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GOD SPEAKS THROUGH INSPIRED MINDS
Ps 49:3 NKJV
My mouth shall speak wisdom,
and the meditation of my heart shall give understanding.
When we hear the Lord through
His still small voice, it is an experience that happens
TO us. It is a totally objective experience where we
have no involvement in what is being said, nor do we
know what will be said. So when God speaks TO us
through His voice, we are positive it is not our own
voice, it is someone else speaking and not our own
thoughts. That voice can be the Lord, the Holy Spirit,
the Father, angels, as well as demonic spirits.
On the contrary, when we hear
the Lord speak THROUGH our minds, He inspires them with
His Words, and we DO have involvement and participation
in what is being said, through our personalities.
People can be very inspired and led by God through their
minds, and not even realize it is God speaking to them
through the experience.
WORD TO PONDER: MOMENTS OF
INSPIRATION
There are times of visitation
when I breathe upon you an inspiration for My Word. It
is important that you learn to respond to these
revelatory moments, for they come and go even as the
wind passes through the trees. If you wait until you
have a better time to respond, then the freshness of the
moment is gone and the passion along with it. This is
the nature of the anointing, it strikes when the iron is
hot.
I may direct you to jot a note,
speak into a recorder, write a letter, make a phone
call, say a prayer, share a teaching or any number of
things, - all prompted by My anointing. I have reasons
behind My impeccable timing. You are not given to see
all that takes places in the spirit world when you
respond to My prompting. Therefore, when I place a
message upon your heart, respond to it when you feel the
passion, and resist procrastination. Learn to flow with
My Spirit and you shall have great satisfaction.
“The steps of a good man are
ordered by the Lord and he delighteth in his way.” (Ps
37:23 KJV)
HE SPEAKS
THROUGH DIRECTING OUR THOUGHTS
Prov 21:1 NLT
The king's heart is like a
stream of water directed by the LORD; he turns it
wherever he pleases.
Prov 16:3 NKJV
Commit your works to the
LORD, and your thoughts will be established.
The way the Lord speaks THROUGH
our thoughts is to DIRECT them. Directing our thoughts
is subjective and we have an active participation. We
are a part of the process while He gently steers us in
the right direction.
Thoughts that go through one’s
mind, are subjective experiences. The more garbage the
mind is fed by way of spoken words, written words, and
visual sights, the more impure one’s thoughts will be.
The word fed should be emphasized. It’s not necessarily
what one is exposed to that creates impurity, it’s what
one FEEDS ON. One knows the difference without
explanation. The change of one’s carnal mind into the
mind of Christ is a step by step process. The more we
feed our thoughts on HIM, the sooner we will be
transformed.
Rom 12:1-2 AMP
I APPEAL to you therefore,
brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of
God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies
[presenting all your members and faculties] as a living
sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing
to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent)
service and spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to
this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to
its external, superficial customs], but be transformed
(changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its
new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove
[for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and
perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and
acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].
1 Cor 2:16 AMP
For who has known or
understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the
Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him
knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah)
and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His
heart. [Isa 40:13.]
An example of this would be, “I
wonder how so and so is doing. I think I’ll call her.”
You call and crying she says, “I am so thankful you
called!” The Lord often guides our thoughts in exact
accordance to His will and we do not recognize it’s Him
because we have an active participation in it.
During Christmas vacation, my
son had to work on a large project from school. He had
previously gathered the materials prior to the school
break but did not have the necessary printout of the
guidelines. The very same day he began his project, I
looked at my desk, and thought I’d better file my “to be
filed” pile. As I was sorting through my papers, my
sons’ needed printout of the guidelines popped forth!
We have no idea how it got into my pile. And what was
even more amazing was the fact that he had picked up the
guidelines at a conference out of town, even prior to
knowing he would be given the project at school. The
Lord knew all of this and directed his thoughts to pick
up the piece of paper at the conference and my thoughts
to organize my desk at the moment of his need.
HE
SPEAKS THROUGH IMPRESSIONS
“Draw me, we will run after
thee...” (Song of Solomon 1:4 KJ)
“No one can come to Me
unless the Father who sent Me draws him...” (John 6:44
NKJV)
Anna began hearing the
Lord’s still small voice speak
numbers (amidst His Words) to her. On an inkling
(impression of the Holy Spirit) she was drawn to look up
the number definitions in the Strong’s Concordance. To
her astonishment, the definitions fit with what the Lord
was saying.
Impressions of His Holy Spirit
are not the Lord’s still small voice. Impressions are
similar to notions, senses, perceptions, inklings. When
pausing before Him as I read His Word, sometimes I turn
to a certain book in the Bible and am impressed by a
particular chapter or verse number. Sometimes I have a
notion to read a small section in a devotional book. I
sense page numbers and I have been blessed to read
exactly what I needed. My joy of fellowship with the
Lord was increased, because I paused to give Him the
opportunity to draw me before reading His Word.
