How Do You Know God is Speaking to you?
Read:
- John 16:13
- Acts 2:17-18,8:29,11:12,18:5
- Romans 8:14-16,26-27
- I Cor. 2:10-14
- Eph. 2:18
- I John 4:1-6.
- Have you ever heard with your ears God speaking to you?
- How have you perceived that God is talking to you?
- How would you explain the Holy Spirit to others?
- Do you believe that God speaks to us today like He did in Bible times? Why or why not?
- How do we discern the difference between God, satan, or our own flesh that is leading us to do something?
- Share with the group something that you knew God was telling you to do.
John 16:13 “However, when He, the Spirit of Truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth. For He shall not speak of Himself, but whatever He hears, He shall speak. And He will announce to you things to come.”
Acts 2:17-18 “And it shall be in the last days, says God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
And in those days I will pour out My Spirit upon My slaves and My slave women, and they shall prophesy.”
Acts 8:29 “Then the Spirit said to Philip, Go near and join yourself to this chariot.”
Acts 11:12 “And the Spirit told me to go with them, not discriminating. And these six brothers went with me, and we entered the man's house.”
Acts 18:5 “And when Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.”
Romans 8:14-16 “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption by which we cry, Abba, Father! The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.”
Romans 8: 26-27 “Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And He searching the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.”
I Cor. 2: 10-14 “But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of man within him? So also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
Eph. 2: 18 “For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.”
I John 4: 1-6 “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but try the spirits to see if they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God; and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the antichrist you heard is coming, and even now is already in the world.
You are of God, little children, and you have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are of the world, therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God. He who knows God hears us. The one who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.”