The Importance Of the Holy Spirit’s Leadership

One of the most important teachings a person can receive is how to be led by the Holy Spirit. There are so many sincere believers who think God is leading them from one situation to another, yet many times, they end up confused because the outcomes aren’t what they expect. Then they are left wondering why God would tell them to do things that rarely turn out right.
If you’ve ever been a victim of this type of situation, you know that nothing can be more confusing than to believe you heard from God and then to be confronted with overwhelming evidence that says you did not. People have stumble and fall, only to get up
and repeat the same mistakes, and
Satan uses this scenario over and over
again on believers all around the world.
There is something about our potential to be led by the Holy Spirit that really scares the devil. He has gone to a lot of trouble to keep us confused, using every deception at his disposal to make sure he keeps us walking down the wrong road. How does the devil do this? First off, he’s smart enough to know that he won’t succeed by telling us that we can’t be led by the Spirit. He realizes that we know better. Therefore, the only chance he has of neutralizing our walk with God is to indoctrinate us
into his program, where we look to our
emotions or outward circumstances as
the basis for God’s leadership and
direction in our life instead of yielding
to the Holy Spirit’s inner witness in
our spirit man. One of the devil’s favorite strategies is to send a bunch of low-level, second-rate, expendable devils to confuse us by parading believers across our path who claim to be “led by the Holy Spirit” in everything they do. If we look to these believers as role models of being led by the Spirit, we can easily become confused. Although they claim to be divinely led, they go through one situation after another, making bad decisions and suffering defeat until the bottom falls out of everything they do. This is the same tactic the devil uses to confuse the issue of healing. He makes sure we hear about every believer who has ever “believed God” for a healing and did not receive a manifested miracle. In this way, Satan attempts to discredit all of God’s promises in our life. Why is the devil so avid in his opposition to our being led by the Holy Spirit? Well, just the fact that Satan fights it so hard ought to tell us how powerful and how dangerous this divine leadership can be to his kingdom.( Source: Dave Roberson, Learning to be led by Holy spirit)
Three Categories of Believers

When it comes to the leadership of
the Holy Spirit, believers can be divided
into three categories. The first category includes those who already understand how to be led by the Holy Spirit. These people have faith inspiring testimonies and live lives that shine with the love and wisdom of God.
The second category is made up of
believers who have been indoctrinated
by the devil to operate out of the
emotional realm of their soul and,
consequently, have never learned how
to operate out of their spirit man.
These believers do experience the
wonderful emotional highs that everyone feels when things go right,
but they are also more susceptible to
being weighed down by the emotional
lows torments, fears, and insecurities that can be brought on by the pressures of life. Many Christians fall into this
second category because feelings are
such an integral part of a person’s
makeup. Whether or not a believer is
led by the inner witness of the Holy
Spirit or by the devil’s counterfeit is
determined by how susceptible that
believer is to pressure and the enticement of lust. The first type of
leadership the inner witness originates in a person’s spirit; the second type is Satan’s attempt to lead through a person’s emotions, all the while making that person think he is following God.
Before we discuss this second
category of believers further, let’s go on to the third category of Christians:
Those who don’t acknowledge any
form of divine leadership at all. These
believers don’t believe that a person
can be led by the Holy Spirit. As far as
they’re concerned, God exists and they’re going to Heaven. But it’s
almost as though this category of
believers think God has abandoned
them while they live on planet Earth.
They’re just supposed to do as well as
they can while they’re here. Then, when their lives are over, they’ll finally see Jesus. But we know from God’s Word
that this isn’t the case at all. Our Heavenly Father demonstrated His
willingness to fellowship with us and
to lead us by His Spirit when He not
only saved us but gave us the infilling of the holy ghost.