The Spirit Of Truth Is Speaking To You!

The Spirit Of Truth Is Speaking To You! John 16:13-15 " When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine. For this reason, I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.”This verse talks about the Holy Spirit, the gift the Lord sent us when Jesus went to heaven.  In this verse, it talks about various aspects of the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit came to us for several reasons.  This verse first discusses that it is the Spirit of truth and that He will guide us into all the truth.  This is important because it reminds us that we can trust what we hear from the Holy Spirit.  This verse reminds us that what we hear from the Holy Spirit comes directly from the Lord.  The Spirit is not speaking on His own; He is telling us what He heard the Father say.  It also says that He will declare to us what will come.  This is important because it reminds us that we have someone on our side.  We can ask the Holy Spirit questions, and He will answer.  This doesn’t mean that we will never be taken by surprise or that we will know everything that will happen to us throughout the day.  This means the Holy Spirit can prepare us for what is coming if we allow Him.  In order to allow Him to help us prepare for what is coming, we need to set aside time to listen to Him.  We need to pay attention to what He says and not just listen and then let it go.Our prayer group sets aside a time each week when we are quiet and listen for the words of the Holy Spirit.  We record these words.  We then type everything that was said, and we give those notes to the Discernment team.  This team then discerns what we think the Lord’s call, proclamation, promise, and directive was for that month. We then put this information from the Holy Spirit onto a bookmark so that our whole group can remember the words that were said and we can incorporate them into our everyday lives.  We can use these words to strengthen us and prepare us for what is to come. For instance this is the latest bookmark: “My call to each one of you is very personal. It is not amessage for everyone. It is intimate, personal, all-loving, and all-consuming. From the beginning, I spoke, and my Word created new life. I speak again today through my holy Word to each of your hearts. I create new life. I renew, replenish, and fill you with grace and mercy that I wish you to share with others. I watch over you, my children. I break the sword of the enemy who would come against you. I will defend you in battle. I have sent you the power of the Spirit, and he will give you all that you need to do what you have been called to do. You are the anointing I send to the world. Be not afraid. I am with you. My Spirit will speak through you the words that I wish to say. When I say you can, don’t tell me you can’t. Smile that today I send you.”These words were spoken to our prayer group over the course of a month.  We recorded them because we did not want to forget them.  However, we receive many words each week, and it would be difficult to remember all of them.  This is where the discernment team comes in.  There are four of us on the team, and we all read through all the words given that month on our own and come up with what we think the Lord wants everyone to remember.  We then come together and see if we have chosen the same things.  Most of the time, we have at least two people who picked the same thing for each category so we will go with that.  Occasionally, we all pick different words; if that is the case, we will pray and ask the Lord to lead us to the one He wants us to use.I think if you were to look at the four categories we use to make our bookmarks, it migh