Study Notes

I.      The Holy Spirit Speaks to us

A.    John 16:13-The Holy Speaks and Jesus said he will speak to you

B.     John 10:4,27-Jesus declared you know his voice, hear his voice, and follow it

1.      Agree with the Master

II.     The Holy Spirit communicates with your spirit

A.    Romans 8:17-The Holy Spirit utters, testifies to our spirit

1.      Testify-To give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a knowledge of something not known to them

2.      If he could tell your spirit that you’re born again, he could tell your spirit other stuff

B.     Your spirit is the “tool/instrument” through which the Holy Spirit communicates to you

1.      The HS doesn’t communicate with you through your head, intellect, or feelings

C.    Since we know the Holy Spirit is going to communicate with our spirit we need to learn look to your spirit and not your head or emotions

1.      EX: If I’m going to call you then you shouldn’t wait by the frig, you should wait by the phone b/c that is how you’re going to hear me, through the phone; You won’t hear me through the frig b/c that’s not how I’m going to communicate with you

III.   Why no voices?

A.    1 Corinthians 2:9-16-We have the mind of Christ

1.      9-12-We’ve been give the Spirit of God so that we might know things and He communicates those things to us through our spirit

B.     John 14:16-17-The Holy Spirit is in you, in your spirit

1.      What if I could take my mind out of me and put it you?

2.      If I could take my spirit and mind and put it in you, then audible words would be unnecessary for me to communicate to you

a.    If I thought something my thoughts are in your mind and you know what I thought

b.    You could pick up a thought from my mind faster than the speed of light and I could communicate realms of things to you in a split second

3.      This level of communication is available to us by the Holy Spirit inside of us

a.    He is in your spirit and His mind has access to your mind and your spirit is in Him and your mind has access to His mind

C.    The leading of the spirit so much of the time comes just like a thought

1.      Things come up from your from your spirit and you just know something

a.    It’s an immediate knowing of something w/o conscious use of reason

b.    You just know without hearing anything when somebody is inside of you

2.      Much of what the HS speaks to you is not a voice at all, but an inward knowing

a.    Carnal people will gravitate toward natural and ask God to speak to them through the audible voice, not realizing God is a spirit, He’s in my spirit, and I don’t need words to get direction

IV.   If I want to hear from Holy Spirit then I need to be aware of and conscious of my spirit

A.    1 Corinthians 2:14-The natural man cannot receive the things of the of the Spirit of God because they are spiritually discerned, the Holy Spirit communicates to spirit and they are not conscious of or aware of their own spirit

1.      The unsaved man can’t be led by the spirit of God-His spirit is dead

2.      The saved carnal man won’t be led by the spirit of God-He’s not aware of his spirit

B.     One of the main problems with people being led by the Spirit is that they don’t even know that they are a spirit being & if they do know they aren’t consciously aware of it

1.      I am a spirit, I have a soul, I live in a body-1 Thessalonians 5:23

2.      If you are unaware of your own spirit you won’t pick up the leading of the Holy Spirit

3.      It’s like being on the wrong channel, when you’re trying to contact Him and hear from Him with your head

4.      Generally people are not taught to pay attention to what they get in their spirits

C.    Exercising your spirit will make you more aware of your spirit and enable you to be better led by the Holy Spirit-1 Timothy 4:7-8

1.      Exercise makes you more aware of what’s being exercised

a.    EX: If you did some calf raises today you’d be more aware of your calves tomorrow because they’ll be a little sore from that exercise

2.      The more you exercise your spirit your spirit the more aware of your spirit you become and the stronger your spirit gets  

a.    A big key to being more sensitive to the Holy Spirit and His leadings is must exercise your spirit;

b.    You practice operating out of your spirit (Faith confessions, Praise & Worship, praying in the Holy Spirit)

3.      Being unaware of a thing, will keep you from using it (EX: Key to the hallway)

a.    If you’re unaware of your own spirit you won’t use it to hear from the Holy Spirit

D.    People exercise their head, emotions, intellect and feelings so much that they are ultra-sensitive to those things and insensitive to their own spirit & the Holy Spirit

1.      If you are more head conscious and body conscious than you are spirit conscious and you have some weak little malnourished spirit you will be more aware of your head and body and when The Holy Spirit speaks to your spirit you’ll be unaware of it

2.      EX: It’s like the husband who is more aware of the TV than the phone or his wife; the phone’s ringing, but he’s not aware of it

a.    He’s learned to be sensitive to the TV and desensitize himself to the phone

3.      Acts 13:2-Spiritual exercise makes you more aware of your spirit; The more of aware of your spirit you are, the more aware of the Holy Spirit you’ll be b/c he deals with your spirit when dealing with you

E.     We’ve got to learn to be look to our spirit and become more aware of our spirit

V.    Sensitive to the leading    

A.    Hebrews 3:8-Don’t harden your heart

B.     Romans 2:14-15-The conscience is the voice of your spirit

C.    Romans 9:2-Your conscience/your spirit gets it from the Holy Spirit

D.    1 Timothy 4:2-You can sere your conscience

E.     1 Thessalonians 5:19-Don’t quench the Holy Spirit