The Lord began talking to me
about being an intercessor for others in my prayers.
Later as I was thinking about it, I felt impressed to
open my Bible and I turned to a section I had previously
highlighted: So the children of Israel said to Samuel,
“Do not cease to cry out to the LORD our God for us,
that He may save us from the hand of the Philistines.
...Then Samuel cried out to the LORD for Israel, and the
LORD answered him.” (I Samuel 7:8,9 NKJV) I was
encouraged that the Lord was not only serious about this
position in my life, but that He was also giving favor
to my prayers. As a result, I began looking for
opportunities to pray because the faith He had planted
in my heart knew that prayer makes a difference for
others. I realized a prayer is the greatest gift we can
give someone else. Soon the Holy Spirit was drawing me
to pray for strangers as I drove down the street or as I
passed them in the grocery store. I had the
encouragement that things would break free in their
life.
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TRAINING ON IMPRESSIONS OF HIS
SPIRIT
EXPERIENCE 7/31/97: This morning I paused before turning
with anointed hands in my 101 Ways God Speaks book to
see if I would be impressed with a page number. Although
it was not His Still small voice, a number floated into
my mind. So I turned to it.
My eyes fell on this line: “sense page numbers and I
have been blessed to read exactly what I needed.” It was
the section on He Speaks Through Impressions. That was
cool!
IMPRESSION TRAINING: A few minutes later I went on
deliveries and just as I was getting into my car I
turned around to ask the customer for her full name and
phone number. Another lady interrupted and I was unable
to ask. I stood there a minute or so waiting and felt
awkward just standing there so I over-rode that
impression with my will.
I said to myself, her full name and number is on the
last receipt, I’ll just get it from that when I get
home. When I got home there was no phone number and the
name of the business was their trademark name, not
business name so I could not call her when Wayne found a
discrepancy with what they ordered and the sample they
turned in. So I had to drive back to town, taking an
additional hour of my time when it was to be a 7 hour
day of filling orders. When I arrived back at their
location, they had already left for the day. I was able
to get their number from a neighbor, but it was all
quite a hassle. I was not able to make contact with them
via phone for 4 more hours whereby Wayne could not
finish their order until we heard back from them.
On the way home, I was thinking about the fact that my
wanting their name and number was an impression from the
Holy Spirit and I should have listened. This is very
hard training to learn to be so sensitive. I have been
begging the Lord for this training and He was answering
my prayer.
CONFIRMATION: On the way home, I was listening to a tape
where the speaker suddenly mentioned that his friend had
a small impression from the Lord that he was not to take
a motor cycle ride that day, even though his wife wanted
to. He went on the ride and the enemy almost killed him
in a bad cycle accident. The speaker strictly mentioned
that this was not His Still small voice, but merely an
impression. I was really stunned by this whole day of
realizing how much depends upon our being sensitive to
the Holy Spirit and how everything is not going to come
by His Still small voice or seeing angels! It was very
disconcerting, and yet I realized that we need the
training. Especially during ministry situations where
we need to be sensitive to ideas that float into our
thinking.
1 Cor 2:14-16 AMP
But the natural, nonspiritual man does not accept or
welcome or admit into his heart the gifts and teachings
and revelations of the Spirit of God, for they are folly
(meaningless nonsense) to him; and he is incapable of
knowing them [of progressively recognizing,
understanding, and becoming better acquainted with them]
because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and
appreciated.
But the spiritual man tries all things [he examines,
investigates, inquires into, questions, and discerns all
things], yet is himself to be put on trial and judged by
no one [he can read the meaning of everything, but no
one can properly discern or appraise or get an insight
into him].
For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels
and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct
Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of
Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings
and purposes) of His heart. [Isa 40:13.]
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WORD TO PONDER: MINISTRY
THROUGH IMPRESSIONS
I am teaching you that even
when you do not have direct knowledge of My will in
hands on ministry, I will speak to you through gentle
impressions. As you seek My face and heart for others,
I will softy woo your heart with delicate thoughts,
feelings, drawings and impressions that is you being
Holy Spirit led. My Spirit is as gentle as a dove and
gently draws your heart with notions that will kindle to
a warm glow as you consider the application of such.
Learn to listen to these moments of inspiration and give
freely what I bestow upon your heart.
“The same heard Paul
speakwho stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that
he had faith to be healed…” (Acts 14:9 KJV)
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HE SPEAKS THROUGH INSPIRED FLASH OF insight
Ps 19:14 NKJV
Let the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your
sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer.
Often we have ideas and do not
recognize them as separate from ourselves. Sometimes we
think we had a brilliant flash of genius when it was
really the Lord. He is wonderful to speak rational,
logical ideas into our lives. They are like short
power-packed sentences.
Our history is founded upon
inventors’ sudden flashes of genius. They awakened in
the morning with new ideas. Or when they least expected
it, they found answers in a simple thought, perhaps
while doing something else. Brilliant and simple people
alike have been inspired by the Holy Spirit with genius
ideas. It is comforting to know the Holy Spirit is
bigger than an IQ!
