Hearing God by Ubert Angel
Hearing God by Ubert Angel
Hearing God by Ubert Angel
The young man was desperate to know. I could see it in his eyes and had heard it in
the intensity and sincerity of his voice. I had just finished a prophetic ministration at
the River Church in Tampa Florida, founded by God’s general, Dr Rodney Howard
Browne. In God’s usual fashion, He had prophetically given me names, addresses,
situations, dreams and many other intimate details of complete strangers that
afternoon as I ministered to the surprise of many. Now all the young man wanted to
know was;
I looked him dead in the eyes and uttered the words that had changed my life way
back as a young boy of seven when I started understanding the voice of God.
You see, to you that might be a very simplistic answer requiring a lengthy explanation
but I tell you this is the root of it all, our hearing.
Understand that I have seen the Lord with my own eyes. I am a leader of the modern
day prophetic movement. I have mentored and still mentor many prophetic people
around the world and I hear his voice as clear as day, but this very question from this
young man who had travelled 45 hours by road from Oregon to Florida just to see the
prophetic in action is what pushed me to ask the Lord why it is that many of His
children have never heard directly from Him.
I know what you are thinking right now, you are saying “but Prophet I am not a
prophet so I can’t hear.” You cannot be further from the truth and in the pages of this
book is the truth that will revolutionise your walk with God with regards to hearing
His voice.
When you hear a dog make sound, to you it is barking, but to another dog hearing the
same thing, that dog is not barking, it is speaking!
There is a distinct message being communicated by that dog and the reason you miss
the communication or lack the understanding of what is being communicated is
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because your ears are not tuned in to the dog realm. You are outside that realm, that is
why you cannot hear what the dog is saying, so to you it’s just unorganised sound but
to that dog its communicating.
Same thing when you hear a sheep bleating, to you that sound is bleating but to
another sheep it is not bleating, it is talking. You have to be in the sheep realm to hear
that they are not just bleating, they are talking.
You see even when the Lord Jesus was walking the earth and speaking the common
language that was familiar to men, many still failed to hear him. He was speaking
their own language that they taught in the schools of the day, but when he would open
his mouth to speak they would get confused. Why? The words he was speaking were
in the spirit and it took someone to hear them from that realm to understand any of it.
John 8: 43 says;
The Lord Jesus said His words are spirit, you cannot hear them until you become
sensitive to the spiritual, until then when he speaks to you it will be no different to the
sound of a dog barking. It will be meaningless, even though God is speaking many are
still groping in the dark clueless. As long you are outside that realm his voice will
sound like a bark or a bleat.
John 6: 63
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing the words that I speak
to you, they are spirit, and they are life.
You see now, trying to hear God whilst outside the spirit is like an English-only
speaking individual trying to learn English from a German-only speaking individual.
They are just not the same language and they won’t understand each other. God
speaks Spirit and we speak English or other languages and God is the sovereign Lord
and he is not changing his language for us. We have to change and learn the language
he speaks.
The advantage though is we don’t really need to learn the language. All we need to
do is to be in the realm where its spoken. In other words, we ought to be in the spirit
realm and understand words spoken by God.
Those words were spoken in Greek to people who understood Greek or Aramaic to
people of Hebrew origin, who understood that language but they couldn’t understand
them for they were coated by the spirit.
All the Lord is saying in John 8 is be in the spirit to understand the words in the spirit
though they have been spoken in English or any other language.
And;
His ability to hear was dependant on him being in the spirit. The same rules apply to
you. You cannot hear him when you are outside that realm of the spirit. He can be
speaking to you directly, but you will not be able to decipher anything he is saying.
John could not hear that voice until he got into the spirit and today believers are busy
trying to hear God with their natural ears, when what he is speaking is coated by
something spiritual that only those who are in the spiritual realm can understand.
Revelation 1: 10
I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of
a trumpet.
You cannot access the voice of God for yourself because he is speaking from one
realm and you are trying to hear him from another. This is just not possible. You
cannot hear God unless you are in the realm of the spirit.
Let me show you something, through extensive research, dog trainers have
discovered that dogs actually use vocal cues to communicate. The type of bark or
throat growl will depend on whether the situation is confrontational, playful, or
whether alerts are being sent out by other dogs in the neighborhood. For example,
sometimes when other dogs in the street are barking my dogs’ ears will prick up, but
they will not bark. Other times they’ll jump up and start barking as though they have
been alerted to an unusual occurrence in the area.
To one in that realm, all things dog make sense. To the one outside that realm, it is all
just gibberish. This is exactly where you are missing God’s attempts to communicate
with you. God speaks, but the question is from where do you hear him? A barking dog
makes a very distinct sound. The dog is very deliberate in its voice projection. It is
talking, but to you, it is just barking and you cannot tell one bark from the other. You
are not in the dog realm, so those things don’t make sense to you at all.
Christians live frustrated and empty lives, because they are trying to access the voice
of God outside that spiritual realm, and no matter how many times God speaks, they
are still in a state of confusion, because nothing they have heard makes any sense at
all.
Being in the Spirit
God is a spirit, and when He speaks, you need to be in the spirit. If God speaks in the
spirit and you are in the flesh, you cannot hear Him. That is the condition in which we
have to place ourselves in order to hear from God. It’s interesting to note that all
through the Bible, God has required people to come out of their physical situations,
out of their affairs of this life to a solitary place, before they can hear clearly from
Him.
The question is why should they have to go all the way to the mountain before God
speaks? Why couldn’t God speak to them when they were at home? Couldn’t God
have spoken to them there? Of course, He could. God’s presence is everywhere. He
can speak anywhere, anyplace, at any time. Don’t get me wrong here. I am not saying
start packing your bags and sleeping bags and make your way to the mountains. I am
not saying that going up a mountain to pray is going to make you walk in the spirit, not
at all, but there is something we can take from that.
You see, with these people it was deliberate and not something they stumbled into.
They wouldn’t just wake up and find themselves alone on the plateau of a mountain.
Just like you picking up this book, they had the mind to hear from God directly, and
decided to position themselves accordingly.
God is not the problem here. The problem is you. Many right now bible believing,
tongue talking believers are alien to the voice of God, yet God is speaking every day.
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They fail to get in the spirit where his voice is clear and distinct. God is not trying to
hide from you. In fact, the bible tells us that God speaks distinctly.
1 Tim 4: 1
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart
from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
That Greek word translated as expressly is rhetos and it means to speak distinctly or
to speak in a way that is distinguishable to the senses; clearly. So God is speaking
clearly yet you cannot hear what he is saying. To God everything he is saying to you
right now ought to be understood, He says in that scripture that he is speaking
expressly, that is to say clearly you are meant to hear it. He is not trying to hide from
you.
Walking by the Spirit
As a born-again believer, you ought to be surprised when you come out of the spirit
not when you enter the spirit realm because this is your new nature. You ought to be
in the spirit already. For many, however, they have the opposite experience. They are
surprised when they find themselves walking in the spirit, as they are usually on the
other side. I know I have many witnesses right now, please don’t raise your hand.
This is exactly what Paul was exhorting the Galatians to do.
Galatians 5: 25 says;
If we live by the spirit, let us also walk by the spirit.
Paul was writing this letter to believers and you would have thought that it should be
automatic that believers walk by the spirit but Paul had to write and encourage them.
It is possible for you to be born again, and still live as if you are not even alive to
God. This was Paul’s cry to the Galatians, who, just like you, were born again and
speaking in tongues, but had no access to the voice of God. This is because they were
still not walking by the spirit. They were born again, so they were living by the
Spirit, but they were not walking by the Spirit.
They had the life of God in them, but it had not been translated into walking in the
Spirit and Paul had to come and teach them this subject. I love the way Paul breaks it
down in that chapter. He made it really simple and even the babes in Christ could
understand what he was teaching. Right now, when you hear ‘walking in the spirit’
you think it’s like robotic science. Well it’s not. It’s so simple. The things of God
usually are.
Let’s back up a little bit in the same chapter, and see how simple walking in the spirit
is. Paul says;
Galatians 5: 22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness,
Paul was giving them a compass by which to know whether or not they were walking
in the Spirit. This is important, because I know right now as you are reading this
some are thinking; I’m in church every Sunday, I don’t swear, and I don’t lie, so I
must be walking in the spirit. Just hold your horses right there. Paul says the fruit of
the spirit is Love, and notice he did not say the fruits, no, but the fruit, as in one
only.
I know many have been taught that we have many fruits of the Spirit but this is not
what the bible actually says, it only speaks of one fruit and that is love. The others
are attributes of that one fruit.
So that means when you are walking in the spirit there is a certain fruit that we ought
to begin to see in your life and Paul calls it love. He doesn’t stop there, but goes on
to describe the attributes of love that are joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance, which are all part of the same fruit.
Even though it is the will of God that every believer has access to His voice, the
believer’s inability to distinguish between spirit and soul cripples his ability to hear
from God. It affects the spiritual life of a believer tremendously. It is this grave
mistake that has rendered the church of today spiritually deaf. Right. I know you think
you know where we are going, but trust me, what I am about to show you in the next
passages will revolutionize your walk with God with regards to hearing His voice.
