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How to Recognize God's Leadings

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How to Recognize God's Leadings

This transcription discusses how God leads believers, focusing on the inward witness—a direct impression from the Holy Spirit to the human spirit. The speaker emphasizes that every believer is led by God, starting from salvation, and that leading is not an issue of whether it happens, but of recognizing it. The inward witness is distinct from the still small voice; it is a deep-seated knowing, an emphasis or impression, not clear, audible words. It often comes through emotions, but believers must discern it from their own thoughts or feelings. All leading must be tested against Scripture and God’s character as revealed in the Bible: God is light (no darkness), love (not hatred), and peace (not confusion). Therefore, any leading that brings fear, anxiety, depression, or confusion cannot be from God, as it contradicts His nature. The speaker also notes that God’s voice reflects the gospel, which reveals His disposition of reconciliation, light, love, peace, life, and liberty. Believers are encouraged to use the Word to stabilize their emotions and avoid mistaking personal desires or anxiety for divine guidance. The overall message is that God leads with clarity and peace, and believers can confidently discern His direction by aligning it with His character and Scripture.

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Heavenly Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus we thank you, thank you for your word. Thank you, you are such a good God, thank you for life, wisdom, revelation, understanding and wisdom by your spirit. Clarity is given to us. We seek clearly the wonders of your world. We seek clearly the beauty of redemption. Those who are sick in their body right now, right now, they receive healing. Those in need of a miracle. Which is done by the power of the spirit. Thank you Father. Illumination is granted to our eyes. Our hearts are modern with clarity. Christ is glorified and we are edified, built up to the glory of your name. In Jesus, my name is pray. Amen and amen. All right, so we talked about readings and directions. You talked about how the spirits are right to know. You have talked about the spirits as our reality. You have talked about readings and directions. All the believers are live unto God. Romans chapter 6, Ephesians chapter 2 verse 1. All these things are part of your reality, isn't Christ. We also said to the fact that if God leads, God leads, yes. What in what area does God lead us in every and any area? In every and any area of our life, personal things, things that might at the rest, things that have to do with other people. Yes, so there are personal readings. God leads us by spirit. God leads us by His word. Spirit and the word do not contradict. God leads and God is interested in your spiritual life. God is interested in your personal life. We said, I want to the make sure that primary way God leads people is by the inward weakness. Remember, the word of God is the objective criterion. We used to judge every subjective revelation of God. I want to the make sure for revelations of God or how we get revelations from God is the inward weakness. Some people call it inward weakness. Look at Romans chapter 8. Romans. Romans chapter 8. Romans is like Paul's master class, master piece. It's like a thesis. Romans chapter 8 from verse 14. It's as many as I led by the spirit of God. The other sons of God, so we said that the believer does not have a leading issue. The believer does not have a direction issue. Every believer is led by God. Whether they know it or not, whether they recognize it or not, whether they even choose to walk and eat or not, every believer is led by God. Every believer is led by the spirit of God. All, all. In fact, it is so true that the first time you were led, you were led from darkness to light. Look at it. As many as are led, born, that's what B-O-R-N-E is the word in Greek, agoo, to be carried. To the first time you were led was from death to life, was from darkness to light, was from the power of say that the power of God was from the kingdom of darkness, to the kingdom of God's dear son. So leading is not an issue. You do not have a leading issue. Leading happens to you. God is committed to lead you with all that in our previous classes. Aziah and all that. So we said that one of the major ways God leads is by the inward weakness. The inward weakness is the weakness of God's spirit toward the born against man that confound that techno of this world, that confounds, refutes, clarifies or wants against facts exposed to it. It is not the still small voice. It is not the Holy Spirit, but it is the witness of God's spirit toward your spirit, a witness. I like the word that Christobel used in our last class. She said an emphasis. There is just an emphasis placed on something. It is just like, "Oh, my mind will be doomed." She said, "Oh, I felt like so. It confounds. It gives that approval like, "Oh, fire on, fire on, fire on, fire on, every hour soft, every hour smooth, every hour nice. They go, they go, they go. You will not hear distinct words. Still small voice. Distinct. Stand up, go and check what is happening. Stand up, go and lock the door. Don't enter the sky. Don't travel this week. You will be hearing clear, caught words. Clear caught words. That is what still small voice. For the inward witness, it is more of an impression. It is more of an emphasis. It pulled a notch. You just know that you know that you know that you know that you know. You just know. You just know how can you tell that you know. You can't really tell. But you just know it's a deep-seated knowing, a deep-seated feeling. You just know, sorry, it's not a feeling. Yeah, but it comes as feelings. It comes via the channels of your emotions. Right? Because man is an immoved being. Emotions is how we express ourselves only. You are happy, you are sad, you are normal, you are illiterate, you are broken down, you are depressed, you are gloomy, you are joyful, you are ecstatic, you are erratic. Is how we express ourselves only. Yeah, I think one of these days when we transition to the main class, yeah, we do a classic on spirit, soul and body. We can add classic experience to our body. You know that man is a spirit. He has a soul, at least in a body, ha ha ha, where we open God's body, you see that, eh? So they say, oh, the soul is the mind, the soul is the seat of emotions. The soul is the intellect, the will, the