“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.” (Romans 8:14) Exactly how are we be led by the Holy Spirit? Exactly how does the Holy Spirit communicate to all of us in this life? If the Bible calls the Holy Spirit our Guide and Teacher in this life, then this means He will attempt to communicate to all of us from time to time. Otherwise we will never be able to pick up from Him exactly what He is trying to teach us or tell us to do. The very first thing we need to know if we want to learn how to be led by the Holy Spirit is that We can develop a direct personal relationship with Him Just like you already have with God and Jesus. Here are two key verses from the apostle Paul telling us that we are allowed to have direct communication and direct fellowship with the Holy Spirit Himself: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” (2 Corinthians 13:14) “Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit …” (Phillippians 2:1)

1. Led by the SpiritLed by the Spirit
““For as many as are led byFor as many as are led by
the Spirit of God, these arethe Spirit of God, these are
sons of God.” (Romanssons of God.” (Romans
8:14)8:14)

2. “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God,
these are sons of God.” (Romans 8:14)
•Exactly how are we be led by the Holy
Spirit?
•Exactly how does the Holy Spirit
communicate to all of us in this life?

3. • If the Bible calls the Holy Spirit our Guide and
Teacher in this life, then this means He will
attempt to communicate to all of us from time
to time.
• Otherwise we will never be able to pick up from
Him exactly what He is trying to teach us or tell
us to do.

4. The very first thing we need to know if we want to
learn how to be led by the Holy Spirit is that
•We can develop a direct personal relationship
with Him
•Just like you already have with God and Jesus.
A. You Can Develop a Personal
Relationship With the Holy Spirit

5. The very first thing we need to know if we want to
learn how to be led by the Holy Spirit is that
•We can develop a direct personal relationship
with Him
•Just like you already have with God and Jesus.
A. You Can Develop a Personal
Relationship With the Holy Spirit

6. Here are two key verses from the apostle Paul
telling us that we are allowed to have direct
communication and direct fellowship with the
Holy Spirit Himself:
•“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the
love of God, and the communion of the Holy
Spirit be with you all.” (2 Corinthians 13:14)
•“Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if
any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the
Spirit …” (Phillippians 2:1)
A. You Can Develop a Personal
Relationship With the Holy Spirit

7. • The two key words in these two verses are the
words “communion” and “fellowship.”
• These two key words are being tied in direct to
the Holy Spirit Himself.
• In other words, the apostle Paul is telling us
that we can have direct
communion and direct fellowship with the
Holy Spirit Himself.
A. You Can Develop a Personal
Relationship With the Holy Spirit

8. • The two key words in these two verses are the
words “communion” and “fellowship.”
• These two key words are being tied in direct to
the Holy Spirit Himself.
• In other words, the apostle Paul is telling us
that we can have direct
communion and direct fellowship with the
Holy Spirit Himself.
A. You Can Develop a Personal
Relationship With the Holy Spirit

9. • Put those two key words together and they
spell one thing – personal relationship.
• Not only can we develop a close personal
relationship with both God the Father and
Jesus Christ,
• but these two additional verses are telling us
that we can also develop a close personal
relationship direct with the Holy Spirit Himself.
A. You Can Develop a Personal
Relationship With the Holy Spirit

10. • “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 14:26)
• “However, when He, the Spirit of truth has
come, He will guide you into all truth …”
(John 16:13)
B. The Holy Spirit is Our Personal
Guide and Teacher in This Life

11. • If He is going to be our personal Guide and
Teacher in this life, then this means He will
start to communicate to us so He can teach us
what He wants to teach us.
• Our part will then be to learn how He will
communicate to us so we can pick up that
communication when He does start to release
it to us.
B. The Holy Spirit is Our Personal
Guide and Teacher in This Life

12. • “But they rebelled and grieved His Holy
Spirit; so He turned Himself against them as
an enemy, and He fought against them.”
(Isaiah 63:10)
• “Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise
prophecies. Test all things; hold fast what is
good. Abstain from every form of evil.” (1
Thessalonians 5:19-22)
C. Do Not Resist, Rebel, Grieve, or
Quench the Holy Spirit

13. • “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart
and ears! You always resist the Holy
Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.” (Acts
7:51)
• “And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by
whom you were sealed for the day of
redemption.” (Ephesians 4:30)
C. Do Not Resist, Rebel, Grieve, or
Quench the Holy Spirit

