Any prompting from the Holy Spirit must be checked against Scripture. Emotions, pride, and fear often filter what we think we hear from God, leading us to contradict biblical truth without realizing it. Knowing the Bible is how you catch the subtle contradictions.
Anything the Holy Spirit speaks to you is going to be backed by his word. And what happens is we'll go based on our emotions, we'll filter through pride or through fear or through unforgiveness or through just exterior reasoning, and we don't recognize that we're in many instances contradicting the word of God. Now, we don't do this intentionally. We want to align with the word of God, but you'll never know you're contradicting a truth if you don't know that truth. And there are many truths. You, you go from Genesis to Revelation, you're going to see many truths that reveal the nature of God. You're going to see many different scriptures that reveal his likes and his dislikes. And sometimes these things are subtle. Sometimes these things aren't so blatant as, oh yes, avoid sexual sin, or yes, we shouldn't lie. But it can be something as simple as withholding a favor from someone. It's in your power to help them and you withhold it anyway. That's not biblical. And as you learn his nature and his mind, you become more like him.
