BookClub- How You can Be Led by the Spirit of God- Kenneth E Hagins Pt 9

Dear BookClub Reader, Welcome to another spirit filled Week. Today we will have two sessions of BookClub Edition to cover up what we missed on Friday. 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 and Pt 8 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The entire book will not be published but every chapter will be previewed and I strongly recommend that you get a hard copy for future references.

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Chapter 22: I Perceive

Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them, And said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives.
—Acts 27:9,10

Paul said, "I perceive...." He did not say, I have a revelation. He did not say, the Lord told me. He said, "I perceive."

How did he perceive it?
By the inward witness. He did not perceive it mentally. He did not perceive it physically. In his spirit he had this witness.

A family of seven had gone out to eat. The family had not been at the restaurant very long when the father suddenly said, "Let's go home."
"Why?"
"I don't know. I just have an urge, a perception, that we should."
They rushed home. A fire had started. If they had waited, everything would have burned. But the inward witness warned them in time. If their home had burned down, someone might have said, "God did that. He had some purpose in it."

No, we have missed it because we haven't listened on the inside—in our spirits. We have not been spirit-conscious.You cannot find anywhere in the Bible where God causes these things to happen to teach His people something. If those on that ship had listened to Paul, they could have saved the ship and the merchandise. As it was, they lost everything and almost lost their lives. They would have lost their lives, too, if they had not started listening to Paul.

God is not an enemy! He is trying to help us! He is not working against us! He is working for us! As we become more spirit-conscious we can learn how to better cooperate with Him. Remember that the primary way God leads His children is by the inward witness.

Chapter 23: Spectacular Guidance

Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision.
—Acts 26:19

God leads us today just like He led the first Christians. His Word works now just like it did then. It has not changed. The Spirit of God has not changed. God does not change. The early believers did not have one Church back then, and we have another Church now. We have made a mistake in thinking that. We are in the same age they were in—the Church Age. We are in the same Church. We have the same Holy Spirit. It has seemed to us, however, that they had a whole lot we don't have. Not so.

"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God" (Rom 8:14). There are sons of God today. And the Spirit of God is still leading sons of God. So we look into the Acts of the Apostles and elsewhere in the Bible to see how the Spirit of God led them. At times some received guidance through a vision. Others received guidance from an angel who appeared and told them what to do.

Such phenomena, however, did not happen every day in these people's lives. They occurred once or twice in a lifetime for most. So these are not the ordinary ways God leads. We get the impression that nearly every day an angel appeared to someone and told them something. That is not so.

Too many times while God is trying to bear witness with our spirit, trying to guide us the way He said He would in His Word, we do not listen because we want something such as a vision or an angel to appear.

Chapter 24: The Spirit Bade Me Go

Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. As they ministered to the Lord and fasted THE HOLY GHOST SAID, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
—Acts 13:1,2

The Holy Ghost said. It would be of interest, first of all, to notice under what conditions the Holy Ghost said something. "As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said...."

I am convinced we need to have services where we minister to the Lord. Too often we just minister to one another. Bible studies are good; we need them. Special singing is fine. But too many times we are not singing to the Lord; we are singing to the congregation. Let's have some services where we minister to the Lord; where we wait on Him. In that kind of an atmosphere the Holy Ghost can speak to us.

This was a group of five ministers. I do not know how the Holy Ghost spoke to them. It could have been that one of the prophets spoke it out. Of this I am sure—they all heard and they all agreed that the Holy Ghost was talking. The Holy Ghost said, "Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them" (Acts 13:2). Peter said, "... The Spirit bade me go..." (Acts 11:12).

After I had been in the ministry many years, death came and fastened itself upon my body. I know when death comes; I have been dead twice and came back. I know how it feels. Actually, I started to fall into the arms of death, when the Spirit of God came on me and lifted me up.

I heard a Voice speak. To me it was audible. I believe it was Jesus. I know that it was the Holy Spirit speaking. We discussed earlier how the Holy Ghost speaks not of Himself, but whatever He hears, that shall He speak. So the Holy Spirit heard God or Jesus say this, and He repeated it.

It sounded like a man's voice. It said, "Thou shalt not die, but thou shalt live. I want you to go teach My people faith. I have taught you faith through My Word. I have permitted you to go through certain experiences. You have learned faith both through My Word and by experience. Now go teach My people what I have taught you. Go teach My people faith."

The moment that voice ceased speaking I was perfectly well.

I have endeavored to be obedient to that heavenly Voice. That is the reason I teach faith so much—I am supposed to do it.

I will refer again now to the time Jesus appeared to me in 1959 in El Paso, Texas. It was during this vision that He told me, "Go teach My people how to be led by My Spirit." I have been dilatory about this. But I am going to do more teaching on this from now on. This is the reason for this book.

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