IS THAT YOU, GOD?
How to Know When It is God Speaking to You
Point of Grace - Pflugerville, Texas
November 1, 2026
INTRODUCTION
Revelation 2:29
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Job 33:14a
For God does speak - now one way, now another…
John 14:26 (Ph)
The Holy Spirit will be your teacher and will bring to your mind all I have said to you.
Luke 2:27
Moved by the Spirit, he went to the temple courts.
Luke 4:1
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert.
Nehemiah 7:4-5a
Now the city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and the houses had not yet been rebuilt. So my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the common people for registration by families.
1 John 4:1
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
John 10:27
My sheep LISTEN to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
I. LINE UP WITH Scripture?
Luke 1:33
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
Galatians 1:8
But even if we or an angel from Heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preach to you, let him be eternally condemned!
Acts 17:11
Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.
I. LINE UP WITH SCRIPTURE?
II. INCONSISTENT WITH MY OLD NATURE?
1 Peter 2:11
Dear friends, l urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.
III. STRETCH MY FAITH?
1 Peter 1:6-7
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have to suffer grief and all kinds of trials. These trials have come so that your faith - of greater worth than gold - may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
IV. TRACK WITH CHRISTIAN COUNSEL?
Ephesians 3:10a
God's intent is that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known.
V. EMPHASIZE CONVICTION INSTEAD OF CONDEMNATION?
Romans 8:1
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
VI. NUDGE ME PERSISTENTLY?
1 Samuel 3
"Samuel, Samuel, Samuel."
John 21
"Peter, do you love me? Peter, do you love me? Peter, do you love me?”
VII. SENSE GOD'S PEACE
1 Corinthians 14:33
God is not a god of confusion but of peace.
CONCLUSION