Promises For God's Guidance - Spirit Led (Daily Devotional)

Greetings and thank you so much for joining us today on our daily devotional. We are so grateful that we can come to you and take these few moments in God’s word and prayer.

This week, we are just looking at few scriptures that promise us of God’s guidance in our lives. In all the decisions that we make, we pray and ask God to direct our paths, speak to us through His word and not only does God guide us through His word but He also guides us by His Spirit. In Romans chapter 8, verses 14 and 16, the scriptures tell us, ‘For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.’ Verse 16 says, ‘The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.’ God is telling us that the children of God/ sons of God have this wonderful privilege of being led by the Spirit of God, that means the Holy Spirit comes to us as our guide, our teacher, the instructor of the paths in which we should go. We are led by the Spirit of God, He is there to lead us, guide us and tell us which way to go. How does He do that? The bible says that the Spirit bears witness with our spirit. To bear witness means to speak, testify, and tell us. So, the Holy Spirit tells/ speaks to us in our spirit on these matters that we are God’s children, the way the Father wants us to go, the choices the Father wants us to make, whatever the Lord Jesus is speaking to us, the Holy Spirit is bringing that to our spirit. So, what we must learn to do as children of God is learn to listen to the Holy Spirit as He bears witness with our spirit. As a simple guideline, if there is a sense of peace, calmness in your spirit, that is an indication that you can go ahead with the decision that you’re intending to make/ considering. But if there is some sort of a yellow/ red light, some sort of a disturbance in your spirit, if there is a lack of peace concerning what you’re contemplating, it is an indication that be careful, don’t do it, hold on, pause, step back, it is like a warning or maybe even a stop sign from the Holy Spirit. That’s putting it in a very simple way, but that is how we begin to learn/ discern the witness of the Spirit in our spirit. Let the peace of God be the umpire in our hearts. If there is peace, that is a green signal, and the absence of peace a red signal. So, the Holy Spirit bears witness. Of course, we need to make sure we are listening correctly but we can learn how to listen to the Spirit of God. We are led by the Holy Spirit. God leads us by His word and by His Spirit.

Let’s pray, Father, we thank you for the precious Holy Spirit who dwells in us, leads us and teaches us in the way that we should go. We choose to listen to His witness in our spirit and we choose to follow His leading in our life, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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