I really love the honesty of Kenneth E. Hagin in today's "Faith Food" devotional! He acknowledges how he missed it inprayer as he was learning to trust the inward witness of the Spirit of God within Him! THIS is a lesson we all must know!
On The Inside
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou
shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse, or as the
mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and
bridle . . . . — PSALM 32:8,9
I knew by the inward witness that I should go back to that
church. And I knew my wife also had the inward witness to go back. But I still
wanted the Lord to move in some “supernatural” way to confirm it. (I was only
twenty-three years old at the time.) I wanted God to give me a word, tongues
and interpretation, prophecy — or maybe even write up in the sky, “GO TO THAT
PLACE!”
So I fasted and prayed three days. The third day I was on my
knees, bawling, squalling, and begging, because I didn’t know any better, “Ohh,
dear God . . .”
And God said to me — for He leads by an inward voice as
well as by an inward witness — “Get up from there and quit acting
like that!”
I got up! But I said, “Lord, if You would just give me a
supernatural sign, I’d feel better about going back to that church.”
He replied, “You have all I’m going to give you! You don’t
need any sign. You don’t need any writing in the sky. You don’t need tongues
and interpretation, or prophecy. You know on the inside what to do. Now do
it!”
Confession: The eyes of my understanding are being
enlightened. I know on the inside what to do. God leads me by that wonderful
inward witness. And I listen to it!
AMEN! TRUST Him! He will never lead you astray or leave you helpless! Here is Hillsong Worship with "See The Light":
Shalom in Him!
