The Lord guides a man taught in the spirit. This man will seek good counsel. A spirit led man will examine himself before passing judgment on someone else. He does not sit in judgment with sinners. Matters that have nothing to do with him, he does not meddle within.
This spirit led man bears the infirmities of the weak. If he has not first advocated with the Father over a matter, he will allow the stronger spiritual advisor or Holy Spirit to intervene. He will learn before he speaks; a kind of man that learns what love is before declaring it to someone. Becoming well learned before attempting to teach or advising in matters of business. Not the kind of man that buys a plane before learning how to fly one.
The spirit leads this man to receive God’s counsel first, that he not hear later, “If they had stood in my counsel” like master and apprentice, before relying on their own understanding. We men of the spirit take the advice of God. Although it is His advice, spirit led men are bound to it as if God imposed legal obligation upon them like a party to an agreement. The advice of God is like a system of rules that governs life if followed.
Learn of the ways of God, receive counsel, and take His divine advice. In our Heavenly Father we have obtained an inheritance that has been prearranged according to the purpose of Him who works all things after the counsel of His own will. In all things, praise His glory, because we first trusted Him. Amen
Read Ecclesiasticus, also known as the Book of Sirach. Not to be confused with the Book of Ecclesiastes.
Ecclesiasticus 11:9
“Strive not in a matter that concerneth thee not; and sit not in judgment with sinners.”
King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiasticus 11:10
“My son, meddle not with many matters: for if thou meddle much, thou shalt not be innocent; and if thou follow after, thou shalt not obtain, neither shalt thou escape by fleeing.”
King James Version (KJV)
Sirach 18:19
Good News Translation
Self-examination
19 “Know what you are talking about before you speak, and give attention to your health before you get sick.”
Sirach 32:19
Good News Translation
19 “Never do anything without thinking it through, and once you have done something, don’t look back and wish you had done something else.”
Jeremiah 23:22
King James Version
22 “But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.”
Ephesians 1:11
King James Version
11 “In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:”