I can assure you that many who think they know, really do not know how it works.
Stay with me.
The Bible never confuses spirit and soul as being the same, but you often hear
believers and even ministers of the gospel using them interchangeably, as if they are
one and the same. Not only are they different terms, their very natures differ from
each other.
I Thessalonians 5: 23
May the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul
and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
This verse clearly shows, and leaves us without a doubt, that the whole man is
divided into three parts. The Apostle Paul refers here to the complete sanctification
of believers, sanctify you wholly. How? By keeping your spirit, keeping your soul,
and keeping your body. It is clear from scripture that the whole person is comprised
of these three parts.
This verse also makes a distinction between spirit and soul; otherwise, Paul would
have said simply your soul. Since God has distinguished the human spirit from the
human soul, we can conclude that man is composed of not two, but three parts: spirit,
soul and body.
Most Christians cannot access the voice of God because they consider what is
soulical as spiritual and as a result, they remain in a soulish state and do not seek
what is really spiritual. This is why many have never heard from God directly. They
remain in the soulish realm, unable to distinguish between spiritual reality and what
Hebrews 4: 12
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged
sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints
and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
The word of God has an ability to separate the spirit and the soul and if God himself
is now using His word to make this distinction, it means that it is very important for
you to know the difference between the two. You need to discern the difference
between the two, as otherwise you will never know what God is saying, and what is
coming from your soul, since both will sound the same to you.
In the Old Testament, when the priests received animal sacrifices and offerings, they
used the sword to cut and completely dissect the animal.
The animal would literally be ripped apart, and nothing inside would be hidden. This
is exactly how God uses His word to make the separation thoroughly, dividing the
spiritual from the soulical, and the soulical from the flesh. Notice he says;
This means these two need to be separated but they are not separate without the word
of God yet they need to be for you to hear correctly.
Also notice that if these can be separated, then they are different in nature.
I subtitled this passage spirit and soul, because I am assuming I do not need to teach
you that you have a body. If I do, then we are in a lot deeper trouble than I first
imagined. Forget it. Let’s stick to the subject at hand.
When God created the first man Adam, he formed him out of the dust of the ground,
and the Bible says that He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. I want us to
look at this scripture very carefully.
Genesis 2: 7
The Hebrew word translated as life in that passage of scripture is chay, and it is
actually in the plural when you read it in the Hebrew rendering, so if the translator of
the English version had kept the original meaning, that word would have been written
as lives. In other words, we could read it this way:
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of lives; and man became a living soul.
This is because when the breath of life, which became man’s spirit, came into contact
with man’s body, the soul was also produced. This is why the scriptures say that man
became a living soul. A living soul came into being when the breath of God touched
the physical body of Adam. Not only did he receive his spirit from God, but the soul
came into being when he received the breath that produces lives. The breath of lives,
or chay in the Hebrew.
The in-breathing of God produced a two-fold life in man, the soulical and the
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spiritual. When the breath of God entered man’s body, it became the spirit of man; but
when the spirit reacted with the body, the soul was created.
So then, according to Genesis chapter 2 verse 7, man was made up of only two
independent elements at the time, his physical body and the spiritual. But when God
placed the spirit within the earthly body, the soul was produced. The spirit of man
touching the dead body produced the soul. The body without the spirit was dead, but
with the spirit, man was made alive and the soul was produced.
The term and man became a living soul as we read in Genesis 2: 7 expresses not
merely the fact that by combining the spirit and body the soul was produced; it is also
pointing us to the fact that spirit and body were completely merged in this soul as
illustrated by the diagram above. In other words, soul and body were combined with
the spirit, and spirit and body were merged in the soul. This is exactly what the Lord
Jesus was teaching in the book of John.
John 6: 63
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I
speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
The Lord Jesus tells us that it is the spirit that gives life. That’s what the word
quickeneth means in that passage, it is literally to make alive. So until God breathed
the breath of lives Adam’s physical body was lifeless, it was quickened or made
alive by the Spirit. This breath of life comes from the Lord of Creation. However, we
must not confuse man’s spirit with God’s Holy Spirit. It is entirely different from our
human spirit, as the apostle Paul points out in the book of Romans.
Romans 8: 16
The Spirit Himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of
God.
So, Apostle Paul makes mention of the fact that the Spirit of God bears witness with
your own spirit, so the two spirits he is talking about here cannot be the same. Your
human spirit came from God, and is sensitive to the voice of God, but it is not the
same as the Holy Spirit of God. The spirit is that part of you by which you commune
with God, and the only part by which you are able to apprehend and worship Him.
The spirit is the element of God-consciousness, because it tells you of your
relationship with God.
It is important that every believer knows he has a spirit, since as you are about to
Even though God is speaking to you daily, you will never hear a thing, because of
your inability to separate what is spiritual from that which is soulical.
According to the Bible, the human spirit is comprised of three parts. To put it another
way, one can say it has three main functions: conscience, intuition, and communion.
In your mind, you really wanted to do this thing, but when your conscience was
awakened, you found yourself in contradiction with what had seemed to be good at
first glance. Let’s study this more deeply, so you understand it. In the book of Acts,
Apostle Paul describes the state of his conscience for us.
Acts 23: 1
And Paul earnestly beholding the council, said, men and brethren, I have lived in
all good conscience before God until this day.
The apostle Paul had been brought before the same council that had previously given
him letters authorizing him to arrest and persecute Christians, but then he makes a
statement that seems rather confusing. He says, I have lived in all good conscience
before God until this day.
So Paul is claiming that up until that day, he had done all things in all good
conscience before God. Wait a minute. That means when Paul was persecuting
Christians, he was doing it in all good conscience. While killing Christians, Paul
could have put his hand up and said, my conscience is clear.
He says, until this day. Which day? The same day that he was standing before the
council, he makes the very bold statement that until that day he had lived all his life in
all good conscience before God. All this time, while he had been persecuting the
church, his conscience never highlighted to him that there was a problem. He actually
thought that he was doing God a service, so his conscience was clear. He was still in
that unregenerate state, when his spirit was not alive or sensitive to God.
He never went into that emotional turmoil you get when you set out to do something
and your conscience tells you it is wrong. This is because it is possible to have your
conscience hardened and closed to the voice of God. Just like Paul before his
encounter with the Lord on the way to Damascus, many in the church today are still
missing the voice of God, no matter how much they listen to their conscience.
Paul’s conscience was so desensitized to the voice of God that even though he knew
the scriptures, nothing in him was moved. Paul, in his own words, was a Pharisee of
Pharisees—a man who knew the scriptures and committed his life to following every
precept of the Law. The only problem was that the part of him that was able to access
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the voice of God had been hardened.
Look at Philippians 3: 4– 5
Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that
he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more; Circumcised on the eighth
day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as
touching the law, a Pharisee.
No matter how much he studied Paul had no revelation of the fact that what he was
doing was wrong. He needed the encounter on the road to Damascus, where he was
born again, and now his spirit could be sensitive, and he could hear from God. The
encounter changed him from the natural realm to the spiritual realm by the Holy Spirit
shedding the love of God abroad in his heart and that is walking in the spirit
Now I think you are getting it. You have been called to walk in the spirit, and it is
only from there that you can hear directly from God. Many believers are not even
aware of the fact that they have these senses. In that innermost recess you can rejoice,
grieve, anticipate, love, fear, approve, condemn, decide, and discern. These emotions
are sensed in the spirit, and are quite distinct from those expressed by the soul
through the body. Watch what the scripture says in the book of Luke;
Luke 1: 46
This is an expression of joy in the spirit remember, the conscience is the emotional
part of your spirit that is capable of experiencing emotions that have nothing to do
with your soul.
The conscience does not wait for any outside stimulation, but emerges directly from
within the man. God has called you to walk in the spirit, and it is from there that you
can hear directly from God. It is important for you to learn how to distinguish
feelings, as to whether they are coming from the inner man, or from the outer man, if
you are going to hear from God.
1 Corinthians 2: 14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are
foolishness unto him; neither can he know them for they are spiritually
discerned.
The Greek word translated as know in that passage of scripture is ginosko, and it
means to know by revelation. It is knowledge that goes beyond your five natural
senses. The scripture is talking about receiving things that are beyond your mental
assent your mind cannot comprehend it, it comes as a revelation to your spirit. So the
carnal man is insensitive to the voice of God in his spirit.
Your conscience is that part of you that gives you that emotional response in your
spirit. It is also possible to harden your conscience. as Paul records in the book of
Timothy;
1 Timothy 4: 2
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron.
Paul is telling us here that you can desensitize your conscience. This is why even
though some people can listen to their conscience, they can still miss what God is
saying. You can even desensitize your conscience to the extent that it becomes evil.
The Greek word translated as conscience in the New Testament is syneidesis, which
means moral consciousness or co-perception.
Hebrews 10: 22
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Please pay close attention here. I am not saying that it distinguishes between right and
wrong based on the information stored in your mind. No! Remember this is your
spirit we are talking about so it works on the spiritual light that you have. It happens
through a spontaneous, direct judgement. It is more than just a sense of right and
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wrong, but is an emotional response to what it deems right or wrong. It is the emotion
of your spirit and in other words the voice of your spirit to you.
