All Life Long I’m Being Taught to Live Better
Are you listening to the Spirit? Spirit-taught words will unleash God’s living Word into your life. Notice them. Receive them. Embrace them. Savor them. Obey them. Let them ever burn in your heart.
The Bible is meant
To be Spirit taught
So you can live caught
In the love of God.
No mere human being knows God’s thoughts, but the Holy Spirit does. Through Spirit-taught words the Holy Spirit reveals to humble hearts things that no eye has seen, that no ear has heard, and that no human mind has conceived. The Spirit empowers us to comprehend what God has freely given us. Words taught by human wisdom can never fully satisfy your heart. (1 Corinthians 2:9-13)
Learn to notice, focus on, and obey the Spirit-taught words that God deposits directly in your heart. Continually absorb and savor the Spirit-taught words of the Bible so you can clearly discern what the Spirit is saying within you. Without the inner teaching of the Spirit the human heart stays in ongoing confusion and uncertainty. The answer for your confused heart is to humbly surrender to, embrace, and obey the mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 9:14-15)
Spirit-taught words are living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword. They uncover, correct, and replace the faulty thoughts and intents of the heart so that it can be unceasingly Spirit-fed and Spirit-led. (Hebrews 4:12)
When Christians are divided and separated into followers of individuals (such as Paul or Apollos), they are being worldly and ignoring the teaching of the Spirit (1 Corinthians 3:1-7) who is working to make us one body with the living Jesus as our only foundation. (1 Corinthians 3:11) All Christ-followers (regardless of their religious affiliation) are called to function together as God’s temple. (1 Corinthians 3:16-21) Spirit-taught Christians experience a sense of heart-to-heart unity when they encounter each other.
One of the first lessons God taught me as a new believer was to listen to Him and be Spirit-taught. I was reading the book of Acts and kept seeing where God spoke directly to people. In frustration I asked God, “Why aren’t You speaking today?” These words immediately entered my heart: “The problem’s not that I’m not speaking. It’s that you’re not listening.” Those words still burn in my heart and motivate me to keep listening directly to God and being taught by His Spirt as I seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. Now I frequently quote the young prophet Samuel and say: “Speak, Lord, for Your servant is listening.”