reasoning, the mental faculty, the spirit is the soul, you then your spirit has a soul and then you live in a body, ha ha. You wanna read the book of Acts, 2000 souls, God saved, eh? 2000 mind? Oh, 2000 intellect, okay, ah, it will work you. The soul that sins is shudai, oh, the emotion that sins shudai, don't use English meaning or words for bible. This is different to do, another deal, another loan, be not in this sufficient class, I'm just giving it to us. It led us about to pray for the widow's breakfast, son, that is dead. He said, "All Lord restored the soul of this boy back." Oh, restore his intellect, restore his will, restore his mind, or restore his being. How did man, how was man described? God preached into the dust of the ground, notice what I'm saying. I did not see that God formed man from the dust of the ground, that's not what I said. I knew that's what the bible said, good and fine, that's correct, God formed man of the dust of the ground, I'm giving you the interpretative sense. God formed man from the dust of the ground, I mean God made man from dust, not that God was carving human being. So human being was dead first, then God now blew life inside it, I mean God created a dead human before he gave life, we don't have that kind of God. Death will not precede life, man could not even be dead in the first place because sin has no enter into the world. Rumors chapter 5 is sin has not entered dead as no enter because the bible said that sin enter into the world and dead by sin. So if there was no sin, if there was no missing the mark, am I clear? There was no dead. So how can man be created lifeless? They cannot need a life. So you will see that when we get to that series, we open that enough. The part also tells you that man became a living soul. So is what man became a living emotion? Man became a living prisoner. Man became a living intellect. No. Man became a living being, a living soul. If you read the book of Revelation, so that you can see the book of Revelation. "A person was used for humans. Spears were used for supernatural being consistently. There is a reason why Bible teaching is like this. But let's leave a lot of those things. Why I brought these so often, or this is because the Spirit of God in you ministers directly to you, your Spirit. Man expresses himself via the channels of emotions, feelings and all that. That's why many, many times. When God is talking to you, it sounds like your voice. It has to sound like your voice, unless if it is the audible boom. And most times, when it's audible, it will be in the voice of someone you know. It will be the voice of someone you know. But many times, the stills more voice communicates to you, how, in your own thoughts. So I like to use this word, in the voice of your thoughts. The way you sound when you think, that is how God sounds when it talks to you. And that is why it is hard for people to say, "Eh, I don't know if it was my mind. I don't know if it was me just thinking it. I don't know if it was my emotions. I don't know if it's God because the all sound I like." The inward weakness is the weakness. Look at Romans 8 verse 14. For as many as a lead by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. For you did not receive the Spirit of God again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption. We are by our cry, our father. So guess what? The Spirit himself, not itself, the Spirit himself, best weakness, or whole, does the origin of what? In what weakness? The Spirit best weakness with our Spirit. So it is not in the faculties of your mind. It is not in the faculties of your feelings or emotion. It's not in the faculties of your reasoning or intellect. He interacts with you directly to your spirits. Your spirit passes that information via the channels of your emotions, the channels of your feelings, the channels of your intellect. That's why. Okay, let me get rid of that because that will make us talk all that things. Yeah, so the channels God will sound like a voice. You'll be thinking and you will think you're thinking, but that's God talking. The issue now is how do we recognize? How do we differentiate our thoughts from his thoughts? Remember, it comes like thoughts. It comes like feelings. It comes like emotions, but it is not emotion. It is not feeling. It is not thoughts. It is God's weakness to your spirit. There's something just testify to. There's something he's agreeing with. It is not a clear thought towards like the stills more voice. It is an impression and emphasis, a pool, a notch. I'm looking for the flu. Let me see your hands so that I will know if I need to come back, if I need to move along. Let me see your responses so that we can be on the same page. Good stuff. Good stuff. Good stuff. Good stuff. Yeah, they are not the increased God forever. God. You've been dragging me a lot, but what can I say? Praise God forever more. All right, so how do we differentiate the leading of God? So we did an exercise on Tuesday, yeah? And I'm sure that we'll have gotten this dilemma. Oh, is it me? Is it God? How do I know if it's me? How do I know if it's God? Very simple. Very, very simple. You judge the leading of God. You recognize the instructions of God, where I is inward witness, where I the stills more voice, where I's visions, where I's transes, where I's dreams, where I's prophetic words, where I's angelic appearance, whether it is appearances of the God kind, yeah, you subject it to the written word. You wait against the character of God. I'll give you three solid ones. Fes are very fast now. I'll be very fast, yeah, but not too fast. So does get your fingers sharp. Fesion chapter one verse five. So I will read settings and then I will ask you a question to figure out if you got the character of God from what we have read. I already so I'll need your response. I need it to be a lot. So I need to read it alongside with me. Okay. So let's open to Fesion chapter one verse five. Fesion chapter one verse five will open to James chapter one verse 17, some 27 verse one, some 36 verse nine. And those saying it's that he keeps on to write it and then flip or if you are using a hard copy Bible like me, I'll do to get a hand in one place and open another place without finding. So Fesion chapter one verse five. I will read it because I will need you needed to participate. So if you are there, let me see your hands so that I will know Fesion chapter five. All right. It says God is light. And in him is no darkness at all. This is the message we have heard from him. And we declare onto you that God is light in him