You need to understand that there are things right now that you can reason your way
out of, but in your conscience you know that you have not been excused, and even
though you try to convince yourself logically that, yes I was right, deep down within
you, you know very well, no matter what your reasoning, that you are wrong.
This is why you can make a calculated decision based on the intellectual information
you have been given, and act accordingly, and then it turns out that even against all
odds, it did not happen the way you had anticipated.
The normal reaction is, oh I knew I should not have done it. How did you know
that when all the information you had was giving you a green light? You knew it not
by what was in your mind, but because that part of your spirit called the conscience
was waving a red flag that you ignored at the time. There was in you that emotion
which you sensed was not in agreement with the direction you were about to take.
You are starting to understand now, that is the function of your conscience which is as
aforementioned, the voice of your spirit. Here is what Paul says in the book of
Romans:
Romans 8: 16
The Spirit Himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of
God.
Think about it, how do you even know that you are really saved and you are going to
heaven? Apart from the Bible and your faith you don’t have much to go on. When you
heard the good news of God’s grace that light entered into your born again spirit
that’s why it’s impossible to move you on that subject. It does not bend to outside
opinions. That information is coming from your spirit, and you know, deep inside,
that you are saved.
It is the organ for distinguishing between good and evil, which means it gives us the
knowledge of good and evil. This knowledge varies between different Christians.
Some have more, while others have less. It judges according to the light you have.
This is why the Bible says that if the light in you be darkness, then you are in
great darkness. It is possible for your conscience not to have any light at all
concerning a given issue. In that case, you will not be able to hear anything that God
has to say on that subject. You are in total darkness, but the entrance to His word
brings light.
The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding to the simple.
The word of God can fine-tune you to God’s frequency. It makes you sensitive to
those things that are coming directly from God. The degree of knowledge may be
determined by an individual’s environment, or perhaps by the instruction each has
received. Your conscience will judge according to the light you have. This is why
Paul had to write to the Romans, because some of them were of the opinion that they
could eat anything, and others had the conviction that they should not eat anything that
was labeled as unclean under the Law of Moses.
Each of the two sides was judging according to the light they had, with their
consciences either excusing or accusing them.
But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably
(not in love). Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
I want you to get the context for what Paul is saying here, so let’s look at the verse
previous to this one.
Romans 14: 14 - 15
I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of
itself; but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. But
if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably.
Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
Paul was actually telling them that it was right for them to eat all things, but for the
sake of those with lesser light, to not eat those things that were unclean under the law.
Why? Because they would be violating their conscience, the moment they saw
someone who confessed the same faith doing what their conscience was telling them
was wrong, they were literally vexed in their spirit and eating in their presence
makes the eater not to walk in love which also means at that time the eater will not be
walking in the spirit.
But I want you to see his choice of words here when he says, if thy brother be
grieved. Grief is an emotional reaction. So when they saw someone eat what they
deemed to be unclean, that emotion rose from within them. It is that sensing of right
and wrong in their conscience, which is accusing them and not excusing the behavior
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but all based on the light in them. That part of their spirit will not let them get
comfortable with the idea.
A lack of understanding in this area has actually caused a lot of divisions in the body
of Christ. Those with lesser light think the ones with greater light are lost, and their
conviction is absolute. It is just a lack of understanding.
For example right now in the body of Christ, there are those that believe when you
get baptized you should do so in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
By that I mean they actually say; I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost. That’s the level of light they have, and it is ok, but there
are those that baptize in the name of Jesus. Remember, the Bible never said to baptize
in the names as of many, but in the name of one. Father is not a name, and neither is
Son or Holy Ghost, and this is why you find John baptizing people in the name of
Jesus.
Acts 19: 5
When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Anyway, I do not think the Lord will hold anything against you if you are doing it the
other way round, since it is just based on the light you have and now you have greater
light. I have made my point, so let us go back to hearing the voice of God.
The Intuition
Your intuition is the brain of the inner sanctuary. It is not an emotional reaction like
the conscience, but a knowing that comes directly to your spirit from God.
1 Corinthians 2: 11
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man, which is in
him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
The apostle Paul is referring here to the intuition, that part of your spirit that senses
and knows information that is beyond what is in your mind. It is not scientific or
calculated knowledge. Unlike the mind, the intuition has full knowledge. It knows by
revelation, and it knows beyond what the mind can perceive.
Let me shock you a little bit. If I want to know the secret things concerning your life, I
do not need to get it from the Spirit of God. I can look into that part of your spirit that
knows everything about you, and I will know what your spirit knows. I will know
You see, your intuition has a full knowledge of who you are, where you live, what
you like, it is in your spirit. Remember the scripture we have just read tells us that no
one can know the things of a man except the spirit of man which is in him. So it
makes sense that to know the man you need to know his spirit that knows about him.
Your spirit has a full knowledge of everything that concerns you. So I can look into
your spirit and know exactly who you are. That information floods my spirit when I
meet you. I know some that have watched my videos when I minister prophetically
sometimes will hear me ask the question, have we met before? That is because I have
such an awareness of who you are its like I have known you for years all because my
spirit by the help of the Holy Spirit knows your spirit.
Intuition in Operation
During one of the live Missions Week broadcasts that we do every year I began to
minister prophetically live. We had people watching live on Facebook, Periscope,
television and YouTube and we were broadcasting from our studio in the UK. Now
there was a brother watching us from South Africa and all I could see was his
Facebook username on the screen which was not even his real name.
Just from that simple connection I was able to locate the fact that he was actually
watching the broadcast from a prison cell, tell him about the court hearing he was
waiting on and even mentioned his case I.D. number to the last digit, all this from our
studio in the UK and the guy was watching from Cape Town, South Africa. To the
shock and amazement of our live audience the confirmation started coming in on the
screen as the man was confirming every detail of the prophetic word including his
case number and the reason why he was in jail and also his real name not the fake
username he was using on Facebook. That part of the prophecy was me seeing into
that part of his spirit that we call the intuition, I could identify where he was, what he
was doing, his crimes and the upcoming court hearing all by my spirit’s intuition
getting the knowledge by the help of the Holy Spirit that empowered it.
It is what will happen to you in the future that I need God to reveal to me. By the
Spirit of God as a prophet, I can travel into your future and not only see what lies
ahead, but also decree what it should be. When it comes to where you are right now, I
can look into your spirit and have a full knowledge of who you are, where you are
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coming from, and everything else but the future is the direct work of the Holy Spirit.
Now, the scripture we have just read says the Spirit of God knows the things of God.
So what God has to say about you and where he is taking you to comes directly from
the Spirit of God. He knows God’s plans and purposes for your life. Your spirit
won’t have that revelation unless you can access the voice of God for yourself.
1 Corinthians 2: 9
But as it is written, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into
the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Many believers only operate by what they can perceive with their five natural senses,
and because of that, never live up to what God has really called them to be. All they
know is what they can see with their physical eyes, hear with their natural ears, touch
physically with hands, and feel in their soul. You can never access the voice of God
this way.
Mark 2: 8
And immediately when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they so reasoned within
themselves, He said unto them, why reason ye these things in your hearts?
Notice that the Bible here says, Jesus perceiving in His spirit. This is information he
was not going to get by looking at the people that were before him and trying to make
a judgement. That spiritual perception is the work of that part of your spirit we call
the intuition. The information had to come to that part of his spirit, the intuition. It
was information that was beyond his senses, and he perceived it in his spirit, and that
sensing part of you is what we call the intuition.
The question he asked there actually points us to the source of the information he
perceived in his spirit. Remember the question was, “why reason ye these things in
your hearts?” Jesus knew what they were thinking by looking into their hearts, that
part of their spirit that has a full knowledge of who they are. The bible uses the heart
and the spirit interchangeably. So when I say I can look into your spirit understand
that this is actually what the word says and how the Lord Jesus himself used to do it.
It is the spirit of a man that knows the things of man and the Spirit of God knows the
This is the part of you that can hear the voice of the Lord. When you receive a
revelation from the Lord of His word, that information does not come from your
head. It comes directly from the Spirit of God through your intuition and then your
mind helps you to understand it.
The revelations of God and all the promptings of the Holy Spirit are made known to
the believer through his intuition. As the soul has its senses, so too has the spirit. The
spirit is intimately related to the soul, and yet is wholly unlike it. The soul possesses
various senses; but a spiritual man is able to detect another set of senses lodged in
the innermost part of his being, which are very different to soulical senses. As
illustrated by the diagram the functions of the spirit are replicated in the soulish
realm as well as in your physical body.
Knowing things in your intuition is what the Bible calls revelation. It is the Holy
Spirit that brings the reality of any particular subject to your spirit. You need to come
to terms with the fact that God cannot communicate with you through your intellect or
reasoning. You will never hear from God or understand him through reasoning. It
does not matter how high your IQ is, God never explains himself to man through his
reasoning. Information comes to you by revelation into your spirit and then the mind
tries to help you understand and decipher what has been said.
