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NASB | John 16:8 "And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; |
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Bible Question: Before God I used my own mind to think, reason, and figure things out; now that I'm saved I keep hearing my husband say the Lord told him this and the Lord told him that and I can't tell the difference between then and now! I read the Word, I pray, and I reach for Him, yet I can't honestly say I know the Holy Spirit is directing me in any way that I am aware of. Can any one help me? |
Bible Answer: Dear MickysMom, I don’t know that I ever extended a welcome to the forum, so welcome. I would first like to point out that maybe, just maybe, you’re doing exactly what you are supposed to be doing, praying, reading and reaching out to Him. I said maybe, simply because, we cannot not truly know your situation just by reading over the forum pages. Your reaching out and questioning may be another way God is acting upon you, again, maybe. What makes you question not noticing a difference to begin with? Why have you felt the need to endeavor to try and notice a difference? Being sovereign and precise in all He does, God will act upon us as He knows best. As He is patient with us, be enduring with Him. Persevere in prayer, learning and desiring to be close to Him. Philippians 1:6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. “We may be confident, or well persuaded, that God not only will not forsake, but that he will finish and crown the work of his own hands. For, as for God, his work is perfect.” – Matthew Henry Charles Spurgeon preached a sermon entitled “The Teaching of The Holy Ghost” of which I have pasted an excerpt below. It is an interesting read that you might find helpful. “And as the Spirit teaches whom he wills, so he teaches when he wills. He has his own hours of instruction, and he will not be limited and bound by us. And then again he teaches as he wills—same by affliction, some by communion; some he teaches by the Word read, some by the Word spoken, some by neither, but directly by his own agency. And so also the Holy Spirit is a sovereign in that he teaches in whatever degree he pleases. He will make one man learn much, while another comprehends but little. Some Christians wear their beards early—they come to a rapid and high degree of maturity, and that on a sudden, while others creep but slowly to the goal, sad are very long in reaching it. Some Christians in early years understand more than others whose hairs have turned grey. The Holy Ghost is a sovereign. He does not have all his pupils in one class, and them all the same lesson by simultaneous instruction; but each man is in a separate class, each man learning a separate lesson. Some beginning at the end of the book, some at the beginning, and some in the middle—some learning one doctrine and some another, some going backwards and some forwards. The Holy Spirit teacheth sovereignly, and giveth to every man according as he wills, but then, wherever he teaches at all, he teaches effectually. He never failed to make us learn yet.” – C.H. Spurgeon http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0315.htm I hope this has answered at least in part some of your question and helped in some way. Let me assure you, He is there and He does hear those that belong to Him. Stand in His grace, WOS |