God Thinking XLIX - Practice The Influence Of The Holy Spirit...? 4

"You can have the righteousness of Christ within you and suppress or quench the leading of the Holy Spirit.  In other words, you can have the righteousness of Christ within you and outwardly operate of your own devices, because you have been given free will to choose whether you are going to confer with God and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit or not.   

You have been given authority to confer or not confer, to ask or not ask, to seek or not seek, to obey or not to obey.  

You shouldn’t be at all surprised when things go awry or when you are totally at a loss or when you have troubles, or when you are in a quandary, or when your walk doesn’t line up with your talk, if you have within you the wisdom of the Spirit of God and do not use it. 

You shouldn’t expect your destinations to be pleasing, the outcome to be excellent or the results to be satisfying, if you are not conferring with God on the matter. 

• If you are not seeking wise council before proceeding forward, you shouldn’t expect God breathed results.
• If you are receiving wise council and you are circumventing it, you shouldn’t expect God ordained outcomes.
• If you are in and out with God all the time, you shouldn’t expect to have overcoming faith.
• If you are making choices without confirmation from the Holy Spirit you shouldn’t expect the power of God to be on the thing you are trying to accomplish.
• If you are going to go to God and hear what He has to say, and then do what you want to anyway, you shouldn’t expect things to go smoothly.

• If you are going to profess Christ when it is convenient and deny Him when it isn’t...

Do you get the picture?

Excerpt from God Thinking XLIX - Practice The Influence Of The Holy Spirit by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014