EPHES 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

God is constantly working within our lives to transform our lives into the image of Jesus Christ, to establish His goodness and to bring eternal salvation to us who believe.

We must remember, it is His work not ours, so we should not be worried or overwhelmed by trying to figure out just what we are to do next, or " How " He is going to achieve establishing His righteousness inside us.

Even when we are faithless, He has promised to remain faithful to complete His work within us, as long as we don't deny Him.

God is the Master Builder who works perfectly within every Christian's mind and heart through the power of the Holy Spirit.

God does not make any mistakes, so as we entrust our lives into His hands, all old things pass away and He makes us into a new spiritual creation.

The Holy Spirit is the Divine Spirit of God.

The Holy Spirit is the third person of the trinity of God; which is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

The orthodox doctrine of Christianity teaches that the Holy Spirit is part of the Godhead, co-eternal; The Holy Spirit is a person that is distinct from God the Father and God the Son, though united to both of them in oneness of the Godhead.

Although the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one in moral attributes, they are still distinctly different in function, and form/nature;

However they rule together as " One God " in Heaven.

The ' Holy Spirit ' is just what His name declares;

God's Spirit is HOLY- which means separated from evil, full of righteousness

God's Holy Spirit is SPIRIT- You can not see it, He has an heavenly body

The Holy Spirit of God is a living eternal divine almighty being and is not just an impersonal force or electrical power. The Holy Spirit also has several other names such as Comforter, Holy Ghost, Spirit of Truth, Counselor, Helper, Sanctifier; He is the source of all wisdom and spiritual power.

When a person becomes a Christian, the Holy Spirit comes and dwells inside of a believer's heart and leads them into all truth, by teaching them all things that are essential, and further God's Spirit 'reminds' us of everything that Jesus spoke to us, ( JOHN 14:26 ) and moreover He convicts our hearts of sin and of the judgment to come.

JOHN 14:16-20 And I (Jesus) will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, (Holy Spirit), that He may be with you forever;

that is the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you. READ ON...

JOHN 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I (Jesus) said to you.

EPHES 1:13 In Him (Jesus), you also, after listening to message of truth, the gospel of your salvation having also believed you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise.

ACTS 2:17-18 And it shall be in the last days, God says, " That I will pour forth of My Spirit upon all mankind; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; Even upon My bondslaves both men and women, I will in those days pour forth of My Spirit and they shall prophesy.

JOHN 16:13 But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.

To receive power ( Spiritual ) ACTS 1:8 , ROMANS 15:19

To be an effective witness for Christ ACTS 1:8

For direction, To be led ROMANS 8:14

To have strength EPH 3:16

To have the Love of God to be poured out in our heart ROM 5:5

To receive revelation 1 CORIN 2:10

To receive the spirit of truth 2 CORIN 3:16, JOHN 14:16,17; 16:13; 1 CORIN 2:13

To have life and peace ROMANS 8:6

To have prayers answered ROMANS 8:26,

To be holy ROMANS 1:4

To come into unity EPHES 4:3

For the common good 1 CORIN 12:7

To have no condemnation ROM 8:1-5

To teach and preach LUKE 4:18

To receive joy 1 THES 1:6

To receive freedom 2 CORIN 12:17

To overcome weakness ROMANS 8:26

To be an overcomer ZECH 4:6

To spiritually build yourself up JUDE 20

To know the Spirit of Truth JOHN 14:16,17

To become sons of God ROMANS 8:14

To receive dreams and visions ACTS 2:14-17

To set liberty to the oppressed LUKE 4:18

To proclaim Justice MAT 12:18

To bring about the obedience of faith ROMANS 1:5

To comprehend the thoughts of God 1 CORIN 2:11

To speak to another in spiritual songs EPHES 5:18,19

To make melody to God EPHES 5:19

To have victory MAT 12:20

To receive the spiritual gifts 1 CORIN 14

To have a guarantee of salvation 2 CORIN 5:5

To have sanctification 2 THES 2:13

To purify your soul 1 PET 1:22

To be transformed into the image of the Lord from glory to glory 2 CORIN 3:17,18

In order to truly worship God JOHN 4:24

There are many ways that an individual can receive and be baptized by the Holy Spirit; There is not just one particular way that God uses to give us His Holy Spirit; A Christian can also receive many fillings of the Holy Spirit..

All of these ways are found in the Bible.....

LUKE 11:10-13 For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it shall be opened.

Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he ?

Or if he asked for an egg, he will not give him a scorpion, will he ?

