How You Can Be Led by the Spirit of God by Kenneth E. Hagin

How You Can Be Led by the Spirit of God Reviews

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  cloudyskye

  Kenneth Hagin has such a vast knowledge of the Bible, and the gift to make things easily understood. No big words, just big truths and many for instances and real life stories. I find all his books very liberating, pointing to the Word (and Jesus is the Word!) and helping to identify and unlearn wrong, unbiblical thinking. The appendices to this edition are an added, valuable bonus. Another keeper.
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  Christopher Lewis Kozoriz

  "We are not to seek voices.
  
  We should not follow voices.
  
  We should follow the Word of God." (Kenneth E. Hagin, How You Can Be Led by the Spirit of God, Page 87)
  
  Kenneth Hagin, a well-known minister in charismatic circles who is no longer with us in the body, but is present with the Lord, teaches what he says he was mandated by God to teach on: How you can be led by the Spirit of God.
  
  He says, we should not be led by mind, but we should be led by the spirit. That our spirit bears witness with God's Spirit. Often times, we will get a check in our spirit about things; however, we ignore this and go with what our head says and this can lead us into trouble. He doesn't say to throw away your brains, but to use the spirit that God has given you in combination with your mind and body. I can attest to this personally, as I have had instances in my life where there was a check in my spirit about something, but I ignored it and went with my head or my body, this caused me grief in the end. If only I would have listened to my spirit and the Holy Spirit. But there is good news, God's love covers all our wrongs even when we do miss it (See 1 Peter 4:8). All our mistakes are on the cross both past and present.
  
  There were a few funny stories in this book that had me laughing out load. He has a great sense of humour. When speaking on the subject of thanksgiving, he said this that made me laugh:
  
  

  "There are too many people in the church who are full of griping and complaining, instead of being full of thanksgiving. They've always got something to grip about. I've heard people say, "They don't let me sing in the choir." Well, they don't let me sing in the choir either. They may have heard both of us, and that's the reason they don't!" (page 161).

  
  
  Let the Spirit of God lead and guide you into all truth. This book will give you tools and examples of how to be led by the Holy Ghost! This is by no means an exhaustive book on the Holy Spirit and I believe from the books I have read by Kenneth Hagin that he had an incomplete knowledge of Spiritual Gifts, as he only mentions the 9 gifts of the Spirit, when clearly there are more than this amount of spiritual gifts in the Body of Christ. I would highly recommend C. Peter's Wagner book
  Your Spiritual Gifts Can Help Your Church Grow for a more comprehensive teaching on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Still a great book on the Holy Spirit through with a much needed focus on being led of the Spirit.
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  Dianelys R

  “When you pray in tongues, your mind grows quiet— because you are not praying out of your mind. And once your mind is quiet, you become more conscious of your own spirit, and of spiritual things.
  Get out of the sense realm. Get out of the flesh realm. Get out of the human reasoning realm.
  Get over into the faith realm and into the spirit realm. Faith is of the spirit—and that's where great things happen!”
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  Nicole Rainey

  This, among others by Kenneth E. Hagin, is a life changing read. Highly recommend it.
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  Tal

  this was a good look as an overview of being led by the spirit of god. there were many good illustrations of points. there were many times, though, that i wish he had gone into greater depth. there were some points, in light of new things that i am learning, that i realized didn't really fit in with what i believe. i love that he talked about prophesy and its proper use. i also love that he focused mainly on the inwards witness. i am very glad for the opportunity to read this book.
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  Crystal Cotton

  Removes the shroud of mystery around how, not a detailed step by step, a guide. Read, then step out in faith and do.
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  Eva Nieves

  Whoa, what a gem! If you want to dig deeper in your relationship with God, read this book!
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  Jean

  I read this book 5 years ago but it bears reading again....
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  Krzysiek Troszczyński

  I read a lot, and that's the best book I have ever read about communication with God and being lead by Him. That simple yet profound book is - as we use to say it in Poland - a real eye-opener.
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  Bishop Patricia

  THIS BOOK REALY HELP ME TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE SPIRIT OF GOD
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  Yula

  The truths contained in this book will change your life for the better.Its a must have!
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  Mary Lou

