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Holy
Spirit Supernatural Guidance
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Ways to Be Led by the Spirit of God
Kenneth
Copeland
Are you hearing special insights from the Lord each day? You
can! Learn four ways to be led by the Spirit of God and achieve supernatural
results in your life!
He didn’t own a
pair of shoes until he was 12 years old. With only a fifth-grade education and
having come from a poor family, he had not been given the opportunity to
succeed in life. Yet this man from Texas had become a multimillionaire.
Without any
formal education or training, he had become very wealthy through investments.
In fact, he had
never lost one dime in a single investment! How did he do it? He once shared
the secret with his friends:
“I always do this. When someone comes along with an idea, I
don’t allow myself to think about it mentally. Instead, I go into my closet and
pray. I wait as long as it takes until I hear something. Sometimes it can take
as long as three days. I come out for some meals and a little sleep, but mainly
I remain quiet and alone with the Lord until I know by an inward witness what I
am to do.”
He shared that
there were times when an idea seemed like a really good one that would surely
bring a return, but his inward witness told him not to invest.
At others, it
seemed like a dead-end opportunity, but his spirit told him to move ahead and
invest. Every single time, he made the right choice.
Following the
inward witness gave him special insight into the supernatural and how to become
financially prosperous.
This man took
the time to develop and train his human spirit to be led by the Spirit of God,
and you can, too!
It won’t come
overnight, but you can enjoy this special insight and guidance in every area of
your life, as you train your human spirit.
Here are four
ways you can be led by the Spirit of God every single day.
1. Meditate on the Word of God
“This
Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall
meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to
all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then
you will have good success.” – Joshua 1:8 (NKJV)
To get to the
place in your life where you can be led by the Spirit of God, you must first be
able to recognize His voice.
This comes from
not only prayer and reading the Word of God, but by also meditating on the Word
of God, which is one of the ways to be led by His Spirit.
What does it
mean to meditate on the Word of God? It means to stop and think about what
you’ve read, and allow the Holy Spirit to bring new revelation, even to a verse
you’ve read a hundred times.
Meditating on
the Word of God is more than reading the Bible — it is studying, analyzing,
seeking and reflecting.
It is seeking
God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. It’s being open to a new
interpretation you haven’t considered before — one that might be different than
what your mama told you or your pastor told you.
When you
meditate on the Word of God, you are training your human spirit to recognize
God’s voice and be more in tune with what He has to say to you, specifically — about
every detail of every situation.
That’s why God
told Joshua that meditating on His Word was the key to prosperity and success (Joshua 1:8).
He gave him the
secret to achieving everything he had ever wanted. That secret is meditating on
His Word.
The Hebrew word
for meditate also translates as mutter.
When you
meditate on the Word of God, you aren’t just thinking about it during your
quiet time. You’re thinking about it all the time — you’re speaking it all the
time.
It becomes part
of your inner man, it stirs your faith, it develops your human spirit, and it
makes it easy for you to be led by the Spirit of God.
If you want to
move forward and develop your spirit, begin by taking 10-15 minutes each day to
meditate on the Word of God.
Your spirit
will develop and grow, and you will begin to hear solid answers to the
questions you so desperately need answered.
2. Be a Doer of the Word of God
“Be doers of the word and
not hearers only.” – James 1:22 (NKJV)
One of the
surefire ways to be led by the Spirit of God is to be a doer of the Word of
God.
We don’t see
too many Christians who are doers of the Word anymore, do we? They certainly
talk the talk, but the walk looks like everyone else in the world.
However, the
Bible is clear that hearers (people who simply read their Bibles and attend
church) don’t accomplish much in this life.
That’s why
James 2:17 says faith without works is dead. If you need the supernatural in
your life, dead faith isn’t going to deliver you to victory.
Like anything
else with God, being a doer of the Word is not about rules and religion — it’s
a matter of the heart.
A Christian who reads the Bible and even meditates on the Word
of God, but doesn’t put it into practice, is not following the first and
greatest commandment to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, with
all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength” (Mark
12:30, NKJV).
How do we know? Because in John 14:15, Jesus says, “If you
love Me, keep My commandments” (NKJV).
Loving God is
doing what He’s asked you to do in His Word. When you love Him and obey Him,
you are in fellowship with Him — you are abiding in Him — and you are in
position to be led by His Spirit in every area of your life.
Obeying God is
drawing near to Him, and that’s when you know that He will draw near to you,
too, and whisper the greatest secrets you could ever be privileged to hear.
To become a
doer of the Word of God, determine in your heart to do everything you
see written in it.
That means you
alter your lifestyle to fit the Word instead of trying to alter the Word to fit
your lifestyle.
You don’t make
excuses; you don’t try to change what the Bible actually says to suit your own
fleshly desires.
You just obey
the Word by faith. You don’t try to do it. You don’t hope to
do it. You do it because the Bible commands you to do it.
For example,
talking doubt, defeat and discouragement is not being a doer of the Word
because that is not how the Bible tells us to live.
