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know was there?” They said, “Yes, there is.” I was an 18-year-old young man
then. I got mad at why religion did not tell me that I have a spirit. Then the
brothers helped me to exercise my spirit to receive the Lord, which I did. But
do you know that our spirit is a realm? This may not be doctrinally correct
but experientially it is. Our spirit is the kingdom, a realm that we need to live
in. It is the divine and mystical realm. There is a lot to our spirit that we have
not even touched yet, including the intuition. We need to live there; we need
to be recovered back to our spirit, to that realm, to live under God’s rule. Then
we will discover the capacity of our spirit.
When I was young, I suffered from asthma which caused me to not be
able to run for a long distance. But as I grew older, the asthma disappeared
and I was able to run a long distance. In the beginning I could only run a
mile. But then I was able to run five miles, and then ten miles. Although
today I cannot even run one mile. Eventually I learned that I actually have
the capacity to run twenty miles and there was no problem. This is like our
spirit! We have a tremendous capacity in our spirit but we have not stretched
out to reach it yet. Our spirit can go “twenty miles” and there is no problem.
Our spirit has the capacity to fellowship with the Lord all the time. Our spirit
does have the capacity to pray unceasingly (1 Thess. 5:17). Why would the
Lord command us to pray unceasingly if our spirit did not have the capacity
to do it? Actually, we just have to discover that.
Furthermore, we also need to discover that our spirit is a realm of the
intuition, which is the reality of the kingdom – God’s direct ruling within
us. Intuition is a direct sense of God and a direct knowledge of God. The
intuition in our spirit is the feeling of God, and it accepts only that which is of
God, of the Spirit, and of life (Rom. 8:2). When we live by our intuition and
are controlled by our intuition, we are living in the presence of God and are
ruled directly by Him. These things are equal to living by our intuition to live
under the direct rule of God.
WHEN WE ARE UNDER GOD’S RULE, OUR LIVING BY THE
INTUITION OF OUR SPIRIT ACCORDING TO THE SENSE OF LIFE
When we are under God’s rule, we live by the intuition of our spirit
according to the sense of life (Rom. 8:6). Here is where we sometimes
have the difficulty. Our spirit has this tremendous capacity but our ability
to interpret what our spirit is telling us is something that we have to learn.