Page 7 - Living Epistles

needed to take a group of scriptures and stand on them, but they had no
specific word from God relating to their circumstance? This does not lend
itself to faith, for there is no clear revelation from God regarding the
circumstance or situation in question...

The saint of God is to be led of the Spirit of God as he walks out his life. God
doesn’t want the saints to be led of their own reason and intellect. This will not
lead to the will of God. God knows man’s tendency toward independence and
self initiative. He has therefore devised things to keep man from walking apart
from Him. He wants His children to know His mind and this takes diligent
searching and great obedience to what is revealed...

God determined that the saints should always be in tune with Him so they
would avoid deception and they would not get into lawlessness. The saint that
takes the word of God and develops principles of living and ministry and then
goes out and applies them as he sees fit, according to his reason and
understanding, is walking in lawlessness. This is not God’s will. He wants us
to hear His voice. We need to develop an ear that is sensitive to the Spirit of
God. Only in this way will we be kept from error and preserved in a day of
much deception. Knowing the voice of God is critical to being preserved from
following after that which does not originate with God.

John 10:3-5
"To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his
own sheep by name, and leads them out. When he puts forth all his own, he
goes before them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. And
a stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do
not know the voice of strangers."

The saint that is versed in the word of God, but does not know the voice of the
Spirit, is a prime candidate for following the voice of another...

God knows that we are beset with many weaknesses and that we do not always
hear very clearly. God seems more than willing to confirm His word to us
when we ask Him to do so. Gideon's experiences provide a clear example of
this.

Judges 6:36-40
Then Gideon said to God, "If Thou wilt deliver Israel through me, as Thou hast
spoken, behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is