What is your inner witness? It's God's Spirit through your spirit letting you know exactly where you are at! At its most basic level this inner witness tells you that you are God's child.

The Spirit also bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. (Romans 8:16 - NKJV)

On its daily operational level your inner witness tells you when you're in the right place doing the right thing. How does it do this? It does this by witnessing to what's happening in your heart. It's very similar to what Paul told the Colossians to do when he wrote to them saying,

Let the peace of God rule in your hearts. (Colossians 3:15 - NKJV)

Paul was telling the Colossians that they were to let God's peace umpire in their hearts. They were to let it adjudicate what was rightly placed and rightly done. I often tell Pastor Jessie that this is my spiritual compass.

You can know whether you are rightly placed and doing things rightly by letting God's peace be umpire. When a sense of well-being and prospering is arising in your heart,  you know you are in God's plan. Your hunger for God increases daily.

What if your inner witness is that you're not in God's plan? Then you look to the Holy Spirit to bear you on to where His peace rules you are in it. What you'll get is His prompting. The Holy Spirit will prompt you. He'll prompt you to act, to speak, to move, to do whatever is necessary to get you in motion. Once you're in motion, He can pick you up from where you are and take you forward to where you should be.

So now we serve not under (obedience to) the old code of written regulations, but (under obedience to the promptings) of the Spirit in newness (of life). (Romans 7:6 - Amplified Bible)

The promptings of the Holy Spirit - like the inner witness of the Holy Spirit - come from within and they require the believer to be sensitive. You can't be noisy and rough in character, conduct or attitude if you want to be prompted by God's Spirit. In my younger days I would love loud praise and worship music, but now I prefer the gentle soft music, like the kind my son David plays on the keyboard in church. There is a mighty holy presence that comes when he plays gently on that keyboard. I can hear the voice of the Holy Spirit so distinctly during these times. God spoke through David saying,

Be still, and know that I am God. (Psalm 46:10 - NKJV)

The Holy Spirit is a gentleman. He does not force Himself on a believer nor does He insist a believer follow His prescribed course of action. On the contrary, the Holy Spirit prompts us towards a particular course of action and it is then up to us whether we respond to that prompting or not.

Remember, God always waits for us where He last spoke to us. If His voice is silent, its because we have move out of His plan. Come back to where He last spoke to you, the last instruction He gave you. If you have not fulfilled it, He is waiting there.

Siva Moodley