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Spiritual Awareness – Accuracy and Balance
Before considering the various aspects of the ‘deeper spiritual life’as it has sometimes been called let us consider the many who areclaiming to be spiritual today. We’ll consider how in intellectualunderstanding of 
spiritual topics
their knowledge is mixed but interms of being
taught of God 
they often know little of this inexperience. In fact very many are uninspired, heretical, blasé anddogmatic: The opposite to spiritual mindedness.I’m not writing to critique you as you try to walk in the Spirit or sayyou can sense within your spirit the truths of God. I am writing tohelp you to be faithful to God. This book is written for a purpose: Tofocus your mind on what
is
spiritual and to get you out of the nest tofly as an eagle in Spirit and in Truth.Have you wondered what it is to be spiritual but are confused thatwithin Christianity itself there are so many different ways? Have younoticed that there is an End Times hysteria from certain quartersand a too relaxed attitude from others? This book will have someanswers and I will focus on Jesus being the Antidote to spiritualconfusion. It is Jesus the Lord who gives clarity and simplicity to abeliever’s faith.After reading you may want to live this life in spirit and truth. It iseasier than you may think. You have been hindered by the evil one –expressing himself through false teaching and the confusion itspreads. Remove that stumbling block and the way becomes plain.
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Spiritual Awareness – Accuracy and Balance
Concepts of Spiritual Awareness
“These things we speak, not in words that man'swisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches –Comparing spiritual things to spiritual.”[1 Corinthians 2:13]A person may read the most spiritual books in the world and learntheir concepts. They may speak of these things and discuss themwith others who have studied them but do they understand theseconcepts because the Holy Spirit has taught them or simply as theyread the books of men? Since it is a fact that if a person is nottaught of the Spirit of God they cannot truly understand the spiritualbooks. The Christian world is full of people who use spirituallanguage about spiritual things and often say, “I sensed in myspirit...” or “The Holy Spirit spoke to my mind...” or “I had a word of prophecy...” How much of this is real? The various teachings thatcome out of Christianity that contradict one another present aproblem to the believer: How to get straight to the truth.I cannot count the number of times that people have said, “I sensedin my spirit...” and then gone on to support a right wing or left wingpolitician, or nuclear armament, or rejection of another, more sound,believer...and by observation I have learned that when they saythey sensed something in their spirit it usually translates in realitythat a petty prejudice, a feeling, an assumption etc. has beenspiritualized. Often using the concept of 
sensing in the spirit 
issimply a justification for carnal prejudices that could not otherwisebe justified: The exact opposite of Biblical spiritual awareness. Infact this is a principle of deception for those deceiving and beingdeceived. They have a tendency to believe they know, what is merelyconjecture, and this is based on the evidence of supposed innerspiritual sensing: Sometimes, quite often on false prophecies. Thisusually means they
cannot really make a logical case
to supporttheir beliefs. Often they develop a super-spiritual attitude to otherswho reject their supposed divine revelations as false conjectures.Before going on I should say that if you have trouble understandingme you may like to read each sentence and then think on it. This isbecause I will say more in a single paragraph than most authors willsay in a book. Secondly, everything I have written in this book youcan understand
if you take the trouble to think about it 
. So oftenChristians are used to hearing sermons in church that do theirthinking for them and it may come as something as a shock torealise you need to
cogitate deeply 
to understand spiritual books, of which this is certainly one.
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How you can you tellthe genuine work of God?
Having a genuine gift of revelation I know that
understanding and material evidence are given by God to support His revelations.
In other words God first explains, then reveals and then performs asign. It works something like this. The gifted believer studies asubject in the Bible and God gives them insight and a rational andlogical view of the subject. A consciousness of enlightenment fromthe Holy Spirit makes the Word come alive. This is universal to holybelievers. For those gifted in other ways, and occasionally even if not so gifted, this holy enlightenment may be followed by arevelation; perhaps a dream or vision or discernment of something.Related to this, occasionally there are effects in the material worldof either healing or prayer fulfilling the teaching they received fromGod. Sometimes it is Providence – a striking concurrence of eventsobviously related to the Bible study and prayer and theenlightenment of the Holy Spirit. As a result the gifted believer useslogical, Biblical argument rather than insistence that they aresuperior and must be believed! God supports them with a degree of evidence that others can see. In the Gospels you will see thisdynamic in the life of Jesus more than anywhere else. His innerspiritual life effected change in society and in individuals. Oftenthese changes were miraculous and physical.Let us consider this dynamic more closely. A believer may be led byGod to study and meditate upon a subject deeply over years. Asthey become wise, by the Spirit,
this understanding is deepened by revelation
– but this must be preceded by the first search forwisdom. After the greater light that comes in some form by theSpirit there is the outer evidence of change in the believer, in theircircumstances or in the world. So a degree of outer evidence comesfrom God as proof of inner spiritual reality. That is because therehas been a greater revelation and deepened understanding leadingto a
greater faith
. It is rather like ascending a spiritual ladder.
Example:
I studied the doctrine of sanctification for years. I readbooks on holiness. My understanding became greater than myteachers, as King David said of himself. Eventually I was given avision of the Tree of Life in Heaven. In this vision an angel gave mesome of the fruit which I ate. This was followed by an experience of holiness which continues to this day, a depth of experience inholiness and power over sin generally thought to be impossible inthis world. You can see the dynamic at work: The seeking, learning, finding andexperiencing. As Jesus said we will find when we seek. First there is
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