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them who ask Him ?

Pray believeing and do not doubt

MAT 7:7, MARK 11:24, MAT 21:21,22, LUKE 11:11-13

ACTS 10:44-47 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who were listening to the message. And all the circumcised believers who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out upon the Gentiles also.

For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and exalting God. Then Peter answered, " Surely no one can refuse the water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he ?

ACTS 2:38,39 And Peter said to them, ' Repent, and let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God shall call to Himself."

ACTS 8:17 Then they began laying their hands on them, and they were receiving the Holy Spirit...

ACTS 8:18 Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money.

ROMANS 8:9,10 However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

And if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

Sanctification is the spiritual purification process, that the Holy Spirit does within our hearts and minds to cleanse our life of our sinful nature by the power of God. Sanctification is spiritually made available to Christians through the work of God's Holy Spirit and continues throughout our life.

What sanctifies us is the atoning blood of Jesus Christ which was made possible to us by His perfect sacrifice at the cross. God's Word also sanctifies and washes our hearts and minds from all evil ways.

We are sanctified more and more when we humble ourselves and continue to confess our sins to God and as we continue to listen and believe God's Word because His words are spirit and life.

As we are sanctified we are renewed into the image of Christ and set apart for God's service. Therefore sanctification brings about " regeneration " ; This means that our minds and hearts are regenerated or restored spiritually to perfection or made pure the way God intended.

As we are sanctified, we also are able to break free of the bondage of sin, because of the blood of the Lamb, and overcome evil and live in righteousness.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

ROMANS 6:19 I am speaking in human terms because of the wickedness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness resulting in sanctification.

ROMANS 6:22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification and the outcome, eternal life.

HEBREWS 10:10 By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

HEB 10:14 For by one offering, He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

JOHN 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; Thy word is truth.

Christians are " Justified " before God by their faith in Jesus Christ. What this means is that as we have sincere faith in Jesus Christ we are ' declared righteous ' by God the Father; The precious blood of Jesus Christ given at the cross is what justifies any believer, in God's eyes.

Sanctification is the continue spiritual process that actually ' makes us righteous ' through the grace and word of God interacting within our lives.

Without being justified by God, we all would be condemned; In fact, we all are guilty before God, but God chooses to justify us because of His steadfast love, compassion, and by His great mercy.

The righteous act at the cross, by Jesus Christ alone, justifies us before God.

ROMANS 5:1 " Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."

ROMANS 5:9 " Having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him."

ROMANS 5:18 So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.

5:19 For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.

GAL 3:10,11 For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, " Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the Law, to perform them "

Now that no one is justified by the Law before God is evident; for, " The righteous man shall live by faith."

" Regeneration " is the spiritual restoration or transformation act of God which changes a person's mind and heart into the renewed nature of Jesus Christ, through the work of the Holy Spirit.

Degeneration is what happens to all of us in the world. Before we come to be saved by Jesus Christ, our life sinks into a lower and lower moral state.

In the scriptural and theological sense, ' Regeneration ' is the spiritual and special work of the Holy Spirit in restoring a believer's spiritual nature into the original intended image or character of God.

A believer in Jesus Christ does not become God or a god, but rather through spiritual regeneration becomes a son or daughter of God.

MATTHEW 19:28 And Jesus said to them, " Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious Throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Regeneration is the spiritual birth of new life of all who come to Jesus Christ, thus leaving behind their old life and becoming a new creation, a partaker of His divine nature.

By spiritual regeneration or transformation, we become children of God, and mature into the same image of God, having His same attributes of Love, Joy, Peace, Kindness, etc; It is the " spiritual renewal " of all the good qualities of Jesus Christ and God.

PHIL 3: 20,21 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

Who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.

TITUS 3:5 He (Jesus) saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit.

It takes the refining power of God's Holy Spirit to burn away everything evil that is not of Him, in our hearts and minds.

Many times it takes years for God to work certain evil ways out of our hearts, not because God is unable to readily achieve the work within, but rather a pure heart depends upon how and when we willingly choose to submit to God's will, and further desire for God to change our lives.

If we are stubborn, our hearts remain impure and we suffer spiritual lack and we hinder the flow of God's blessings for our lives.

We should earnestly desire a pure heart and the grace of the blood of Jesus Christ will wash us clean.

We should ask ourselves, ' Are we holding onto some earthly desires over God's will for our life ? ' If so, we need to let go of what is polluting our spiritual nature.

