Week Three-"The Voice of the Holy Spirit"

Last night was wonderful! We had 17 in attendance which is great! Thank you all for your participation in our "big/small group." This makes each week exciting, not to mention it builds our faith up because of what God is doing in your personal quiet time.

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Week Three-“The Voice of the Holy Spirit”
Notes from Priscilla’s commentary:

What I need is a Guide- One who sticks with you for the ride!

“Obedience to His freely given truth opens the door for Him to disclose more truth in my life.”

Stronghold = Any idea or any thought process that is contrary to God’s thoughts in my life. Any thought that has taken a priority over the thoughts of God. These holds always lead to an outer manifestation in us. The only way to combat a stronghold is to destroy them.

You can only fight spiritual problems with spiritual weaponry.

The Word of God can destroy strongholds in my life when the strongholds are destroyed you will ear the voice of God.

Don’t be frustrated because you don’t have everything, be grateful that God has given us exactly what you need for the season of life you’re in today and make a commitment to the process. The Holy Spirit has my best interest in mind. We want to know everything up front but if He hasn’t spoken it to you yet-you don’t need to know it right now because you don’t need it for now. We want to pull out of God what He isn’t ready to share with us. Will I take what He’s given me now and be obedient to it?

We have to know what His voice sounds like. One of the ways that I will know the voice of God in my life is that I will receive a revelation that is nothing that I could have come up with on my own.

I know it is God when I have to step out in faith to accomplish it; there’s no way I would have compelled myself to do something like that. You know its God when it takes an extra level of faith to pull that off. The enemy always wants me to operate in my own power so I never have to tap into God.

A question to ask…Am I sold out to serving God?

Passages used outside of those given in outline:

1 Cor. 2:11- For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

Phil. 4:13- I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.

Jer. 31:3- The Lord appeared to us in the past saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.”

Deut. 32:10- The Lord’s anger was aroused that day and He swore this oath: “because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old or more who came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—

2 Tim. 1:7 (NIV)- For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. (KJV) For God did not give us a spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind.

2 Cor. 3:5- Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.

Heb. 9:14- How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!

Mark 4:24- Consider carefully what you hear, he continued. “with the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more.

2 Cor. 10:3-5- For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.