Our spirit has senses; it has the ability to sense God, to perceive God, to feel God, to experience God. It is through our spirit’s senses that we become conscious of God.
The senses of our spirit have to be activated in God, in order to sense the Spirit of God. Our spirit has to wake up, become active. Our spirit has eyes and ears so that when it is active it see’s and it hears.
The key to learning how to walk in the spirit is first of all being aware of our spirit. We become aware of our spirit when we can sense the divine nature in it, when we can sense the presence of God in it.
If we are not yet aware of our spirit, when we go to a spirit filled church we can become aware of the presence of God in the hearing of an anointed word by the pastor, or in the worship service our spirit can become aware of the presence of God.
Once our spirit is alive to God where we have experienced His presence, then it is only a matter of learning how to develop this awareness.
Our spirit is like a sponge, it has to be opened so that the flow of the eternal life of God may enter it. When the life of God enters our spirit, our spirit becomes aware of it, or senses it.
Our spirit is like a doorway or gate that has to be opened up in order for the presence of God to enter it. The entrance of the Spirit of God into our spirit gives light, gives love, gives joy, it is called impartation.
Our spirit absorbs God until it is filled with God. It is through the infilling of the Spirit, that our spirit becomes aware of God.
Our spiritual senses are activated through the infilling of the Spirit.
The gateways of our spirit are entry points in which the sense of our spirit is activated as God’s Spirit enters into it.
The senses of our spirit are activated in our awareness of God.
When our spirit is filled with God it overflows into our soul and body, out into the atmosphere around us.
The entrance of Gods Spirit into our spirit awakens the senses of our spirit as our spirit becomes exposed to God’s Spirit. As our spirit is aware of God’s Spirit it takes on the same image that the Holy Spirit emanates, and then our spirit reflects it.
The gateways of our spirit are like senses or abilities that our spirit has. Our spirit has different senses or abilities. Our soul has different senses or abilities and so does our body.
The lordship of Jesus Christ is first of all over our spirit. We surrender our spirit for the Holy Spirit to be lord over it, to be the governor over it; we yield our spirit to the Presence of God, we are yielding to the influence of the Holy Spirit.
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Opening the door of our spirit is surrendering our spirit to the Holy Spirit to be Lord over it; the Holy Spirit then starts to engage our spiritual senses and flows through them.
This is the key of intimate knowledge, we will to do the Father’s will and then we understand the teaching because we are experiencing it. The Holy Spirit is the teacher, and we are partaking of Him as we are being filled with Him, and this infilling is in our spirit.
The will of God is first of all a state of spirit which is God’s Spirit, as we partake of the Spirit of God; we are partaking of His divine nature. These are all divine attributes, not human attributes.
It is through the infilling of the Holy Spirit that we experience God’s Spirit. We experience all the different characteristics of God’s Spirit at work in us.
Once we experience an attribute of God’s Spirit, then we can tune into it by an act of our will. So what we are doing is abiding in the Spirit, we are abiding in the different aspects of having a right spirit before the Lord.
We can tune into the love of God, the joy of God, the peace of God, we can tune into all the fruit of the Holy Spirit through an act of our will, because our will is directly related to our spirit through the new birth our spirit. We will and our spirit responds.
Through the new birth of our spirit we have been given the initiative to access the divine nature of the Spirit of God because we have been born of the same Spirit of God.
So the surrender of our spirit to the Holy Spirit is a partaking of the Holy Spirit. Our obedience is a partaking of the divine nature, which fills us and motivates us, so that we are moving in the flow of the eternal life of God in us.
So we surrender our spirit to the Holy Spirit to govern. And then from the inside the Holy Spirit starts to engage our soul, He engages our conscience, our reason, our imagination, our emotions, through the flow of His Spirit. All we are doing is yielding to the flow of His Spirit and He will do the changing and the transforming.
This all happens from the inside out and then eventually the glory of God flows through our spirit, soul and body out to the world. So rather than everything affecting us from the outside in, we start to affect everything around us from the inside out as we begin to manifest the glory of God’s presence, just like Jesus did when he was here on earth.
We have to learn how to build up our spirit. Because If our spirit is feeble-weak, then our spirit will find it difficult to rule. Our spirit is weak because it has never been used, never been exercised.
If our soul is really strong because it has been use to being in charge and our spirit is weak, we will keep getting defeated.
Our spirit has to develop and get strong so that it can keep the soul under the lordship of the Holy Spirit over our spirit.
When our spirit was born of God it became willing, there is a yes in our spirit to God. But just because our spirit is willing does not mean it is able to overcome the strongholds in our soul.
It is no good trying to deal with the soul if the spirit isn’t strong.
Our spirit must be filled with the Holy Spirit; our spirit must be built up and strong through the strengthening of the Holy Spirit in order to come into the restoration of our soul.