Above all we should recognize that God is diligently working by His Holy Spirit to make your heart pure.

Pure gold comes from being refined through fire.

Pure water comes from being filtered through a purifier.

Pure material is accomplished by being washed and cleansed.

Pure hearts come from being washed and cleansed by grace and God's word through the purifier, who is Jesus Christ, and refined by God's Holy Spirit, as we go through various fiery trials and sufferings.

Sin is impure and flaws our spiritual nature. Only God's grace in Jesus Christ can sanctify and remove those imperfections from every facet of our lives, till we appear a perfect gem before God.

MAT 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.

MAL 3:2 But who may abide the day of his coming ? and who shall stand when he appears ? For He is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap.

3:3 And He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the Lord offerings in righteousness.

PSALM 24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord ? Or who will stand in His holy place ?

24:4 He who has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

24:5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and the righteousness from the God of his salvation.

ISAIAH 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord, Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool.

1 PETER 1:22 Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart.

1 JOHN 3:3 And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him (Jesus) purifies himself, just as He (Jesus) is pure.

2 TIM 2:21 Therefore, if a man cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

JAMES 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.

Unsurpassing " Rest " is one of the richest rewards for the Christians who put their trust in God.

One of the greatest works in a Christian's life is the place of perfect rest that the Lord Jesus Christ establishes in a person's heart.

In the past, when we tried to address or resolve any major situation under our own abilities, we were easily overwhelmed by stress and the hardship, because we had to labor alone, under our own human strength and limited understanding. Sometimes we even labored in vain for the wrong things.

However, now as Christians, God's voice gives us direction, so that when we purpose to do a particular work, it will not be in vain because He will give us wisdom on How to do something correctly, and that within itself will bring us rest.

Today , when you hear God's voice, do not harden your heart as in the day of rebellion in the wilderness least you not enter His rest. (HEB 3:7,11)

God's perfect emotional and spiritual rest will come to those who do not harden their hearts but rather obey God's instructions and commandments in His word.

God will, sometimes, go before us to complete a particular work with His own infinite abilities, and thereby ease the burden and hardship, so that we may enter His rest and have good success.

Throughout our lives as Christians, Jesus takes away the oppression, anxiety, and the burden of the problems that we face daily and gives us divine rest and assurance. We will in many instances still have to work out a problem but as we come in prayer to Jesus, we will not be alone; He will help us through any problem that we encounter.

Jesus makes us lay down in green pastures and restores our soul.

God can give us ongoing rest now and an eternal rest to come.

Satanic powers and worldly situations are constantly trying to pull us out of God's rest;

Sometimes we can easily become weary after struggling and encountering various obstacles in the world; It is so comforting when God replenishes our strength by His Spirit, and brings a perfect solution which relieves us of the stress and pressures of the world.

As Christians we need to STOP trying to confront any problem under our own strength and limited understanding, but instead, come to Jesus in prayer, and commit our plans and troubles to Him because He cares for us and He will then do what is right and bring us into His rest.

HEBREWS 3:7 Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me, as in the day of trial in the wilderness.

3:11 As I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter My rest.

HEBREWS 4:1 Therefore, let us fear lest, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any of you should seem to have come short of it.

4:9 There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

4:10 For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.

4:11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall through following the same example of disobedience.

God wants our lives to be productive and fruitful; Many people in the world are spiritually famished and God wants to establish His spiritual fruit within every Christian's life so that they will truly have something to give to others to fill their hearts with God's eternal goodness.

God is glorified when we bear much spiritual fruit in our hearts.

Spiritual fruit is the good spiritual attributes and abilities that God plants and brings to maturity in our lives. For instance, Love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control etc...

We need to be in God's word, and follow Jesus, in order to bear fruit and God will produce much growth.

GAL 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

JOHN 15:1-4 I (Jesus) am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

15:2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may bear more fruit.

15:3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

15:4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

15:5 I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me, you can do nothing.

15:6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch, and dries up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

15:7 If you abide in Me (Jesus) and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you.

15:8 By this is My Father glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.

COLOSSIANS 1:10 So that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

1:11 Strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience;

1:12 Joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

Every person in the world searches to find happiness, in some way. However the joy which God gives to those who love Him and to those who follow His way, is far more fulfilling than any other happiness brought from earthy things.

Therefore we should not settle just for passing thrills derived from canal pleasures, but rather do the will of God, and receive fullness of everlasting Joy.