This kind of revelation is unlike what you would experience in a vision, a heavenly
voice, a dream, or an external force that shakes the man. Right now, I have many
witnesses out there who dream daily, and yes, God does speak through dreams, but
you don’t always get the revelation with the dream. They can be exposed to
something and still that information fails to register in their intuition. You can be left
wondering what you have just seen after seeing a vision, when you lack revelation. It
is possible, and in fact quite common, for the average believer to see a vision or
have a dream but still not have revelation. Revelation happens in the intuition—
quietly and yet with a message.
God reveals himself solely to the human spirit. The head is only where God’s will is
understood after the information has been received in your intuition. Every believer
acquires their first knowledge of God in their spirit, and must continue to hear him in
the same way. That is why, when the preacher made the altar call to which you
responded, your friend who was with you that day who heard the same message might
not have been moved as you were. They only received the message in their head. It
never reached their spirit as revelation.
They did not hear what you heard, and though the words being spoken were the same,
they were being received differently. In your spirit, you have the ability to soar into
the eternal unseen realm of God. This is why the bible tells us that it is with the heart
that man believes unto righteousness.
Romans 10: 10
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation.
That word translated as heart in that passage is not talking about that organ pumping
blood around your body, it is the Greek word kardia which means inner life so that is
talking about your spirit. For you to be saved right now that revelation of the
Lordship of Christ came into your intuition and when it was communicated to your
mind you then made the confession with your mouth and you were born again.
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The Unregenerate Spirit
Now when I say a man is spiritually dead, I don’t mean that he does not have a spirit,
but that his intuition is insensitive to God and spiritual realities. He is separated from
God, and incapable of receiving anything from God. That is being spiritually dead.
Many believers today are still operating from this unregenerate state of being while
their spirits are alive to God.
When the spirit controls the whole man, the soul and all members of the body adhere
closely to God‘s intuitively-known will. Man’s soulical faculties cannot perceive
God: nothing else can be a substitute for intuition. Except a man receives a new life
from God and has his intuition reborn, he is eternally separated from God, and will
never be able to access the voice of God.
I have heard believers complaining of how they even dread going to bed because of
sleep paralysis, a state in which they are conscious that they are in danger of
suffocating but are unable to move. That is a classic example of a believer that is
dominated by their body even though their spirit is alive. At that moment when you
are lying on your bed unable to move or scream your spirit is very much aware of the
danger you are in but because you flesh still dominates you it is unable to move your
flesh out of that slumber to deal with the situation.
Nicodemus is famous for asking the Lord, how can a man be born again? As much
as we like to make fun of his seemingly trivial question, the reality is that very few in
the body of Christ today actually understand how this works. Otherwise, it would be
easy for them to access the voice of God for themselves.
Your spirit man is meant to dominate your entire being, but the unbeliever’s soul and
flesh are clouded and overtaken to the extent that his spirit has no concept of who
God is or any way of understanding him. The unbeliever needs the life of God to
bring a new birth to his spirit, so he can be alive to God once more. See what Paul
says in the book of Ephesians.
Ephesians 2: 1
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sin.
Every single one of us needed to be born again, to be able to access the voice of
God. Paul says you were dead in trespasses but you were the life of the party in the
night clubs, he is talking about you not being alive to God in your spirit. Now your
intuition is sensitive to the leading and promptings of the Spirit of God.
Communion
When your intuition receives information from the Holy Spirit that has to do with
worship of God, that information is passed on to the third part of your spirit that we
call the communion. This is the part of you that worships God, and is why the Bible
says that they that worship him must do it in spirit and in truth.
There is a part or function of your spirit that is reserved for doing just that. It will
relay information to your emotions in the soul before your body responds. This is
when you find yourself lying prostrate on the ground or with tears running down your
cheeks as you worship. Or that moment when you think to yourself I need to pray, this
is all coming from the part of you we call the communion. It is the will of your born-
again spirit to worship God. The scripture tells us that those that worship God must
do so in spirit and in truth.
John 4: 24
True worship of God does not originate from your intellect, even though your whole
being participates. That information originates from the Spirit of God, which
communicates it to the part of your spirit that can hear God—your intuition—and
from there, the communion takes over with the rest of your being and you begin to
worship.
In fact, it is possible for you to lift your hands up with everyone else during worship
yet you are thinking of the burger you are going to buy on your way home from
church. This is not true worship your spirit is not in it at all even though your body is
making all the right gestures. Do you realize that during the worship service the true
worshippers are not always the ones leading praise who know how to hit every note
and carry the tune? Their focus is on trying to execute the performance, it is the ones
that are weeping in the pews rolling on the floor without a care how their voices
sound that are the true worshipers.
You see, the communion is the part of your spirit that wills, this is why when Jesus
took his disciples for a prayer session and found them sleeping his remark was, the
spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. He was referring to the communion function of
their spirits, it is responsible for worship and fellowship with God.
Matthew 26: 41
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing,
but the flesh is weak.
The information to pray had been received in the communion and communicated to
the body through the soul but failed to be executed because they were weak in their
bodies.
The spirit does not have the ability to act directly on the body. It needs a medium, and
that medium is the soul, which was produced by the touching of the spirit with the
body. The soul therefore stands between the spirit and the body, binding these two
together. The spirit can subdue the body through the medium of the soul, so that it will
obey God; likewise, the body has the ability to draw the spirit into loving the world
through the soul.
When you are born again, your spirit is alive to God and sensitive to His voice, and
increasingly, the soul becomes the spirit’s servant; similarly, the body, once subdued,
becomes the soul’s servant. The spirit receives God’s revelations in its faculty of
intuition, while the soul and the body are there to execute the will of the spirit.
For you to be able to access the voice of God for yourself you need to appreciate
differences between spiritual and soulical experiences; spiritual experiences are so
designated because they begin with God, and are known in our spirit. Soulical
experiences have their origin in the self, and do not come from God.
2 Corinthians 3: 6
Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter,
but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
This is how even believers miss the voice of God and get caught up in meaningless
religious arguments. Their spirits are clouded by the soul, and they cannot access the
voice of God. Their zeal is misguided, and they never see the power they want to see
in their lives.
Think about it. No one can ever enter the kingdom of God through your
encouragement, persuasion, argument, inducement, excitement, or attraction; entrance
can be gained only by a new birth by nothing less than the new birth of the spirit. That
new life, which invades us at regeneration, brings with it many inherent abilities, not
the least of which is the intuitive power of knowing God and hearing from Him
directly.
Does this then mean that man’s mind or brain is totally useless? Of course not. The
mind’s role is to explain to your outward man what you now know in your spirit, and
additionally to form it into words for others to understand. There are things you know
in the spirit right now, that your brain doesn’t know. Your mind is meant to cooperate
with your spirit in communicating the revelation your intuition has received to others.
The brain is the transmitting—not the receiving—mechanism of spiritual knowledge.
The soul comprises of your intellect, your mind, your will, and the emotions that
proceed from your senses. The soul belongs to man’s own self, and reveals his
personality.
Your soul represents you and expresses your individuality. It is the organ of man’s
free will, the organ in which spirit and body are completely merged. If man’s soul
wills to obey God, it will allow the spirit to rule over man as ordered by God. The
soul, if it chooses, can also suppress the spirit, and take some other delight as lord of
the man.
This connection of the spirit, soul, and body may be partially illustrated by a light
bulb. Within the bulb, which can represent the total man, there is electricity, light, and
wire. The spirit is like the electricity, the soul the light, and the body the wire.
Electricity is the cause of the light, while light is the effect of the electricity. Wire is
the material substance for carrying the electricity and for manifesting the light. The
combination of spirit and body produces soul, which is unique to man. As electricity,
carried by the wire, is expressed in light, so spirit acts upon the soul and the soul, in
turn, expresses itself through the body.
So then, it is with your physical body that you can relate to the natural world, and as
already mentioned, the soul is the meeting point of the spirit and the body, for there
they are merged. By his spirit, man communicates with the spiritual world and with
the Spirit of God, both receiving and expressing the power and life of the spiritual
realm.
Through his body, man is in contact with the outside physical world, affecting it and
being is affected by it. The soul stands between these two worlds, yet belongs to
both. It is linked with the spiritual world through the spirit, and with the material
world through the body. It also possesses the power of free will, and has the ability
to choose from among its environments.
The soul makes it possible for the spirit and the body to communicate and cooperate.
The work of the soul is to keep these two in their proper order, so that they do not
lose their right relationship, namely, that the lowest of them, the body, may be
subjected to the spirit, and that the highest of them, the spirit, may govern the body
through the soul. This, however, is where many have put the horse before the cart,
and are being dominated by the soul instead of their spirit.
Man’s prime factor is definitely the soul. The soul is always looking to the spirit, to
convey whatever is being communicated from God, so that it can transmit the same
information to the body. This way the body can also share in the things of the spirit.
So then, your spirit transmits information to your soul, and then the soul exercises the
body to obey the spirit’s order. I always like to give this illustration at this point. The
body is the worker, the soul is the supervisor, and the spirit is the manager. The
manager should give instructions to the supervisor and then the supervisor should
make the worker perform the duties required as given to the supervisor by the
manager but what is happening with most believers these days, is that the supervisor
has become too cozy with the worker and entered into an unhealthy relationship
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where the body is now taking unending breaks and free time off and in a way
affecting production in the factory of life so to speak.
