Study Notes

I.      You can’t ignore the leading of the Holy Spirit and enter into God’s best

A.    Hebrews 3:7-19-Being insensitive to Spirit’s leading will keep you from God’s best

1.      8-The were unyielding to the voice of God

a.    They heard and rather than yielding to it, they suppressed it, they pushed it down

2.      10-If you always yielded to the Holy Spirit then you would never grieve Him-Eph 4:30

a.    When you don’t yield to His leading it grieves Him b/c you just got further away from God’s best and He loves you and wants the best for you

b.    His voice is the direction giving instrument that will lead you into God’s best

3.      10-They where led astray by their circumstances, the evil report, what it looked like

a.    If you’re not yielding to Spirit’s leading, you’re yielding some leading; You’re being led by something

4.      10-They didn’t to perceive and recognize the ways of God

a.    They thought Moses was missing it; they didn’t recognize that what Moses was saying was the voice of God (“This can’t be God b/c we’re going to die here”)

b.    You need to know weather or not it is God

1)       You don’t want to push something down that is God b/c you believe it’s not

c.     The reality is the more you practice this kind of life, the better you’ll become at discerning God’s voice versus the enemies voice

1)       There were not sensitive to God’s voice or aware of it

5.      12-Pay attention, be on guard so that you don’t do this

a.    Be aware spiritually, be aware of your Spirit, & of the HS, always looking within

b.    There is always a way that seems right to man, but it isn’t right-Proverbs 14:12

6.      18-19-You can’t enter into God’s best and ignore/be insensitive to the Spirit’s leading

B.     The people you will be sensitive to and yield to the leading of the Holy Spirit will experience God’s best in their lives-Psalm 81:11-16

1.      11-The would not hearken-Yield to the Voice of God

2.      12-God gave them up to their own hearts lust-hardness

3.      13-16-If only the would have yielded to God’s voice they would have had the best

II.     We must be sensitive to His leading

A.    If you are born again the Holy Spirit is always doing His job, leading you-John 16:13

1.      Our disobedience doesn’t effect His faithfulness to God to do His job

a.    EX-Just b/c you don’t listen to the GPS doesn’t mean it quits doing its job

2.      Some people are more-led of him than others b/c they are more sensitive to His leading and more aware of Him

B.     1 of the worst things that can happen to a believer is to get desensitized to the voice of the One who has been sent to lead you into God’s best for your life

1.      Proverbs 1:33-If yielding to his voice will keep you safe not yielding would be unsafe; if yielding to his voice would cause you to be at ease, to be at peace, then not yielding would lead you into uneasiness and torment

2.      There’s nothing more important than hearing the voice of God & yielding

3.      EX: It’s like the pilot being insensitive to the air traffic controller

a.    It’s not the pilot’s job to decide where to go, it’s His job to yielding to the leading

b.    It’s extremely dangerous for him to ignore or be insensitive to this direction

C.    We need to be ultra-sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit

1.      You shouldn’t need six burning bushes to be lead to do something; that’s being hard to work with; Don’t be hard for the Holy Spirit work with

2.      How would you like to be leading somebody and they need you to tell them sixteen times and confirm it twelve more before they move

D.    We want to be so sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit, that he could just nudge us and we know that it is him---We need to be Rein trained believers

1.      The reins of your heart-Psalm 16:7, 139:13, 26:2

a.    Reins-The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider of a horse restrains and governs him---The instrument of curbing, restraining or governing

b.    The reins are your inner most being-Psalm 26:2

c.     The reins of your heart will instruct you-Psalm 16:7

d.    God possesses the reins of your heart-Psalm 139:13

2.      Don’t be one who needs a bit in their mouth-Psalm 32:8-9

a.    God will instruct you and teach you and guide you in the way should go, but he doesn’t want to do it like the horse with a bit in his mouth

b.    Some horses want their own head and you have to have a metal bit and bridle in their mouth and they yield to get away from the hurt in their mouth – Those are hard headed horses

c.     A reign-trained horse doesn’t have to have a bit it its mouth it’s lead by the leather reign against his fur and when that leather gently presses against him that horse moves; He’s so sensitive to that leather reign that if it just pushes up against him in the least he’s moved by it

1)       When they sense that slight impression they just yield and go that way

3.      We can train ourselves to follow the leadings of the Holy Spirit so that when we sense the slight impression of the Lord we are stopping and looking and listening

a.    Confess: It’s not going to be hard for the Lord to lead me; I yield & respond quickly & easily; He doesn’t have to force me to do anything; he knows and I trust him with all my heart and when he speaks I move