What I consume and store in my heart doesn’t come from the grocery store.

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God has sent His positioning system to mankind! The Holy Spirit has come to be our GPS–God’s Positioning System. “Christ in you” is the living WAZE (the WAZE, the truth, and the life) who has come to fill you up with His presence and to directly lead you moment by moment from glory to glory into more and more of His hope.

It’s good to hear what a weekly sermon says, but it’s much better and more powerful to hear, follow, and obey the living Jesus, the perfect WAZE, all week long. Let’s go beyond what the sermon says and daily flow with what God’s Spirit says.

Christians need to be taught how to be taught and led by the Holy Spirit instead of merely by men. Biblical Christianity is so much more than lining people up in pews or chairs and preaching to them. The Bible says “Whoever has ears let them hear what the Spirit says . . .”

What a sermon says comes through a preacher, but what the Holy Spirit says is routed directly from God to your heart. Both can be helpful but it’s much more powerful to hear what the Spirit says and to read what the Bible says than it is to simply listen to what a sermon says.

The best sermons train people to continually hear what the Spirit says and to daily read and do what the Bible says. People who merely listen to sermons disagree with each other a lot, but people who consistently hear and obey the Spirit connect heart-to-heart and find themselves to be spiritually on the same page.

What one preacher’s sermon says frequently contradicts what another preacher’s sermon says. Thus, the world is filled with hundreds of thousands of independent churches and denominations believing different things, but the voice of the Holy Spirit consistently aligns with what God spoke to the writers of the Bible.

The sermon often says sit still and look like you’re listening. The Bible says, “For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.” The Spirit says, “Let Me lead you throughout each day.”

Would you like to be pure in heart? Only in and though the Spirit (the still small voice and WAZE of God) can you discover the pure version of who God made you to be. Hear Him speak directly to you.

Jesus said that our tradition can make the Word of God of no effect. Religious routine tends to lull us to sleep. When the sermon says to do what the Spirit says spiritual awakening is coming soon!

King Herod’s deceptive response to the wise men (the Magi) who were seeking the infant Jesus and the violence Herod later unleashed against the babes in Bethlehem show us that everyone who says that they want to worship Jesus doesn’t really want to worship Him in spirit and in truth. That’s why we need the Holy Spirit’s gift of discernment. The wise men had that gift and instead of reporting back to Herod after they found and worshipped Jesus, they obeyed what the Holy Spirit told them through a dream and went home another way.

Let’s not walk in the way of King Herod (and the Pharisees) and honor Jesus with our mouth while keeping our heart far from Him. Instead let’s boldly be led by God’s Spirit (like the wise men) and go another way. (See Romans 8:14.)

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