Spirit Intuition

Excerpt- 'When the Holy Spirit discloses the matters pertaining to God He does so not to our mind nor to any other organ but to our spirit.

God knows this is the sole place in man which can apprehend man’s things as well as His things. The mind is not the place for knowing these things. While it is true that the mind can think and conceive many matters, it nonetheless cannot know them. From this we can appreciate how highly God esteems the regenerated spirit of man.

Before new birth man’s spirit was dead. God had no way of unfolding His mind to such a man. The cleverest brain fails to know the mind of God.

Both God’s fellowship with man and man’s worship of God are contingent upon the regenerated spirit of man.

Without this revitalized component God and man are hopelessly separated—neither can come or go to the other. The first step towards communion between God and man must be this quickening of man’s spirit.

Because man enjoys a free will he has authority to decide his own matters. That explains why he continues to encounter many temptations following new birth. Due to his foolishness or perhaps his prejudice he may not yield the rightful position to his spirit and its intuition. God accepts this spirit as the one place where He will commune with man and man with Him. But the believer still walks by his mind or emotion. How many times he completely ignores the voice of intuition. His principle of living is to adhere to what he himself considers reasonable, beautiful, delightful, or interesting. Even should he have a heart to do God’s will, he usually will take either his impulsive idea or his more logical thought as the mind of God, not realizing that what he ought to follow is the thought expressed by the Holy Spirit in his intuition. He sometimes may be willing to hear the voice of intuition, but failing to keep his feelings quiet he finds that voice blurred and confused.

Walking after the spirit consequently becomes an occasional affair instead of forming a daily continuous experience in the Christian’s life.'  The Spiritual Man - Watchman Nee

Do we believe in this- Spirit Intuition?

Act 2:36  Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. 

Act 2:37  Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? 

1Pe 1:22  Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: 

1Pe 1:23  Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 

1Pe 1:24  For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 

1Pe 1:25  But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. 

Pricked in our hearts- don't we get pricked in our hearts when the Holy Spirit speaks to us?  What do we call this- the pricking of our hearts? It's not us speaking to ourselves or pricking our own hearts. The Holy Spirit speaks to us.

Through the Spirit we can be purified. Through the Spirit we can love with a pure heart.  When we are born again in Christ we are born of the Spirit all through the Word of God. The Spirit is alive in us.

2Th 2:13  But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth

Through sanctification of the Spirit we live! The Spirit gives us the truth we are to believe, our eyes opened, our hearts opened to the truth found in God's word.

1Th_4:8  He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

We are given the Holy Spirit!, God's Holy Spirit, and logic tells us- if nothing else- that we would not be given the Holy Spirit if the Holy Spirit were to do nothing at all with us.

1Th_5:19  Quench not the Spirit.

We are not to quench the Spirit. 

Eph 4:30  And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 

We are sealed by the Holy Spirit of God.

The Holy Spirit has to live in us in a REAL way.

Remember-

“God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth” (John 4.24).

1Co 2:12  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 

1Co 2:13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 

1Co 2:14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 

We MUST comprehend the Holy Spirit in us by the grace and mercy of our LORD and SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST!

Spirit intuition, perhaps describing the Spirit in us - communing in us - as Spirit intuition is confusing, but it is a way to give a name to it and so we will continue to study and pray for guidance so we may know ONLY GOD'S TRUTH, and no others!

All in the name of our Savior- Jesus Christ our Lord!