The supervisor is now taking no notice of the manager but is now colluding with the
worker to do what the manager hasn’t instructed and relaxing the rules of the manager
to suit the worker. Before the fall of man, the spirit controlled the whole being
through the soul but now the body is very much in control in a very big way stopping
the hearing capacity of the believer when it relates to the voice of God.
You see now that the power of the soul is most substantial, since the soul is the
supervisor and since the spirit and the body are merged there, and it is therefore the
site of man’s personality and influence. Before man committed sin, the power of the
soul was completely under the dominion of the spirit. Its strength was therefore the
spirit’s strength so men could hear God in the garden. Without this soul, the spirit
cannot itself act upon the body; it can only do so through the medium of the soul. Even
though the spirit has eyes it needs the soul.
The spirit has senses or eyes so hearing God involves using all of your senses to
know what God is saying, and right now you have one pair of physical eyes, but there
is also what we call inner eyes. By inner eyes I am not referring to your spirit. Your
spirit has eyes, and they are different from what I am talking about here. There are
spiritual eyes that you can use to look into the spirit realm—remember you can only
access the voice of God from the spiritual realm. Many believers are limited in their
ability to hear from God, because they are not even aware that they possess this sense
of sight.
In other words, they are oblivious to this sense of sight that is crucial to their ability
to understand anything that is being communicated to them by God. It is very
important for you to understand what I’m about to share with you here, as this was
actually one of Paul’s prayers for the church at Ephesus and it helped many hear the
voice of God with regards to their situations.
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you
the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; The eyes of your
understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of His
calling, and the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.
Paul is praying that they may receive wisdom and revelation, but then he goes on to
Even though every believer has eyes of understanding, just like your physical eyes,
they require light to be able to see anything. If I put you in a dark room right now, it
doesn’t matter how great your eyesight is, you would be as blind as a bat.
So there are two things required for you to see anything: first of all a fully functional
eye, and secondly, light. If your optical nerves are damaged, you will not be able to
see anything, even though light is present. It is the same thing with the eyes of your
understanding. They require the light that comes from wisdom and revelation to be
able to form an image. So then, you need the eye of your understanding to be fully
functional.
Even Apostle Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians was that their understanding be
enlightened. The word enlightened is photizo in Greek, and it does not just mean light
it means ‘flood light’ like the stadium lights that flood the whole pitch enabling
players to see the ball, the gates, each other and supporters in the grand stands like its
day. So, Apostle Paul was praying for their understanding to be flooded with light, so
they could see beyond the natural.
You need to understand that love cures the eyes of your spirit. The fruit of the Spirit
as aforementioned, the eye, is the medicine for blind eyes. Every time you allow
bitterness, hurt, or anything that is against the fruit of love, it will affect your
intelligence, and cause your soul to be dysfunctional. You then no longer bear the fruit
of the Spirit, which is love. Even when the Spirit of God tries to impart wisdom,
revelation, and ideas for your life, you will be unable to receive these
communications, and you will remain alienated from the voice of God.
People who are hurting will not react normally to certain situations, because the pain
they are experiencing causes them to create a distorted view of reality. They either
exaggerate even the smallest incidents, or they are so numb that they become
emotionally locked down, and fail to respond as they should in certain situations, and
these emotional wounds will actually affect the person’s intelligence.
When the eyes of your understanding are wounded, you will be unable to access the
voice of God as you should. To go deeper on the eyes of your understanding let me
put you in remembrance of the word dianoia I dealt with before. The dianoia is that
part of your soul that perceives, that sees the picture. You see the Greek has a lot of
words for thought. They differentiate between analytical thought and picture thought,
vision thought, and the imaginative kind of thought.
Most Christians live on the analytical side, and the demonic world is trying to get you
into that realm of the mind where occult phenomena dwell. The church of God has
neglected this realm. In fact, we should not neglect either realm. The word of God
brings understanding to our souls on the analytical side, and that is important to your
ability to understand anything that God says to your spirit. We should develop that
realm, so that we can present the gospel and understand how the word of God applies
to our lives.
The dianoia part of your soul needs to develop creativity and imagination, and the
root word of this word dianoia has been translated as behold, or see. So you can see
that the root of it actually refers back to the imagination, and imagination is a picture.
So instead of just using the analytical part of our minds and saying A = B, and B = C,
therefore C = A, we could use the imaginative part of our minds for example if I say,
Notice, your hands are different from your eyes in the same way your soul has many
different faculties. There is a part of our soul that is used for analysing and reasoning.
Many make the mistake of ignoring the seed of their imagination. The seed of your
imagination is vital and powerful; that seed is the seed of your future. You are going
to build on it, and God is going to use it to build your life. You may ask how does
God do that? He is writing on your imagination. How does he do it? Through His
word. The scripture says,
Hebrews 4: 12
For the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged
sword piercing even to the division of soul and spirit and of joint and marrow and
it is the discerner of the thought and intent of the heart.
The word of God comes right between our spirit and our soul, and it begins to act on
the soul part of our imagination. A special word is used here in Hebrews 4: 12. The
words intent of the heart are from the root word noia. You see, the word of God is
meant to come into our heart and into our life and be written in the corridors of our
imagination. The word of God must come right into our imagination. This is the level
at which the word of God becomes a lamp unto your feet. It is now in you, and God
can use it to direct your paths.
Remember what Psalm 119: 105 says;
Your word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
The word was never meant to be used just for analysis, but it is used as a word for
imagination. Let the word be written in the corridors of your imagination, so that you
begin to see the blueprint God has for your life. You access God’s direction for your
life through the word.
When you receive the word, it is the logos of God, the written word. The sword of
the Spirit discerns, judges, and removes those things that are not in line with the
word. There are a lot of imaginings in your life that are from the past, from your un-
renewed mind, from the world, from the things that you see today. It is very difficult
for God to write. You have to clean it first. So, God says to guard it. It’s the seed, and
the blueprint of your life. The word of God acts on the information that is found in the
imaginative part of our heart and converts it to you into spontaneous thoughts that then
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from the peripherals of the prophetic word. This is how the eyes of your
understanding operate they can even read the intents of the heart.
Reading the Intentions of the heart
When the eyes of your understanding are full of light, and the wisdom and direction
of God is flowing through you, you will even be able to read people’s hearts. This
was the level of wisdom and understanding that Solomon used to judge the two
women that were fighting over a baby in 1 Kings 3: 16.
Then the king said, Bring me a sword. So they brought a sword before the king.
And the king said, divide the living child in two, give half to one and half to the
other. Then the woman whose son was living spoke to the king, for she yearned
with compassion for her son; and she said, O my lord, give her the living child,
and by no means kill him. But the other said, let him be neither mine nor yours
but divide him. So, the king answered and said, Give the first woman the living
child, and by no means kill him, she is his mother’.
After he had received wisdom from God, Solomon had the ability to discern what
was in the women’s hearts. He knew exactly how the woman who was not the child’s
mother was going to respond. God had enlarged Solomon’s understanding so that his
judgment was based on his understanding of the heart. This, however, is only one
area of the understanding of the heart.
As we go deeper, you will notice some similarities between the functions of the inner
eye and the word of knowledge, and the word of wisdom or the gift of faith.
Reading the Heart In My Life
When I left my home country Britain, back to Zimbabwe for a season, way back, I
remember walking into a live service in Zimbabwe, and as I was moving through the
crowds’ people were crying out for me to minister to their needs, but there was one
lady in particular who was very animated and caught my attention.
She was wearing a maternity dress, and she looked as though she was with child
from the size of her belly. As I stood a distance from her, immediately, I picked up the
deception that was in her heart. She was a liar, she was not pregnant. I told her to
remove whatever she had stuffed into her dress immediately. To the crowd’s
amazement, this woman was actually a reporter from one of the local papers who had
come to the service that day to try and disprove my gift.
The moment I laid my eyes on this woman I could see her heart. She had fooled all
the ushers, but I wasn’t looking at her with the eyes of the flesh. I could see her with
the inner eyes. This is the growth and ability that God instils in a person’s soul and
spirit as they grow into the mind of Christ, and they develop an inherent ability to see
into the hearts of human beings. The pregnancy looked genuine to the naked eye so
much so that even nurses that work for the ministry where all fooled but God could
not be fooled. He made me look past the pregnancy and the Oscar winning type of act
and straight into the heart to see the deception. With the direction of sight, you can
understand and know what is important to people, and understand what a person
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wants in life and even their deception.
This is the same kind of wisdom that the Lord Jesus was using in the book of John.
watch what the bible says;
John 2: 23–24
Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, on the feast day, many believed
in His name, when they saw the miracles, which he did. But Jesus did not commit
himself unto them because he knew all men.
Even though the crowds were shouting amen and hallelujah to everything he was
saying, Jesus was able to see into their hearts. Everything on the outside seemed to be
as it should, but he knew better than that. Now, even in business imagine how many
deals have fallen through simply because you were unable to discern the kind of
people you were dealing with, yet this is an ability that God placed inside of you, to
enable you to see beyond the appearance of things.
