archkeron.blogg.se - Divine guidance

He has a specific purpose for each one of His children, and therefore His guidance is adapted to each individual need - look up Acts 9:6.

He guided the wise men by a star, but we have no record of His guiding anyone else in this way. God’s greatest concern for you and for me is the moulding of our character (Deuteronomy 8:2-3). God led His children by the long way round, and He often does this for our discipline and training. The natural caravan route was along the sea coast to Gaza, a comparatively short distance by way of Sinai the route was very much longer. An example of this is found in Exodus 13:18.

His guidance is sometimes STRANGE to us.

A step at a time and a stop at a time a moment by moment experience of His leading of which we may be conscious, but of which we are more often unconscious. His guidance is for the whole life, until the Lord comes or we go to be with Him. The Lord is always more anxious than we are that we should be absolutely clear as to His will (Psalm 25:12). The psalmist prayed to be led in a straight path (Psalm 27:11), and the Lord’s promise to us is Proverbs 3:6 - also look up Isaiah 35:8. The secret of divine guidance is the Guide (Psalm 16:11). There can be no possibility of a mistake in the guidance which God gives His children. We need to stress this in order to emphasise its quality. Let us think of the Nature of God’s guidance and of the Method of God’s guidance. These examples, and many others of which we can read, establish the fact that God does guide His people. In the New Testament, one of the most striking examples is that of Philip, who was guided of the Lord to leave Samaria and to win the eunuch to Christ (Acts 8:5 and 26). For examples of God’s guidance in the lives of His people we think of Abraham going out of his native country not knowing where he was going, being wholly dependent upon the guidance of God (Genesis 12:1) of Moses and the children of Israel being led by the pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night (Exodus 13:21-22) and of Joshua (Joshua 1:6-9). They need to pray, “Show me your ways…Teach me…Guide me…” (Psalm 25:4,5,9). In the psalm which we have chosen for the scripture reading in connection with this study, you will notice that the psalmist assumes the need for guidance, and of course not one of us would question the fact that God’s people do need guiding. We also have a number of very clear statements which show us our need of guidance for example, Jeremiah 10:23. In the Old and New Testaments we have wonderful promises of guidance and examples of those who sought and found the Lord’s will for their lives.

Over and over again we find the subject of God’s guidance brought before us in the Word of God. Ultimately, the Christian’s conscience can only be bound by Scripture and God uses the ordinary things in life to lead to a deeper knowledge of Him and His will for the Christian life.Series 9 Study 6 THE WONDER OF GOD’S GUIDANCE It is not in a way that makes it an infallible guide, but it is an everyday means that God uses to guide and lead to a deeper knowledge of Him. All these things form the Christian conscience. They should look to the Holy Spirit’s ordinary guidance that can be found in Scripture, wise advice, and enlightened common sense. Those who always look to an immediate and infallible revelation from God to guide them often fall into error. Christians should not expect God to communicate in these extraordinary events but they should look to many of the ordinary ways He guides and leads His people in the Spirit. Martyn Lloyd-Jones preaches this sermon from John 4:13–14 titled “Divine Guidance,” and shares that these extraordinary instances of God revealing Himself in order to make known His will are not the normal way that He leads. There is no doubt that God gives guidance and wisdom to believers, but how does He do this? In the Bible there is extraordinary proof of this as God gives visions to the prophets and apostles. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (ESV) Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.