Seeing With Your Spirit
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it,
do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye
might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all
wisdom and spiritual understanding (Colossians 1:9).
In Genesis 3, we read the account of Satan
tempting Eve to eat the fruit of the forbidden
tree. Eve, being deceived, ate the fruit and gave to
Adam who also ate of it. When this happened, the
Bible says, “And the eyes of them both were opened,
and they knew that they were naked” (Genesis 3:17);
they had a new knowledge.
Hitherto, they didn’t know they were naked,
because they had the capacity to see differently in
another realm of life. They lost a type of sight (spiritual
sight), and fell lower to another type of sight, which was
governed by the senses. They thus became sense-ruled.
They couldn’t see with their spirits anymore. They had
new interpretations to life; interpretations based on
sensory perceptions.
This is the case of the unregenerate man: the
person who’s not born again; he lacks spiritual insight
and foresight. He lacks spiritual understanding and is
unable to relate with God in His realm of life. But when
you’re born again, you’re awakened to the fatherhood
of God; you’re awakened to the realities of God’s
Kingdom; you’re brought into fellowship with God.
Ephesians 1:17-18 says, “That the God of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give
unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding
being enlightened….” Here, the Spirit of God refers to
spiritual understanding, which is beyond the use of the
mind and the senses. The mind is a tool, but man has
a greater capacity beyond his mind. The mind receives
information from the spirit and the senses, but there’s
an understanding that transcends the mind. That’s why
the full, accurate, correct, and precise knowledge of
God is a possibility for the one who’s born again—the
one whose human spirit has been recreated.
It’s God’s desire that you see differently; that
you see with your spirit. It’s the reason the Holy Spirit
prays through the Apostle Paul that you be filled with
the knowledge of the Father’s will in all wisdom and
spiritual understanding, so that you can “…walk worthy
of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every
good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God”
(Colossians 1:10). This is possible; walk in the light of it.
Hallelujah!
Confession
Dear Father, I thank you for granting me insight into the
mysteries and secrets of the Kingdom. I live above the sense
realm. I’m fully aware of the realities of our glorious Kingdom,
enjoying my inheritance in Christ. Hallelujah!
Further Study:
Proverbs 20:27; ephesians 1:17-18 AMP
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
2 John
Daniel 5-6
2-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
revelation 7:11-17
Amos 3-4