Divine Guidance

A difficult subject that can cause confusion and error in the life of believers.

Does God guide us? What does the Bible say? God has not left us alone to wander along the way, but provided means to guide us in right paths.

How are people guided generally?

1.By what others do

2,By chance happenings

3. By supestitious beliefs

4.By impulses

5.By convenience

6.By God

7.By circumstances.

God's guidance is given under certain conditions that we need to observe.

There are two vital elenents involved.

a. The Word of God.

b. The Holy Spirit.

For Guidance  to operate the believer must seek God's will: Gen.24:47-48.

There is conscious guidance and unconscious guidance (we walk by faith)

Paul the Apostle was sensitive to the Spirit's leading: so must we Acts 16:6-10.

For guidance to be received certain conditions must exist:

1.No preconceived plan or bias.

2. No divided heart, James 1:8.

3.Faith in Him who guides even thought we face the uncertain, Heb. 11:6.

4. No hidden sin or disobedience in the heart, Ps.66:18.

What sort of people are guided by God? Ps.25:8-9.

Guidance is an integral part of the believer's life in God, and the new life in Christ. Rom.8:14-15.

'As many as are led by.....'