14. • If the Holy Spirit did not have the job and the
ability to become very active in our daily lives,
then the Bible would not be using the words
quenching, resisting, rebelling, or grieving the
Holy Spirit.
• If you are quenching the Holy Spirit, then this
means He is already moving in on you to try
and help you out. Otherwise, there would be
nothing to quench.
C. Do Not Resist, Rebel, Grieve, or
Quench the Holy Spirit

15. • Same thing with the other three key words –
resisting, rebelling, and grieving.
• If the Holy Spirit was not becoming very active in
your daily life in the first place, then there would
be nothing to resist, grieve, or rebel against.
• He wants to become very active in our daily life so
He can help us complete our divine destiny with
the Lord, along with helping us to become the kind
of a person God wants us to become in Him
through the sanctification process He wants to do
with all of us.
C. Do Not Resist, Rebel, Grieve, or
Quench the Holy Spirit

16. SpiritSpirit – the inward man -the eternal part of– the inward man -the eternal part of
us.us.
SoulSoul – the mind, emotions, intellect - the– the mind, emotions, intellect - the
psychological part of us – renewed orpsychological part of us – renewed or
carnal.carnal.
BodyBody – the outer man, the physical part of us– the outer man, the physical part of us
D. Different Ways the Holy Spirit
Will Use to Communicate to Us

17. Our 5 physical senses-Our 5 physical senses-
- feel- feel
- see- see
- hear- hear
- smell- smell
- taste- taste
D. Different Ways the Holy Spirit
Will Use to Communicate to Us

18. Scriptures reveal a parallel to our 5 physicalScriptures reveal a parallel to our 5 physical
sensessenses
The 5 spirit senses-The 5 spirit senses-
- feel- feel
- see- see
- hear- hear
- smell- smell
- taste- taste
D. Different Ways the Holy Spirit
Will Use to Communicate to Us

19. 1. The Inner Witness – The Inner Knowing
2. The Word of God
3. Leadings
4. Check in your Spirit
5. Quickenings
6. Visions
7. Dreams
8. Prophecies
D. Different Ways the Holy Spirit
Will Use to Communicate to Us

20. • “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our
spirit that we are children of God.”
(Romans 8:16)
• “I tell you the truth in Christ, I am not lying,
my conscience also bearing me witness in
the Holy Spirit …” (Romans 9:1)
• The Holy Spirit will transmit the knowledge He
wants us to have on something as a strong,
inner knowing.
1. The Inner Witness – The Inner
Knowing

21. • The next way that the Holy Spirit will
communicate knowledge to you is sometimes
by giving you a direct verse from Scripture.
• You will see a Scripture verse float up right in
front of your mind’s eye.
• The Holy Bible is just loaded with an
unbelievable amount of spiritual truths, and
many of these spiritual truths will be the
answer to many of life’s problems that we will
all encounter.
2. The Word of God

22. • “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God,
these are sons of God.” (Romans 8:14)
• “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the
wilderness to be tempted by the devil.”
(Matthew 4:1)
3. Leadings

23. • However, if God does not want you to move in
that certain direction, then you will feel or
sense no leading at all from the Holy Spirit.
• A check in your spirit is like a a stop
sign being put up by the Holy Spirit. It is His
way of telling you to stop right where you are at
and not to proceed any further.
• “… they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit
to preach the word in Asia … They tried to
go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not
permit them.” (Acts 16:6-7)
4. Check in Your Spirit

24. • A quickening from the Holy Spirit is when He
will “jump” something at you.
• For instance, if you are reading the Bible, you
may find a verse or two that will jump off the
pages at you and hit you right between the
eyes.
• You can also have words from a sermon jump
at you.
• This is the Holy Spirit’s way of bringing you
knowledge He may want you to have on
something specific.
5. Quickenings

25. • “And it shall come to pass afterward that I
will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your
sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your old men shall dream dreams, your
young men shall see visions; and also on
My menservants and on My maidservants I
will pour out My Spirit in those days.” (Joel
2:28-29)
• Notice that visions, dreams, and prophecies
are all directly connected to the Holy Spirit
Himself.
6. Visions

26. • The third way God can communicate directly to
you coming from the above verse from Joel is
by prophecy.
• The gift of prophecy is when you receive a
direct word from the Lord. And when I say a
direct word, I mean a direct word. Every word
that you receive in the prophecy will be direct
words from the Lord.
8. Prophecies

