To Experience God's Supernaturalism
To Experience God's Supernaturalism we must take the limits off of God!
How to Take the Limits off of God-The
Six Spiritual Senses
The God we serve is a
God who knows no limits. We limit Him. We do not see Him as He really is. Pray
this prayer with me-God open our Spiritual eyes so that we may see you as you
really are. All of us are born with five natural senses. We have the sense of
smell, touch, taste, touch, sight. Man tries to understand God with these five
natural senses, but there is no way you can reach God with your five natural
senses. You can never reach God through them or see Him as He is.
We must see God as He
is once we see Him as He is we will never limit Him!
Your natural senses
are finite. They have limited capabilities. When we try to perceive God with
these natural senses, what we are really doing in limiting Him by these natural
senses.
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.1
Corinthians 2:14
To contact God, man
needs a new Spiritual sense, a sixth sense.
When we are born
again God gives us a new spirit and He puts His Spirit in our new spirit.
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you,
and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will
I cleanse you. A new heart also will
I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the
stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within
you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and
do them. Ezekiel 36:25-27
God is a Spirit. So
to contact Him our spirits contact Him.
God is a Spirit
God is a Spirit: and they that
worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. John
4:24
Man is a spirit.
The spirit of man is the candle
of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the
belly. Proverbs 20:27
Jesus said in John
chapter 3 that we are born of the Spirit.
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto
thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the
kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is
born of the Spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the
sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is
every one that is born of the Spirit. John 3:5-8
So we being born of
the Spirit, we contact God Who is a Spirit by our spirits.
God also said in
Romans chapter 8 and in Galatians chapter 4 that God has sent forth the Spirit
of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
For ye have not received the spirit of
bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we
cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself
beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: Romans
8:15,16
But when the fulness of the time was come,
God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might
receive the adoption of sons.
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into
your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Galatians 4:4-6
From these scriptures
we can see we contact God who is a Spirit by our spirits.
Our spirits new sense
is faith.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and
that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. Ephesians
2:8,9
It would be
impossible for you to be a Child of God and not to have Divine faith, no one
can get to the cross without Divine faith-and it takes Divine love to use
Divine faith.
In the spirit sense
of faith are the other five Spiritual senses. They parallel the five natural
senses.
- Seeing in the Spirit
- Hearing in the Spirit
- Touching in the Spirit
- Tasting in the Spirit
- Smelling in the Spirit
Now consider the
reality of the Spiritual senses: sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing, they all
work through the sixth sense faith.
To see God as He really
is, to take the limits completely off of Him, we must have a sense that is
totally unlimited. Such a sense would set God completely free to work for
us-not according to our meager comprehension by our five natural senses- according
to His unlimited capabilities.
- With His limitless ability. Ephesians
3:20
- With His limitless being. Hebrews 7:3
- With His limitless creative power. Genesis
1:6,7
God made man in His own image--a spirit
man. Then He put in him five senses in order for him to contact his earthly sphere. They have
nothing to do with God. The five senses were given to contact the earthly sphere. But the soul of man, the
spirit, has a sense too, which is faith. Through faith man contacts his Maker. The five senses have nothing to
do with it. They touch the earthly sphere but your spirit touches the heavenly sphere. So the sense
of feeling, like my touching this man, is real to the body. Sight is real to the body. It is a reality. But
faith is more of a reality to your soul. Now listen, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
of things you do not see, taste, feel smell or hear. Yet it is just as real, more real
than any of the other five senses.
An
example of a man who operated in the supersense of faith is God's Prophet
William Branham-
LOOKING AT THE UNSEEN
When the gift is
operating, Brother Branham is the most sensitive person to the presence and
working of the Holy
Spirit and to spiritual realities of any person I have ever known. Under the
anointing, which operates his spiritual
gifts, and when he is conscious of the Angel's presence, he seems to break
through the veil of the
flesh into the world of spirit, to be struck through and through with a sense
of the unseen.
Paul wrote (II
Cor. 4:18), "We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things
which are not seen: for the things
which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are
eternal."
