Wednesday Service | Getting Directions From God | PART 2: Accept… God’s Guide

[1] What I need to know about the

[a] had the Holy Spirit

Luke 4:1 Worldwide English (New Testament)

Jesus was full of the Holy Spirit. He left the Jordan River, and the Spirit led him into the desert for forty days.

[b] Jesus the Holy Spirit

John 16:7 Amplified Bible

7 But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor—Counselor, Strengthener, Standby) will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him (the Holy Spirit) to you [to be in close fellowship with you].

[c] The Holy Spirit has been God’s gift for us here and now

Acts 2:16-18 New International Version

¹⁶ No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: ¹⁷ “‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. ¹⁸ Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

[d] We are meant to be a of the Holy Spirit

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 New International Reader’s Version

¹⁹ Don’t you know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit? The Spirit is in you, and you have received the Spirit from God. You do not belong to yourselves. ²⁰ Christ has paid the price for you. So use your bodies in a way that honors God.

Isaiah 64:8 New International Reader’s Version

Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay. You are the potter. Your hands made all of us.

[e] The Spirits work in our life is and

Acts 1:8 New International Version

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you…

1 Samuel 10:6 New International Version

⁶ The Spirit of the Lord will come powerfully upon you, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be changed into a different person.

[2] The Holy Spirit is our !

John 14:16-17 Amplified Bible

¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor—Counselor, Strengthener, Standby), to be with you forever— ¹⁷ the Spirit of Truth…

[a] He helps me … what I need to know

John 16:12-15 New International Version

12 “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”

[b] He helps me… where I need to go

Luke 2:27-28 New Century Version

²⁷ The Spirit led Simeon to the Temple. When Mary and Joseph brought the baby Jesus to the Temple to do what the law said they must do, ²⁸ Simeon took the baby in his arms and thanked God:

Acts 21:4 Living Bible

⁴ We went ashore, found the local believers, and stayed with them a week. These disciples warned Paul—the Holy Spirit prophesying through them—not to go on to Jerusalem.

[c] He helps me… the right thing at the right time

Mark 12:36 CEV

The Holy Spirit led David to say…

[d] He helps me… live in

Ezekiel 36:26-27 New International Version

26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

Galatians 5:16 Amplified Bible

¹⁶ But I say, walk habitually in the [Holy] Spirit [seek Him and be responsive to His guidance], and then you will certainly not carry out the desire of the sinful nature [which responds impulsively without regard for God and His precepts].

[e] He helps me… overflow with

Romans 15:13 New International Version

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

[3] How do I the Holy Spirit?

[a] for the Holy Spirit

Luke 11:13 New International Version

If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

[b] the Holy Spirit

John 14:16-17 New International Version

16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.

[c] for the Holy Spirit

Acts 1:4-5 Living Bible

⁴ In one of these meetings he told them not to leave Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came upon them in fulfillment of the Father’s promise, a matter he had previously discussed with them. ⁵ “John baptized you with water,” he reminded them, “but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit* in just a few days.”

[d] Receive for the Holy Spirit

Acts 19:6 Living Bible

⁶ Then, when Paul laid his hands upon their heads, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in other languages and prophesied.