Live by Faith in the Spiritual Senses
by Ernest Angley
February 2022
There are five physical senses and six spiritual senses. Like the physical senses, there are spiritual senses of taste, smell, hearing and sight; but there is also a sixth spiritual sense, and that is faith. Most people from Adam and down through the ages have never really learned what it means to live in the spiritual senses. The five physical senses are wonderful when they are put in their proper perspective, but the spiritual senses are greater and more powerful. They are eternal, and they are here to work for you.
Jesus walked on Earth as very man and very God. As a man, He lived in the spiritual senses; and they were paramount to Him, but He also used the physical senses the way they were meant to be used. Living like Jesus and walking the path He walked can be done only through the six spiritual senses. When you use those senses, you will win for God just as Jesus did.
You cannot live the full life with the Lord He has planned for you unless you use the six spiritual senses. In your mind, picture the physical sense of sight and the spiritual sense of sight. Compare the physical touch to the spiritual touch. Weigh the physical sense of taste against the spiritual sense of taste. There is a physical sense of smell and a spiritual one. Consider the physical sense of hearing and the spiritual sense of hearing. Now, ponder the sixth spiritual sense of faith. Seeing through the eye of faith lifts you into the realm of the six spiritual senses.
The Eye of Love
Your physical sense of sight, your vision, is checked by the eye doctor. If you have twenty-twenty vision, you see clearly. In the spiritual sense of sight, the eye of love prevails. In the Bible, I Corinthians 13 gives the standard of divine love you must measure up to. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away (I Corinthians 13:4-8). The eye of love will last for all time and eternity.
That chapter is known as the “love chapter,” and it is the only spiritual eye test of love you need. If you pass that test, you will be all right; yet many people experience blurred vision when it comes to the eye of love. Why?—because they have not come into love in perfection. When you come into that love, you will see people and situations as God looks on them; and that kind of vision will give you great compassion. You will know why God loves those the world rejects. Instead of casting them aside, you have love. Although Jesus didn’t love the ways of many people, He loved their souls. God does not expect you to love ungodly ways.
Only God can forgive sins; you cannot, but you can forgive the wrongs people do to you so you won’t carry the contamination of bitterness, unforgiveness, grudges and resentment. You must love the lost as well as your brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus.
The Eye of Faith
The eye of faith and the eye of love are companions; they go together. God’s love cannot be separated from His faith, and He never intended for them to be. Faith and love operate together like your two eyes, and they focus on the right things, giving you the perfect vision of God. When you look in perfection through the love eye and the faith eye of God, you see as God sees; and you become strong. The physical man is affected by such vision.
The faith eye test is found in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews. With the eye of faith, you have no trouble believing that Noah built an ark; and God filled it with animals two by two. You know the Great Flood destroyed everyone but eight souls. You believe it all.
Noah must be a real person to you, not a fictitious character. God worked mightily through Noah and his family. Can you look back that far and accept the miracle of the ark? Can you see it as God sees it? Most people can’t, and many even doubt the Flood. God wants you to see how He works through man and to see in living reality what is in the Word of God.
Abraham Used the Eye of Faith
The eye of faith takes you to Abraham and his faithfulness, and you will have no trouble believing God told Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering unto God. You will get a glimpse of the agony of mind and spirit that Abraham endured as he went forth to obey God, accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure (Hebrews 11:19).
Why did Abraham have the faith that God would resurrect his son?—because he believed God’s promise when He said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him (Genesis 17:19). Abraham knew God could not lie; and like Abraham, you must realize that God cannot lie. He will do what He has said He will do.
God’s promises have always been true; and today, He is still keeping the promise He made to Abraham. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing (Genesis 12:2). God doesn’t break even one promise.
Abraham looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God (Hebrews 11:10). Abraham was looking for more than Canaan; he was looking for that heavenly city, and he found it. As God’s eye of faith takes you to the time of Abraham, keep in mind that Abraham’s faith is your faith because it is God’s faith. You have the same kind of faith. The question is: Will you use it?
Believe to See
The privilege of choosing between the physical sense of faith and the spiritual sense of faith is yours. By using only your physical, human faith, you will never know how powerful God’s spiritual faith is. Physical faith does not consider God’s miracles, so it can only believe what it sees; but God’s faith can see from Earth to Heaven and beyond. Divine faith believes what it cannot see. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1).