Paul's words here
indicate that we are now living in two worlds at the same time--the world of
sense, and the world of
spirit. The world of spirit surrounds, enspheres, and interpenetrates the world
of sense.
Both worlds
occupy the same space at the same time. The material realities which we see
with our natural eyes, exist in
the midst of the far better realities which are unseen by the optic nerve. The
Scriptures teach us that the superior "eternal" realities compass us
now. What sights might every one of us see at every moment of our existence, at
every turn of our path, had we anointed eyes with which to see them! "The seen"
exists in the midst of "the unseen;" the "temporal" in the
midst of the "eternal."
Paul says,
"He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit." While filled with
the Holy Spirit, our spirit and God's Spirit
are blended into one in the same way that the ocean and the bay are one because
the ocean flows into
the bay. Then it is that the glorious spiritual realities gain the ascendancy
and become the most
dominant. We see truth and spiritual realities through God's eyes. At such
times future events seem to be
present like a preview of a coming motion picture attraction. Jesus said,
"The Spirit will show you things to
come."
The reason the God
that we serve is a God who knows no limits is that He is the same God Who was
in the beginning. He is the same God Who said, Genesis 1:3. He is the same God
Who created the universe, the planets, and the seas. This is our God. He is the
same I AM God Who opened the Red Sea for Moses and the children of Israel to
walk through, Who protected Daniel from being eaten by hungry lions, Who sent
ravens to Elijah during a desperate famine, and Who slew the armies of Israel's
enemies with a hail storm so His people didn't even need to fight a battle.
He is the same God
Who resurrected Jesus from the dead. He is the same God Who poured out His Holy
Spirit upon the disciples so that they might have power over all the power of
the enemy.
God, help us to see
right now that You are the God Who is able to do miracles in our own life, in
our own ministry, and is able to meet every need that we have–every need! We
can have total care, total provision, total protection, total health, total
peace, total victory! That's the God we serve. If we could only see Him as the
God that He is. It is so essential to our experience and our well- being to
have that special sense, that sixth sense to comprehend Him.
When Jesus spoke in
parables the ordinary, run of the mill listener missed His point entirely,
Jesus said of them, Matthew 13:13 These people saw Jesus with their eyes, They
heard Him with their ears. They tasted the loaves and the fishes He multiplied.
They missed the real point of His ministry because they were completely devoid
of that Spiritual sixth sense.
Therefore speak I to them in parables:
because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they
understand. And in them is
fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and
shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed
gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed;
lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and
should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal
them. Matthew 13:13-15
The Centurion
possessed such a sixth sense. When the Centurion told Jesus about his paralyzed
and tormented servant, Jesus offered to go to his home to heal his servant. The
Centurion reply to this was that he was not only unworthy of Jesus coming to
his house but that it was completely unnecessary for Him to come. There, on
that street corner, he confessed Jesus as Lord. He told Jesus to speak the Word
only, and his servant would be healed. He said that he was under the authority
of his leaders and also was a leader himself, with others under his authority.
He said when he tells one of his soldiers to go, he goes. Whatever he tells his
soldiers to do, they do it. He told Jesus that if he would just speak, that
whatever He commanded to be done would be done. He recognized that Jesus had
the authority over all sickness. Jesus marveled over this. He told the
Centurion that he had not found such great faith in all of Israel. The
centurion had exceptional skill at utilizing a sixth sense. it is called faith.
Faith is not a
natural force. It is a great inner knowing. It is not a thinking, not a
wishing, not a hoping, but a great knowing of Who God is, what He is able to
do, , and what He is willing to do. The centurion had the sixth sense-faith in
a way no one before him had ever had. Matthew 8:10
When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said
to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith,
no, not in Israel. And I say unto you,
That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham,
and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into
outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 8:10-12
The centurion had
such an inner knowing of Who Jesus was, such a belief in His might, that Jesus
said there have never been any greater faith.
How could the
centurion say that? The centurion could see Jesus as He really is.
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