Sensitive to God- Part 3: Holy Spirit

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. Hebrews 3:7-13 (KJV)

The Holy Ghost says if we will hear His voice, meaning that it is possible for us to hear Him. And when we hear Him, we should not harden our hearts by disobeying Him. We harden our hearts by not obeying His voice, by not doing what He instructs us to. The more we disobey, the harder we become and it dulls our sensitivity to God’s voice. The more we listen and obey Him, the more our hearts stay tender, soft, and sensitive to what God tells us.

Israel didn’t listen to what God said in the wilderness. They didn’t believe Him when He said He would provide for them and take them into the land He had for them. They let unbelief creep in and their hearts became harder and harder, departing from God. They failed to resist sin and were full of unbelief, complaining, and rebellion against authority.

We must heed God’s warning not to follow their example. We need to hear and obey the Holy Spirit to keep our hearts right before God. We must guard our hearts from an evil heart of unbelief by keeping the Word before us, speaking the Word, doing the Word, and praying in the Spirit. As we pray in the Holy Ghost and stay in the Word, we are led by the Word and the Spirit. And our hearts remain sensitive to the leading of the Holy Ghost.