Raising our awareness of what God is doing also produces a heightened level of intuition, the instinctive ability to pinpoint something. A strong sense of intuition allows us to take an ax to the root of the trees around us, rather than focusing on the branches. We learn the cause, not the effect. We gain the ability by doing the simple things in the name of the Lord – things like meditation, praise, prayer, and other disciplines.
By waiting on God, listening to him, and spending time with him, our focus is strengthened. God conscious spiritual warriors do not allow anything to take their focus off the Lord. We use bad circumstances, as well as good, to advance the kingdom. Nothing bothers the enemy more than seeing what he meant for evil being used for good. The harder he pushes, the more ground he can lose to a warrior.
Warriors push back using their praise, rejoicing, and celebration. It is by our focus on God that the enemy is defeated. When we are in a fight, God commands all of our attention. The enemy would love us to focus on him in warfare. Our eyes are upon you, is the response of the warrior committed to Majesty. Read 2Chronicles, chapter 20, versus 5 – 12, and spent time thinking about the astonishing prayer of Jehoshaphat when outnumbered in facing annihilation.
We only face the enemy when God commands. Our focus is the Majesty of the father, the sovereignty of Jesus, and the supremacy of the Holy Spirit. The fullness of the Godhead produces a weight of glory because the sum total of the nature of God is revealed. We need to bask in his glory, allowing the brightness of it to overwhelm us, and the lightness it creates to fill our hearts.
This is a mystery to me; how the weightiness, the heaviness of God’s glory can produce such lightness in our spirit. When we touch glory, we are filled with joy, and our heart becomes light and carefree. In our devotional experience when the glory of God has filled up our inner space and the lightness of heart and life will be so profound that it seems all our bones turn to water, and we have no ability to stand. We feel that we could float away. Every ability for negativity will leave. We cannot even imagine what anxiety, worry, fear, and doubt would feel like. We radiate joy. We are entranced by love, loving, and being the beloved. A peace so great fills our heart and mind, and we are completely and utterly relaxed.
Experiences with God are not onetime events. They are an introduction to a way of being with him in life. They are permission to become in his image what he is like consistently. Our normality comes under pressure from his beauty. Life in the Spirit advances our experience continually.
What we feel is exceptional can now become typical. What is remarkable about God can become conventional by experience. We are being change from glory into glory. Therefore, all change is glorious. When heaven comes to earth, we are subject to a higher imprint of life. We are taken up, affected by Majesty.
We come to a place where we look for sovereignty. It is always present in the person of Jesus. Every circumstance becomes vulnerable to our intuition about the nature of God. We are not intimidated by the enemy; we are too busy being fascinated by Jesus. It is normal for us to be filled with God. It is our usual lifestyle. He fills all things with himself. We become vulnerable to his goodness and loving-kindness. Our thinking becomes radically consistent with God’s nature. We become intuitive about him. We develop ability in the Spirit to understand and work things out by the inherent nature of Christ within.
He lives in us. We have the mind of Christ. We are filled to overflowing by the Spirit. The natural mind cannot comprehend the things of the Spirit, but we have the mind of Christ. All knowledge must contain an actual experience, or we have learned nothing in life. If what we say we know has not changed our behavior, then we do not know it. We have not encountered it.
All knowledge in Scripture must lead us to divine encounter, otherwise we are ever learning but never coming to the knowledge of the truth – 2 Timothy 3; 7. The truth must set us free to walk with God differently. Our experience upgrades our wisdom. Encounter increases our intuition about who God is for us. We explore those things by living in that place of divine instinct. It is not always reasoned out beforehand, mostly that comes later, as we meditate.
Meditation is the art of thinking beyond our normal ability. It opens us up to the creativity of the father in the wisdom of the Godhead. Meditation is a room in our hearts that has two doors; one door is knowledge, and the other, experience.
The rule of meditation is this; you must exit by the door opposite the one you entered. When we enter by knowledge, we must encounter God before we leave. He will give us a revelation and wisdom, spiritual insights that open up our hearts to all that he wants to be for us. We enter into an experience of what he has just told us so that we become the truth in our life. Knowledge is cemented by experience.
When we enter by experience, we need knowledge to establish the truth effectively in our hearts. Part of that knowledge will be concerned with becoming the truth, developing the exceptional into the normal. Life is above tradition and is therefore served by it. As we change from glory into glory our thinking becomes less rational, more perceptive, more intuitive, and wise.
If we enter by experience and leave by it, we merely become exalted by God, but essentially unchanged. If we enter by knowledge and leave by it, our life is merely words in the notebook, and we remain unaffected.
What we encounter by intuition, we must learn to do by design. Knowledge and experience are two sides of the same coin.
Warriors live by encounter. They know that all life in the Spirit is paradoxical, that is two apparently opposing ideas contained in the same truth. For example, we must die to live, give to receive, be last to be first. The father requires knowledge with experience. It is what makes our spirituality authentic. As we learn the ways of God, we develop a Holy Spirit intuition about the nature of life in the kingdom. In the most trying of circumstances, we are able to focus on who God is, so that we can listen for his battle plan for the situation.
Reason and rationale are overrated – useful, but not essential, and mostly useful after the fact and not before. When intuition is minimized, we cannot move into the miracle that the Lord seeks to provide. Reason talks us out of encounter more times than it talks us into it.
Rationale looks for God through human provision. Intuition is dependent on the nature of who God is in relationship to our experience of heaven coming down. We can become so earthly minded that we have no encounter with heaven.
Warriors are people of encouragement. They have met the Lord in every circumstance of life, and it has become their tradition. Encounter, intuition and sovereignty are all linked together in a relationship that is full of love, laughter, and learning. This is the freedom of Christ. It is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.
Assignment – read 2 Chronicles 20; 5 – 12. Meditate on the prayer of Jehoshaphat. Explore his focus on the nature of God. What should your focus become for your own circumstances at this time? What confidence are you meant to experience in the Lord at the present moment? What does the father want to do against the enemy in your present situation? What provisions are yours? How is he asking that you stand before him in the current situation? Use the space provided to journal your responses.
Commission – read 2 Chronicles 20; 14 – 19. Meditate on the prophecy of Jahaziel. What is the word of the Lord for your present situation? What is the process, that series of steps, that you must take to experience an encounter with God’s majesty? What is the attitude and approach that the Lord wants you to develop into a place of instinctive and intuitive responsible for now and for the future? What will your response be to the move of God in terms of your joy and celebration as a lifestyle?