How To Follow the Holy Spirit TODAY! (Part 2)

"The first step towards sanctification is to be faithful to your conscience."  Watchman Nee

It starts with conscience.  Like with children.  In the beginning I'm mainly stopping my babies from doing things, and allowing them to do things that don't harm them.  A simple yes or no, red light or green light kind of existence for them.  Make no mistake, I'm actually talking to my babies from the time the exit the womb.  But they can't understand me in the beginning, though I've been talking to them from the beginning.

This is how it is in following the Spirit.

God has been talking to you from the time He made you.
In fact, as Jesus said, you don't live be food alone, but by every word that comes out of God's mouth.

If God stops speaking to you, you will die.
Yet in the beginning, it's your conscience through which God clearly speaks, as C.S. Lewis says.

If you listen, the voice of conscience will get louder and louder, leading to the second way the Spirit leads you: 

Direct, specific, revelation.

Or in a word:  INTUITION.

As it is written,
As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the children of God.

If you trust in Jesus completely, you are a child of God.
So following the Spirit defines who you are.
Because you were born of the Spirit, you are led by the Spirit.

It is your birthright.

Conscience faithfulness leads to more specific revelations.
You don't just receive a "yes or no," or a "red light green light" in terms of decisions.
You start to "just know" where to go and what to do, assuming you want the Spirit to lead you.

You start to find that when you are faithful to your conscience, things go exceptionally well and you have no regrets.

You begin to no longer trust yourself, as God has said,

"Trust in the LORD with all of your heart, and lean not to your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths."

The difference between conscience and intuition is this:

• Conscience is an internal nudge deep within which urges you to act in agreement with God's will, or to refrain from acting against God's will.
• Intuition is a specific revelation of what God's will is.

In other words, with conscience, in the immature spiritual state, you're acting "on your own," like babies do.  God either lets you act (if what you're doing isn't against His will), or He hinders you from acting.  You feel peace if the direction you're going in is "ok" with God.  You don't feel peace if God isn't ok.  The more you submit to this, the less you trust yourself, or lead yourself, and the more God can trust you with deeper revelations.

When this happens, and you are no longer acting independently like strong willed babies, when you actively ask and seek God's will, and not your own, you will know intuitively and with certainly the very next specific step God wants you to take.

Where are you right now?
Are you still learning to be faithful to your conscience?
If so, continue to do so, and you will grow.

If you're starting to "just know" that God wants you to do something very specific, take the risk and do it.  If you feel peace, and the result will clearly bring about the knowledge and likeness of God, and you know with CERTAINTY what God wants, then act. 

God is light.
His leading is clear.
If you feel unclear, IT IS NOT GOD!

(Keep practicing. Until part 3!)