Victory Life KY

Spiritual Clarity

Episode Summary

As you grow in your relationship with Jesus, one thing that becomes more and more prevalent is your understanding of spiritual clarity. You look at every generation of people throughout the Bible and you’ll see that God is always looking for that group He can work through supernaturally.

Episode Notes

As I grow in my own relationship with Jesus, one thing that’s becoming more and more prevalent is my understanding of spiritual clarity. You look at every generation of people throughout the Bible and you’ll see that God is always looking for that group He can work through supernaturally.

And as we dig into things, at the top of the list has to be us making our minds up about the fact that God and His word never change.

Malachi 3:6, I am the Lord, I do not change.

Hebrews 13:8, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Psalm 18:30,AMP- “As for God, His way is perfect! The word of the Lord is tested and tried; He is a shield to all those who take refuge and put their trust in Him.”

MSG, “What a God! His road stretches straight and smooth. Every GOD direction is road-tested. Everyone who runs toward him Makes it.”

The thing about a spiritual life, just like our human life, it has to be developed. But one big difference is that spiritual living requires faith to access.

Which means that each of us will have to make ourselves available to His word and His Spirit in order to access a world we can’t see.

For example, right now would you say you’re a spiritual person? Are spiritual realities a consistent part of your life? How would you describe your spiritual clarity?

1 Corinthians 2:10-14,NLT- It was to us that God revealed these things by His Spirit. For His Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets.
No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit.
And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.
When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths.
But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means.

Make no mistake, embracing the reality that we are living, thinking, free willed spirit beings will absolutely require some spiritual clarity.

And it starts with the understanding that giving our lives to Jesus means we’ve become a new creation, a new type of being.

2 Corinthians 5:17,NLT- “This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a NEW LIFE has begun!”

And the God ordained foundation of our new spiritual life is His word. God sent us His word to show us our new life in Him. He makes it very clear that’s what our new lives are to be built on.

I cannot stress enough the importance of a healthy, consistent relationship with your bible. Truth is, the Bible is how our intelligence learns to recognize His voice, His leading, His nature. It truly is the window, not just into the spirit world, but more specifically, His Kingdom.

But without a foundation in God's word, we only have human reasoning to resort to.

Truth is, the unrenewed soul will always be at the mercy of human reasoning.

But, if we're willing to grow, according to Proverbs, God's Spirit will enlighten our spirit to spiritual realities.

On the other hand, if we continue refusing to take the time to renew our thinking to what God is saying, putting spiritual realities first will always be challenging.

Let's keep this in mind, since "old things are gone" God will be communicating, He'll be leading our born-again spirit, not our intelligence or our emotions.

Romans 8:16 actually tells us that the Holy Spirit will bear witness, communicate, lead our spirit. Which means that our mind is going to have to process all that. It’s why the mind has to be renewed.

So remember, it's God's word that gives us clarity between the natural and the spiritual. It's His word that enlightens our path, and His Spirit leads by it.

John 6:63,NLT- The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

As we continue our spiritual development we will actually come to the place where our spirits will see things our intelligence still has to catch up with.

Think about it, that's how it is with God's word, there'll be things we'll read and our intelligence doesn't comprehend, but in our spirit, by faith we choose to accept it as truth.

This is why God created us and instructs us that we are to live by faith, not intelligence.

But because our intelligence processes everything we do, it has to be transformed in order for us to get better at recognizing spiritual realities.

The reason the Holy Spirit leads the way He does is because we are free will creations. And as we mature in Christ, He knows we're going to make more and more Christ-like decisions.

He knows as we continue our spiritual maturity that we'll make the same choices He would.

The spiritual life we've been given all hinges on our transformation.

And a huge part of that transformation is our soul being aligned with our spirit.

1 Timothy 4:1-2,NIV- The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.

A seared conscience is a very slippery slope. Think about it, we don't just wake up one day and start following the teachings of demons.

This is why we have to have a solid foundation, God's word.

This is why Jesus left us His example of how He dealt with the enemy, every time the enemy tried deceiving Jesus, He repeatedly said, "it is written."

But the more we turn to our own reasoning instead of His word, our soul gets exposed to unstable, unreliable information.

But the more intentional we are about His word, about our spiritual life, the more we'll recognize and be comfortable with His leading.

Remember what Jesus told us, The Holy Spirit will guide is in all truth, even showing us things to come. But He will only be guiding those willing to follow. He’s always looking for the faithful.

2 Chronicles 16:9,NKJV- The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.

What we’re talking about tonight isn’t for everyone. Not that God doesn’t want it to be, but the truth is, this level of spiritual awareness is only through a consuming desire to walk closer with the Holy Spirit.

Jeremiah 29:11-13,NIV- For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

Ultimately, unless we’re willing to do something different than what we’re currently doing, chances are very slim of us seeing any significant change.

And by design, one of the best ways for truth to grow in our spirit is by simply talking about that truth.

“Faith comes from hearing”

Here’s the deal, anyone willing to consistently seek the Lord, seek spiritual clarity, God’s anointing is going to become more and more evident.

One big reason is because the more familiar we are with the Holy Spirit the more we’re going to recognize and be available to Him.

2 Corinthians 3:4-6,NIV- Such confidence we have through Christ before God.
Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.
He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Here’s where God is taking us, He’s putting together a group of faith people that will be able to not only have intelligent conversations about spiritual realities, but they’ll be recognizable in our lives.

Think about this, Jesus isn’t just the first born, He is our example of how a human full of the Spirit manifests God’s nature.

Acts 10:38,NKJV- God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

And the same Holy Spirit lives in us and wants to empower us for the same purpose.

John 14:12,NKJV- Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.

Remember, it was Jesus who told us His words are Spirit and Truth.

Jesus is constantly on the lookout for faithful believers perusing spiritual clarity. You look at every generation of people throughout the Bible and you’ll see that God is always had a group He could work through supernaturally.