Jesus said, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth (Mark 9:23). Being able to say, “Lord, I believe it all!” and mean it is a mountaintop experience. What should you believe?—the whole Bible. You must believe every word that God has said. If not, you will have some doubt about whether or not God will do what you ask. Thus saith the Lord, that is where you have missed it. You have missed His full blessings because of your doubt. To believe all the promises in the Word of God makes all things possible. God’s faith is in action throughout the whole Bible.
The eye of faith will take you to Moses’ day. The power of God fell then, and miracles took place. Moses was a man with six spiritual senses, so God could use him in a mighty way. Since God used a man with the six spiritual senses in that day, He can certainly use you today since you have the greatness of Jesus available to you. Your cup should be running over daily with His blessings through these six spiritual senses, so give over to them.
Yield to Divine Faith
We all want to hold on to the faith we put in loved ones or in those we admire, so how much more should we want to hold on to God’s faith? Give yourself over to His faith, so it will become a part of you and your thinking.
You will not use any more faith than the amount of yourself you give to that faith to be used.
God’s faith will change your thinking as you yield to it because you are replacing your thoughts with the thoughts of God. When you are using the six spiritual senses, you will easily use the thoughts of God; and it is so simple to have His thoughts when you live in the spiritual senses. When you don’t live in those senses, you will always be battling to believe the working of God’s miracle hand.
Many of our battles are between the physical and the spiritual senses. We think these battles are between us and the devil; but often, we are battling with self and don’t realize it. Self supports human faith and human feelings. Self whines when it has been mistreated and thinks it deserves sympathy and revenge. Self thinks it should stop working for the Lord when it has not been appreciated.
The spiritual man bypasses self-pity and the opinions of others and instead chooses to use the great faith of God and all God’s spiritual senses. It should not matter whether or not people approve of you because your strength and your approval should come from God. You have been living in the physical senses long enough. The faith of God and the other five spiritual senses bring great revelations and manifestations from God. If you want reality in God and you long to be close to Him, it is time to move into the spiritual senses.
Healing Comes Through the Spiritual Senses
Compare your spiritual faith with the faith in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews. If you can’t believe everything in that chapter—and most people can’t—you are not operating in the spiritual senses. Many people who live only in their physical senses try in every way they can to disprove what God has said. They want to prove in one way or another that the Bible isn’t really the true Word of God and that the events described in the Bible didn’t really happen. Instead of seeking to believe what God has said, they seek to verify their doubt because they want to doubt.
If you want to doubt the Word, you will have plenty of help. All hell will back you up; and yet, there are no unbelievers in hell. All who have gone there know God has spoken the Word, and even Lucifer knows God has spoken his judgment and his destiny. Nevertheless, he will try to convince you that God doesn’t mean what He said and that His Word will never be fulfilled.
To have a healing and deliverance ministry, I had to take on the spiritual senses. The Lord didn’t tell me to take on those divine senses; He just gave them to me. Now, the Lord is clearly revealing that all of us must use the spiritual senses—spiritual sight, spiritual hearing, spiritual taste, spiritual touch, spiritual smell and the sixth spiritual sense of faith. When you have all six of those senses and use them, you will be complete in Christ Jesus and complete in God’s perfection of love and faith.
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17). God’s true people will live by faith in the spiritual realm. They will be elevated above the physical senses and live in the realm of God’s miraculous love and power. In this divine place, God will answer prayer in amazing ways and give miracles and healings.
Jesus boldly promised healing, and He referred to it as the children’s bread. The Lord promised the Israelites that healing would always be on the table for them. He also promised that if they would live according to His commandments, He would serve His power to them in such a great way that He would take sickness away from the midst of thee (Exodus 23:25). He promised the obedient, Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling (Psalm 91:10). But God’s promises are all conditional, and to receive them requires obedience and yielding to God.
Live in God’s Will
If you think you can’t yield to the Lord, it is because you haven’t learned to do His perfect will. You must use the spiritual senses in order to know how to perform the perfect will of God, but you will never even see that will through physical eyesight. Very few people ever find the perfect will of God because they are living in the physical senses.
The spiritual senses are for you, but you first must be willing to do God’s perfect will before you can have the spiritual senses working in your life. Also, you can’t have any rebellion, or those senses won’t work much for you.
