Psalm 23: Living Beyond Lack! | Part 4 – Divine Guidance!

Psalm 23:3 (NIV)
He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.

To Experience “Divine Guidance” We Must Be – !

• We become guidable by !

Luke 9:23 (MSG)
“Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat—I am … follow me and I’ll show you how.”

• We become guidable by !

John 10:3-5 (NIV)

“The gatekeeper opens the gate for the shepherd, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. ⁴ When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. ⁵ But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.”

• We improve our hearing by being !

Psalm 46:10 (NLT)

“Be still, and know I am God!”

• We improve our hearing by being !

Romans 12:2 (MSG)
Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

• We become guidable by being !

John 7:17 (NIV)
Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.

To Experience “Divine Guidance” We Must Be – !

• God guides through his !

Psalm 119:105 (MSG)

By your words I can see where I’m going; they throw a beam of light on my dark path.

• God guides through good !

Proverbs 15:7 (LB)

Only the good can give good advice.

Proverbs 24:6 (GN)

The more advice you get, the more likely you are to win.

• God guides through personal !

Colossians 3:15 (NLT)

Let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts.

• God guides through inner !

Mark 1:12 (NLT)

The Spirit then compelled Jesus to go into the wilderness…

Acts 19:21 (NLT)

Afterward Paul felt compelled by the Spirit to go over to Macedonia and Achaia before going to Jerusalem.