is no darkness at all. James chapter one verse 17. James chapter one verse 17 says every good gift and every perfect gift, not the same thing. The those two gifts are gifted in English through different. One talks about the giving, one describes the act of giving. Maybe we look at this verse. I told you to take note of this. We look at this verse. We're looking at Bible interpretations. I think that is the next thing we do from next next week how to interpret the Bible. The basics of interpreting the Bible. All right. So every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the part of life from the power of lights. Which wound there's no variation or shadow of turning some 27 verse one. Right. Sounds chapter 27 verse one. This is the Lord is my light and my salvation. Wom Shalife. The Lord is the strength of my life of womb Shalife being afraid. Some 36. Some 36. Verse nine. It says for which you God is the fountain of life in your light. We see light. So from this verses we have read so far. There are many of them but let us put a pause on this one. What is the character of God? What can we see God is from this place is we have read. Right. Let me just see a comment. What what is it? What is it? What is it? What is it? From what we have read light. What else again? Who else? Who else? Who else? From what you have read the Lord. The Lord is my light and salvation. God is lighting in this new variable. There's no darkness at all. God the father of light. Yeah. Any other response. Any other response from what you have read. I'm 'O'mu ciągau' minha daria notation´ Senhor, tu se 개나 tantiyorum infant "Light" si era gikit "God is light" "Look at phase John chapter 4" "It not pay close attention to what you are doing now" "You are taking another set of attributes" "Or like using that watch" "For the purpose of teaching" "Athributes are good" "Not really a tree woodshark" "That's a lot that's light for now" "Fest John chapter 4" "Notes the word or sets of word that repeats" "That's how you know where we are drawing emphasis" "The first set God is light" Lait, talking about light. Some, that is the suggest, now it says in your light, we find light. In you, as light, we get directions. Light, light. Now look at the second set. The third one for this, it is, he who does not love, does not know God. For God is love. He who does not love, does not know God. For God is love. Look at the 16, first don't fall 16. It says, and we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love. And he who abides in love, abides in God, and God abides in him. Yeah, God abides in him. Look at Romans chapter five, verse five. Romans, Romans, Romans, Romans, Romans five, verse five says now, hope does not disappoint. Because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. So what is the keyword we see in this set? What is the keyword we see in this set? Alright, so, we see for the responses. Love, good stuff, good stuff, good stuff, good stuff, good stuff. God is love. Alright, now, look at verse Corinthians chapter 14, verse 33. Verse Corinthians chapter 14. Verse is 33. So big, lose attention to the words. It says, for God is not the author of confusion, but of what? Peace. Peace. Peace. God is the author of peace. Romans 15, verse 33. Now, the God of peace be with you all. Amen. The God of peace. Philippians chapter 4, verse 9. It says, the things which you have lent and received and had and saw in me, these do and the God of peace. Boy, the God of peace be with you. The God of peace. Hebrews 1320. Oh, sorry. Let's read first, as a linear five. I love that. Hebrews 13. It's a chaxmy of verse Corinthians 523. Verse Corinthians 523. It says, now, made the God of peace. Peace himself. sanctify you fully or completely and your whole spirit, soul, body be preserved, cleanless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is the God of peace. Hebrews chapter 13. Hebrews 13 verse 20. Oh, I love that. Who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead? That great shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting covenant make you complete in every good work with the doings will. The God of peace. What is the keyword we find in this broad set? Peace. Good stuff. Good stuff. Good stuff. Good stuff. God is the God of peace. So God is light. God is love. God is peace. God's leading will not involve confusion, fear and anxiety, depression, torment, why it is a against his nature. It is against his character. He cannot lead you outside of his nature. He cannot lead you outside of his passing. He cannot. He cannot. He cannot. He cannot lead you outside. See, I was saying earlier in the chat that God's voice is the gospel. God's voice reflects the gospel. We will take the gospel and you summit. Yeah. And you summit. The questions should be asked at the end of the class because I may answer the question as the class is going on. Yeah, so maybe take note. Aha. So I'll get to the question if I don't get to eat in the course of the teaching. You said, how about multiple decisions? That doesn't deviate from God's nature. Multiple decisions or multiple leading. The decision is yours to make. God cannot be leading you in many things at once. So is it decision or is it leading? Aha. So I think that answers the question. But I'll still expand on it. Well, please keep it at the end of the class if there's any question. All right. So where was I? Where was I? Where was I? I don't know. All right. So God's voice reflects the gospel. The gospel is the submission of God's disposition towards man. Take note of that. God's the gospel is God's submission. Sorry, the gospel. Man, I've broken my flow. All right. So steady in the ship. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory. Glory. Glory. Glory to God. All right. So the gospel is the submission of God's disposition. So the gospel reveals the character of God. His reconciliation, not condemnation. His light, not darkness, his love, not hatred, his peace. The torment is truth, not confusion, life, not death, liberty, not bondage. So when we see God's voice reflects the gospel, what do you know about the gospel? What does the gospel entails? Yeah. So it entails the revelation of God's character, the revelation of God's intention, the revelation of God's nature, the revelation of God's mood of relationship with man. You take all of that. Yeah. You take all of that and you use it in knowing. Use it in knowing God's leading. God's leading is in the light. Full of clarity, God cannot be leading you into confusion. God will not lead you into fear. Each time you think about something, you're always afraid. That cannot be God. Oh, you should like travel, you should like no travel. Each time you think about, oh, travel. I am afraid. I am afraid. That is not good. Oh, we school should like go. Each time you think about it, school, you are so deluded pressed. You are just depressed. You are just sad. That is not good. God will not lead you into depression. God's leading will not contradict the fruit of the spirits. God cannot be leading you into making his. Yes, there's a difference between taking action immediately and then that pleasure to instantly do it if not something will happen. