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Introduction

Thank Covenant City

Today I would be speaking on the topic - The Holy Spirit is Our Guide

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Your success as a believer is tied to your relationship with the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit can pull you out of things that you can’t pull yourself out of on your own.

It’s like people who are in Alcoholics Anonymous who realize that they need existential assistance besides their own to overcome certain things.

That truth not only applies to overcoming habits, hang ups, cycles and addictions.

That truth also applies to thriving, progressing and advancing.

We need more than existential force to lift us out of uncomfortable and inconvenient situations.

We need an existential force to also give us insight, that we can not get based on our own human intellect and ingenuity.

Today we see lots of Christians becoming unequally yoked simply because they have been folllowing the advice of following your heart.

The heart is a terrible guide.

There is a joke that says the brain starts working the day we are born and stops working the day we fall in love.

If we want to thrive we need the Holy Spirit to be our guide

We need the Holy Spirit for grey decisions.

There is gonna be spaces and places where you and I have to make decisions and the options are not black and white.

There’s gonna be spaces where we gotta make choices, and some of those choices aren’t limited or relegated to the options of good and evil, healthy unhealthy, helpful unhelpful

Sometimes some Decisions are grey right, there are many opportunities that you’re gonna be presented with or that you are presented with currently that are grey opportunities.

This is not necessarily good, this is not necessarily bad.

Sometimes you gotta decide between good and great.

Or sometimes between good and good.

Sometimes it’s good but you got to decide if it’s good for me.

So what do you do when you gather all of the data, you gotten all of the counsel that you can get.

Bounce it off thinking partners and you gotta make a decision.

What do you need in spaces like that?

You need the Holy Spirit for this.

You may have your 5 senses that everyone lives with but we believers have an advantage over the 5 senses.

We have the Holy Spirit that doesn’t ignore the 5 senses but transcends the 5 senses and helps you make decisions taking into consideration something’s that others can’t and won’t take into consideration.

People without the Holy Spirit can only make decisions based on the data.

People with the Holy Spirit can make decisions being prompted and nudged by the divine.

Some of the significant moves whether it’s in your life or your relationships or your leadership.

Some of the most significant moves that you’re going to have to make or are making should be moves taking into consideration the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Not ignoring the 5 senses but this transcends the 5 senses.

I am sure that there were times in your life where someone wanted you to do something and it looked like a good something but yet something prompted you not to do it and looking back now you can see that that was the best decision you ever made by choosing not to do it.

That was an intelligent move not to do it.

It was intelligent to pay attention to, to have your decisions guided and governed by the ultimate expression and epitome of intelligence which is God.

The Holy Spirit.

That prompting that you received was not from something but from someone.

He is the Holy Spirit.

If God gave me life then he can give me insight on how to live it.

We try to make decisions based on our intellect but God is the ultimate intellect.

What important decision do you need to make today?

For some of you it may be a career shift, for some of you it may be a business decision you need to make

Some of you are wondering whether you need to go back to school?

Whatever is the decision you need to make

Ask The Holy Spirit to help you to make the right decision

If we want to thrive we need the Holy Spirit to be our guide