Lean Heavily on the Spirit

You need to depend on the Holy Spirit alone. Depend on the Spirit of Christ.

That does bring up some questions. For instance, should you avoid all technical instructions and rather pray God would give you a vision to show you how to program your electronic devices? God could do that, and He could lead you that way. However, the Holy Spirit is likely to give you wisdom and lead you to read the instructions if that’s what’s needed. You will find that He will show you what to do by one means or another. You may just know what to do. He may tell you where to go for the help you need.

You need to be in the Spirit to have the wisdom of Christ flowing through you in either case. Should you avoid researching a topic or a procedure? Not necessarily.

The Holy Spirit often leads you to look up the needed information. God will guide you in the process. When you come to a problem, you’re in the Spirit and seeking God’s will. The Holy Spirit can guide you to look at a video that shows how to do something technical. He can also give you confidence so you know what needs to be done. Don’t limit God.

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The Holy Spirit’s Power

Listen, trust, and obey God by the power of the Holy Spirit. That makes sense. You can do that. You’ve done it. You’ve known when Christ showed you something was right and that you must do it. You’ve known when Christ showed you something was wrong and that you must not do it. You’ve sensed that something was wrong in a situation, and you avoided it. You’ve sensed the peace of God when something was in God’s will. You may not have given Christ the credit, but you should have.

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Don’t do your own thing anymore.

If you totally depend on Christ, He’s your life. You live, move, and have your being in His utterance as He leads, teaches, and corrects you moment by moment in every situation. You listen to Him and obey Him by His power as He gives you His free gift of righteousness.

He speaks His words through you. He does His works through you. You don’t do your own thing anymore.

Then, you don’t partially depend on Him and also depend on other sources for decision-making, understanding, wisdom, knowledge, or truth. You depend on Him wholeheartedly. You aren’t double-minded. You depend on Him for everything.

You stop looking to ungodly counselors for guidance. You stop depending on your fallen mind. When you hear His voice you yield to His Spirit and allow Him to say His words and do His acts through you.

The love of God is shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Ghost. If you continue to do that with a sense of expectation, you’ll know the truth. And the truth will set you free.

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Double-minded

The Bible goes into some detail on the whole armor of God. It mentions the parts of this armor: truth, righteousness, the readiness of the gospel of peace, faith, salvation, and the word of God. Even so, it may seem hard to take hold of these parts of your armor and use them. They must become the center of your daily life.

Here’s a problem. Some Christians understand deism is a false doctrine. They know it’s wrong to say, “God created everything and then ran off somewhere far away.” They know God is a personal God. They point out that deists say God doesn’t answer prayer or perform miracles.

They know all this. And yet, they don’t glorify God by acknowledging God’s moment-by-moment leading and teaching in every situation. They find a comfortable place somewhere between full dependency on God and full dependency on their own abilities. They look for something lukewarm since they don’t want to be hot or cold. They want to avoid extremes. They just want to be double-minded, but they don’t want to apply the term “double-minded” to themselves. By the way, I’m struggling with the same tendency to lean on my own understanding. Are you?

Double-mindedness won’t work with what’s coming. God has a plan and pattern for avoiding double-mindedness.

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THIS SERIOUS HOUR

You can be double-minded in several ways. If you depend on your own rationalizing mind so you try to mix your own thoughts and fleshly desires with God’s revelation, you will be double-minded. If you do that, you become spiritually confused because you are adding to God’s utterances or filtering out some of God’s utterances.

If you expose yourself to the many ungodly influencers, you will be double-minded. You could give yourself to newsrooms, classrooms, novels, movies, fact-checkers, or other methods by which ungodly minds seek to mold you to their ways of thinking. The messages of Rationalism, Secularism, Humanism, Evolutionism, Old-earthism, Scientism, Naturalism, and Materialism infuse every form of media and education in the same way the Holy Spirit infuses the Scripture. Can you hold fire in your laps without burning your clothes? If circumstances force you to listen to these influencers, you must be on your guard. And you must be more intimately close to Christ. You need to ask the Holy Spirit to protect your mind and keep you on the track of truth.

the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. ~ Psalm 1:5

The wicked won’t be able to stand when the judgement comes. You live in a serious hour. You must become single-minded toward Christ. You must give up your allegiance to the worldly systems. You must even give up your loyalty to your own ideas. You must allow the Holy Spirit to continue to lead, teach, and correct every part of your thinking.

