Divine Guidance; The energy for a glorious Destiny Pt.2

Messages for July 2016: Our Month of Destiny

Message for Sunday the 24th of July 2016

Theme: UNDERSTANDING HOW TO FULFILL YOUR DESTINY

Topic:  Divine Guidance; The energy for a glorious Destiny Pt.2

Introduction: Last week, we introduced this topic and saw that it is God’s will to guide us and saw what we stand to gain as we submit to His guidance. We also established that it is God that knows how best to lead us in the journey of life because He is our eternal creator and had a purpose in mind for making each and every one of us. 

However, if we do not know how to receive His guidance, we would waste this great grace of God and end up like the world in darkness even though we have the light of life with us. Therefore, today, we shall be looking at how to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. In other words; today, we shall learn how to know and follow the voice of God. When we know and follow the voice of God, it gives us energy to run on the course of a glorious destiny. 

Some steps to hearing the voice of God

1. Maintain the right environment: This means to make your life one where God wants to visit you and abide with you. What is the right environment?

New birth: After man sinned, he fell short of the glory of God; therefore, he left God’s presence and came under the influence of death where even though God tries to reach him, he is dead to the voice of God. To enable man receive the voice of God, he has to be brought back from spiritual death to eternal life through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. See John 5:24 and Rm.6:23.

Infilling with the Holy Spirit: When we are filled with the Holy Spirit for the first time, it is evidenced by speaking in other tongues as enabled by the Holy Spirit. This is the doorway to the supernatural that enables you connect with more grace for the fulfillment of your destiny. You will thus receive the ability to pray the mind of God always and therefore be in God’s perfect will instead of depending only on your understanding which is grossly limited. It therefore prepares you to walk in the spirit. See Acts 2:38-39 and Eph.5:16-18.

Walk in the Spirit: You would observe here that the capital letter S is used for Spirit here meaning the Spirit of God. So when we are filled with the Holy Spirit, we must walk in Him. In other words, we are to submit to His leading because that is what He came to do; to lead us into all truths. When we do so, then we have created the right environment where He can freely operate in our lives. He would empower us to be obedient enough to get to the next level each time. See Gal.5:16; Jn.16:13 and Rom 8:14, 16.

Be filled with the word of God: we are told in the bible to let the word of God dwell in us richly [Col.3:16]. If we allow this to happen, then the Holy Spirit can relate easily with us because He would only speak to us on the platform of the word of God. If we are not friends with the scripture, we cannot hear when He speaks to us because we would not be able to comprehend His voice any other way. Ps.119:9, 11 and Jn.8:31-32.

Walk in obedience to the word of God: In John 14:23, we learn that when we do what Jesus tells us, then He and the Father would come and make their abode with us. This is called divine presence. This is what Moses and the children of Israel enjoyed on their way to the Promised Land. See Ex.33:13-17.

2. Take the steps Prophet Habakkuk taught in Hab.2:1-3

These steps are 

Stillness – maintain silence before the Lord instead of doing all the speaking without waiting to hear him. You can only hear someone speaking to you when you are silent and listening. 

Vision – when He speaks, you could visualize what he is saying to you with ease when you are full of the word. You would be able to see things from His perspective. 

Spontaneity – His voice is communicated to a renewed mind by a spontaneous flow of thoughts which goes on flowing into you through your thoughts until He is done except if you interrupt Him before He is done. 

Journaling – as soon as He begins to speak, write down what you hear him saying until He is done. It is better to hear him to the end before saying whatever you think you have to say. See Jer.36 and Rev.1:10-11.

Seven things you look out for to confirm that the leading you received was from God

1. It will not conflict with the scripture in principle. Isa.8:20; Jer.23:25-29 and 2Pet.1:19.

2. It will bring you peace. Phlp.4:6-7 and Ps.85:8

3. It will release joy into your heart. Ps.16:11 and Lk.24:46-53.

4. It will eventually come to pass if it is futuristic or accurate if it is not of the future but of the past and present. Deu.18:21-22 and Acts.11:28.

5. God confirms it with signs and wonders. See the example of Moses in Exodus and Jesus in the gospels and Acts 2:22.

6. It will not encourage hastiness. Isa.28:16 and Heb.6:12.  

7. It does not release fear but faith in your heart. 1Jn.4:18 and Rm.10:17.

We shall draw the curtain here for today. From what we have been looking at so far, if you are convicted by the Holy Spirit that you have not taken the first step of the new birth, you can do so right away. If you choose to do so,  you can by saying the following prayer out loud in faith:

Heavenly Father, 

Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen. 

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