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 and Pt 5 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The entire book will not be published but every chapter will be previewed and I strongly recommend that you get a hard copy for future references.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 14: God Inside
... for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
—2 Corinthians 6:16
—2 Corinthians 6:16
If you are born again, the Holy Spirit is living and abiding in your spirit. He's living and abiding where? In your head? No. In your body? In a sense, yes, but not exactly in the way we might think. The only reason your body becomes the temple of the Holy Spirit is because your body is the temple of your own spirit. The Holy Spirit abides in your spirit. And He communicates with you through your spirit.
In less than ten years' time a Full Gospel minister friend of mine was in three serious automobile accidents. people were killed. His wife was almost killed. He was seriously injured. Cars were demolished. But they were both healed by the mercy of God. He heard me teach along some of these lines and he said to me, "Brother Hagin, every one of those accidents could have been avoided if I had listened to that inward intuition."
This preacher said to me, "If I had listened to that inward something—I just had an intuition that something was about to happen—I would have waited a little bit and prayed. Instead I thought, I'm busy. I don't have time to pray."
The Holy Spirit is abiding in your spirit. It is your spirit that picks up these things from the Holy Spirit and then passes them on to your mind by an inward intuition, or inward witness.
Put those three scriptures together:
JOHN 14:23; 1 CORINTHIANS 3:16; 2 CORINTHIANS 6:16
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him... Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? ... for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
We have never yet plumbed the depth of what God is really saying: "I will dwell in them. I will live in them. I will walk in them." If God is dwelling in us—and He is—then that is where He will speak to us.
Chapter 15: Depend on Your Spirit
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
—Mark 11:23,24
—Mark 11:23,24
Faith is of the spirit. Your faith will not work to its fullest until you learn some of these things. Learn to depend on Him—the One who is in you. Learn to develop your own spirit. Have faith in the fact that your faith in God works.
Chapter 16: Tender hearted
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
—1 John 3:20,21
—1 John 3:20,21
Does the Holy Spirit condemn you if you do wrong as a Christian? No. It is your spirit that condemns you.You need to learn that. It's a hard lesson to learn, however, because we have been taught incorrectly.
The Holy Spirit will not condemn you. Why? Because God won't. Study what the Holy Spirit through Paul wrote in the Epistle to the Romans. He asked: Who is it that condemns? Does God condemn? No, it is God that justifies. Jesus said that the only sin the Holy Spirit will convict the world of is the sin of rejecting Jesus (John 16:7-9).
It is your own conscience—the voice of your own spirit—that knows when you have done wrong.
I have found that even when I do wrong, though my spirit condemns me, the Holy Spirit is there to comfort me, to help me, to show me the way back. You will never read in the Bible where the Holy Spirit is a condemner. Jesus called Him the Comforter.
Now the flesh, the outward man, may want to go on doing some things that he did before, and talking in ways he talked before, but you have to crucify the flesh. A good way to crucify the flesh—the outward man—is to bring your mistakes right out in the open. Unless you keep a tender conscience, spiritual things will be indistinct to you.
The Bible speaks about Christians even having their conscience seared:
1 TIMOTHY 4:2,
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron.
Learn to keep a tender conscience. Learn the minute you miss it and your conscience condemns you, to correct it right then. Don't wait until you go to church. Immediately say, "Lord, forgive me. I missed it." If you have to, if someone else saw or heard you, tell that person right away, "I did wrong. Please forgive me. I shouldn't have said that." You will have to keep your spirit tender if you are going to be led by the Spirit.
To read Kenneth Hagins experiences, get a copy of this book. It is worth it actually.
Don't miss next edition.
Have a glorious weekend.
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