People who have not moved into the spiritual realm can see very little of the will of God for their life. Like a person who has eyesight so dim he is declared legally blind, they are spiritually blind. There are many spiritually blind people today, and many of them claim to be Christians. They don’t live in the spiritual-sense realm or walk in the Spirit. Jesus said, If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch (Matthew 15:14). The spiritual senses are divine senses that are given by God.
Have faith in God (Mark 11:22). Having faith in God means having the faith of God, and you can’t have faith in God without having the faith of God. He is too great and mighty for your mind to accept all He wants you to accept unless you have His faith. That is why divine faith is a gift from God to all of us. God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith (Romans 12:3). But without faith it is impossible to please him [God]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him (Hebrews 11:6). If you do not have God’s divine faith, you are not pleasing Him.
Jesus is the author of your faith. He wrote it in His own blood, and the Bible declares the just will live by it. Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:2). Because Jesus is also the finisher of your faith, there is nothing to be added to it. Jesus made our faith a finished work. Everything we need from beginning to end is included in what Jesus brought us. Paul said, Ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power (Colossians 2:10).
Jesus tells us in Revelation, I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty (Revelation 1:8). Jesus is our Savior, Lord, Master, Rose of Sharon, Lily of the Valley and so much more. He went on to say, Fear not; I am the first and the last (Revelation 1:17). Jesus is first and forever. He is our Redeemer Kinsman and our sacrificial Lamb.
There is no greater experience than receiving the salvation Jesus brought. God sent it all in one package. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved (John 3:16,17).
Overcoming Faith
You can make any sacrifice necessary for God when you use the spiritual senses, put self down and hold Jesus up. Learning to use the spiritual senses was the secret of Paul’s overcoming life. He never saw Jesus in the flesh; but through the spiritual senses, he taught the Gentiles all about Him.
Now in the final hour of the Gentiles, the Lord is bringing forth what was revealed to Paul so many years ago. Your eye of faith and love will help you study and understand the life of Paul, and it will help you believe all that God taught through him. The eye of faith, along with the other five senses, will always cling to the righteousness, holiness and purity of God.
This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith (I John 5:4). The sixth spiritual sense of divine faith overcomes the world, but doubt puts fear in your heart. The faith of the Lord gives victory over fear, and it is the faith needed to overcome everything in the world. When you have the spiritual senses, nothing shall be impossible unto you (Matthew 17:20).
In the Garden of Eden, man had divinity. His mind worked just as the Lord’s mind worked, and it gave him beautiful thoughts and wonderful joy. The Lord is joyful when man doesn’t make Him sad, and He will once again be joyful all the time when man is no longer on the Earth as we know it and when all who can be saved have been rescued from sin. Then all evil will be blocked from His memory. He won’t bring up the past sins of people, and He won’t even think about the devil. It will be as though the devil never existed. Once you reach Heaven, you will be so grateful for the blood of the Lamb. It is a place where God wipes away all tears, and you will know you are in Heaven because of that blood.
You Must Give All
What kind of prayers do you pray? Are they prayers of the spiritual senses or prayers of the physical senses? Praying in the Spirit does not necessarily mean praying in another tongue; it is praying in faith in the realm of the spiritual senses.
Prayer in the physical senses leaves the impossible undone. To come unto God and into the reality of Him, you must pray in the realm of the spiritual senses, not the physical. The physical senses doubt God’s promises, but the spiritual senses will edify you moment by moment as you claim all the promises of God.
How much does God expect of you? I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service (Romans 12:1). Without the spiritual senses, you will not present your body as a living sacrifice which is holy and acceptable unto the Lord for the Master’s service; and you will not leave it on the altar for His use. Presenting self as a living sacrifice seems unreasonable to some because they use the wrong senses; however, in the spiritual senses and in the realm of the greatness, holiness and righteousness of God, such a sacrifice is wholly reasonable.
In Old Testament days, the religion of so many people was just lip service to the Lord and not heartfelt service for Him. Jesus wanted service that came from the hearts of the Jewish people when He came, but He found it in only a very few. He said, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me (Matthew 15:8).
In the Christian world today, most people’s religion still has been mostly just lip service. They may say, “Lord, I’ll do anything for you”; but what they really mean is they will do anything they want to do. So many people have compromised with the world; but the Bible says, And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God (Romans 12:2). Your mind cannot be renewed daily as it should be without the spiritual senses.
