Follow the Promptings of the Spirit (6 Dec 2020)
- God does not guide a parked car
- As you move along, your internal GPS, holy spirit bears witness with you based on an action and guide you
- God told Samuel the Prophet to go to the house of Jesse, God says
- Why did God not say “Samuel, his name is David and he lives in the house of a man called Jesse?”
- God could have said that, but that’s not God’s way
- God always leads us one step at a time, like how He told Abraham
- God could have said “Go the the land of canaan that flows with milk and honey”, but He didn’t, so as Abraham took one step, he saw further, as he took another step, the spirit bore witness with him, God would bear witness, whether it’s through visions or dreams during Abraham’s time, God would do it
- In our case, it’s bearing witness in our spirit, a most intimate way, better than visions or angels on the outside
- This is what Samuel did, he went to the house of Jesse, he knew it’s one of the sons, Jesse had seven sons and had all the sons pass by him, except for David, because he was out there in the field tending the flock
- When the oldest son firstborn of Jesse passed by Samuel, the Prophet of the land of Israel at that time, he looked at him and said “This must be the Lord’s anointed. He must be the one God has selected to be King.” But he wasn’t the one (1 Samuel 16:6–10), so even a prophet can make mistakes, he had to face the sons, one by one, one by one,
- The Lord said to him “this is not the one”, that’s when God said to the prophet, “
- finally no more sons, then Samuel asked Jesse “are these all the sons you have?” (1 Samuel 16:11)
- David for some reasons, he was not really favoured, so the moment David came before him, the Lord said, “
- So even a prophet like Samuel had to go through the procedure one by one, one by one,
- And sometimes you have to apply and go for the job interview, amen, dont be lazy, dont just sit down there and say “I believe God and trust God, you know, I’ve got the favour of God, amen and it will just come upon me”
- No, you have to try it out, you have to go for this interview, and you will sense it in your spirit, just take the first step,
- Even if it’s a small leading, obey that leading, obey the first prompting, amen
- So the next step is that I want the gifts to manifest, but you must follow after love, the best way to have the gifts manifest is to follow after love, amen
- Follow the flow of love, and the idea of “follow after love”, idea that love is like a stream, a refreshing life-giving stream, and you follow after the stream, amen, as you follow the stream and desire spiritual gifts, they’ll manifest, at the slightest prompting, learn to obey,
- How did christians flow with the spirit and grow? We obey the least prompting of the spirit, the smallest inclination, we just follow, amen
