How should believers expect to hear from the Holy Spirit?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Well, hi there, I'm Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program

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at Core Christianity.com. And first up today, here's a voicemail we received from James

in Wisconsin. God saved me last August after a really long time of living a life apart from the

Lord and I just was listening to your guys' radio and I heard Steve talking about obsessive,

compulsive thoughts and that kind of a thing. And recently I actually have been struggling with a song

that, you know, it was just kind of part of the roster that I used to listen to. And I don't know, I guess I must have been listening to some dance music. I'm getting married this year. I got a lot going on. We were trying to figure out if we wanted to have dancing at our wedding and stuff and listening to some medium. And I guess it just triggered this memory of this song. It's a really nasty song about some stuff that I just don't want to dwell on. It's not glorifying to the Lord, and I haven't been able to get it out of my head no matter what I do. I've tried, and I don't know what to do about all this. I know a lot of people get these things that call me your worms sometimes and I've been trying to replace it

with good stuff with honoring to the Lord like hymns and spiritual songs and that kind of stuff any

advice would be appreciated thank you very much keep keep doing what you're doing I would say James

one let me just say praise God that he drew you to himself and congratulations on your upcoming wedding. What a gift, man,

what a blessing. You know, sometimes those habits, those things that get stuck in our heads,

they're hard to kick, you know, especially if it's something that you really

identified with in your BC days, you know, before Christ, when you weren't walking with the Lord,

and maybe it was something that you really, you really enjoyed a particular kind of music.

And then you hear a song and it triggers all of those memories. It's like,

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