A Mind of the Spiritual Senses
You need a mind that can accept and use the promises of God. Paul said, Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5). You must take on the mind of Christ, but you will never have that mind unless you move into the realm of the six spiritual senses. In that great realm of the Lord, you will be elevated above all compromise and above conforming to the world. You will serve Him in the beauty of holiness and prove the might of His perfect will to others. To be a real witness, you must live in this realm.
For the first thirty-three years of the Early Church, those precious members lived in the spiritual senses. Study the Acts of the Apostles, and you will see that they didn’t count their lives dear to themselves but to God. What mattered most of all was what they could do for Him.
The Early Church disciples took responsibility for souls. They knew they held souls in their hands, and they were as careful with those souls as Jesus was. He was the Master Soul Winner, and He taught them how to handle souls. That same Master Soul Winner is our example today. We can’t handle lost souls with the five physical senses; we must handle them with the six spiritual senses. We cannot be conformed to the world; we must be transformed in the spiritual realm.
Jesus brought a new and living way. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh (Hebrews 10:19,20). This new and living way has been provided to all who will accept it.
Yield to the Holy Spirit
It is marvelous how the Lord used the prophets in Old Testament days and how He was able to bring them into the spiritual realm. They saw beyond the physical senses; so they could feel as God felt, touch as God touched and taste as God tasted. They were aware of the fragrance of Heaven that edified their innermost being, and they heard and recorded what the Spirit was saying. Peter said, For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost (II Peter 1:21).
Hearing what the Holy Ghost is saying should be the desire of all God’s people. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches (Revelation 2:29). What kind of ears hear what the Spirit is saying?—ears God gives His people. They are righteous, holy, clean ears that take God’s children into the deepness of Him. They take them beyond the physical senses and into the spiritual senses.
When you have the spiritual senses, your touch from God is a spiritual touch; and the touch you give to others in the spiritual senses is a spiritual touch. Your taste is the taste of God, and you enjoy the things God enjoys. You are directed by the spiritual sense of faith, so you feel with the feelings of God.
Just before Jesus ascended to Heaven, He gave His disciples this commandment regarding the Holy Spirit: And, being assembled together with them, [Jesus] commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence (Acts 1:4,5).
Before the disciples even heard that commandment, Jesus had given them this promise: The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you (John 14:26).
The Holy Spirit is to dwell within you and teach you, but how many people really let the Holy Spirit be their teacher? A teacher has authority over you, and you are to come under that authority. If you want to learn, you must take that teacher’s directions, bring yourself under submission to that teacher and put aside your own opinions.
Why go to a teacher if you don’t want to learn? Why receive the Holy Ghost if you don’t want to learn from Him? If you don’t want to learn the spiritual things of God and go into His spiritual realm, why receive the baptism of the Spirit?
The Touch of God
All too often, people who have received the Holy Ghost continue to live mostly in the physical senses. They believe only what they can see with their human eye, and they don’t look beyond. Their touch is no more than a human touch; and at best, it may make others feel a little better. But Jesus had a spiritual touch; and the Bible says, As many as touched him [Jesus] were made whole (Mark 6:56). The spiritual touch heals.
A woman with an issue of blood touched the hem of Jesus’ garment with a spiritual touch, and she was made whole. She touched Him with the spiritual sense of faith. And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me (Luke 8:45,46). Jesus felt the virtue flow from Him when He was touched by a hand of spiritual faith.
How many times have you reached out in the physical senses to touch Jesus and failed to touch Him with His faith and with His touch? When you have the spiritual sense of touch, the Lord gives you the same kind of touch He has. You are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. You are a part of Him and a member of the body of Christ. That is the reason believers can touch people, and they are healed. Jesus told the disciples, They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover (Mark 16:18). When believers use the spiritual touch, the sick are healed; and devils are cast out. Believers can lay hands on people and call down the Holy Ghost because it is the touch of God.
Many Christians don’t know the power of God and what it will do. You must be sensitive to His touch so that when the Spirit touches you for prayer, you know it. I can sense that touch of God even when people are all around me. Suddenly, the Lord touches me; and it is not like a human touch at all. A strangeness comes over me. He touches me, and my eyes become different; and many times, my voice becomes different too. That is divinity working through the spiritual senses.
When the Lord touches you for the first time with His touch of salvation and forgiveness, you will remember it for as long as you live. He touches you and makes you a new creation in divine faith and divine love; and He gives you the divine sense of hearing, so you will become alert to what the Spirit is saying.
