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Hearing from God part 4, 2

May 15, 2012

Yesterday we talked about the things that another way in which we hear from God is through the communication of His spirit and ours. I also mentioned a few things that block our spirits and hence our ability to hear from Him. So today I want to pick up by looking other ways to charge our spirits.

We’ve covered some of the points on spirit charging when we talked about faith. You must spend time in the Word of God, you must pray, and so forth. But I just want to point out a few other things as the Holy Spirit leads me, which we can also use to charge our spirits.

Practice speaking in tongues. You are a spirit being. You have a language that your natural self can’t understand. If you don’t practice speaking it, you will become weak in it. It’s just like learning Spanish. Once you do, you’ll hear God’s voice. Don’t know how it works, but it does.
Do a “clean sweep”. It is the spirit of a man that sustains his infirmity (Prov 18:14), but if your spirit is filled with “Guck” (hurt, bitterness, anger, resentment, doubt, fear), you need to clean it out. Hate to use this example but those things will really constipate you spiritually, especially if you’re not taking enough “Living Water” on a regular basis. And so from time to time, you need to take a moment, sit down, concentrate and deal with stuff like that once in a while (they’ll keep popping up in life). You’ll feel so much lighter when you’re done ‘crapping’ them out! And you’ll hear God much clearer.
Fast. People don’t like to hear this word. It’s like “whoa!!! Ok that’s pushing it S”. But when you fast your flesh starts to weaken (that’s why your breath smells, and your perspiration…well you know). The more your flesh weakens, the more your spirit is strengthened. Perhaps some day I will talk on this, but if you really want to hear from God, go on a fast. A serious one where you give up food and anything fleshly and tap into His Word and so forth. I guarantee you you will always want your spirit to be alive.

Think Paul wraps up what I want to say pretty well. So let’s finish with that.

1 Cor 2: 11-16. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. ¹¹For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. ¹²What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. ¹³This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.¹⁴The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. ¹⁵The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, ¹⁶for,

“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”

But we have the mind of Christ.

You have the spirit of God in you. That means you already have a point of access to hear from God. Take charge of your spirit and keep it well and you will hear what He’s saying to you.

Posted by schadah in Uncategorized Tags: anger, bitterness, fasting, hearing, hurt, spirituality

Last weapon: Fasting

March 30, 2012

Ok…I know it’s late, but believe it or not, this is the first time that I am able to sit behind your computer.

I left fasting for last, because I know how difficult it would be to absorb this weapon for battle.

Many people fast for something. But I have yet to see in the bible, an event where someone fasted to receive something e.g. a relationship, or a car, or a husband. This is not to say that it is wrong, or that it is not in the bible, I just haven’t come across any.

I take my definition of fasting from Isaiah 58:6-9

Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:

to loose the chains of injustice

and untie the cords of the yoke,

to set the oppressed free

and break every yoke?

7Is it not to share your food with the hungry

and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—

when you see the naked, to clothe him,

and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

8Then your light will break forth like the dawn,

and your healing will quickly appear;

then your righteousness will go before you,

and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.

9Then you will call, and the Lord will answer;

you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.

Our bodies like food. Really. We eat when we’re not even hungry. But just as our bodies like food, so do our spirits. Just as how what you feed your body makes it happy or sad, what you feed your spirit man will make it happy or sad. Fasting from food is a time that you set aside to tell your body to starve so that your spirit can be nurtured. When you fast therefore, your fleshly taste buds become hungry, and your spiritual taste buds become satisfied by the Word of God.

Fasting is a weapon for a number of reasons.

1. Every soldier needs to be able to be swift in the spirit. If you’re constantly feeding your flesh (through TV, Music, Food, Clothing, and other material things) you become carnally fat, and your spirit starves. In a spiritual battle, you need to be swift and able to move across territory. If your spirit is weak, then you will faint in the time of battle.

2. To detoxify your flesh and your spirit man. Look, face it! Sometimes we need a good cleaning out naturally and spiritually from all the toxins.

3. To increase your faith. Once detoxified, you are able to increase in faith, because your temple is not blocked with wastes of worry and anxiety, fear, anger, etc. In fact, when you are truly fasting, your only focus is on God. So having this constant, continual communion with Him increases your faith.

4. Every soldier needs to be able to think clearly. I like to think of fasting as a binoculars. You don’t go into battle without binoculars to see what’s going on ahead of you. When you fast, you open your mind to think clearly about what God wants you to think. Think about it this way. If you eat a lot of carbs, you are likely to experience what I called “ethnic fatigue”, where you are prone to sleep or experience a siesta at leisure. It’s at that time that you are likely to miss the signals that your Commander in Chief is giving you. When you fast, it’s the reverse. your mind is alert and able to hear God clearly about his direction of how to operate in battle. Fasting therefore enables you to have direction, and clear understanding.

For me, fasting is about opening your frequency channels for crisp transmission to hear God more. It’s not so much about fasting to receive something, but when your frequency channels open up, you can see and hear in the spirit more than you can on a regular basis.

Now it’s important to know that the enemy will try very hard to deprive you of this weapon, because it enables you to see what he’s up to. And so he will give us temptations for foods and things that will hinder us from focusing on the spirit.

But if you can take this weapon by force, you will be surprise of all the benefits such as:

1. it lifts heavy burdens.

2. breaks yokes,

3. breaks spiritual attacks

4. brings healing.

Note you don’t need to fast to receive these things. Rather, WHEN you fast, your spirit is opened to increase your faith to receive these things.

So ask yourself… when was the last time you fasted for your growth.

Posted by schadah in Uncategorized Tags: bondage, fasting, God, good, growth, hearing, maturity, yokes

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