I know some of you may be thinking, if everybody has that, will we be peering into
one another’s hearts all the time? God is not going to reveal people’s hearts to us just
to tickle our ears. Oh no. It’s going to be as it is relevant to your life, and it has to do
with you accessing and hearing from God directly as to which path you should take in
life. In fact, if a person’s attitude is to play judge, that person will never grow into
wisdom, because playing judge is a wrong attitude, and signifies a soul that is not
perfect and also shows a deficiency of the fruit of the spirit, love. Remember without
this you cannot prophesy. You won’t hear God’s voice without love. It’s just
impossible.
A perfect soul is a soul full of love. If there is imperfection, it reveals a dysfunction
of the soul, a dysfunction of the inner eye, and a wrong perception. This is an
important truth to know because without it you cannot see into the future
Seeing In to the Future
Your physical body is limited, but your soul is never limited by time and neither is
your spirit. When man was first created his body was immortal, and he was not
confined by the boundaries of time. You were never designed to die, and one day you
will have that immortal body.
If I asked you right now what you were doing this time last week, you would be able
to tell me who you met, what you had for dinner, and everything else? Why? Your
mind has the ability to travel back into time and revisit some of the things you have
seen. Of course, your body cannot do this, but at the same time your mind alone
cannot tell the difference between what is real and what is imaginary.
This is the reason why even after years of retirement from active duty, some soldiers
will experience post-traumatic stress disorder. When they recall those dramatic
events, even their physical bodies respond as if they are back in that very situation
they experienced years ago. The mind is failing to regulate what is a memory and
what is reality. To the mind, it is real because it is seen.
Verse five describes casting down argument or reasoning. It is the Greek word
dialogismos, which refers to the reasoning part of the mind. In the Old King James
Version, it is translated as imagination, but that is not the word for imagination. That
is the word for reasoning.
Paul is telling us there, that there are certain ‘reasonings’ in man and mind-sets that
keep you from the knowledge of God. In order to have clear hearing and vision in the
eye of your spirit all human reasoning that is against the word of God is to be pulled
down. Now I am not saying that we get rid of the laws of logic and reason, because
when you study the scripture Acts 18 actually describes Paul preaching the word of
God, and reasoning using the word dialogismos with the word of God, or reasoning
with the word of God.
Acts 18: 4
And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and
the Greeks.
While he was in the synagogue and later in the school of Tyrannus, he was
expounding the word of God to them. He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath.
The word reason here is the word dialogismai, which comes from the root word
dialogismos.
Paul was reasoning or analysing the word of God to show that Jesus Christ is the
Messiah. He used the Old Testament scriptures to prove that Jesus fulfilled the
scriptures. He was analysing the word of God for them.
Understand that God is not limited to what your mind can process. This is why when
he speaks it is only your spirit that has the capacity to hear, but even when that
information is received in your spirit it still needs to be communicated to your
intellect and if you are already full of erroneous teaching in your intellect you will
miss the voice of God.
I cannot emphasize enough how important it is for you to align even your reasoning to
the word of God for you to be able to access the voice of God. Now we are getting
warmed up, and in this next chapter I want us to explore how it is that in scripture it
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is only those that could access the voice of God that could demonstrate the power of
God. You will never be able to exercise your God given authority until you learn how
to access the voice of God. In this next chapter shackles are about to fall off your
hands as we get into how you can begin to move into higher dimensions of God’s
power just by accessing His voice.
Chapter 3
In chapter 1, I spoke of two ingredients that are required in hearing the voice of God
which is light and the eye. In that I spoke of how the eye, even the natural eye cannot
see anything without the presence of light and that it is scientifically proven. The
same happens in the spirit. We need the light of God and the eye of the spirit to be in
unison for us to see. Until you learn how to have the two elements that give you
spiritual insight and develop yourself to access the voice of God you can never walk
in the fullness of the power of God.
Let me explain. Many believers who are trying to tap into the power of God spend
hours reading their bibles hoping to tap into the supernatural, but the Lord Jesus
Himself told us in His word that there is no power in you memorising scripture or
just in the scriptures. I know how that statement makes you feel, even the Pharisees
wanted to stone Jesus when he said it, but allow me to explain. Let’s look at the
bible;
John 5: 39
Ye search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life and they are
they which testify of me.
Hope you didn’t miss what Jesus said? He said many people search the scriptures
thinking that they have power. Stay with me on this before you become like the
Pharisees. Don’t jump to conclusions because many times jumping to conclusion will
make you jump in to confusion.
Before I show you what he is really saying let me give you a small background. The
Pharisees had a habit of throwing the scriptures at Jesus trying to disprove that he
was the Messiah. They were just as hungry to see the power of God just as you are,
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and made a career of studying the scriptures, but never heard from God to the extent
that when they came face to face with Lord Himself they were too blind to even
recognise the God they worshiped. Their biggest problem with the ministry of Jesus
was the miracles, signs and wonders because they themselves could not demonstrate
the power of God but Jesus confronted their ignorance head on.
They were the keepers of the Law and yet their understanding was darkened, they
could neither see into the realm of the spirit nor access the voice of God. Now notice
in the scripture we have just read the Lord actually says to them; you are searching
the scriptures because you think that is where you will find power. The word
translated as eternal life in that scripture is the Greek word zoe and it means life as
God has it, it speaks of the divine nature and extends to divine power.
Now when the Lord says for in them YOU THINK ye have eternal life, he was
simply pointing out the fact that there is power in the scriptures they were searching.
The Greek word translated as scripture in that passage is graphe and it means
written document, it is the same word that the English derives the word graph from. I
know some are now asking what about Matthew 4: 4 we will deal with that in a
minute. Now when you study the scripture you will find that this is different from
when the Lord refers to the word. If you don’t look at it in the original rendering you
can miss the whole thing, let’s look at what the Lord says in the book of Matthew.
Matthew 4: 4
But he answered and said, it is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by
every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Now the Greek word translated as word in that passage of scripture is rhema it is
not the same as what we read earlier in John 5: 39, rhema means utterance on a
particular matter or topic so it is for those that already hearing the voice of God.
When all you have is graphe it’s like having a map of the city of London and
claiming that you now know what it is to live in London. You don’t. As long as all
you have is graphe you know about God but will never know Him until you learn
how to access His voice and tap into the power of the Holy Ghost.
If I walked into a shop today and told the shop assistant I wear shoe size 10, I like a
slim fit size 36 suit and shirt size 16. That shop keeper would be very mistaken to
think that he now knows me. He might know about me but I have no relationship with
him. We have no other conversation apart from the sizes I have just given him. Jesus
said that the scriptures ‘graphe’ are they that testify of me, in other words the
scriptures give evidence of the things I tell you, that point you to me but they are not
me and cannot connect you to the power of God until you know him.
So you see, we have churches claiming they don’t perform miracles signs or wonders
because they are word only churches. In short what they are doing is parading
themselves as people sitting under a sign post happy and excited thinking they are at
the destination when the real destinations is crying out;
John 5: 39
Ye search the scriptures, for in them YE THINK ye have eternal life and they
are they which testify of me.
You see if you sit by the sign post you are not yet there. At that point, you are not yet
participating with the subject. You have the word that points to who he is but until
you get to the point when that word gets into your spirit and brings light you will be
groping in the dark. Remember that all communication of God is received in the
intuition of your spirit, as long as all you have is head knowledge there is no light
reaching the inner eyes and it will be difficult for you to demonstrate the power of
God when you cannot hear him.
This is the same problem the sons of Sceva faced when they tried to cast out demons
using the name of Jesus in the book of Acts. Remember these were sons of the high
priest, so they would have grown up reciting scriptures but all they had was graphe,
it was head knowledge. They knew about Jesus, the works that he had done but did
not know Him.
Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them
which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, we adjure you by
Jesus whom Paul preacheth. And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew,
and chief of the priests, which did so. And the evil spirit answered and said,
Jesus I know, and Paul I know but who are ye?
The difference between Paul and the sons of Sceva was that the sons of Sceva only
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You see that? He had realised that the scriptures were simply signposts to the real
word. The word as he knew it had a higher dimension where it was in the person of
Jesus Christ. The sons of Sceva thought it was the same and they soon realised their
grave mistake.
I know I have just messed up your theology on that one but we are just getting
warmed up. There are many misconceptions when it comes to the power of God but I
submit to you that the original source of power is the voice of God and this is why it
is important for every believer to know how to access the voice of God for
themselves. I have heard many including ministers speaking of how the original
source of power is in speaking in tongues but I want to submit to you that this is not
the case.
There is no power in speaking in tongues; many of you are speaking in tongues right
now, and you are still sick, broken and depressed. Real power comes when you
discover the original source of power. I know somebody’s religion is being tampered
with right now. Hang in there, you are about to be delivered from your ignorance.
The Bible does not say that you pray in tongues so you can be healed. No! Praying in
tongues can connect you to the power that will heal you but cannot produce the
healing power. So, I am not saying that it is wrong for you to pray in tongues, no,
what I am saying is that speaking in tongues is not the original source of power. It’s
like having a power bank for your mobile phone that you take with you when you are
out and about. It has the power to charge your mobile phone, but relies on being
plugged in, to the main source of power.