One day I was praying about
needing another filing cabinet, the problem being that
we had no practical space for one. My husband said,
“Why don’t you just clean out the ones we have?”
Brilliant idea! Would you believe after 20 years of
collecting, I threw away a 4 foot high pile of paper?
Not only did I find the answer to my filing needs, but
in the process of throwing things away, I found some
important material I needed for publishing books. Thank
You, Lord, for inspired insight.
WORD TO PONDER: SNAP SHOTS
TOWARDS THE BIGGER PICTURE
My people have a misperception
of how I speak. It is a rare gift to be able to hear My
voice in a lengthy conversation. When that happens on
occasion, one needs to be in a state of rest where all
flesh is quiet before Me. Few are able to enter into
that place without distraction. I speak more often like
snap shots in time. These are like bits and pieces of
revelation that come in flashes of insight, revelations,
pictures, impressions, knowledge, parables, answers to
prayer, Words and phrases. I bring them together in My
perfect timing and help you fit them together for the
bigger picture. I send My Word a piece at a time. As
you are able to receive one, then I send another, then
another. Soon you have enough to bring it all together,
and My Spirit shines a spotlight on the bigger picture.
Suddenly you see it as a whole. I delight in this
process and want to increase your giftings to receive
more.
“And he said unto them, Take
heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall
be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be
given. (Mark 4:24 KJV)
GOD SPEAKS THROUGH
INSPIRED DAY DREAMS
1 Cor 2:9-12 NKJV
But as it is written: "Eye
has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the
heart of man the things which God has prepared for those
who love Him." But God has revealed them to us through
His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the
deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a
man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even
so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of
God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world,
but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the
things that have been freely given to us by God.
Seeing with the eyes of your
heart, are inspired thoughts that are like day dreams,
but they are being guided by the Spirit of the Lord. He
is the One inspiring them to go in the direction they
take and you can tell by the way they are being led that
it IS the Holy Spirit and not you.
God imparts wisdom and revelation and insight into what
you did not previously know about when you are day
dreaming. Information that was held back from you is
suddenly disclosed. Your heart is flooded with His light
as He highlights something of importance that you are
picturing in the inner eye of your heart. He is giving
you knowledge and understanding while guiding your
moving story.
When the Lord gave me
scripture, I could clearly see that it describes the
process of seeing with the eyes of the heart and that is
how to tell it is the Lord’s vision and not just day
dreaming.
Eph 1:17-21 AMP
{For I always pray to} the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of
wisdom and revelation {of insight into mysteries and
secrets} in the {deep and intimate} knowledge of Him, By
having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so
that you can know and understand the hope to which He
has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance
in the saints (His set-apart ones), And {so that you can
know and understand} what is the immeasurable and
unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and
for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of
His mighty strength, Which He exerted in Christ when He
raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His {own}
right hand in the heavenly {places}, Far above all rule
and authority and power and dominion and every name that
is named {above every title that can be conferred}, not
only in this age and in this world, but also in the age
and the world which are to come.
There is a level of
participation in and with the Holy Spirit as we are
yielding our senses to Him. We can feel the emotions of
His heart, being led by the direction that the inspired
thoughts are going, and then also see them on the
screens of our hearts as they are advancing. We become
convinced it is the Lord when there is the element of
quickened surprise, where He puts His spotlight upon a
thought and He reveals something we did not know or had
not previously thought about. In the process, there is a
knowing in our own hearts that something that was just
imparted to our thoughts was not planned or expected.
Perhaps, another way of labeling this is having the Mind
of Christ. I have continued to ask for the mind of
Christ since my youth.
1 Cor 2:13-16 NKJV
These things we also speak, not in words which man's
wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches,
comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the
natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of
God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know
them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who
is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is
rightly judged by no one. For "who has known the mind of
the LORD that he may instruct Him?" But we have the mind
of Christ .
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TWO WORLDS OF THE NATURAL AND SPIRITUAL MEET
HEARD: Come hither My
bride. See here where the two worlds meet. Natural and
spiritual. There may come a time when those roads are
difficult to separate. But for now it does not matter.
Abba set her free. Come to ME. It’s My way, the holy
way.
I am living in that time now
where my daily walk is filled with the Word of God as He
is opening my eyes and ears to see how the natural and
the spiritual are weaving in and out to tell His Word
with confirmation and understanding. My consecrated soul
is a part of the experience. When I don’t walk in this
daily merging of the natural and spiritual, I start
pressing into Him because I KNOW it is there as daily
manna for me to live in. Each and every day He is giving
me the confirmations I need to be affirmed in this
walk. The more I live this, the more I can’t live with
out this walk of abiding in Him. It is Jesus living
inside my natural life!
Col 1:27 NKJV
To them God willed to make known what are the riches of
the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is
Christ in you, the hope of glory.
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