 We see this woman She sees this prophet who passed her by who came for a meal and now she decides to host him in her house And she sets up four pieces of furniture and these four pieces of furniture Was to accommodate the men of God who was coming by and Today I just wanted to prophetically look and digest just simple simple Instruction of how these four pieces of furniture actually relate to four facets of your relationship with the Holy Spirit in your life. What happens next was The Bible says that he put a lamp in that room the lamp Speaks the Bible says in proverbs that the lamp of the Lord the spirit of a man is a lamp of The Lord this is your spirit Your spirit Has no effect on your spiritual life when you don't know Jesus Christ And to follow your God like Oprah says When your God has not been following your God, it will lead you into a rut To follow your spirit when your spirit has not been born again is like following this lamp in the dark How many of you know this lamp in the dark is not gonna give you any elimination in direction? Are you with me and so until your spirit is born again your spirit is dead And therefore to follow your God, or I'm just gonna follow what what my my heart is saying your heart is dark Even though it's painted white It produces no light and so the Bible says that the spirit of the man is the lamp of the Lord When we develop intimacy with the Holy Spirit the second facet of our relationship with the Holy Spirit is to learn his voice And I want to share with you just practically on how to hear the voice of God We have to understand Jesus said my sheep. They know my voice. He didn't say my sheep. They only know my words To know the voice of God is the greatest privilege in life Because when you know what God wants you to do you don't have to compete with your neighbor You don't have to be jealous of someone else because you know what's expected of you And you know that it doesn't matter what oh somebody else is doing what God asks you to do is really what matters in life Are you with me? To know the voice of the Lord is the greatest treasure in life and to know God's voice is not that difficult. I Want to show you something about the lamp In order for the lamp to shine the first thing that must happen is the cord has to be connected to the power and That means intimacy with the Holy Spirit Whatever you are filled with You will be led by meaning When you're filled with the Holy Spirit you will begin to sense his leading in your life The Bible says when the Holy Spirit filled Jesus only then Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit Jesus was not led by the Holy Spirit until he was filled with the Holy Spirit The focus is not to hear God's voice The focus of our life has to be to be filled with God's Spirit because when you feel with God's Spirit You will be able to discern his voice automatically When I was younger, I prayed and I fasted as a God I want to hear your voice and I try to pay attention But it's actually a lot more simpler if you don't focus on hearing God But you focus on being filled with God you'll be able to discern between his voice your voice your neighbor's voice The devil's voice and the society's voice the same way you discern your voice and your mama's voice Why because you know her why because you're close to her and in order to hear the voice of God You got to be filled with the Spirit of God that means constantly feel yourself with the Holy Scriptures Constantly fast constantly pray constantly feel yourself with memorizing the Bible Constantly feel yourself with surrounding yourself with believers constantly surround yourself in a small group So you are filled with the Spirit of God and it will be interesting how the same thoughts came to you before But now they're not going to be your thoughts They're going to be Holy Spirit speaking and giving insights and whispers to you That would be leading of the Holy Spirit Are you with me? Are you with me? Say amen if you're still here Not only the lamp is connected But I want you to see this This lamp has to be on a socket For it to produce light Not only you have to develop a prayer life and an intimacy with the Holy Spirit where you're filled But the second thing that I believe is very important to hearing the voice of God Is that you got to go on a socket of the Holy Scriptures in order for what you hear not to be deception heresy and delusion It's called the Holy Scripture the Holy Spirit never leaves us outside of the boundaries of the Holy Scriptures Amen It means the Holy Spirit will not tell you to marry a drug dealer The Holy Spirit is not going to tell you To go and make money by selling your body on the street The Holy Spirit is not going to go against the Holy Scripture Why because the author doesn't contradict his writing. He is the author of the Bible There was four writers But he was the only one author in the Bible and the Holy Spirit doesn't contradict the Holy Scriptures. Are you with me church? Amen And thirdly, that's I believe and this is very important is When you start hearing God make sure you have some people who cover your voices I Call them mantras and pastors Because when you start hearing God you actually can sometimes miss God and end up in a problem And therefore you have to have a pastor around you A home group leader around you A youth pastor around you Somebody who is older in the Lord Who you can sometimes double check things with and if you're married, of course your spouse People will say well if God spoke to me, I don't need nobody to approve it I don't doubt the ability that you hear God The only problem is that you have a filter inside of you through which you hear God with And secondly is the bible says in the new testament let one or two prophesy and the rest judge Interesting if God is speaking why does God give us the right and the command to judge his voice It's not the voice of God we judge. It's the fact the vessel God is using can be polluted Have you heard prophets whom God uses powerfully but they're so judgmental? Why because the vessel is judgmental The Holy Spirit is not going to overpower you the Holy Spirit will flow through your personality Through your knowledge through your tradition the Holy Spirit will flow through you and therefore in order to protect your life Always be submitted to your pastor even though God speaks to you Because if you're not submitted to your pastor if you're not submitted to the leadership in the church And you develop a prophetic anointing where you start hearing God and seeing business and all the time But in your life, there is no fruit. You might end up as being a crazy nut Not a spiritual fruit and the prophetic will quickly slip into pathetic And very soon you will find yourself not being productive in the kingdom of God I cannot tell you how many times I felt strongly The Lord led me to something and I double checked with my wife and my wife beat that out of me quickly Double checked with my pastor and my pastor will say Vlad, but he's sure this is the lord But i'm not sure this is the right time Without the covering your light will blind other people But with the covering your light begins to illuminate your life can somebody say amen Somebody say intimacy Somebody say leading of the Holy Spirit