The Bible tells
us to walk by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7).
Once you set
out to be a doer of the Word, revelation will come.
As you practice
being obedient in even the small things, you’ll find that you’ll begin to hear
God more and more each day.
The more you
respond to His voice, the more you’ll hear Him.
It will
continue to increase until you have trained your human spirit and are led by
the Spirit of God so much that supernatural miracles will begin to flow in your
life.
Then, you will
have the kind of success most people only dream of.
3. Put the Word of God Above All Else
“My son, attend to my
words; consent and submit to my sayings. Let them not depart from your
sight; keep them in the center of your heart.” –
Proverbs 4:20-21 (AMPC)
Kenneth and
Gloria Copeland often say that one of the ways to be led by the Spirit of God
is to put the Word of God above all else.
Second Chronicles 16:12-13 tells
of a situation where King Asa had the opportunity to put the Word of God above
all else: “In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a serious
foot disease. Yet even with the severity of his disease, he did not seek the
Lord’s help but turned only to his physicians. So, he died in the forty-first
year of his reign.”
For whatever
reason, King Asa didn’t seek God in his hour of trial. Instead, he went after
the world’s help. (The world is not in the business of providing supernatural
healing, deliverance, restoration or provision. Those things are God’s
business.)
To be led by
the Spirit of God, we must put His Word above all else in every situation.
This allows us
to be sensitive to His leading, which often goes against “common sense,”
statistics, how everyone else is doing it and the world’s view of “logic.”
That’s why we should train ourselves to put the Word of God
above all else, or first. We should train ourselves to ask in any matter of
life, “What does God’s Word have to say about this?”
And then we
should put that Word first.
When you seekfirst His kingdom and His righteousness, everything else — everything — willbe added to you (Matthew 6:33).
Seeking first
the Kingdom is listening to what THE KING has to say and then doing it without
consulting the world.
Don’t “hear” or
incline your ear to what the media or politicians say. Don’t ever make plans
based on what anyone other than God says!
Listen to Him.
He is our Leader through troubled times of any kind. He already has a plan for
you, and it’s GOOD! Follow it. Follow Him.
Jesus and His
plan will not only take you through, it will exalt and lift you up, settle,
establish and perfect you. He ALWAYS gives us the victory!
4. Instantly Respond to Your Spirit
“The spirit of a man is
the candle of the Lord.” – Proverbs 20:27 (NKJV)
The fourth way
to be led by the Spirit of God is to instantly respond to your spirit, but to
do that you have to learn to recognize the inward witness.
Kenneth
Hagin spent a lot of time teaching on the subject of training
your human spirit, and paying attention to your inward witness.
He once said, “The No. 1 way that God guides and directs His
children is through the inward witness.”
Romans 8:14 (KJV) says, “For as many as are
led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”
God doesn’t
lead through physical senses — He leads through the inward witness.
This means you
don’t need to go around putting out fleeces when you want an answer from God.
That is a
dangerous place to be, because things can seem to work out in the natural realm
when they aren’t the will of God at all.
Yes, Gideon did
put out a fleece, but that’s because he didn’t have the Holy Spirit. Therefore,
the Lord had to meet him in the area of physical senses.
However, as
Spirit-filled believers, we have an inner voice. This is where the Holy Spirit
communicates with us — not in our minds.
When you
develop and train your spirit by putting the first three steps into practice — meditating
on the Word, practicing the Word, and putting the Word first place — your human
spirit will become a safe guide for you.
Once you’ve
trained your human spirit in the Word of God, obeying your human spirit becomes
the same as obeying the Holy Spirit.
This isn’t true
of any man — but it is true for born-again believers. A man who is born again
has become a new man in Christ Jesus, which is why his spirit is able to
connect with the Holy Spirit.
If you’re in
the habit of looking for a sign or a feeling, or even putting out a fleece when
you need guidance in your life, begin to move over into your spirit to find
divine guidance.
Train yourself
up in the Word of God, and then tune into your spirit and obey what you hear
immediately.
Don’t hesitate!
If you do, “common sense” and your natural senses will talk you out of it.
God wants us to
be led by His Spirit, and He is going to use our own spirit to guide us.
Kenneth Hagin said, “God has a better way than a hit-and-miss
system.”
Listen to the
inward voice, and obey your own spirit. Then, you will operate in the perfect
will of God.
When you follow
these four ways to be led by the Spirit of God and practice them as a regular
part of your life, you will always know in your spirit what you should do in
any situation.
When you
meditate on the Word of God, be a doer of the Word of God, put the Word of God
above all else, and instantly respond to your spirit, you can know the will of
God in even the smallest details of your life!
Take the opportunity
to train your spirit — grow stronger — and begin to receive supernatural
guidance that will lead you to exceedingly, abundantly above all that you could
ever ask or think.
Kenneth
Copeland Ministries
is dedicated to building up believers’ faith and deepening their walk with
Christ, so they can live the victorious life God promised.
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