in MY spirit

TOPIC: Listening to the wrong voice

SCRIPTURE: "Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Woe to the foolish prophets who are following their own spirit and have seen nothing." (Ezekiel 13:3)

OBSERVATION: My Life Application Study has this to say about this portion of scripture: "This warning was specifically for false prophets, whose messages were NOT from God but were lies intended to win popularity by saying whatever made the people happy. False prophets did not care about the truth as Ezekiel did. They lulled people into a false sense of security, making Ezekiels's job even more difficult."

APPLICATION: As I was reading over this section, the words that caught my attention were, "following their own spirit".
These false prophet were following
THEIR
OWN
spirit.

Have you ever followed your own spirit?

Are you following your own spirit now?

Here what the Lord says to these guys
"It is NOT I who have spoken" (V.7)
" 'Behold, I am against you,' declare the Lord GOD." (v.8)

I could go on but I think you get the point.

It is not good to lead others by your own spirit!
much less yourself

I encourage you
to get alone with GOD
consistently

Learn to listen

Become familiar with His voice

That way you will be able to discern whose voice it is that you are hearing


PRAYER:Father God, help me to spend so much time with you that I will know beyond a shadow of a doubt whether or not it is you, me, or the enemy speaking!!!