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Don't ever be so afraid of
making a mistake you miss out on the joy of acting on the voice of the
Lord. Instead, trust the leadership of the Holy Spirit and let Him show
you how. He'll begin by speaking to you about the little things in your
life, and as you grow accustomed to hearing and obeying, He'll speak to
you about weightier things.
That's how it happened with Gloria and
me. When we first accepted Jesus as Lord, we didn't have any idea how
to hear God. Our spirits weren't yet trained to distinguish His leading.
But since the Bible promised we could do it, we began to approach our
prayer time and Bible study time expecting to hear God's direction and He began to give it.
I'll
never forget the first time it happened to Gloria. She'd been reading
the Bible and she just stopped for a few minutes to see if God would say
something to her. Right down on the inside of her, she heard the Lord
say, The light is on in your car.
It didn't occur to her
that God would speak to her about something so trivial, so she just
brushed that thought aside and went on listening. Pretty soon, He said
the same thing again. He kept on repeating it until finally, she got up
and walked out to the car. Sure enough, the light was on.
Why
would God bother with something as insignificant as a car light? Because
He cares! He knew Gloria was home alone that night with two small
children, and if that battery had run down, she'd have been stuck there.
God was watching out for her, and He told her just exactly what she
needed to know right then.
Yet, at the same time, He knew she was a
beginner where listening to His voice was concerned, so He gave her an
instruction she could follow without much risk. I mean, what if she had
gone out there and the light hadn't been on? What if she'd missed it? She would have felt foolish but that wouldn't have hurt anything.
If
you'll trust Him, the Holy Spirit will do the same thing for you that
He did for Gloria and me. He'll bring you along one step at a time in a
way that will help you, not hurt you.
The biggest mistake you can
make is to be afraid to follow that inward witness which is the No. 1
way God leads all His children (Romand 8:14). So don't be afraid. Take
time to listen today. Expect to hear in your spirit. God has something
to say to you.
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