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, because his leading will not contradict the fruit of the spirit. Will not contradict his nature. God leads in the light, in clarity. He cannot be leading you. Then you don't know what to do. Just don't think about it. You are lost for words. You don't know how things will go. You don't know how things will work. That cannot be leading. That is your emotions spiraling. That's your emotions spiraling. So you need a lot of God's word to stable your sheep. When you are anxious, you send your sought-out anxiety that you are thrown to the Lord for the rationality. You don't take and just in as worried many people. They are bringing their anxiety to the place of aft prayer when you want to pray for leadings and direction. So what did you hear is anxiety. What did we hear is the mind. Sometimes you think about doing this an a or b. You're not, you like B. You're not going to go to prayer that I'll go to see a or b. You will be hearing B. Not because God is telling you B, but because you like it. Remember when we were younger and the, there were some songs in church that made us cry. Oh God, I'm creating a clean heart. Oh God, really a rice building in me. Oh God, Lord, prepare me. A sanctuary, pure and holy. The other time we cried, God, prepare me. Oh, say to me. God, I feel it. Really cry. Now we have seen that he's not preparing us a sanctuary. He has made his home in us. We are the temple of God. We are his walkmanship. That song came with me crying out. So who was making me cry then? The spiritual God or my or what? Emotions. Feeling some of us. Because we have allowed our feelings to lead us. You put your feelings on that check. You want to make a decision? All of a sudden you are anxious. I keep note. They are so down to see and it's worry many persons. It's worry many persons and people have argued with me over the years. But do you know that? Now let me show you a practical way people reason. Somebody ask me, "Okay, let me know. See that. If E S and E S get married, what are the chances of giving birth to an SS? Out of 100%, it is 25%. So it can be E E S for the first one, second one E S. So E S, E S get married, E from one, E from the other one, E from one, S from the other one, E from one, S from this other one or SS. So SS, 25% chance. How did you drain 75% chance? Now guess what? What is that thing that makes us think negatively whenever we face situations? Why does our mind think of the possibilities of dangers? How bad does it show me? Have you ever gone to write an exam and imagine how you pass? Or you go to write exams and you are full of fear. Jesus, I never read it. I just didn't want to be up or if I feel this thing now. And notice how the thing just keeps getting out of hand. Oh, if I feel this exam now, my father could first check, my father could first check, drop a phone school. If I drop a phone school, try, I want to fall off now, I want to fall off now, you have reached job for exam. Job, just as I get married, just as I get employed, I reduce to, if I don't finish school, how will I present myself in the public disandering? Before you know, you have left exam and you are talking down on your life, talking down on your future. You just be thinking and notice how when you are depressed, notice how when you are anxious, notice how when you are worried, you are hearing voices. It seems like somebody is suggesting something to you, the devil. And that's why isolation is bad. When people are worried, what did they do with the isolated themselves? The devil is cutting them out from where they can gain their senses back and fall back on the right path. The devil will present them back to you that own. Now let you know I just need to be paying you. Even if you tell somebody they don't really understand, so try to solve it by yourself. You have been thinking for two weeks no solution. Depressed, you don't have appetite to eat food. You are worried, it's not how when you are depressed and anxious, the sickness, the sick, you don't even know how to eat in the car. Because the devil said that broken hearts is, is, oh my God, my God, my God. It says a broken heart dries up the bones, but a merry heart is as medicine. A man who is always jovial, a man who is always light with, not giving to worry, not giving to anxiety, not giving to pressure. He will not fall unnecessary the sick. People who are easily depressed or worried, check their immune system. They're doctors there, they can confirm what I'm saying. They easily break down and they don't know why. They have treated malaria and then his malaria that is showing up again. He's normally the immune system is broken. It dries up the bones from within. The better he's eating, but he's getting slimmer. The better he's eating, but bones are showing on his face. The better he has no zest for life. He cannot yet go to the state. He is too isolated, even if he goes speaks, he will know yet. But that is the place the enemy wants to keep man. The enemy wants to make your logic feel so important. But guess what? If the logic was important, why have you not solved the issue? So, it starts off with what Jeremiah said. "O Lord, I know that it is not in the way of man, to direct his path." "God will not lead you in anxiety." "God will not lead you in confusion." "God will not lead you in a serious fear." "We must not steal your peace." "You want to make a decision?" "Each time you think about, option E, you are restless." "That's not God." Sometimes, God has to do something. And within you, you are fighting it. Anytime you want to do something and you are feeling that it's an fight within you. Should I do Shleno, do it? Should I buy this in Shleno, buy this in Shleno? Should I travel, not travel, not buy, buy? We read from Colossians chapter 3, "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts." Why is it important for the heart? Because you have to guard that heart with all diligence for out of it flows the