PREACHING – SUNDAY 26TH MAY 6PM – LED BY THE SPIRIT # 4 PM
Who is addicted to Texting? It’s one of the most popular forms of communication.
Australians are expected to send more than 20 billion texts this year. That’s an average of 1000 per person for all Australians, or three per day on average. One of my friends who is a COC Pastor in Nowra sends 20,000 texts per month. He uses groups.
You have to careful with texting…
Sometime auto-correct will get you…
Sometimes Texting is just funny
Sometimes we accidently spill the beans…
Sometimes we text the wrong person….
Sometimes even parents get even on texting…
If you could text God…. What would you say? Texting or short messaging service is not necessarily just a short message. Lots of people have a long conversation on text.
So think about your conversation with God. Being Led by the Spirit means having a conversation with God. When you become a Christian you discover God loves you and more than that He comes to dwell within you spiritually.
Being led by the spirit is a conversation with God. He wants to talk with you. He delights in you. The Holy Spirit is speaking to you on the inside…
1Co 2:10 God’s Spirit has shown you everything. His Spirit finds out everything, even what is deep in the mind of God.
1Co 2:11 You are the only one who knows what is in your own mind, and God’s Spirit is the only one who knows what is in God’s mind.
1Co 2:12 But God has given us his Spirit. That’s why we don’t think the same way that the people of this world think. That’s also why we can recognize the blessings that God has given us. (CEV)
If you don’t chat with Jesus is it because…
You feel He is distant from you. – Heb 13:5 ….. for He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!] [Josh. 1:5.] (AMP)
You think He doesn’t care. – 1Pe 5:7 Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully. [Ps. 55:22.]
It doesn’t seem to make any difference. – Mat 7:8 For everyone who keeps on asking receives; and he who keeps on seeking finds; and to him who keeps on knocking, [the door] will be opened.
Now that you are walking with God, He lives within you by His spirit, the Holy Spirit. He has promised to speak to you, guide you and lead you into all truth. So talk to Him lots. Talking to Jesus is praying.
1Th 5:17 and never stop praying.
1Th 5:18 Whatever happens, keep thanking God because of Jesus Christ. This is what God wants you to do.
1Th 5:19 Don’t turn away God’s Spirit
To hear from Him – just open up your bible. Read the love letter from Jesus to you.
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