SPIRIT SENSE

SPIRIT SENSE (PART 1) One of the major things an avid bible student would notice are the lofty promise it contains for the believer. Naturally, these promises produce a healthy dose of joy in the heart of the student. Sadly, this joy can quickly become frustration because very few believers experience a manifestation of God’s promises in their lives. This has led many to conclude that these promises are either not meant for everybody or impossible to achieve. However, a closer study of the bible reveals conditions to fulfill to experience these promise. One of them is Faith. Several scriptures underscore the importance of faith in receiving God’s promises. Having established the importance of faith, it is important to say a few things on faith itself. For me, faith is (i) Believing the possibility of the promise located in God’s word. (ii) Believing in the capacity and integrity of the one who made the promise so much that you know he would perform his words. Carefully meditating on these definitions, it is clear how the enemy gets to work to make sure believers do not experience God’s promise. Although they believe in God, he convinces believers of the impracticability of God’s promise by appealing to their five senses (COMMON SENSE). To further nail the coffin, the enemy brings way more “Common Sense” people preferably those we respect is that we believe them saying to ourselves “this does not make sense”. At this point, it becomes completely impossible to experience God’s promises in our lives. After experiencing this for the better part of my Christian life I found God’s mercy. He suddenly revealed to me that all the people that experience God’s promises in their lives do not relate with Gods promises their common sense. Consider Abraham, a 75years Old man whom God promised a child and he believed it till the child eventually came when he was a hundred years Old and his wife 90years. Common sense would have him told him it was impossible; (common sense spoke to his wife) when he spoke of the promise to people around him I imagine them telling him what you are saying does not make (common) sense. Yet he was able to hold on to the promise till it manifested in his life. I believe this is because he said to common sense SHUT UP. Also consider with me the case in the scripture when the man of God suddenly said in the midst of famine that by this time tomorrow there would be “Super” Abundance. Imagine the most respected prophet in Nigeria saying “by this time tomorrow $I would be equivalent to #1. Just like the Kings adviser in that bible story common sense is crashing the operating system of your mind. In the end, the king’s adviser witnesses the manifestation of God’s promise but he did not experience it. When Abraham said SHUT UP to common sense, he opened the door of his mind to another kind of sense. A friend of mine aptly named it SPIRIT SENSE. Apostle Paul spoke of spirit sense when he said that the carnal mind (common sense) cannot discern the things of God because they are spiritually (SPIRIT SENSE) discerned. According to Paul, you cannot understand God unless you operate with SPIRIT SENSE. This is because God is a spirit therefore his thoughts and language are of the spirit. As such they require Spirit Sense to decode his thoughts words and action. Secondly the capacity of common sense is infinitesimal when compared to Spirit Sense. An attempt to deploy common sense to understand and relate with Spirit information is like trying to perform a task that requires a computer with 4 GB hard disk with a computer with 258Mb hard disk. That computer would malfunction and even crash sometimes. Incase you are wondering why I wrote this piece, it is to encourage us believers (Myself inclusive) not to let go of the promise of our Father because it is bigger than our common sense can understand. When the enemy tells you that a certain promise of God for your live does not make common sense tell him that it makes Spirit Sense. Because that’s the truth; we may not be able to comprehend God’s promises with our common sense. But in our Spirits we know all things including the fact that our God can do what he says would do. Let’s not loose hope rather lets place our hope in God. FOR HE WOULD DO WHAT HE SAYS HE WOULD DO. GOD BLESS YOU. N.B If this piece has blessed you. Please take a minute to do the following, Comment with God’s promise you have found in any area of our life and hash tag it makes Spirit Sense. E.g. the world belongs to me. #it makes Spirit Sense#. Let’s make this hash tag go viral. You would be blessing somebody. PLEASE WATCH OUT FOR THE CONCLUDING PART OF THIS PIECE. TITLED “DEVELOPING SPIRIT SENSE”