issues of life. So, if the heart is not led in peace. If the heart is not led in rejoicing, eh, there will be issues, oh, there will be issues. There will be issues. But God has no code of stuff here. God has no code of stuff to worry. Nope, nope, nope. God did not call us to anxiety. That is not what we have as a reality. Never. Never. Yeah? Praise God forevermore. We have joy. We have peace. We have peace. We have joy. We have peace. Colossians chapter 3, 15, "Let the peace of God, so let the peace of Christ rule in your heart." That will rule to empire, to decide. When everything gets down, listen to the peace. You may have seven decisions to make. All the decisions may make sense. None of them is contrary to what God wants you to do in life, generally. So, Miriam, I'm asking you a question now. Which one has the emphasis on peace? Which one, see, and this thing is eh, if you are honest with ourselves, eh, you see or see, I'll be frank with you people. And I will not try to sugarcute the team. I'll tell you as it is. Let's be honest with ourselves. I want honest with, how many honest people are here? Let me, I just want to talk to honest people. Let me see your hands if you are honest person. Ah, yeah, yeah. Let me see your hands. I want to talk to honest people right now. Do you know that thing that God is telling me something? I don't know if it's my mind or if it's God. Honestly, deep down. You know that that thing is not true, right? We always know when it is God. We know. Maybe we know when us, eh, we know. It's just that the team does not make sense. I can go by telling me to pass this route. What happened to this route? Most times, the limits of God seems foolish. Let's not, let's not try to pretend. Sometimes the limits of God are laughing. Mix zero sense to logic. Zero sense to logic. I can use the me that is a rightsy that I just stretch. "I will touch my rod over the waters and see me divide." "What sort of instruction is that?" Let's be honest, if you pass this honesty test, it will help you in decision making, in being led by God. Sometimes when the latest cannot test with this fact, all those who go to the market will, sometimes you want to buy clothes is fine, is budget-friendly, the team match your skin, everything will fit you. But you just have this notch, not to bite, to buy another one instead. Guess what? Stronger you go allows. We go buy them. The moment, maybe the team see it, the team will last, after two weeks, as they wash the clothes, the, the, the, the color is pouring out. What's it, try? My mind will be telling me, say, "Mica no baya." "Aha." "So, do you know what that means?" "You knew." "You knew when you were buying it, that you should not have put it." Let's be honest, every time our property has gotten lost, or stully, we knew that we should not have carried that thing. When the door's teed, the wash, you say, "Ah, my mind will be telling me, say, "Mica, drop this watcher." "Oh, so you knew." "You just did it to be." No Christian can say, "God did not leave me." No. "God is pitiful." "God will leave you 10,000 times, out of 10,000 times, God will leave you." "50 billion times." "Out of 50 billion times, for little things, for small things, God will always leave you." Sometimes, if you are honest, it's not even an issue of recognition, it's an issue of trust. We don't really trust this thing, that God is saying. I can go tell me to quit my job and do this thing instead of this one. This guy is handsome, he has this, he has that, always well spoken, he fears God, always he believes, has given the routines as well. But I don't have that peace to say yes to him for marriage. We know. We try to mix it up with anxiety, but it's not true. We know. Deep down, where you are alone and where your emotions are quiet is clear to you. Then guess what's happening? You start thinking of the things you may lose out on. Then you start thinking about it. "Ah, no, no, this is really God." No, no. See, see the one, handling these leadings or the spirits. I'm getting very real with you down to the core of the matter. Sometimes God tells us to do something. We don't trust God. Why is not making sense? If we are really sincere with ourselves, we may go cleanly where I steal some of voice involved that we know that we should not have done thisness with this person. We know that this is not a right school tool. We know that this is not the thing we should apply for. We know. We know. But the sun is good. Oh, there's opportunity. Oh, there's this. Nah, the thing is not contradicting to God's nature. If God or school A or school B, He is not contradicting with God's nature. But there's one that does have to do with peace. Joy. Look at Isaiah 55 and 12. Isaiah 55 and 12. Isaiah 55 and I'm opening Matthew. My God. Isaiah 55, verse 12. It is for you shall go out. You shall go out with joy and you shall be led out with peace. Right from Isaiah peace. Look at Isaiah 26. I love that. Isaiah 26. Thank you God for this. I was not even planning to say this. Isaiah 26. The three is says you will keep him in perfect peace. Guess what? Who will go keep in perfect peace? The one that has his mind. Our mind. State on him. When we are anxious, we don't have our mind. State on him. How will my intention go? How will I pay my rent? How will I pay my school fees? Oh, I need a new phone. Oh, I need this. Oh, we should like to get to guess what in those moments. Our mind. Is are not stayed on him. So we can't even experience peace. Of which we want us to be late. Look at it. He says you will keep in perfect peace. Whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever. For in Yahweh, the Lord is everlasting strength. Come on. I'm not relying on your logic too much. Sometimes it helps. Sometimes it does it. Sometimes it makes it fuller of you. Makes it fuller of me. Sometimes it just makes us feel as if we are like unbelievers. We make the same mistakes on the neighbors make me. While we have a wealth of knowledge within us, all we need to do is to take actions on it and we'll find a time this week to make up on to this class. Taking actions with the leading of God, taking actions. How to take actions? Quit being afraid. Quit saying what if it does not work? No. God's spirit is in you. God will not be unjust to give you wrong to furniture. Don't you trust God? Some of us will trust our logic, modern God. You see, the way the economy is, it is and this, darandats. You are talking about the one who knows the end from the beginning. Yet we don't want to trust when we put more confidence in our brain than the only one of