How to be Led by The Holy Spirit of God

Outline

The six essential steps to being led by the Holy Spirit for a more abundant life. 

• Recognizing Your Total Depravity: Acknowledging humanity's fallen nature and its inability to meet God's standards apart from His intervention.

• Recognizing the Need for a Savior: Understanding the necessity of Jesus Christ as the Savior, who brings regeneration through the Holy Spirit.

• Recognizing the Importance of the Holy Spirit: Emphasizing the Holy Spirit's power to lead believers into truth and empower them for righteous living.

• Seeking the Voice of the Holy Spirit: Actively listening for the Spirit’s guidance through Scripture and prayer.

• Submitting to the Voice of the Holy Spirit: Allowing the Spirit to transform thoughts, actions, and desires in alignment with God’s will.

• Practicing Righteousness and Walking in the Spirit: Practicing obedience to the Holy Spirit through a transformed life that honors God and His Word.

By following these steps and continually yielding to the Holy Spirit's guidance, you can experience spiritual renewal and live in a way that reflects God's righteousness while becoming more like Christ.

Scriptures Referenced:

Ezekiel 36:26-27 "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them."

Genesis 6:5 "Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."

Jeremiah 10:23 "O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps."

Jeremiah 17:9 "The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?"

Mark 7:21-23 "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man."

Psalm 51:5 "Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me."

1 John 2:16 "For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world."

John 3:3 "Jesus answered and said to him, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.'"

John 3:5-6 "Jesus answered, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.'"

John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."

Acts 1:8 "But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

John 14:16-17 "And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you."

John 14:26 "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you."

 John 16:7 "Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you."

John 16:13 "However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come."

 Isaiah 30:21 "Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, 'This is the way, walk in it,' Whenever you turn to the right hand Or whenever you turn to the left."

Romans 8:14 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God."

Romans 8:1-4 "There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit."

2 Peter 1:20-21 "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit."

Psalm 119:33-36 "Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes, And I shall keep it to the end. Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; Indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart. Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, For I delight in it. Incline my heart to Your testimonies, And not to covetousness."

Psalm 25:9 "The humble He guides in justice, And the humble He teaches His way."

2 Corinthians 10:5 "Casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ."

Romans 8:12-13 "Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live."

Philippians 2:13 "For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure."

Isaiah 48:17 "Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: 'I am the Lord your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you by the way you should go.'"

Ephesians 5:8 "For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light."

Psalm 119:133 "Direct my steps by Your word, And let no iniquity have dominion over me."

1 John 3:7 "Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous."