Would you agree the God knows everything? If that’s the case, then it seems like He could answer every question we ever had about life, and help us win every time. Which He can.
When I talk about being led by the Holy Spirit of God, I’m talking about seeking God for His direction in every area of our life -having answers, making the right decisions, and being the most effective in everything I do. No more wondering or wavering or frustration.
God wants to lead us, in fact we were designed to be led by Him.
Before we were even born, God had s blueprint for our lives. Jeremiah 29:11 says,
“For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
There is a plan for each of our lives, and it’s a good plan. God created us to do good things. And He wants us to do them, even more than we want to.
Ephesians 2:10 says, “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we could walk in them.”
He has promised to lead each one of us into them when we seek and obey Him. There are many scriptures that promise God’s direction we should meditate on these to feed our faith. These scriptures are:
- Isaiah 48:17
- Psalm 32:8
- Psalm 37:23
- Psalm 48:14
- John 16:13
- Romans 8:14
- John 10: 4-5 & 27
Asking for God’s direction and being led by His Spirit is so worth it. There is nothing better than being in the center of God’s will for your life. His plan is always the best. The key is we have to be determined to be led by God and nothing else. That may sound like a no-brainer, but let’s face it we’ve all been led by other things. We’ve let things like money, circumstances, pressure, and outside opinions make decisions for us.
Instead of being led by those things, we must look at the inside where the Spirit of God lives in us. Proverbs 20:26 tells us that our spirit is the light that shows us the way. That means, instead of making a pro/con list or reasoning things out on our own, we determine to seek God until we understand what He wants us to do.
I can pray and ask God about something and I can feel His spirit (the Holy Spirit) bring peace or upset to me. It’s a feeling I get when I need to do something or not.
When we are led by things on the outside we are relying exclusively on our own natural senses and ideas to lead us. We are trying to make decisions and go in a direction on our own.
Our human understanding is so limited. But God knows everything. Yes, He gave us a brain and wants us to use it, but sometimes His leading and the so-called logical direction don’t match. Always go with His direction. We don’t want to rely only on our understanding because we just don’t know everything we need to know.
I know that I know nothing. That doesn’t mean I lack literal knowledge, but the profound wisdom of recognizing that God knows everything.
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