Does God Still Lead?

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Does God Still Lead?

Saturday, June 9, 2018

“Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia.” (Acts 16:6 NIV)

In today’s church, we have a serious shortage of faith in a living, speaking God.  Pastors and laity alike do not seem to believe that God really leads and directs.  Research by George Barna shows that fewer than 10 percent of churchgoing Christians make important life decisions /based on God’s Word and seeking his will!  In other words, more than 90 percent decide on the basis of their own intelligence, peer opinions, whim, or fancy.  They marry people and move to new cities /without so much as a ten-minute prayer.  Yet every Sunday they sit in church pews /singing songs like “Where he leads me, I will follow.”

* fewer; pronoun, 대명사 (used with a plural verb) a smaller number:

Too many church leaders, having been turned off by overblown claims and fanaticism in certain quarters, have stopped believing in an active Holy Spirit at all.  The baby has been thrown out with the bathwater.  Mention of the Holy Spirit’s leading people is scoffed at.  If someone says () the same thing that Paul said in Acts 16— namely, that the Spirit wanted him to go to one town rather than another— that person is viewed as eccentric.  We are strong in presenting our doctrinal positions as correct, but weak in stressing the daily need of being led by God’s Spirit.

I want to affirm that God is not dead; he really does communicate today.  He’s interested in every part of your life, your home, your finances, every kind of decision—and more than just the moral issues.  His eye is always on you.  He wants to lead you.  But you have to believe that he will indeed speak to you when you wait before him in believing prayer, with a yielded heart /to do his will.

-Pastor Cymbala (excerpted from Fresh Faith)

Read Acts 16:6-10.