SEEK GOD BUT HOW?
God uses all kinds of things to guide our lives. He may or may not use the following as "HE" sees fit: Circumstances, the Church, people, Pastors, teachers, friends, enemies, dreams, visions, angels and many other ways. I do not limit God in these things. My whole point in this: that there is nothing like the Holy Spirit and inspired scripture. God ALWAYS uses the Holy Spirit an...d inspired scripture every time we read or hear it. When folks "bypass" this method of communicating with God and "seek" other ways they are missing God's will and blessing in their life. We are commanded to read the word, study it, preach it, teach it and live it. Prayer and scripture are the only two tools we are called upon in the New testament to SEEK AFTER GOD.
If God wants to use other things to guide us HE can and sometimes does; I have heard missionaries testify of places where there was no scripture about God doing some unusual things to people seeking him. BUT! We are commanded to pray and read the inspired scripture if we have it. We are told there are angels who watch over us and many have entertained angels unaware. We are not told to ask God to have them communicate with us. There is a reason we live by faith and not by sight in the Church and are not commanded to seek for dreams or visions or some supernatural event, miracle or sign according to the New Testament . In fact Jesus said an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign. Furthermore the Scripture and Holy Spirit living in us leads, guides, convicts illuminates and reveals God's will in our life. It cost a great deal for us to have him live in us to be our guide and there is nothing more sure than him when he makes his will known according to scripture. We are commanded to pray and read the word, be sensitive to the Holy Spirit and obey him. We are commanded to teach and preach inspired scripture. We commanded to preach as "a word from God" nothing but the whole counsel of the word of God according to "inspired scripture" and nothing else!
There is now a whole generation of professing Christians who DO NOT KNOW, READ, STUDY OR SUBMIT TO THE AUTHORITY OF INSPIRED SCRIPTURE. As a result many are becoming spiritual mystics and being deceived because they are not grounded in sound doctrine. Jesus and the Apostles predicted this would happen producing scores of "false" prophets and teachers even working miracles. Instead of this great gift of the Bible that God has given us they deny it's authority and have tried go backwards to a time when the Holy Spirit and the Bible was not given to us. Pentecost and the Bible CHANGED EVEREYTHING concerning the way God prefers to fellowship with his people.----Pastor Rodney Houston.
God uses all kinds of things to guide our lives. He may or may not use the following as "HE" sees fit: Circumstances, the Church, people, Pastors, teachers, friends, enemies, dreams, visions, angels and many other ways. I do not limit God in these things. My whole point in this: that there is nothing like the Holy Spirit and inspired scripture. God ALWAYS uses the Holy Spirit an...d inspired scripture every time we read or hear it. When folks "bypass" this method of communicating with God and "seek" other ways they are missing God's will and blessing in their life. We are commanded to read the word, study it, preach it, teach it and live it. Prayer and scripture are the only two tools we are called upon in the New testament to SEEK AFTER GOD.
If God wants to use other things to guide us HE can and sometimes does; I have heard missionaries testify of places where there was no scripture about God doing some unusual things to people seeking him. BUT! We are commanded to pray and read the inspired scripture if we have it. We are told there are angels who watch over us and many have entertained angels unaware. We are not told to ask God to have them communicate with us. There is a reason we live by faith and not by sight in the Church and are not commanded to seek for dreams or visions or some supernatural event, miracle or sign according to the New Testament . In fact Jesus said an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign. Furthermore the Scripture and Holy Spirit living in us leads, guides, convicts illuminates and reveals God's will in our life. It cost a great deal for us to have him live in us to be our guide and there is nothing more sure than him when he makes his will known according to scripture. We are commanded to pray and read the word, be sensitive to the Holy Spirit and obey him. We are commanded to teach and preach inspired scripture. We commanded to preach as "a word from God" nothing but the whole counsel of the word of God according to "inspired scripture" and nothing else!
There is now a whole generation of professing Christians who DO NOT KNOW, READ, STUDY OR SUBMIT TO THE AUTHORITY OF INSPIRED SCRIPTURE. As a result many are becoming spiritual mystics and being deceived because they are not grounded in sound doctrine. Jesus and the Apostles predicted this would happen producing scores of "false" prophets and teachers even working miracles. Instead of this great gift of the Bible that God has given us they deny it's authority and have tried go backwards to a time when the Holy Spirit and the Bible was not given to us. Pentecost and the Bible CHANGED EVEREYTHING concerning the way God prefers to fellowship with his people.----Pastor Rodney Houston.
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