TOPIC: DIVINE LEADING AND GUIDANCE (PART 1)
LESSON SIXTEEN (16)
SUNDAY SCHOOL HYMN
1. O Sunday Faculty, on the Lord’s day,
O how I like Thee properly,
I’m blissful, it makes me glad
To rejoice at Thy start.
2. O Sunday Faculty, on the Lord’s day,
Thy pal friendship fits me properly,
Each younger and can sing Thy track,
We lengthy for Sunday Faculty.
3. O Sunday Faculty, on the Lord’s day,
Christ was Thy first instructor,
The Holy Spirit, nice instructor,
Does manifest in thee.
4. O Sunday Faculty, on the Lord’s day,
This testimony is certain,
That God, the Father Almighty,
Poured His blessing on Thee
5. O Sunday Faculty, on the Lord’s day,
Although the solar be so brilliant,
Or if the clouds be black with rain,
I’ll be in Sunday Faculty.
6. O Sunday Faculty, on the Lord’s day
I rejoice to see Thee,
Will thou go over me at the moment?
With out my being blest?
OPENING PRAYER: Father, let my spirit be in reference to you on a regular basis.
MEMORY VERSE: “I’ll instruct thee and train thee in the way in which which thou shalt go: I’ll information thee with mine eye”. Psalm 32:8
BIBLE PASSAGE: PSALM 37:3-7
3 Belief within the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell within the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
4 Delight thyself additionally within the LORD: and he shall give thee the wishes of thine coronary heart.
5 Commit thy means unto the LORD; belief additionally in him; and he shall carry it to go
6 And he shall carry forth thy righteousness as the sunshine, and thy judgment because the noonday.
7 Relaxation within the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself due to him who prospereth in his means, due to the person who bringeth depraved units to go.
INTRODUCTION: Divine main is about being directed by God. Being led or guided by God is a mandatory key for Christians. It’s the solely method to fulfill God’s will and each of our decision-making processes (2 Kings 3:11). Subsequently, we have to be taught the avenues by which God leads and guides His folks. Furthermore, on this dispensation, the main and steerage of the holy spirit are each inevitable and indispensable.
TEXT REVIEW: PSALM 37:3-7
The Psalmist on this chapter, fastidiously reeled out how the godly ought to conduct their lives and the results of such. On this admonition, he says:
i. While you belief within the lord and do Good, you’ll dwell within the land and be fed,…………….v3
ii. While you delight your self within the lord, He’ll………..v4.
iii. While you commit your means………….v5.
iv. ……………v6.
v. While you relaxation…………v7.
LESSON OUTLINES
1. AVENUE FOR DIVINE LEADING AND GUIDANCE
2. RECOGNISING DIVINE LEADING AND GUIDANCE
1. AVENUE FOR DIVINE LEADING AND GUIDANCE
You will need to notice that God, in his sovereignty, can undertake any or a number of means to steer and information those that put their belief in him. Listed here are a few of them:
A. By way of the phrase of God (1Samuel 3:21; Hebrews 1:1-2).
B. By way of a witness of the spirit (Romans 8:14; 16). The witness of the spirits can even are available in type of god’s peace the passes all understanding (Philippians 4:6-7)..
C. By way of the voice of the spirit. That is past only a witness; it’s listening to.
i. This listening to will be inward (which suggests nobody else, round you, hear it). The Bible calls it’s ‘nonetheless small voice’- just like the sound of a delicate whisper (1Kings 19:12).
ii. Generally the voice comes within the midst of a godly thought (Acts 10:19)
iii. The voice of the spirit may also be outward, by which case you’ll go searching as when you heard or any person else heard what you’re listening to (1Sam. 3:3-5; Acts 9:3-5)
D. Although revelations – goals, visions, trance (Joel 2:28).
i. Goals can come out of your ideas (Eccl. 5:3) or the satan – scary and tormenting (nightmares) or from God – insightful, tutorial, or revelational (Job 33:14; 17). Goals occur when you find yourself totally asleep (day or evening).
ii. Imaginative and prescient can come when you find yourself awake and see one thing like a nonetheless or movement image (day or evening) – Daniel 2:19.
iii. Trance is like the typical between a dream and a imaginative and prescient (you’re half awake, half asleep) when the bodily senses appear to be suspended (Acts 10:10-11).
E. By way of ordain scenario or circumstances (Proverbs 24:30-34; Jeremiah 18:1-6). God can take you by all by a occurring to offer you a transparent route for Life.
F. By way of prophetic utterances and confirmations (Hosea 12:10). Nonetheless, believers are cautioned towards dwelling on the mercy of prophecy (1John 4:1)
G. By way of various means as deemed match by God (Hosea 12:10)
2. RECOGNISING DIVINE LEADING AND GUIDANCE
A. The Holy Spirit takes on the function of a information and counselor, main us in the way in which we must always go and revealing God’s truths (Luke 12:12).
B. Probably the most necessary methods to acknowledge the Holy Spirit steerage is to be conversant in God’s phrase.
i. The Bible is the last word supply of knowledge about how we must always stay (2Timothy 3:16), and believers are to go looking the scriptures (John 5:39), meditate on them, and commit them to reminiscence (Psalm 1:2).
ii. The phrase is the “sword of the spirit” (Ephesians 6:17), and the spirit will use it to talk to us (John 16:12-14) to evaluate God’s will for our lives. He will even carry particular scriptures to thoughts at instances after we want them probably the most (John 14:26).
C. We should all the time take a look at our inclinations towards the scriptures. It is because the Holy Spirit won’t ever push us to do something opposite to God’s phrase (1Corinthians 14:33). Whether it is conflicts with the Bible then it isn’t from the Holy Spirit and ought to be ignored.
i. It is usually mandatory for us to be in continuous prayer with the daddy (1Thessalonians 5:17)
ii. Not solely does this hold our hearts and minds open to the Holy Spirit’s main nevertheless it’s additionally permits the spirit to talk on our behalf (Romans 8:26-27).
CLASS ACTIVITY 2: The category ought to focus on extra on tips on how to recognise divine main and steerage.
SUMMARY: As a lot as it is vital
for believers to be led by God, understanding how
He leads and tips on how to recognise His main is
way more necessary.
CONCLUSION: In case you are not led and
guided by God, you’ll wander and get misplaced
within the wilderness of life. Let God lead you.
EVALUATION: The instructor ought to ask
the scholars to clarify what they perceive
by divine main and steerage.
CLOSING PRAYER: Father, let the holy Spirit all the time lead and information me in Jesus title.
ASSIGNMENT: Point out 5 (5) risks of ignoring diving main (2×5=10 Marks).