27. • The next way that the Holy Spirit can use to
communicate something specific to you
coming from the above verse from Joel is in
your dreams.
• As you all know, the Bible has many examples
of people receiving dreams from the Lord.
• God used an angel in a dream to tell Joseph to
immediately flee to Egypt right after Jesus had
been born, as Herod was getting ready to kill
all of the first born.
• King Nebuchadnezzar was given dreams on
7. Dreams

28. 1. Feeling
Peace
Colossians 3:15
15 And let the peace of God rule in your
hearts, to which also you were called in one
body; and be thankful.
(rule in your heart – be the umpire)
Communication linked to the
Senses

29. 1. Feeling
Stirred, provoked in the spirit
Acts 17:16
16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens,
his spirit was provoked within him when he
saw that the city was given over to idols.
Communication linked to the
Senses

30. 1. Feeling
Compelled by the Spirit
Acts 18:5
5 When Silas and Timothy had come from
Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit,
and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the
Christ.
Communication linked to the
Senses

31. 2. Seeing
Dreams
Job 33:14-17
14 For God may speak in one way, or in
another, Yet man does not perceive it. 15 In a
dream, in a vision of the night, When deep
sleep falls upon men, While slumbering on
their beds,
Communication linked to the
Senses

32. 2. Seeing
Dreams
Job 33:14-17
16 Then He opens the ears of men, And seals
their instruction. 17 In order to turn man from
his deed, And conceal pride from man
Communication linked to the
Senses

33. 2. Seeing
Trance
Acts 10:9-17
9 The next day, as they went on their journey and
drew near the city, Peter went up on the
housetop to pray, about the sixth hour. 10 Then
he became very hungry and wanted to eat; but
while they made ready, he fell into a trance 11
and saw heaven opened
Communication linked to the
Senses

34. 2. Seeing
Seeing in the Spirit realm
2 Kings 6:15-17
15 And when the servant of the man of God arose early
and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city
with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him,
“Alas, my master! What shall we do?”
Communication linked to the
Senses

35. 2. Seeing
Seeing in the Spirit realm
2 Kings 6:15-17
16 So he answered, “Do not fear, for those who are with
us are more than those who are with them.” 17 And
Elisha prayed, and said, “Lord, I pray, open his eyes that
he may see.” Then the Lord opened the eyes of the
young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was
full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
Communication linked to the
Senses

36. 3. Hearing
-a word, sentence
-a flash of information
-a knowing, an impression
-an inner witness, an inner voice
-sometimes an actual audible voice for the intended
audience.. but those standing alongside don’t hear
(Samuel, Saul)
Communication linked to the
Senses

37. 4. Taste
Ezekiel 3:2,3
Ezekiel has a spiritual experience.
A scroll is given, he eats it and it tasted like honey.
Communication linked to the
Senses

38. 5. Smell
2 Corinthians 2:16
Mentions ‘aroma of death’ & ‘aroma of life’
Revelation 5:8
Mentions ‘incense’ – prayers of the saints
Communication linked to the
Senses

39. Training our spirit
Hebrews 5:13-14
13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in
the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But solid
food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those
who by reason of use have their senses exercised to
discern both good and evil.
(senses – organs of perception)
Communication linked to the
Senses

40. Training our spirit
1.Be in the Word – read, meditate, let the Word
dwell richly
2.Obey the Word (not just a forgetful hearer) –
James 1:22
3.Our mind – renewed to the Word – to validate
and accurately process what we receive in our
spirit.
4.Pray in the Spirit
E. Training our Spirit

41. Testing the leading
1. The Spirit and the Word agree
1 John 5:7
7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven:
the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and
these three are one.
E. Training our Spirit

42. Testing the leading
2. Jesus is glorified
John 16:14
14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is
Mine and declare it to you.
E. Training our Spirit

43. Testing the leading
3. It is righteous
Psalm 23:3
3 He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths
of righteousness for His name’s sake.
E. Training our Spirit

44. Testing the leading
4. Other mature believers bear witness to it
2 Corinthians 13:1; Deuteronomy 19:15
“By the mouth of two or three witnesses every
word shall be established.”
E. Training our Spirit

45. Things that hinder us from hearing
– Mark 4:17 – Stony ground – tribulation,
persecution for the sake of the Word
– Mark 4:19 – Thorns - Cares of the world,
deceitfulness of riches, desires for other things
choke the Word
E. Training our Spirit

46. God uses our spirit-senses to speak in
pictures, feelings, simple words, impressions.
Let’s not miss the supernatural while looking
for the spectacular!
Let’s be open and sensitive to be led by the
Spirit into the purposes of God!
E. Training our Spirit