BookClub- How You can Be Led by the Spirit of God- Kenneth E Hagins Pt 12

Dear BookClub Reader, It's been a long time, yes...you can say that again. Please bear with me. Welcome to the last part of this book reading. I want to believe that we are all spirit filled after reading this interesting and powerful book together. Guess what!!! We will be reading a marriage related book  (this will be useful for both singles and married...I love to read and talk about relationships) titled "THE LOVE DARE". The Love Dare is a non-fiction marriage-related book written by Alex and Stephen Kendrick. It is a 40-day Christian devotional designed to strengthen marriages.

I bet you will love it. This reading will be done everyday starting next week Monday by God's Grace.

If this is your first time on BookClub, you are welcome to another edition of BookClub, we are still reading Kenneth E. Hagins Book- How You Can Be Led by the Spirit of God. If you missed the past editions click  Pt 1,  Pt 2 , Pt 3, Pt 4, Pt 5 , Pt 6 , Pt 7 , Pt 8  , Pt 9 , Pt 10 and Pt 11 before you proceed to today's edition.

This is one thing we all should desire as Christians because the bible says that 'as many as are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God'. The leading of the Spirit is the guarantee of our Eternal Life.

The entire book will not be published but every chapter will be previewed and I strongly recommend that you get a hard copy for future references.

Ensure that you do not miss any part of this book reading. Enjoy!

Chapter 28: How To Train The Human Spirit

The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord....
—Proverbs 20:27

The Lord enlightens us and guides us through our spirits. If that be the case—and it is—then we need to become more spirit-conscious. We need to become more conscious of the fact that we are spirit beings, and not just mental or physical beings. We need to train our spirits so they will become safer and safer guides.  

Your spirit can be educated just as your mind can be educated. Your spirit can be built up in strength and trained just as your body can be built and trained. Here are four rules by which you can train and develop your own human spirit.
1. By meditation in the Word
2. By practicing the Word
3. By giving the Word first place
4. By instantly obeying the voice of your spirit 

1. BY MEDITATION IN THE WORD OF GOD

You cannot develop spiritual wisdom without meditation. God made that fact known to Joshua just after the death of Moses at the very beginning of Joshua's ministry JOSHUA 1:8. If you ever want to do anything great in life, if you ever want to amount to anything in life, take time to meditate in the Word of God. Start out with at least 10 or 15 minutes a day—then increase the time. This Word of God shall not depart out of thy mouth. Talk about the Word. But thou shalt meditate therein. Think on the Word. The Hebrew word translated meditate also carries this thought with it: To mutter. Mutter the Word. Speak it to yourself. 

2. PRACTICING THE WORD

Practicing the Word means being a doer of the Word JAMES 1:22. We have many "talkers about the Word," and even many "rejoicers about the Word," but we do not have many "doers of the Word." Some have thought that being a doer of the Word meant to keep the Ten Commandments. That is not what James 1:22 means. After all, under the New Covenant we have but one commandment—the commandment of love John 13:34. If you walk in love you won't break any law which was given to curb sin. 

Being a doer of the Word means that we are to do primarily what is written in the Epistles PHILIPPIANS 4:6-8.  So do that! Now we don't mind practicing part of this verse—the part that says to pray. But if you practice just that part and not the first part, you are not practicing the Word—you are not a doer of the Word. Many people want what verse 7 talks about—but they don't want to practice what verse 6 says to do to get it. DO verse 8. Practice this verse. Think about the right things. You cannot be a doer of the Word and continue to talk unbelief. The greatest weapon of the devil is the power of suggestion. He is ever endeavoring to enter your thought life. That is why we are told in God's Word to, "... think on these things."

3. GIVE THE WORD FIRST PLACE

The training, the developing, the educating of our spirits comes by giving the Word of God first place in our lives PROVERBS 4:20-22. There are rich dividends for doing this. Why is it that God tells us to put His Word first, and to listen to what He has to say, to keep looking at His Word, and to keep His Word in our heart? It is because "... they [His Words] are LIFE unto those that find them, and HEALTH to all their flesh."  There is healing in the Word. We should train ourselves to ask ourselves concerning any matter, "What does God's Word have to say about this?" We should ask ourselves what God has to say about anything that may come up in our life—and then put that Word first. Sometimes family and friends will try to rush you into things—but you need to think about what the Word of God says. Put God's Word first in every area of life. 

4. INSTANTLY OBEY THE VOICE OF YOUR SPIRIT

The human spirit has a voice. We call that voice conscience. Sometimes we call it intuition, an inner voice, or guidance. The world calls it a hunch. But what it is, is your spirit speaking to you. Every man's spirit, saved or unsaved, has a voice. The human spirit, as we have seen in previous chapters, is a spiritual man, a spirit man, an inward hidden man. He is hidden to the physical senses. This is the man who has become a new creature in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17). The new birth is a rebirth of the human spirit. Did you notice that meditation in the Word, practicing the Word, giving the Word first place, all come before obeying your spirit? You see, if your spirit has had the privilege of meditating in the Word, of practicing the Word, of putting the Word first—then your spirit is an authoritative guide. 

"The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord...." (Prov. 20:27). Your newborn spirit has within it the life and nature of God. The Holy Spirit dwells within your spirit. "... greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world" (1 John 4:4). The Holy Spirit dwells in your spirit. God has to communicate with you through your spirit because that is where He is. Your spirit gets its information through Him.
Learn to obey the voice of your spirit.

Your spirit can be educated just as your mind can be educated. But just as you did not begin school in the first grade one week and graduate from the twelfth grade the next week, your spirit will not be educated and trained overnight. However, if you will follow these four points and practice them, after a while you can know the will of God the Father even in the minor details of life.

Chapter 29: Praying in the Spirit

For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
—1 Corinthians 14:14,15

One of the greatest spiritual exercises there is, is to pray in tongues every single day. Your spirit is then in direct contact with the Father of spirits 1 CORINTHIANS 14:2.  It is your spirit praying when you pray in tongues—the Holy Ghost gives the utterance, but it is your spirit praying. Paul said, "For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth ..." (1 Cor. 14:14). When you pray in tongues, your mind grows quiet—because you are not praying out of your mind. And once your mind is quiet, you become more conscious of your own spirit, and of spiritual things.

Get out of the sense realm. Get out of the flesh realm. Get out of the human reasoning realm. Get over into the faith realm and into the spirit realm. Faith is of the spirit—and that's where great things happen!

The End

Join us next week as we read "THE LOVE DARE" by Alex and Stephen Kendrick