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Word of God personally changing us, and personal guidance by the Holy Spirit

Internal guidance and power to change through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit for all believers

While the Israelites relied on prophetic guidance, the New Testanent believers are marked by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, providing direct, personal guidance and empowerment to all believers. This is call the mind of Christ. This direct access to divine guidance represents a whole different world a superior and more accesable form of empowerment compared to the external

guidance of prophets in the old testament

Having the mind of Christ means we are practicing humility. Christ is humble

Let’s turn to

Philippians 2:5–11 (NKJV)

5Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 

6who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 

7but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 

8And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. 

9Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 

10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 

11and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

What Christ did when He was crucified and He rose from the dead is wonderful and life-changing ! right? If we struggle to see the significance of this we need to ask ourselves if our belief in Him , our faith, is deep enough to grasp the wonderful and life-changing part. What usually is standing in the way is our pride. wow! really? Isn’t pride a good thing?

well—what does the Bible say about pride? Definitely the Bible speaks against pride that is arrogant, self exalting, or has the lack of humility.

let’s look at a story that describes this: turn to

Luke 14:8–11 (NKJV)

8“When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place, lest one more honorable than you be invited by him; 

9and he who invited you and him come and say to you, ‘Give place to this man,’ and then you begin with shame to take the lowest place. 

10But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher.’ Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you. 

11For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

to continue let’s turn back to:

James 4:1–6 (NKJV)

1Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? 

2You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. 

3You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. 

4Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 

5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”? 

6But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”

We as believers have the mind of Christ. just listen to

1 Corinthians 2:14–16 (NKJV)

14But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 

15But He who is spiritual judges all things, yet He himself is rightly judged by no one. 

16For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

so we can:

perceive and understand truths that the world can’t see. this will change the way we approach decisions, relationships and conflicts. if we take the time to meditate on a situation we are facing, asking God to help us see it through His eyes, it will change our attitudes and decisions.

OK. lets say God is nudging us to forgive someone who has offended us.

Here are some application steps we can take as a believer to tap into the power of God with resurrection power for forgiveness:

1] Be sure we have repented——that is turned away from every sin.

2] If the offense keeps popping up in our mind, give it to Jesus right then and there! this is Spiritual Warfare !!

3]We Base our appeal to forgive soley on what Jesus did for us through His death on the cross, not on any “good works” of our own.

4] Be sure that, by an act of our will, we have forgiven every person who wronged us, and listen to the Lord here; we could discover we wronged them back by our response in the moment we were offended!

All this to say—-Jesus died and was resurrected , so that through salvation, we have the ability see beyond what is here and now. We have the divine power to change. He actually promises to transform us by the renewing of our minds.

Romans 12:1–2 (NKJV)

1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 

2And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

I want to encourage you to utilize the power we have in Jesus to overcome anything that is blocking us , and walk in freedom and joy through the power of the Holy Spirit. We are brothers and sisters in the faith and function best together when we are actively involved in pursuing our faith. This involves prayer, Bible learning, and fellowship. that is why we are here!

As believers individually, we need to appropriate what Christ purchased for us by His blood. to walk in fellowship with His Spirit, we need to developa listening ear to His voice, and a tender and clean heart that yields to His Spirit’s nudges.

Let’s walk in resurrection power and be led by His eye, not by the bit and bridle!

Psalm 32:8–9 (NKJV)

8] I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. 

9] Do not be like the horse or like the mule, Which have no understanding, Which must be harnessed with bit and bridle, Else they will not come near you.

Let’s become a generation who keep their eyes on the Lord.

Hebrews 12:2 (NKJV)

2looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.