  Kenneth Hagin is unashamedly a Full Gospel minister. His theology is based on the reality and work of the Holy Spirit, and it’s in that context that he writes the book How You Can Be Led by the Spirit of God (Legacy Edition, Faith Library Publications, 2006). Admittedly, there are some teachings in the book that seem a bit out of the ordinary to mainstream Christianity, but the book’s contents need to be seriously considered because most of what he says is clearly Biblically based. When we refuse to consider theological positions that are a bit outside our own experience, we risk “putting the brakes” on the Spirit. Jesus Himself “could not do mighty works in Nazareth because of the people’s unbelief”(Mt. 13:58). Similarly in Mark 6, when a man who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech was brought to Jesus for healing, Jesus “took him aside from the multitude” to heal him.” In a “conversation Hagin had with Jesus about this text:
  “The Lord asked me, Why do you think I took him aside from the multitude?”
  I don’t know,” I said. “I’ve always wondered.”
  The Lord said, “I couldn’t heal him in that multitude. There was too much unbelief there”(How You Can Be Led By the Spirit of God by Kenneth Hagin, Faith Library, 1978, pp. 195-196.)
  Hagin distinguishes between the role of the body, the soul and the spirit and contends that much of people’s efforts to be guided by God is based in their feelings (their body) or their mind (their rational thinking processes). But he maintains that a true Christian is one who is born again in the spirit and that spirit is where the Holy Spirit comes to dwell. Christians can be guided by God if they will be attentive to how the Spirit leads their spirit, in harmony with the Words of the Bible. For example, he heard what seemed to be a voice in his head saying “Today thou shall surely die…and so he prepared to die. But then repeatedly the Spirit brought a scripture to his mind—the 91st Psalm—‘with long life I will satisfy Him and show Him my salvation.’ Eventually he realized it was God speaking, and that the devil had spoken a lie into his mind. He hadn’t yet learned to distinguish between words of scripture from the Holy Spirit and Satan’s lies. Then he rebuked the devil and rose up to continue living” (pp. 92-95).
  Guidance and recognizing the voice of God is a major issue for most people. Christians need to understand what the Bible says about this topic. As I read this book, I found much that challenged and perhaps corrected a mainstream view of the kind of walk with God where guidance is possible in the Spirit. For this Hagin is to be applauded and seriously studied. (4 stars.) ML Codman-Wilson, Ph.D. 5/4/2017
  
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  John

  I think this is one of Hagins book that exemplifies him very well. I all the books I've read of his, he goes into his own story of his childhood healing and conversion(I suspect that the accounts in each book diverge a little, so it could be fun to collect the stories into one) this being no exception. Hagin is not a great theologian and not at all a scholar. He can measure other peoples capacity increases in percentages and is never specific about "a pastor I once knew" or "a woman once came to me..." or people in the stories making them all very little verifiable and even more so easy to exaggerate. I suspect Hagin not to know all the details, especially the psychological but also the exact hows when it's about what made people rich - his solution is usually a spiritual decision. What Hagin seems to know is the Bible, and that is the most I can say to his credit - but even then he seems to occasionally misuse scripture. In this book, the topic is the Spirit, and he uses a lot of the book to describe how things can go wrong and how they are right. This book includes visions and angels and all that what seems a bit strange and that I am reluctant to take his word on. How there are different voices and how there are the right ones. It's very ambiguous though when he, in the end, reduces it all back to conscience and intuition and tells us to be fast to follow them if we are born again. For me, it seems that both his followers and Christians in general, are too fast to follow. And Hagin, he is fast to write. And pretty fast to read. So, 3 stars may be a bit too high, but as a Hagin book, it will suffice.
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  Heather Martinez

  Great book by Kenneth Hagin. Older book. Copy write from 1986 but still relevant for today. The title of the book tells the overall story. It is about the Holy Spirit working inside the believer as what Kenneth Hagin calls, "The Inward Witness." Our spirit bears witness with the Spirit of God that we are sons of God. Learning to listen to that inward witness is what every believer needs to learn. That inward witness is connected to the Spirit of God & helps us in our times of need. Overall, this was a great little book. Very insightful and informative. If you want to learn more about how the Holy Spirit operates in the life of a believer by the inner leading, than this book is for you.
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  Lori D

  I was suggested this book by many when being led astray. After much research about the things mentioned in his book, I find much of it to be unbiblical. This book falls into the Word of Faith/Prosperity gospel. I suggest readers to use discernment.
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  Bright

  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
  - Romans 8:14
  The Spirt Himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.
  - Romans 8:16
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  Laura

  I was encouraged by the stories Kenneth told especially in his own life. The book pointed me to the Word which is important for anything we read. It has helped me learn how to be built up to be led by the Spirit of God. A good read!
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  Caryl

  I so enjoyed this teaching on being led by the Spirit of God! It's well written. A must read for those who want a deeper walk with the Lord.
  
  An excellent resource!
  
  I purchased my copy. I've expressed my honest view.
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  Jannette S.

  The first book read by Mr. Hagin. Read it over and over again.
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  Danielle

  Praising God.
  
  AMAZING. I have grown so much and learned more and more every time I read. I am now, going to read it, again.
  Thank you.