THE
VOICE OF THE SPIRIT
The voice of the
Spirit is the audible perception of the will of God for a believer at every
point in time. The voice of the spirit is paramount in this end time church to
achieve the God–given vision to a believer. The Bible which is a collection of
the will and teaching of Christ as well as the foundation of the church for it
is written, there is no other foundation that can be laid than that which is
already laid, Christ the saviour.
Despite the encompassing need of the written word
of God-the Bible, for spiritual growth and the renewal of the mind of the
believer, it is not a substitute to the voice of the spirit if a great
spiritual progress is to be made. The voice of the spirit is one of the ways of
divine direction towards attainment of destiny. However God can still lead us
through an inward witness in our spirit (inaudible perception). Every Christian
is entitled to be led by the spirit of God which is the only means of ensuring
our maturity to sonship as the scripture says as many as are led by the spirit
of God, they are the sons of God.
This is clear because
the bible says in the book of psalm 23:1 the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not
want. Thus, if the Lord is really our shepherd then we have to listen to him.
How do we listen to him when we don’t know his voice because the only proof of
a genuine submission to shepherdship is the obedience of the sheep to the voice
of the master as the scripture say my sheep know my voice.
There are many
advantages of the voice of the spirit to a believer. For instance, it is
through it that the mysteries of life can be revealed to us by God. The hidden
things of the future can be shown us before its happening. This would help us
avoid the various mistakes in life. In life there are different pathways that
leads to the actualization of divine destiny which every individual is expected
to discover his own pathway of destiny. What he reserves for one at a
particular point may be different from what he reserves for the other at the
same point in time.
Therefore it is very
vital to avoid the idea of doing things just because others are doing it
because what a person can do and achieve a huge success another can do and
experience a woeful failure all because of different callings in life.
The great spiritual
minds are those who do things only based on divine command through the voice of
the spirit.
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