{"id":66959,"date":"2023-11-08T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=66959"},"modified":"2023-11-08T00:08:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T06:08:02","slug":"promptings-by-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=66959","title":{"rendered":"Promptings by the Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In a book recently published by Hope Publishing Co., Edmund McDavid, III said it again. In answer to his own question, \u201cDoes God\u2019s Spirit testify to me that I am a Christian?\u201d he quoted Romans 8:16: \u201cThe Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God\u2019s children.\u201d Then, on the basis of this quotation, he went on to ask the reader, \u201cDo you have promptings from the Holy Spirit that convince you that he indwells you\u2014that you are a Christian?\u201d Without further discussion or explanation of the verse (he assumes that one will agree that it teaches the Spirit not only prompts a Christian, but\u00a0<em>thereby<\/em>\u00a0assures him of his salvation) he goes on to another point, seemingly thinking that mere citation is sufficient to verify his view.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are serious problems with this all-too-frequent misuse of Paul\u2019s words. Let me mention two:<\/p>\n<p>  Neither the term \u201cprompt,\u201d nor anything like it, ever occurs in the Scriptures as a means of assurance. The Bible allows for no such personal, individual revelation. People may have what they\u00a0<em>think<\/em>\u00a0are hunches, promptings, and the like, that originate from the Holy Spirit, but they have no biblical basis for interpreting these inner feelings as such. In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a book recently published by Hope Publishing Co., Edmund McDavid, III said it again. In answer to his own question, \u201cDoes God\u2019s Spirit testify to me that I am a Christian?\u201d he quoted Romans 8:16: \u201cThe Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God\u2019s children.\u201d Then, on the basis of this quotation, &#8230;<br \/>\nThe post Promptings by the Spirit appeared first on Institute for Nouthetic Studies | Biblical Counseling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":66961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[285],"tags":[58,4427,447,4428,145,32,884,4433,1453,1895,3261,5674,230],"class_list":["post-66959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-nouthetic-studies-jay-adams","tag-acbc","tag-acbc-training","tag-bible","tag-biblical","tag-biblical-counseling","tag-counseling","tag-counseling-training","tag-guidance","tag-holy-spirit","tag-nouthetic","tag-nouthetic-counseling","tag-promptings","tag-theology","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cropped-Favicon-32x32-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66962,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66959\/revisions\/66962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}