Therefore take up the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you will be able to stand your ground, and having done everything, to stand. ~ Ephesians 6:13

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You can listen to God’s voice wholeheartedly.

Ungodly news, advice, and entertainment media act like a great false prophet in the earth. These are ungodly counselors. Keep in mind their goal is a godless society. If you follow ungodly counselors, you won’t be able to stand on the coming evil day. Some Christians try to split themselves between walking in the Spirit and walking in the world. They will never have spiritual stability. They won’t be found faithful.

Globalists are now trying to set up their godless new world order. If God allows them to have their way, it will be an evil day.

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked ~ Psalm 1:1 Berean Study Bible

King James Version says, “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly.”

God is looking for those who will listen to His voice wholeheartedly. The double-minded will receive nothing from the Lord. If you try to straddle the fence, you’ll never develop discernment to tell God’s voice from your own thoughts or voices of demons. You won’t know the difference between God’s voice and the wicked ideas of ungodly people.

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ARE YOU DOUBLE-MINDED?

You can be double-minded in many ways, but there’s a common theme. If you depend on human intellect along with following the Holy Spirit, you are double-minded. You make a provision for the flesh. You add your own ideas to God’s revelation and leading. You follow ungodly council. You might follow ungodly news, advice, and entertainment media. You might follow ungodly education. You may read ungodly magazine articles. Often, these aren’t openly sinful, but they’re godless. They look at life from a humanist perspective. Some have a spirituality, but they don’t carry the spirit of Christ. Those are the worst. Until you develop spiritual maturity, these can draw you in and deceive you.

God warned me about these decades ago. He called them “the great false prophet.” Since those days, I see they’re part of a great false prophet system that seeks to filter and control every message. They pander to human cravings and lusts. They stir up envy, jealousy, fear, and anger. They know sex sells.

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Wisdom is the flow of Christ’s Spirit

Wisdom isn’t a physical substance like a bottle of water. God doesn’t give you a bottle of wisdom for you to use as you see fit. Wisdom is the flow of Christ’s Spirit through your being. He’s like a flowing river of water. If you cut off the Source, the flow stops. If you hinder the flow, the flow dwindles. Wisdom is Christ leading you and empowering you for righteousness, but you must listen and yield. You can’t fight or argue against Him without negative consequences. Double-mindedness pollutes His flowing stream of wisdom.

That means when the Holy Spirit transfigures you, He’s transfiguring you into a creature who flows with the love of God. When Christ is fully formed in you, you won’t be an independent little christ. You’ll be fully joined to Christ in unity as a particular member of Christ’s body. You’ll be joined to Christ the head and the body of Christ. His wisdom will flow through you. You’ll be completely in submission to Him and dependent on His power flowing through you. He’ll do His works through you by His might. He’s your Head, and you’re a part of His body. He’s transfiguring you into the specific part of His body He created you to become. He’s fitting you into His body.

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Don’t lose your ability to see the difference between reality from make-believe

No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light. The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.~ Luke 11:33-36

You must make a decision. You can try to straddle the fence, but it won’t work. What you think is Light in you will be darkness if you’re double-minded. The double-minded person will receive nothing from the Lord. No wisdom! If you don’t fully trust God, you’ll trust your own mind and observations. You might even trust the minds and observations of others. If you try to go both ways at once, you won’t be able to receive God’s wisdom. You’ll lose your ability to see the difference between good and evil. You won’t know reality from make-believe.

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The Double Minded Man

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. ~ James 1:5-8

You receive wisdom if you ask God for it. He gives you wisdom liberally. He leads. He teaches. He corrects. It’s all there for the asking. All you have to do is ask in humility without the hypocrisy of doubting. When you fear, you are doubting. When you allow the enemy to discourage you, you are doubting. When your fear leads you into anger, you are doubting.

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