How to Be Led by the Holy Spirit
Achieve supernatural results in your life
Allowing yourself to be led by the Holy Spirit you can achieve supernatural results in your life. When an idea comes into your mind don’t allow yourself to think about it mentally. Instead, go to God first and pray about it. Wait as long as it takes until you hear something.
Sometimes it can take as long as days but remain quiet and alone with the Lord until you know by an inward witness what you led to do.” There will be times when an idea seems like a really good one, but his inward witness told him thing to do. Other times when thinking about it, it may look like a poor plan, but your spirit will tell you it’s alright to move ahead.
Praying first then listening
Praying first then listening to that inward witness will give you special insight into what the Lord plans are for your life. Take the time to develop and train your human spirit to be led by the Spirit of God! You can enjoy this special insight and guidance in every area of your life, as you train your human spirit. It won’t come overnight but you can be led by the Spirit of God every single day.
You must first be able to recognize the Holy Spirits voice in order to arrive at the place in your life where you can be led by the Spirit of God. This comes from not only prayer and reading the Word of God, but by also meditating on the Word of God.
Meditate on the Word of God
Meditate on the Word of God means to stop and think about what you’ve read, and allow the Holy Spirit to bring new revelation, this can happen even to a verse you’ve read a hundred times.
Meditating on the Word of God is more than reading the Bible it is studying, analyzing, seeking and reflecting. It is seeking God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. It’s being open to something new you haven’t considered before, an interpretation that is meant just for you, one that might be different than what your pastor told you. Be sure though that the interpretation doesn’t veer away from the bible because the bible still interprets the bible.
When meditating on the Word of God, you are actually training your human spirit to recognize God’s voice and becoming more in tune with what He has to say to you, specifically, about every detail of every situation. That’s why God told Joshua that meditating on His Word was the key to prosperity and success. He gave him the secret to achieving everything he had ever wanted.
“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” Joshua 1:8 (NKJV)
Move forward and develop your spirit
If you want to move forward and develop your spirit, begin by taking 10-15 minutes each day to meditate on the Word of God. Your spirit will develop and grow, and you will begin to hear solid answers to the questions you so desperately need answered. The Hebrew word for meditate also translates as mutter. When you meditate on the Word of God, you aren’t just thinking about it during your quiet time. You’re thinking about it all the time—you’re speaking it all the time. It becomes part of your human spirit, it develops your human spirit, it stirs your faith, and being led by the Spirit of God becomes much easier for you as well.
Doers of the Word
“Be doers of the word and not hearers only.” –James 1:22 (NKJV) You cannot be led by the Spirit of God if you aren’t a doer of the Word of God. Too many Christians are not doers of the Word anymore. You can’t tell the difference from them being a Christian and everyone else in the world because their walk looks alike.
However, the Bible is clear that hearers and not doers of the Word don’t accomplish very little in this life. James 2:17 says faith without works is dead. If you need the supernatural in your life, dead faith isn’t going to deliver you to victory. Like anything else with God, being a doer of the Word is not about rules and religion, it’s a matter of the heart. A Christian who reads the Bible and even meditates on the Word of God, but doesn’t put it into practice, is not following the first and greatest commandment to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength” (Mark 12:30) NKJV).
How do we know? Because in Jesus says, “If you love Me keep My commandments.” (John 14:15) (NKJV). Loving God is doing what He’s asked you to do in His Word. When you love Him and obey Him, you are in fellowship with Him, you are abiding in Him, and you are in position to be led by His Spirit in every area of your life. Obeying God is drawing near to Him, and that’s when you know that He will draw near to you, too, and whisper the greatest secrets you could ever be privileged to hear.
Determine in your heart
Determine in your heart to do everything you see written in it to become a doer of the Word of God. That means you don’t alter the Word to fit your lifestyle, instead you alter your lifestyle to fit the Word. You just obey the Word by faith and don’t make excuses; you don’t try to change what the Bible actually says to suit your own fleshly desires. You be doers because the Bible commands you to do it.
Talking doubt, defeat and discouragement is not being a doer of the Word because that is not how the Bible tells us to live. The Bible tells us to walk by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7).
Revelation will come as soon as you set out to be a doer of the Word. While practicing being obedient in even the small things, you’ll find that you’ll begin to hear God more and more each day. The more you respond to His voice, the more you’ll hear Him. That voice will continue to increase until you have trained your human spirit and are led by the Spirit of God. Supernatural miracles will begin to flow in your life, and you will have the kind of success most people only dream of.
Make the Word of God Priority Above Everything
“My son, attend to my words; consent and submit to my sayings. Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart.” (Proverbs 4:20-21) (AMPC)
One of the ways to be led by the Spirit of God is to make the Word of God priority above everything. When storms arise seek God first in your hour of trial instead of seeking after the world’s help. It is God who is in the business of providing supernatural healing, deliverance, restoration or provision, not the world. We must put His Word above everything in every situation. This allows us to be sensitive to His leading, which often goes against “common sense” statistics. How everyone else is doing it is by the world’s view of “logic.”
We should train ourselves to ask in any matter of life, “What does God’s Word have to say about this?” And then we should put that Word first. When you seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, everything else will be added to you (Matthew 6:33). Seeking first the Kingdom is listening to what the Word has to say and then doing it without checking with the world.
Don’t make plans based on what people say but only on what God says! He already has a plan for you, and it’s better than anything the world has to offer! Jesus and His plan will not only take you through it will exalt and lift you up, settle, establish and perfect you. He always gives us the victory!
Instantly Respond to the Holy Spirit
“The spirit of a man is the candle of the Lord.” (Proverbs 20:27) (NKJV) Respond instantly to your spirit because it is a way God guides and directs His children is through His inward witness. (Romans 8:14) (KJV) says, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” God doesn’t lead through physical senses—He leads through the inward witness.
This isn’t true for everyone, but only for born-again believers. A born-again believer has become a new man in Christ Jesus, making your spirit able to connect with the Holy Spirit. God wants us to be led by His Spirit, and He is going to use our own spirit to guide us. Listen to the inward voice and obey your own spirit. Then, you will operate in the perfect will of God.