How to be led by the Holy Spirit

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We are at the climax of church history. The body of Christ must come to theknowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the statureof Christ (Eph. 4:13).On the other hand, we have also seen extremes of practices when a truthwas revealed. Church history also abounded with overzealous Christianswho pushed a revelation to its unnatural extreme in practices. They gobeyond the limits that God has set on all revelations - the boundary of Hiswritten Word. Claiming extra-biblical revelation, they spawn the subculturesof mainline Christianity. Today we look back and see them as theheretics of Christendom.Christianity needs to know the balance between openness and rigidness,revelation and tradition, fluidity and stability. Those who are bound bytraditionalism need to be bold enough to drop their security blanket. Thosewho receive fresh revelations need to exercise supernatural patience for it tobe implemented in the church of God. Always remember that time is on theside of Truth. The longer it takes, the clearer it becomes and the stronger its‘rightness.’Increasing our Perception to God’s LeadingsWe must be faithful to whatever level of revelation that God has revealedto us before He imparts more revelation. Unless we have been sensitive tothe leadings of the inward witness, it is unlikely for God to reveal in othermanifestations. We need to receive the revelations of God in fear andtrembling for the greater the revelation, the greater is the responsibility.The following would be ways to strengthen our ability to be led by theHoly Spirit:1. Pray in tongues for hours.2. Meditate on the Word of God.3. Fellowship with spiritual men and women.4. Worship in private and public.5. Singing psalms, hymns and songs throughout the day.I have found the above useful in maintaining my spiritual life with God.For as many as are led by the Holy Spirit, these are sons of God (Rom.8:14). Be bold to move into new things that the Holy Spirit leads you into.But move into it with the stability of the Word of God.© Copyright 2008 Peter Tan Evangelism. All rights reserved. 22
The Experience of being led by the SpiritBeing led by the Holy Spirit is like being led into a journey along therivers, lakes, seas and oceans of the world. The only boat that can sustain usthroughout the whole journey is the Word of God. Only the boat of theWord of God can come against the difficulties that abound in our journey.Only the boat of the Word of God can withstand the fierce storms thatprevail in the deep oceans of our journeys.When I was a young Christian, I have frequently heard Christians saying,"The Lord told me and said..." and I have always been fascinated by the factthat they could hear God’s voice and be led by Him. Whenever I asked suchChristians to explain to me what they meant by ‘the Lord said,’ I have beenfrustrated by their answers. Some said that it was ‘impressions.’ Others saidthat it was an audible voice they heard. Yet others even said that one day Iwill just automatically know it.In my desperation, I cried to the Lord to teach me His voice so that I canbe led by Him. I knew that the secret of all the men of God in the Bible wastheir ability to hear God’s voice. Slowly but gently, the Lord began to showme the answer. The first thing He taught me was that each Bible verse thatsays ‘The Word of the Lord said’ or ‘The Lord said’ was not necessarilyaudible to the human ear. The excitement of that revelation lasted forseveral months.A whole prayer of Hannah was recorded as ‘she said’ but it was actuallyan inward thought that she thought towards the Lord (1 Sam. 1:11-13). Itstruck me like a thunderbolt that if the Bible recorded Hannah’s prayer inthis manner in spite of the fact that it was actually silent, then many of theother Bible records where it used the word ‘said’ may also be silent to thehuman ears, especially those of the Lord speaking.The second thing that the Lord showed me as I was reading the Bibleduring my devotional was that when it says that we have the mind of Christ,it encompasses having the thoughts of Christ. Like another thunderbolt, itsuddenly hit me that some of the thoughts that I have been receiving,especially those which have helped my spiritual life, was the voice of theHoly Spirit talking to me. I didn’t know at that time the difference betweenthe voice of the Holy Spirit and the voice of the human spirit nor the fivesensations of the inward witness. But I was taken up by the fact andexcitement that I was hearing the Lord talking to me in thoughts and I didn’trealize it.© Copyright 2008 Peter Tan Evangelism. All rights reserved. 23
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