Podcast: When we follow the voice of the Lord our God, all HIS blessings will come on us and overtake us

 

 

When we are born again by the Spirit of God, we then have the Holy Spirit living in us to lead us and guide us and to show us the way we are to go in the specific issues of this present life that we may go in the will of God for us in this life.  (Jn. 14:26;  Jn. 16:13;  I Cor. 2)

God leads us by HIS Spirit.  God gives us information as we need help.  God shows us what to do.

"How?"  you might ask.  

God simply brings thoughts to our mind, ideas, scriptures, concepts to show us what to do.

"I am the way," says Jesus.  

The Word is the way.

As those thoughts from God come to our mind, that is "The Word" to us at that point in time.  As we follow that Word that is from God we are blessed by God.

March 2020, the Coronavirus raged in the USA.  Businesses closed.  All sporting events were cancelled.  Everything shut down.  Never before had we witnessed anything like this!  And it was all over this world.

I had a special problem.  My house in Texas had been on the real estate market for the past 1-1/2 years.  How can I expect it to sell when people all around are terrified over the Coronavirus? 

I turned to God asking God this question:  "Is there any thing I should do about that house in Texas."

Instantly the Holy Spirit of God brought the following to my mind:  "Put the house on a special sale for 1 week and lower the price."  

I called my realtor immediately and told her to do this.

The house sold in 2 days.

Deuteronomy 28:1-2  And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all HIS commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:  And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

Today God speaks to us, HIS children, by HIS Holy Spirit who lives in us.  The Holy Spirit brings ideas from God to our mind.  When we do those things, the blessings of God come upon us and "overtake" us.

It is that simple:  Hearing the voice of God as brought to us by the Holy Spirit in the form of those thoughts that come to our mind.

And we know the voice of God because it is "pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy."

Do you hear the voice of God?  Do you follow the ideas sent to you by God?

If you are born again, changed by God into a new creation, you can follow the Spirit of God for HE is in you.

God's yoke is easy.  HIS burden is light.  (Mt. 11:30)

If the idea is difficult, complex, overly expensive, I always know I have not heard from God.

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James 3:14-16   But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.  This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

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Jesus says:

John 10:27  MY sheep hear MY voice, and I know them, and they follow ME:

4-5 And when HE putteth forth HIS own sheep, HE goeth before them, and the sheep follow HIM: for they know HIS voice.  And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

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John 10:26   But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep ... 

Some strays got into the pasture and pretended to be part of the flock and they tried to look like sheep, but they were really goats!

Matthew 25

31 When the Son of man shall come in HIS glory, and all the holy angels with HIM, then shall HE sit upon the throne of HIS glory:

32 And before HIM shall be gathered all nations: and HE shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

33 And HE shall set the sheep on HIS right hand, but the goats on the left.

34 Then shall the King say unto them on HIS right hand, Come, ye blessed of MY Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these MY brethren, ye have done it unto ME.

41 Then shall HE say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from ME, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave ME no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave ME no drink:

43 I was a stranger, and ye took ME not in: naked, and ye clothed ME not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited ME not.

44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

45 Then shall HE answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to ME.

46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

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But many church going people have never had that personal experience with God where God changes them instantly from the person they once were.  They are often trying to change themselves by "learning" and sometimes they even work very hard to change themselves but they fail to come to God for HIM to do HIS work in them.

They sign up for many good works at their church groups:  visiting the sick, cleaning the church building, bringing flowers to the Sunday service

But unless God authors that work, you can be turned away by Jesus at the day of judgment.

Jesus warns:

Mt. 7:21-23  Not every one that saith unto ME, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of MY Father which is in heaven.

22 Many will say to ME in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name? and in Thy name have cast out devils? and in Thy name done many wonderful works?

23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from ME, ye that work iniquity.

We must follow the Spirit of God to do the will of God in our works on this earth.

Romans 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

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John 3:3   Jesus says:  Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

6  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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