ISAIAH 55:12 For you will go out with joy, And be led forth with peace; The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

JOHN 15:9-11 Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments, and abide in His love.

These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.

JOHN 16:23 And in that day you shall ask me nothing. Truly, truly, I say to you, Whatsoever you ask the Father in My name, He will give it to you. Until now, you have asked nothing in My name; ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

JOHN 16:20-22 Truly, truly, I say to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice, you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned to joy.

Whenever a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she remembers the anguish no more, for joy that a child has been born into the world.

Therefore you too now have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one takes your joy away from you.

The spiritual " Peace "which God offers and gives to every Christian is vastly different from worldly peace.

People in the world are constantly striving for peace between cultures and nations; They say ' Peace, Peace, ' when there is no peace, because of How they are wrongly trying to achieve peace, by their own efforts and for the wrong motives.

They form temporal agreements of peace, yet continue to wage war in their hearts, with hatred, bitterness, anger, and the lust for power and worldly gain. Till violence once again rears it's ugly head and emerges from darkness, to break the shallow earthly peace, and continues to produce death.

However God gives an inward lasting peace that surpasses all understanding. Through a sincere acceptance of Jesus Christ into a person's life, anyone can also receive God's divine peace, as they continue to put their trust in God.

The remarkable quality of God's perfect peace is that regardless if there is turmoil all around in the physical realm, a Christian can still have true divine peace in his heart, and thereby be secure and have God's joy as well.

JOHN 14:27 Peace I (Jesus) leave with you; My peace I give to you: not as the world gives, do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.

JAMES 3:18 And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

PROV 3:13-17 Find Wisdom

Gain understanding

PROMISE; Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace

PHIL 4:6,7 Be anxious for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God.

PROMISE; PHIL 4:7 And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

COLOSSIANS 3:15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body; and be thankful.

ROMANS 8:6 To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

PHIL 4:8,9 Meditate on these things... whatever things are, true, noble, just, pure, love, of good report, meditate on also,...any virtue, anything praiseworthy.

ISAIAH 26:2,3 ( Keep your mind stayed on God, and Trust in God; He will then keep you in perfect peace.)

As Christians our strength must come from God, so that we can endure the trials ahead and overcome every evil way in our life and to succeed in acquiring the promises of God. We must not depend solely on just our own strengths or the strengths of other individuals, however God will sometimes use other Christians to encourage us with God's word through the Holy Spirit.

As we trust in God even when we are weak, God will be faithful to strengthen us to have the spiritual ability to accomplish His will during any moment of our life, and under any type of circumstance.

We should never give up or run away from anything that God has called us to do because He will give us the spiritual strength that is needed.

God is able to bind up our broken hearts, and empower us to confront any spiritual hindrance and have the victory in Jesus Christ.

When we are weak, we should turn to God in prayer with hope, and He will fill our hearts and minds with His power to fulfill His will and plan for our lives.

2 CORIN 12:9 And He has said to me, " My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

12:10 Therefore I am content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

PSALM 28:7 The Lord is my strength and shield; My heart trusts in Him and I am helped.

COLOSSIANS 1:10 So that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

1:11 Strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience;

1:12 Joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

PROVERBS 14:26 In the fear of the Lord there is strong confidence, And his children will have refuge.

PSALM 29:11 The Lord will give strength to His people; The Lord will bless His people with peace.

PSALM 31:24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, All you who hope in the Lord.

NEH 8:10 " The Joy of the Lord is your Strength"

Every Christian needs to have God's "discipline " in their life; We ongoingly should be open for correction from the Lord, in regards to the way we think or act. Only by receiving, with a teachable heart, the chastening and discipline and/or correction of God can anyone be eternally changed for good.

Some discipline seems unpleasant at first but then as we accept God's will, we then will bear God's fruitfulness in our life.

Thank you, Father, for your discipline, help us to obey.

HEBREWS 12:5-7 " My son do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by Him; For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, And He scourges every son whom He receives."

It is discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline ?

HEBREWS 12:10 For they (our earthly fathers) discipline us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He (God) disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.

HEBREWS 12:11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but sorrowful; yet to those who have bee trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

1 CORIN 11:32 But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord in order that we may not be condemned along with the world.

REV 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be zealous therefore and repent.

COLOSSIANS 2:5 For even though I am absent in body, nevertheless I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good discipline and stability of your faith in Christ.

2:6 As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

2:7 Having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed and overflowing with gratitude.