So when you speak in tongues you are accessing power, but that is not the original
source of the power.
Let me break it down a bit further, according to science, the first law, also known
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as the Law of Conservation of Energy, states that energy cannot be created or
destroyed in an isolated system. In other words, when you have energy it can be
transferred into another form of energy, but it cannot be destroyed. For example,
when you have a can of gasoline, it is loaded with energy as it is. When you ignite it,
that energy is transformed from its original gasoline form into heat and light energy.
You have not created or accessed anything new, but the same energy that was stored
as gasoline has just been released as heat and light energy.
The same is true in the realm of the spirit, and when we read Genesis chapter 1, we
can see the creation of the earth and how everything else came to be.
Genesis 1: 1–3
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was
without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, let there be
light and there was light.
Now this is where I need you to pay attention. As you go through the first chapter of
Genesis you will be hearing the statement and God said…, and God said…. Creation
itself was being birthed from the very words that were coming out of His mouth. In
the scripture we have just read, the Bible says, and God said let there be light and
there was light.
Now wait a minute right there. If we take the laws that we have already proven in
science, what this means is that when God spoke and said, let there be light, there
was a force or energy in His voice that was translated into the light that He was
commanding to come into being. When he said, let there be light, the Bible says there
was light, and it came into being from the energy of His voice.
When the sound of His voice thundered into the emptiness that was there, it contained
the power to bring the light into existence. He lifted up His voice again and
commanded the firmament to come into being and the bible tells us that it was so. As
you go through the whole of Genesis Chapter 1, you will find that in putting together
all of creation as we know it today, God only had one raw material for everything
and that was His Voice. In fact, God Himself tells us He is that voice. You will never
walk in the power of God until you learn how to sharpen your spirit to hear from God
and see into the realm of the spirit.
If you were looking for something ordinary you picked up the wrong book, but stick
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with me we are about to go deeper. I know right now when I say that the voice of
God was the source of creation some are already wondering about John 1 verse 1 but
let’s read what it says. It actually explains the same thing I am telling you right now.
John 1: 1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him;
and without him was not anything made that was made.
And the word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the
glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
Now right there the bible is telling us that the whole universe as we know it was
created by Jesus, if everything was created by the word and when the word became
flesh we got Jesus, then it stands to reason that we are being told that the world as we
know it was created by Jesus who is the word.
Now how do we reconcile that with the voice of God? Very complicated for the
religious mind but it’s about to drop into your spirit stay with me. For us to really
understand how this works we have to know the identity of Jesus in the beginning
who created everything as we have just read in the book of John. Watch what the
bible says in Genesis 3;
Genesis 3: 8
And they heard the voice of the Lord God WALKING IN THE GARDEN, in the
cool of the day…”
Now notice the bible says Adam and Eve, heard the VOICE WALKING, the bible is
not telling us that they heard God calling him and hid. No. We know this because
when God does call Adam to say where are you he answers immediately, but what
Adam is describing is the movement that God was making before he called. Other
translations actually say I heard your voice walking, so the entity that Adam was
describing is called the Voice. The book of John has already told us that Jesus was
there in the beginning now we know that He is the Voice that Adam was describing.
They used to walk together and fellowship in the cool of the day until that day when
Adam gave in to Satan.
This is why Adam could name each animal and never repeat himself or forget a
name, he had access to the voice of God which enabled him to walk in the power of
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God. You need to understand that man was not only made in the image of God only
but also in the likeness of God. Which means that he was not just supposed to just
look like God but that he could function like the creator and all this was possible
before the fall of Adam and the darkening of his understanding.
When man was alienated from the voice of God he was automatically removed from
the power of God and all of a sudden, he needed to labor for him to put food on the
table. Now you have to learn how to sharpen your spirit and walk in love so that your
inner vision can be clear. If we look at the ministry of the Lord Jesus you can see
clearly how the power of God is released through his voice. Let’s look at the
scripture;
John 5: 6- 9
The impotent man answered him, sir, I have no man when the water is troubled,
to put me into the pool but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man
was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked:
The Lord’s instruction there actually sounds confusing, think about it. How do you
simply walk up to a man who hasn’t walked in 30 odd years and is actually trying to
be healed and say get up and walk? That means the instruction is not just an
instruction but it carries an empowerment to bring to pass the thing that has been
spoken. That is why I said that as long as you are hearing from God your life will
never be void of power. Check it for yourself right now. The reason you struggle to
even pray for a headache to go is because you have no direct access to the voice of
God and the Lord Himself is the person of that voice.
The bible has already told us that; without Him there was nothing made that was
made, but when we look back to the book of Genesis there was only one thing that
brought forth creation and that was the voice of God. Speaking to the seas,
commanding the heavens to come into being. Everything has its origin in the voice of
God, the voice of God is the original source of power.
Now before His ascension to heaven the Lord Jesus told His disciples that they
would receive power after the Holy Ghost had come.
Acts 1: 8
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye
By that scripture some may think ‘yeah I got you Angel because I have seen that the
Holy spirit has power’, Don’t rush you need to know the work of the Spirit. Watch
this; the coming of the Spirit was going to give believers access to power, but what
many have failed to understand is how this power was going to be imparted. If you
read the gospels, you will find that this is something that the Lord had already
explained to His disciples, so they knew why the Holy Ghost was coming, and they
could take full advantage of His presence. Now watch this:
John 16: 13
Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth,
for He shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He
speak and He will show you things to come.
Right there, the Lord Jesus has just given us the job description of the Holy Spirit. So
according to Jesus, when the Holy Ghost comes, He will give you access to the voice
of God, the original source of power. Look at it, the scripture says, he will not speak
of himself, so He is speaking, and the last part of that verse says, he will speak
whatsoever he shall hear. What then, will he be hearing that he can convey to you?
He will impart to you whatsoever God is speaking at that time.
The voice of God is a force; everything we know has its origin in the spoken word of
God. That’s the power of the Holy Ghost, to connect you to the voice of God.
But the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my
name, he shall teach you all thing, and bring to remembrance all that I said to
you.
Jesus was telling His disciples that the Holy Ghost was going to remind them of what
He said, or His sayings. Why was he going to do this? That is where the power is, in
the voice of God! When those things that God has spoken are brought to your
remembrance right there is where the power of God is released.
That is why the prophetic is powerful when I stand there and prophesy all you are
hearing is the voice of God, there are words being spoken and power is being
released right there. Ancient words, long preserved coming directly from the throne
room is exactly what will be happening. Even the very power of a prophet is in his
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words.
Many believers right now are without power, because they cannot access the voice of
God. That is the power that brought creation into being. God did not go around
looking for bricks and mortar. Instead, the Bible says he spoke and light came into
being. He spoke and His voice was translated into the existence of the heavens and
the earth.
This is exactly what the scripture tells us in the book of Isaiah, Chapter 55.
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not
thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may
give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goeth
forth out of my mouth; it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish
that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
We know from this scripture that every word that comes out of the mouth of God
carries power, and it never fails to produce the results required. Access to the voice
of God is access to power. I have seen the Lord with my own eyes, and I hear His
voice as clear as day! He is not hiding from His people. He wants you to be able to
hear from Him directly.
I know you have heard the saying; the Lord works in mysterious ways, the most
unscriptural statement if I have ever heard one. Why do I say so? Because that
scripture in Isaiah 55 vs 8 which says his ways are not our ways ends with God
saying ‘BUT’ meaning all said is now being replaced with:
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not
thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may
give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goeth
forth out of my mouth; it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish
that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Now many are perishing today simply because they cannot access the voice of God,
and the widow of Zarephath very nearly joined their ranks.
Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold,
I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
The widow of Zarephath nearly perished, simply because she could not hear the
voice of God for herself. When the prophet of God showed up, her first response was
to object to the plan of God. Elijah the prophet had to go there, and repeat the words
of God to her, before she could cooperate with the plan of God for her sustenance.
When God spoke the first time, she missed it completely, and this is why she is
surprised at the prophet’s request. Imagine how many times you have missed the
voice of God and missed your miracle. If she had heard from God then when the man
of God came asking for food she would have known that her miracle had arrived.
However, God had already told us that she had been commanded to feed the man of
God. She had already dug a grave for herself and her son, so they could eat their last
meal and die.
And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, bring me, I pray thee,
a morsel of bread in thine hand. And she said, as the Lord thy God liveth, I have
not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse and behold,
I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that
we may eat it and die.
God had spoken but she did not hear anything. The Lord actually told the prophet that
I have commanded a widow. Either God lied to His own prophet, or this widow
missed His voice but as we already know, GOD DOESN’T LIE. God had a plan to
sustain her in the time of famine, and she very nearly failed to comply, simply
because she could not hear the voice of God.
I tell you God is speaking to many people today, and they are not hearing. And if you
can’t hear God’s voice, you may even die in your situation without coming out of it.
To hear God is deliverance. Some people die early or never live a prosperous life
because they don’t hear God’s voice. Now I want you to get comfortable, because
this next chapter will open you up to a dimension you never knew existed as I want us
to dig deeper into the voice of God.