Israel. Not so. Not so. It says we will be led out in joy. Sorry, we shall go out in joy. So what is our response when we get the leading of God joy? It doesn't make sense. We know who segged it. I have written an example for those who copied. Not to shame you, but this is even a good one, self. A point to bring from the group. We all know that guy in the class that reads very well. I mean that guy that does tutorials for us. I mean that guy that has this soft school to our assignments. That guy that we just rest in his finish walks. We all know that guy. In every class there's that guy. He's just too smart. He's just too smart. She organizes to do the he organizes to do this. They have access to all the past questions. We all have those guys in the class. If you are faced with the hard examination and the guy tells you the answer is B. Do you doubt? Do you doubt? I think I've seen this answer before. I don't think he's BU. Why? He has a track record. Distinction. First class. Street is. He has a repetition. So you trust his judgment even if it does not make sense. Even if you saw something that looks like another answer. Yes, what? We don't give God the same privilege. And this is a thing that has never led you astray in all your life. I mean in all your life. You cannot point to one thing that God led you astray. I'm not talking about the one you deserve to be do or the one you did in your own power. I mean, pick something that God led you astray. But yet his track record does not matter. But a mortal boy or girl in your class, you believe him. Why? He's smart. He's intelligent. He knows what to do. He knows how to do it. He has asked questions in the class. He gets good results. You trust that fellow. But you question God. You question God. God, are you sure? You don't ask that guy if he's sure. Ask in the talkative tick. Somebody will give you an example paper. For those who will be very skillful. And you are copying from somebody. You are not checking it. He's answer. You vet and wear. You check. No, with a copy. Now God gives you instructions via the inward witness. And what it means that you have a God that is ready to talk to you more. "Nobody is ready to act for a conversation." But we judge that one. We question him. We try to. Inter. we try to. Suck Jesus Christ. We try to scrutinize his leading. God. How many things have you directed yourself in? That you succeeded from start to finish without any flaw, without any mistake? Tell me. Tell me that man, in this universe, that from plan A to plan Z, everything was executed in perfect order. Nothing was broken. Nothing was missing. No step done. There will always be contingency plan. But we have a God. God of all wisdom. God of all knowledge is in you. But you have to be doubting. He has given you peace, giving you light, giving you love, giving you his world, giving you his spirits, inward witness, visions, trances, dreams. Look at me. Come on, come on, come on. Look at the way God can. Hey, Jesus Christ. Look at the varieties of ways a man can receive from God. Yet he will doubt all, not you. Not you. I trust you. I am persuaded by the things of you that you don't scrutinize God. I refuse to believe that you question the Holy One of Israel. I'm not talking about questioning in terms of the conscience of question is you are trying to vet ghost instructions. I'm not talking about, oh, you can't ask me any question. You know, over 300 direct questions to God in the Bible. We have done that series. God, why does one listen to it? You get the food just. Yeah. So we are led in peace. We go out rejoicing. Oh, glory to God. I may wake up in the morning. No food in my stomach. No money in my bank account. When I pray, I set my face on the Lord Lord. Do you need all my skills and services? They contact me as I make my post as I post online as I talk about my skills and services. Oh, yes, Father, I trust you that there are God redeems. We are much disposed to do so. I need all my services. Father, I thank you. You are the God of all comfort. I thank you. You are the God of provision. Oh, I trust in your providence. And then you go out and rejoice in no money in the bank account. No foodios don't work. You bought your driver. Oh, anxiety. We come. Are you sure that people we see us, we say, get out. We don't really confront those voices that talk to us. We entertain it. We say, ah, it's true. She. Ah, the market is saturated. How can I see job in league? How can I see this in this? How can I? How can I? How can I? We don't confront that voice or the enemy that brings contrary things to us. It's so easy to recognize God. Wait against is what? Wait against his passing. Who is God? God of all peace. He cannot lead you into confusion. He cannot. Three guys cannot be asking you for money and then God is leading you to all new. You'll be clear court instructions. You'll be emphasis lead in what witness still small voice. But sometimes we just want to do what we want because oh, it comes with a good family who has plans of traveling abroad. Oh, sometimes we choose because the guy's plans matches with our own plan. That is not how we make a choice. See, my parents taught me something many, many years ago and I'll end on this note. The greener past just is God's will for your life. It is not in a place. It is not in a job. It is not abroad. It is not by Japan. The same rude people pass. The same Japan people go to. Does not it? Isaac had famine. Isaac experienced famine. He won't take it. Abraham experienced famine. He was struck. The Abraham went to Egypt. In the days of Isaac, Abraham is long dead. In the days of Isaac, the Bible said that there was a famine as severe as the days of Abraham. Isaac wanted to go to Egypt. Look at Genesis 226. This is too good to paraphrase. Genesis 26. Verse 1. There was famine in the land. So he must say, do not go down to Egypt. Please, let's keep on reading. Look at the history. Verse 12. Then Isaac's suit in the land are ripped in the same year of famine. A hundred food. That means, oh my God. In famine, distress all around. In a past short, God's week for your life. God's week for his not in a place. He's not by marine opal. He's good to marry opal. He's not by relocation. He's relocation good. He's good. He's good. Of course, I'm married. He's good. He's getting a good job. Good. Oh, does not want a good job. What does not want a good pet. God's week for your life. It will save you from unnecessary sorrows. It will save you from unnecessary complaint. In the days to come, when, when, when John Goodon macho, it will save you from a lot of