I will never forget the day God saved me. He touched my soul with the touch of salvation and with His cleansing blood that washed me clean. What a touch it was! It is miraculous indeed to be touched and made new by the hand of your Maker!
Listen to the Lord
Man could hear every word God spoke in the Garden of Eden; but since Eden, imagine how many times God has spoken to man, and the message didn’t get through! If your ears are not kept clear and you are not living in the spiritual realm when the Word of God is preached, you will hear only bits and pieces of what God is trying to tell you. It is no wonder people go into states of confusion, oppression, depression and despair! The Lord will try to call some people, but there is too much interference on the line for them to hear. The devil brings static into their physical senses, and it distorts and crowds out the voice of God.
You need the Spirit of God to bring you to life and make you alert to the things of God. You must hear what God is trying to say to you; and as you do His will, He will move for you.
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life (John 6:63). You need the quickening of the Holy Spirit and the life He brings. That means He will enliven you and give you more spiritual life—the greatness of God’s life—through the spiritual senses. He will quicken you, stimulate you, stir you up and cause you to hasten forth in the Lord’s work. As the Spirit quickens you, He shows you the right path; and then He quickens you not to hesitate in taking that path.
That quickening power of the Holy Spirit gives you strength as long as you are in a place to receive it. The devil knows what God’s quickening power will do, and that is one great reason why the devil tries to destroy the Holy Ghost in people’s lives. He tries to persuade people to talk in tongues at will, so they won’t have the real Holy Ghost. When the Holy Spirit can truly quicken your spirit, you have given Him control.
Let God Quicken You
I had to give the Lord complete control of my mind, so He could take it over and use it as His own. It was a long time before I could come into that place where He could quicken my mind; but now when He quickens me, He instantly has my mind. The Lord will quicken you too, and He has many ways to do so. For example, He can move through your eyes and enhance them with His love, so you can see through love eyes instantly. Suddenly, you are no longer looking through physical eyes but through spiritual eyes.
I see the glory of God in many different forms, and the Lord is seeking to bring you into all of this. He wants to show you His manifestations; and perhaps, He may even let you see angels. But before these things can happen to you, you must be quickened by the Holy Spirit.
Live in a place where God can quicken you. He can’t do that whenever He wants to unless you live in this spiritual sense realm; but as you live in the spiritual realm, you can see anything God wants to show you. Just because you don’t see these things doesn’t mean God doesn’t want to show you. The Bride will see many signs and wonders, and she is beginning to see more and more divinity and spiritual things. By yielding to the anointing of the Lord, we are being brought into the spiritual senses.
Spiritual Senses Take You Beyond
The Lord is speaking to you; and if you have ears to hear, you will not doubt what He is saying. He uses lips of clay to speak through, but you must know that God is using those lips and believe what He is telling you. Under the control of the Holy Spirit, your spirit is quickened; and the Lord can pour His anointings into you.
All of this is so simple; but if you leave the spiritual senses out of the picture, it will seem complicated and confusing. To know you have brought your whole self under subjection to the whole will of God is to know that the physical senses are in their proper place.
At times, the physical senses and the spiritual senses can be used together; and at other times, they cannot be. You must be ready to give over to the spiritual senses whenever and as much as the Lord wants you to. Make them paramount in your life.
There is a physical taste and a spiritual taste, a physical touch and a spiritual touch. Remember, you cannot touch God without the spiritual touch, and the spiritual touch is what He touches you with. God touches you with the spiritual touch to give you physical blessings.
There are times when a person can hear the voice of the Lord with the physical sense; and at other times, he can’t. Many times during the healing lines at Grace Cathedral, I don’t know what I am hearing in the Spirit and what I am hearing in the physical. At times, I can hear the popping of bones going together; and I will sometimes ask my workers who are close by if they heard the same thing. If they did, then I know I heard it with the physical sense and not the spiritual sense.
There are sights and sounds in the spiritual world you will never be aware of unless you use the spiritual senses. The Early Church disciples had all of that, and they were complete in the Lord.
The Holy Spirit Takes You Deeper
You can’t find the spiritual senses by going to colleges, universities or theological schools; you find them only through the Holy Spirit. You must be transformed, born again and made a brand-new creation in Christ to get into the deepness of God, live in His faith and walk in His love.
