But it's still what you think. In other words, your opinion = HS. I don't buy it. I am sorry, I don't mean to be disrespectful.
I can tell you that I believe that prayer, fasting and humility give us blessed answers, and I can tell you that I have experienced something I can best describe as God gently putting me back on track, and bringing tears to my eyes for being so ungrateful to Him, but I can equally convince myself that all this is a Spirit-led journey of learning and illumination that leads me to higher levels of spirituality and, indeed, life itself as God created it, and feel perfectly elated.
But it’s still what you think. In other words, your opinion = HS. I don’t buy it. I am sorry, I don’t mean to be disrespectful.
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I don’t feel disrespected, thankfully. Maybe we are mostly beyond that. Hope so. I do love you dearly.
And, certainly, kosta50, learning to discern, distinguish between one’s own mental noise and self-talk and Holy Spirit can be an increaingly refined life task—at least for some of us who can seem like very slow learners.
Yet, Holy Spirit is able to “yell quietly” when He needs or wants to. And, when we learn to FOLLOW AFTER PEACE, over time, we learn that there’s a very distinct difference between OPINION and HOLY SPIRIT’S VOICE.
VERY TYPICALLY, HOLY SPIRIT WILL SAY SOMETHING VERY CONTRARY to our private, personal opinions about this or that. Often pulling us up short and causing a kind of shocked OHHHHHHHHHH! WOW. WELLLL, Goodness, HS, hadn’t seen THAT before. Hadn’t thought of it THAT way before.
Eventually, personal opinion just has a whole different character about it.