Leadings

[MoreCoffee]

Does God guide you?

How?

Does the bible teach whatever answer you've given and if it does where does it teach it?

Catholic Culture, a web site, suggests

Five general principles of discernment of God's will that apply to all questions about it, and therefore to our question too, are the following:

• Always begin with data, with what we know for sure. Judge the unknown by the known, the uncertain by the certain. Adam and Eve neglected that principle in Eden and ignored God's clear command and warning for the devil's promised pig in a poke.
  
• Let your heart educate your mind. Let your love of God educate your reason in discerning his will. Jesus teaches this principle in John 7:17 to the Pharisees. (Would that certain Scripture scholars today would heed it!) They were asking how they could interpret his words, and he gave them the first principle of hermeneutics (the science of interpretation): "If your will were to do the will of my Father, you would understand my teaching." The saints understand the Bible better than the theologians, because they understand its primary author, God, by loving him with their whole heart and their whole mind.
  
• Have a soft heart but a hard head. We should be "wise as serpents and harmless as doves," sharp as a fox in thought but loyal as a dog in will and deed. Soft-heartedness does not excuse soft-headedness, and hard-headedness does not excuse hard-heartedness. In our hearts we should be "bleeding-heart liberals" and in our heads "stuck-in-the-mud conservatives."
  
• All God's signs should line up, by a kind of trigonometry. There are at least seven such signs: (1) Scripture, (2) church teaching, (3) human reason (which God created), (4) the appropriate situation, or circumstances (which he controls by his providence), (5) conscience, our innate sense of right and wrong, (6) our individual personal bent or desire or instincts, and (7) prayer. Test your choice by holding it up before God's face. If one of these seven voices says no, don't do it. If none say no, do it.
  
• Look for the fruits of the spirit, especially the first three: love, joy, and peace. If we are angry and anxious and worried, loveless and joyless and peaceless, we have no right to say we are sure of being securely in God's will. Discernment itself should not be a stiff, brittle, anxious thing, but – since it too is part of God's will for our lives – loving and joyful and peace-filled, more like a game than a war, more like writing love letters than taking final exams.

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[psalms 91]

He guides me in variious ways, by His Word, His Spirit, His commandments, and when necessary by correction

 

[MennoSota]

Because God is Sovereign and providential, every breath is a leading by God. God ordains many opportunities to minister and he also ordains the suffering and grief in life. Everything is the work of God. We simply obey.

 

[NewCreation435]

Does God guide you?

How?

Does the bible teach whatever answer you've given and if it does where does it teach it?

Catholic Culture, a web site, suggests

Five general principles of discernment of God's will that apply to all questions about it, and therefore to our question too, are the following:

• Always begin with data, with what we know for sure. Judge the unknown by the known, the uncertain by the certain. Adam and Eve neglected that principle in Eden and ignored God's clear command and warning for the devil's promised pig in a poke.
  
• Let your heart educate your mind. Let your love of God educate your reason in discerning his will. Jesus teaches this principle in John 7:17 to the Pharisees. (Would that certain Scripture scholars today would heed it!) They were asking how they could interpret his words, and he gave them the first principle of hermeneutics (the science of interpretation): "If your will were to do the will of my Father, you would understand my teaching." The saints understand the Bible better than the theologians, because they understand its primary author, God, by loving him with their whole heart and their whole mind.
  
• Have a soft heart but a hard head. We should be "wise as serpents and harmless as doves," sharp as a fox in thought but loyal as a dog in will and deed. Soft-heartedness does not excuse soft-headedness, and hard-headedness does not excuse hard-heartedness. In our hearts we should be "bleeding-heart liberals" and in our heads "stuck-in-the-mud conservatives."
  
• All God's signs should line up, by a kind of trigonometry. There are at least seven such signs: (1) Scripture, (2) church teaching, (3) human reason (which God created), (4) the appropriate situation, or circumstances (which he controls by his providence), (5) conscience, our innate sense of right and wrong, (6) our individual personal bent or desire or instincts, and (7) prayer. Test your choice by holding it up before God's face. If one of these seven voices says no, don't do it. If none say no, do it.
  
• Look for the fruits of the spirit, especially the first three: love, joy, and peace. If we are angry and anxious and worried, loveless and joyless and peaceless, we have no right to say we are sure of being securely in God's will. Discernment itself should not be a stiff, brittle, anxious thing, but – since it too is part of God's will for our lives – loving and joyful and peace-filled, more like a game than a war, more like writing love letters than taking final exams.

(source)

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The Bible mainly but also other christians help guide and direct including my wife. God has used her a number of times to speak to me and help guide me.
Sometimes also when you pray and pray about a situation and don't have any peace about it it may be God telling you your going in the wrong direction.

 

[Lamb]

God guides me by His Word that the Holy Spirit uses but also He guides me by guiding others around me as well

 

[MoreCoffee]

I watched an old film called "Dragonwyck" that had a Methodist family (in the year 1844 and the state of Connecticut) making decisions by leadings. The leadings of the Lord in the film were tied to opening the bible with eyes closed and placing a finger on the opened pages and then reading what was written in the verse (or verses) under the finger. This was a leading and I do not doubt that some use a similar approach today. Is that approach okay or is it not? The leading is about six minutes thirty seconds in from the beginning of the film.

 

[Lamb]

Matthew 4:9 “All this I will give You, he said, “if You will fall down and worship me.”

Leadings aren't bad necessarily if they take verses within context. The above verse, for instance, was said by Satan.