It is essential that people have the Holy Ghost. He is the guide who will take you into the depths of God’s greatness and love, and you will never reach those depths of God’s love without the Holy Ghost. You will have some of His love, but you will never have the deepness of it as you should. Remember that the Holy Ghost is your spiritual teacher. He is divine, and He is a member of the Godhead. He lives and dwells on the inside of each person who will live holy and receive Him, those who treat Him as divinity and listen to Him.
If an angel were to appear to you and give you a message from Heaven, you would have faith in it at once; but the Holy Spirit is greater than an angel, and He lives on the inside of you when you are baptized in Him. An angel is just a messenger of God, but the Holy Ghost is a member of the Godhead.
You must recognize what you have on the inside when you are saved and baptized in the Holy Spirit. Not only do you have the blood of Jesus, but you also have the Holy Spirit Himself who is there to work in perfection as you yield to Him. He can use your eyes, your ears, your voice, your tongue, your hands and your feet in the many works of the Lord as you give yourself into His hands and into the spiritual senses.
The Lord serves the physical person through the spiritual senses. He sheds abroad the love of God inside you, in your soul. Learn to know the Holy Spirit and recognize Him as a person. Learn all about His greatness, righteousness, holiness and the power of His mighty works. Jesus said, But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you (Acts 1:8). The Holy Ghost works with God’s heavenly, divine power; and if necessary, the Lord can send earthquakes of power to you.
See as God Sees
In this final hour, God will send forth many earthquakes of power to reap the harvest of souls. In one of my crusade services, multitudes of angels ministered to the lost. If the Lord had opened people’s eyes and shown them those multitudes, they would have been truly overwhelmed.
The Lord opened the eyes of Elisha’s servant one morning. And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? Elisha told him, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha (II Kings 6:15-17). We must be ready to see whatever God wants us to see, and we must be ready to hear and speak His will. Are you coming into that realm?
When you see the things of God through spiritual eyes, you become strong; and the physical man is affected by it. Don’t strain to see divine manifestations; wait on the Spirit. If you are under the control of the Spirit, the Lord will show you whatever He wants to. If He wants you to see something, He will quicken you with His Spirit and make you alert, so you can see it. He will enhance your vision to behold the glory of the Lord. It is so wonderful to see His glory!
God’s Power Defeats Satan
God’s ultimate anointings and His quickening power from On High are part of His Word. Jesus said, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God (Luke 4:4). We live through the Word in the spiritual senses. Of course, our bodies must have bread; but our spiritual man needs more. Bread does not make a person whole and ready for God to use. We must live through the faith of God that is in the Word.
You will also find divine peace, righteousness and the blood of Jesus in the Word. God is the source of life, and we are to live in that life source. The devil is the source of death.
Give God the glory for His Son, Jesus Christ, and for His righteousness. Our own righteousness will not take us into the love and power of God. The Bible says, Our righteousnesses are as filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6). Get rid of self-righteousness and take on the righteousness and holiness of God. The hour is late, and the Lord hath need of workers. He is seeking to bring us as a mighty army into all of His greatness and show us His will. Then He will give us the desire to speak His will.
God will show many manifestations of His power as He uncovers the hold the devil has on people. I see God’s manifestations in our crusade services; and when I return home, God continues to show me manifestations of His work against demonic power. Some people simply reject God’s efforts to save them because they love the power of the devil more than they love the power of God, and they don’t want to be delivered. People hold on to what they love.
God is offering Himself to people today, but those who want the power of the devil will hold on to that power one moment too long; and they will cross the line into blaspheming. People possessed with devils love to feel the power of the devil. When they reach for his power, the devils sweep them into their arms and manifest themselves. Those who don’t humble themselves before God will never get anywhere with Him.
God Must Be Real to You
God wants our minds to dwell in the spiritual senses and in the greatness of the Holy Ghost. He wants us to be alert to the presence of the Holy Ghost and to live by faith in the spiritual senses. For we walk by faith, not by sight (II Corinthians 5:7). Walking in the physical senses is walking by sight and not by faith. When you walk entirely in faith, you are walking in the spiritual senses; and Jesus made that walk possible.
Jesus said, Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter [the Holy Spirit] will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you (John 16:7). The Holy Spirit is here to give you more of God’s greatness for this hour. He is here to serve you and give you mighty anointings that will make God a greater reality to you.
The Lord must be living reality to you. Yield to His Spirit, to His love and to His power. Then He will give you His greatness in this last and final hour as you live by faith in the spiritual senses.
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