“Listening To The Holy Spirit” (Another highly missional habit) Sunday February 5th 2017 – Andy Acreman

5 MISSIONAL HABITS BLESS If you bless people every week, you will become a generous person EAT If you eat with others, you will develop a greater capacity for hospitality LISTEN If you foster the habit of listening to the Holy Spirt, you will become an increasingly Spirit led person. LEARN If you are learning about Christ, you will become more and more Christ like. SENT If you journal the many ways we have been sent into the world, you will see yourself more as being sent or being missional into your own neighbourhood and community.

A Question… Is it more important to listen to the Holy Spirit than to read the Bible? Is it more important to listen to God than to read the Bible?

Acts 4:13 1  When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realised that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus

2 Corinthians 13 v 5 Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you ? Ephesians 3 v 16 + 17 - I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,  so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. 2 Corinthians 4 v 6 + 7 - For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. Galatians 1 v 15+16 - But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me…  1 John 3 v 24 - The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us. Galatians 2 v 20 - I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.  John 14 v 20 - On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Colossians 1 v 27 - Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Psalm 145:18-19 18 The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. 19 He fulfills the desires of those who fear him;     he hears their cry and saves them. Hebrews 11:6 6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. John 10:27-28 27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. Psalm 34:15 15 The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their cry; Jeremiah 33:3 3 ‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’ Matthew 6:6 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. Luke 11:13 13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

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Matthew 6:6 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.