Hadainu. How many of us are here? We loved a guy. We were in relationships. All of a sudden, they didn't know what got. This small little, a year later, you're saying, "Thank God, this thing did not work out." But at that time, you were going through relationship. They didn't switch you, they chuck your head. You were getting some nudges too. Guys, reason this thing. Yeah, reason this thing. No. Something happened. Something happened. The providence of God. Now you are the one thanking God. Oh, thank God I did not travel to. Hey, Jesus. Oh, thank God I relocated. Oh, thank God I went to this place. So, sometimes someone first would just be in a place, would just have a nose to go to a location. We don't know who God has prepared for you to meet. Somebody need of your skills and services. Somebody that will connect you to great places. Somebody that will be your life partner. Somebody that will be a supernatural relationship to you. You don't know about you. You don't just take God's word as back and call. Who can I not think of? God tells me stand. I do ask why I tell him where? Where do you want to stand? Not why should I stand? No. He goes. It's right down flat. I lie down flat. First. Then I ask God, why? Oh baby, first come. It will help you. See the angle of of I'm approaching this in what witness. I'm trying to tell you that you actually know every and this thing you start seeing. You won't start giving words. The A, I didn't know if I was correct. You know that the spirit of God said, this is this, this is that. Tell him. Tell her. But guess what? Immusual starts coming up. Are you sure that's the right thing? What if you feel? What if you don't get it? What if you make me stick in the word of K as so? Am I led by mistakes or am I led by God? Am I led by precision or am I led by the spirits? Am I led by accuracy or does love drives me to minister to my brother minister to my sister? What is actually driving fear? Oh God's word. Trying to tell you, you know when God speaks to you. You know everybody. One of God knows it. We have passions, we have desires and we say we want to also be in the decision making process. Guess what? Guess what? Once God starts talking to you. It's clear. Immediately you start bringing your own desires and will. Estas getting complicated. U bro de compliqueixo go doi. "You, you, ah, did we go this leading me, I'm not really sure." "You are not really sure because deep down it is not what you want." "You are not really sure because deep down that's that's instruction really tell." "Dig down you did really bad, ah, let me give this to, I like give this to Islam and thinking I'm talking of inward witness and lead this or good." "So I'll close with this for the last time I'll close with this, yeah, promise you. Haha." "So I came back a little from work when the my wife came back, that was in class three years." "Yeah, last years, the teens fresh my head." "So we were hungry, she was hungry I was hungry so I said, oh, there's this fried in the middle of that. I like doing once in a while just because of a carot, this, my demand, chicken, dice chicken, put some time just chop, make you know say you did a life. So just the, I went to the supermarket, I was buying all these things so didn't know what the spirit of God was telling me. "Buy bread and study, I'll take that, get out there, I want chop, she's coming from the bread. I bought a few things, bought a thing, bought into me like six or eight, bought eggs, that thing we are going to. bought everything, bought everything like this. I went home, get my download, get nobody can go out to the following the compound policy. I went to the house, on gas, gas don't finish. Shag would chop the raw egg like that, I would chop the raw in into me. That was my wife and I slept hungry that night. As simple as food, bread and studying would have worked that night. We didn't know that gas has finished. Did God know? Yes. Did He say it to me? Yes. Did I agree? No. But did I know that God was telling me something? Yes. The whole world strong, the emphasis was strong. Buy bread and study, buy bread and study, don't buy beans, don't buy into me, don't buy this one for a year. So sometimes we really know deep down what should be done. But we don't just read it. You know just, you know just look nice. But not so. See, it's dead, two years ago, I'll let you know anything. Any and everything. I go to the market, I see a trouser. So thanks when I buy something, I don't have many of us. This is not supposed to be so. Thanks when I buy something. I like it, checking my spirit. This is a good buy. This one will last. So that's why we thought something to buy. You just, you just, you just know that this thing will not last. You don't know how you know. But you must not ask in the market. So that's the spirit of God. Okay, three years. I got it. So that is not just high all of us like it was the uncle of us. Because we actually get this sensations. We actually get these ladies. But one thing happens. We don't act on it. We act on it. No, no, no, no, nothing. Follow the peace of God. Follow the love of God. Follow the clarity, the light of God. God will not lead you in confusion. God will not lead you in fear. God will not lead you in anxiety. That's not the God we have. We have the God, the father of light. Look at his repetition. The power of light. If you are gathering light, in light, shine past our own. The sum is in your light. We find light. For daily living. Mary was saying some that your world is a lamp on my feet. The sweet what can guide me. And I have the spirit of God within me to do that. Amen. Amen. Father will give you praise and glory. Thank you for this was the gross big on our inside. Christalizes in our thank you. Dear as father in Jesus mighty name of pray. Amen.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. God leads believers primarily through the inward witness, an impression or emphasis from the Holy Spirit to the human spirit.
  2. The inward witness differs from the still small voice; it is a deep-seated knowing, not clear words, often felt through emotions.
  3. All believers are led by God, whether they recognize it or not, from salvation onward.
  4. God’s leading must be tested against Scripture (the objective criterion) and God’s character: He is light, love, and peace.
  5. God’s voice reflects the gospel—characterized by clarity, peace, and freedom, not confusion, fear, or depression.
  6. Believers should not mistake their own emotions or preferences for God’s leading; anxiety or depression indicates it is not from God.

