine times out of 10,
it's gonna be bigger than what you know.
It's gonna be over your head.
But for some reason, God knew you were gonna need
this revelation in this season to go into the next one.
And that's how he is.
That's how he works and that's how he moves.
You know, he's glorified in your trial and your error.
He's merciful.
He is loving.
He knows when you mess up and he sees your hearts
and how you deal with that on your journey.
Can I also say that when you mess it up,
it produces humility?
And we all need that, you know?
Just as soon as we think we've got it all together,
we have a tendency to, I don't know,
fall on our face a little bit or stick our foot
in our mouths or whatever.
No, he's merciful.
He's loving.
He is kind.
And he will walk you through that next season.
There's purpose in trial and error, there's purpose in the journey, there's
purpose in the season. If you're being led into another season, he's going to
make sure that you have that skill set for the next season and in that he's
glorified. I love the I love the word and that that Oral Roberts gave years ago, I
will send them into where my voice is not heard and my voice is heard small
and in that I am glorified. So God is taking the body of Christ into all
realms of influence in this season and we're taking Jesus with us and in that
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