PROVERBS 3:11 My son, do not reject the discipline of the Lord, or loathe His reproof,

3:12 For whom the Lord loves He reproves.

PROVERBS 12:1 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge.

God gives His divine guidance to every Christian so that we will have the spiritual insight to understand His ways. Then we can daily perceive which is the best direction to go or how to rightly address a certain situation.

Before we were Christians, our lives were full of confusion and uncertainties, but as we attempted to make the right decisions and do our own thing, our lives often ended up in turmoil and we became hurt and brokenhearted, destitute of real lasting goodness.

Yet when we become a Christian, God brings His Divine guidance to our lives in so many ways, so that we can truly make the right decisions and so our joy will be made full.

As God gives us meaningful direction by His divine guidance, we begin to react to circumstances correctly and our lives become enriched by His goodness which results and those around us are also blessed.

However we must learn How God gives us direction.

God will help you to distinguish your own thoughts, from when He is really speaking to you. This discernment will come from the Holy Spirit over a period of time as you grow in Christ.

Some of the ways that God gives us His Divine guidance are...

1 Through listening and following

God's word in the Bible

God's Word found in the Bible is one way God speaks to us individually; Even though the Bible was written thousands of years ago, still God intended His Word to be heard by each one of us today, so that we would be properly built up in the faith and have good direction for our lives.

ROMANS 10:17 " So Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God "

PSALM 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path

PSALM 119:133 Establish my footsteps by Your word

PSALMS 25:8 Good and upright is the Lord; Therefore He instructs sinners in the way.

25:9 He leads the humble in justice and teaches the humble His way.

25:10 All the paths of the Lord are lovingkindness and truth, to those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.

2 Holy Spirit

PSALM 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.

Through prayer, the Holy Spirit will guide us

PROVERBS 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all of your heart, And do not lean on your own understanding.

3:6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

PROVERBS 16:3 Commit your works to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

3 Wisdom

God will give Christians spiritual wisdom and insight so that we might always know what is right to do, and also when.

PROVERBS 24:6 For by wise guidance you will wage war, And in abundance of counselors there is victory.

PROVERBS 4:11 I have directed you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in upright paths.

PROV 4:12 When you walk, your steps will not be impeded; And if you run, you will not stumble.

4 Angels

Angels have been used many times to bring messages from God to His people...

1 KINGS 19:5-7 TO ELIJAH- " And he laid down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, there was an angel touching him, and he said to him, ' Arise, eat.'

19:6 Then he looked and behold, there was at his head a bread cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and laid down again.

19:7 And the angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him and said, ' Arise, eat, because the journey is to great for you,

19:8 So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God."

5 Pastors, teachers, counselors, other Christians

Other ways God might choose to speak to you is through Pastors, Christian teachers, counselors, a Christian friend or relative;

PROVERBS 11:14 Where there is no guidance, the people fall, But in abundance of counselors there is victory.

PROVERBS 12:26 The righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

PROVERBS 13:10 Through presumption comes nothing but strife, but those who receive counsel is wisdom.

PROVERBS 19:20 Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.

19:21 Many are the plans in a man's heart, But the counsel of the Lord, it will stand.

PROVERBS 27:9 Oil and perfume make the heart glad, so a man's counsel is sweet to his friend.

PROVERBS 27:17 Iron sharpens iron; So one man sharpens another.

God will always protect every Christian who puts their trust in Him.

Satanic powers constantly desire to destroy Christian lives; We daily need God's protection;

We should never live in fear, rather we should understand that being a Christian and a child of God, our loving and heavenly Father will do everything to protect our lives from harm.

God has appointed angels over us; and it is God who has put a spiritual hedge of protection around us.

As we put our trust in God, we come into the spiritual shelter of Him, under the wing of the Almighty God, who has authority over all.

This does not mean that you will not encounter any extreme difficulties or that you'll never be confronted by evil spiritual principalities; However, God will be faithful to comfort and bring you through and deliver you from various trials.

As Christians we may even encounter physical persecutions and various sufferings for the Kingdom of God, but know that God has never left you, and no eternal harm will ever befall you.

Moveover rest assured if you do suffer for righteousness, you have not lost your reward. And your spiritual welfare, joy, salvation. and eternal life and rewards are always protected and made secure in Him.

PROVERBS 2:7 ... The Lord is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

2:8 Guarding the paths of justice, and He preserves the way of His godly ones.

PROVERBS 10:29 The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the upright,...

PROVERBS 14:26 In the fear of the Lord there is strong confidence, And his children will have refuge.