Summary:

This transcription discusses how God leads believers, focusing on the inward witness—a direct impression from the Holy Spirit to the human spirit. The speaker emphasizes that every believer is led by God, starting from salvation, and that leading is not an issue of whether it happens, but of recognizing it. The inward witness is distinct from the still small voice; it is a deep-seated knowing, an emphasis or impression, not clear, audible words.

It often comes through emotions, but believers must discern it from their own thoughts or feelings. All leading must be tested against Scripture and God’s character as revealed in the Bible: God is light (no darkness), love (not hatred), and peace (not confusion). Therefore, any leading that brings fear, anxiety, depression, or confusion cannot be from God, as it contradicts His nature.

The speaker also notes that God’s voice reflects the gospel, which reveals His disposition of reconciliation, light, love, peace, life, and liberty. Believers are encouraged to use the Word to stabilize their emotions and avoid mistaking personal desires or anxiety for divine guidance. The overall message is that God leads with clarity and peace, and believers can confidently discern His direction by aligning it with His character and Scripture.

FAQs

The primary way God leads believers is by the inward witness, which is an impression or emphasis from the Holy Spirit to your spirit, not a clear voice.

You can distinguish it by judging the leading against the written Word and God's character—God is light, love, and peace, so His leading brings clarity, not confusion, fear, or anxiety.

Yes, every believer is led by God, whether they recognize it or not, as stated in Romans 8:14.

The inward witness is the Holy Spirit's witness to your spirit, giving a deep-seated knowing or emphasis, not a distinct audible voice.

Because the Spirit communicates to your spirit, and your spirit passes that information through your emotions, feelings, and intellect, making it sound like your own inner voice.

God's leading reflects His nature as light, love, and peace, so it is clear, free from confusion, fear, depression, or torment, and aligns with the fruit of the Spirit.

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