Many of you reading this book right now will testify to the fact that hearing the word
of God does not automatically translate to hearing from God. The word of God points
us to the will of God which becomes an anchor for your faith, because faith begins
where the will of God is known. The biggest problem is that many of God’s people
have been hearing the word of God without hearing from God. You study your Bible
every day, and that is to be commended, but it doesn’t mean that you have heard the
voice of God. I know I have just confused you right now, so let me explain a little
further. Most Christians have been hearing the word, but not the voice of God.
I know many people think faith comes by hearing the word of God, it doesn’t! I know
I have provoked a lot of people right now but stay with me as we take a closer look
at the scripture. Watch what the bible says;
Romans 10: 17
So then faith is produced by the ability of hearing and the ability of hearing is
produced by of the word of God.
Do you see that now? Many make the mistake of thinking that faith comes by hearing
the word of God. If it was so then the devil would be born again because he has a lot
of the word he has memorised to the extent that at one time he was even quoting
scripture to the Lord who created him. So, to cut the long story short, extra-ordinary
faith can only be attained by those that developed their hearing ability the word of
God. Now that they can hear in the realm of the spirit, it is now possible to do mighty
exploits in faith.
You see, God longs for a deeper relationship with you other than you just being able
to recite verses. He wants you to come up to that place where your inner eyes are
flooded with light to the extent that it becomes easy for you to comprehend spiritual
realities. It is only when you begin to walk in the spirit that the word of God begins
to illuminate your innermost recess and enable you to access the voice of God.
Until you start walking in the spirit the bible will be like another text book for you.
The Bible says that even the very hairs on your head are numbered. God is obsessed
with every detail of your life and when you begin to walk in the spirit the word of
God enhances your ability to hear from him. You walk in the spirit by walking in love
and when the word of God comes into you at that level in you the light of His word
brings the illumination that the inner eye requires to be able to see beyond the natural.
Hope you still remember that scientifically, just like in the spirit the eye requires light
in order to see? The word is the light.
You see that? The eye in order to see prophetically and hear requires light. It requires
a great entrance of light for your spiritual ear to hear the voice of God. Here there are
no shortcuts. When the word is in you, it means you now have more than what you
have just read in your bible. There is now a knowing on the inside of you that is the
ingredient for extra-ordinary faith. The eye of your spirit has already seen this thing
even though it seems impossible in the natural, you have heard the voice of God and
become fully persuaded of the reality of the unseen.
Romans 10: 17
The Bible says that faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Ok. I
know we have a problem right there, so let’s divide that scripture into two parts and
put it back together again. The Bible says that you need to rightly divide the word of
truth. You are learning something, so let’s go!
So then faith cometh by hearing, before we read the second part of that scripture
tell me, how do we get faith? By hearing of course, and what do you suppose we are
hearing?
It cannot be the word that we are hearing, because the scripture has already told us
that the ability to hear comes from the word. So then, the big question is, now that we
have an ability to hear through the word, what then are we hearing that produces
faith? It is hearing from God that produces faith. You can hear the word without
hearing from God if you are not walking in the spirit, and remain in the same state
you were in. You can quote the bible with the ‘thees’ and ‘thous’ of the King James
version but it will not automatically translate into faith. Jesus instructed His disciples
to have God’s kind of faith, that is to say, the same faith that God possesses, which is
what they were supposed to have.
I know some are already thinking that Jesus was asking for the impossible, but see
what Paul says in the book of Galatians.
Galatians 2: 20
I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live; yet not I but Christ; and the life
that I now live in the flesh; I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me
and gave himself for me.
Notice here that Paul doesn’t even say that we are crucified with Christ. No. He used
I, because he knew that many had not yet gotten there. They were still living by their
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own faith, so he could not put them in there. Paul was telling the Galatians that he
now possessed God’s kind of faith, when he said, I live by the faith of the Son of
God. In other words, the same faith Jesus had is what Paul now had. Paul had access
to the voice of God the creative power in that word had produced in him the ability
to hear directly from God. Let’s back up a little bit and look at what he said in
Galatians 1.
Galatians 1: 11–12
But I certify you brethren, that the gospel, which was preached of me, is not
after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the
revelation of Jesus Christ.
Paul was telling them that he heard directly from God, how was this even possible?
The answer is in the very first scripture we read at the beginning of this chapter.
Remember the relationship between faith, hearing and the word. All Paul needed to
do is what I am teaching you in this book. That is to tap into the ultimate source of
power, the voice, which then created in him the ability to hear from God. Don’t
forget, hearing is what comes by the word and then faith is produced when you now
have the ability to hear.
Paul makes another startling claim. He says, he was not taught by any other man, but
it came to him by the revelation of Jesus Christ and there was no mediator between
Paul and the Lord Jesus. Instead, he had a direct line of communication. In fact, Paul
actually makes mention of the fact that when he received the call to the ministry he
never consulted any man, so how did he know what to do? By hearing from God!
Paul wrote most of the New Testament for us, and was mightily used by God to
perform many miracles.
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called
me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach him among the
heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: Neither went I up to
Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me.
Paul says, I conferred not with flesh and blood. In other words, he did not consult
any man to know the direction he should go. He had another counsellor who had more
wisdom than any man. He had access to the voice of God.
What produces faith in you is not just the word, but rather, the word of God is meant
to cultivate the hearing ability, which brings faith. When you begin to walk in the
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spirit, the word of God comes alive in you and I am not talking about just being
religious, the Pharisees were good at that and they never heard from God. I am
talking about you yielding to the love of God that is on the inside of you as a believer.
So then, faith comes principally by hearing from God. Most believers have been
hearing the word, but have not been hearing from God. You can have the letters of the
scripture as we described in the previous chapter and still be without the ability to
hear the voice of God.
Ye search the scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are
they, which testify of me.
The Pharisees were students of the word, but they had no knowledge of the person of
Christ. They went to the ‘cemetery’, sorry seminary, to study the scriptures, but never
heard the voice of the one they were reading about, to the extent that when they came
face to face with him they could not recognise the Messiah they had been waiting for.
Even after a lifetime of devotion to the ministry, they still didn’t know the one they
claimed to be serving. Like many believers today, they had no access to the voice of
God.
Jesus actually said to them, ye search the scriptures thinking in them you will find
eternal life. In other words, you are wrong. That is not where eternal life is found.
When it comes to hearing the voice of God, it is imperative that you walk in love.
Remember even the bible tells us that God Himself is love and when you begin to
walk in love, you are walking in the realm of God Himself. Giving is simply a
manifestation of love and what many don’t understand is that the prophetic is a giving
ministry because it works when you walk in the spirit by walking in love as I have
already mentioned and when you prophesy you are delivering or giving someone
something and that something is the voice of God for their lives. So it’s a giving
ministry.
What pulls the prophetic out of me when I stand to minister is the selfless desire to
see somebody else’s life changed for the better. Love gives, it will be difficult for
you to prophesy if you are not a giver because you are not walking in love. There is
no desire in you to release something that will benefit someone else and not you. The
scripture we all love to quote John 3: 16 says, God so loved the world that he gave,
so giving is a manifestation of love.
You will find that many want to prophesy so that they can be the ultimate man of God
and show everyone how big they are. When you are at that level you are still
dominated by your ego and far from walking in the love of God. Love gives, so if you
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are thinking of hearing God’s voice so you can be that big guy in ministry, just stop
right now because this is not for you.
Even though God has promised that He will never leave you nor forsake you, you
will never relate to him as you should, until you make up your mind to walk in love
and to hear his voice with the right motive. If you do not have the right motive, you
will just be like the Samaritan woman who was told by Jesus that; you know not
what you worship. How can you know someone you have never walked with or
talked to or spoken to? It is just not possible. Psychologists today will tell you that
one of the reasons for high divorce rates in the world today is a lack of
communication. Two people can actually live together and have a communication
breakdown, while sitting every day at the same dinner table and sleeping in the same
bed.
Notice here, that as a believer if you are filled with the Holy Ghost, if Christ lives in
you but you have never heard from him directly then your relationship is
dysfunctional—not because he is not speaking, but because you do not know how to
listen. Remember what I told the guy who asked me what I do when the Lord is not
speaking? I told him ‘I check my hearing’. Listening is the problem and not God’s
talking ability. God is speaking non-stop. We just hear him rarely.
This is why Jesus said to the Samaritan woman that she didn’t know what she was
worshipping. Let’s look at the scripture.
John 4: 22
Ye worship ye know not what we know what we worship for salvation is of the
Jews.
Just because you are worshipping doesn’t mean that you know what you are
worshipping. The Samaritan had a rude awakening when she found herself face to
face with Jesus. Jesus was literally telling the woman, yes, you are in church every
Sunday and you have eight versions of the Bible, but you still don’t know the one
you are worshipping. He actually acknowledged that the woman was worshipping
somewhere, but the biggest problem was that she still did not know what she was
worshipping. However, he quickly points to the solution in the very next verse.
John 4: 23
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the
Father in spirit and in truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Jesus said, you know not what you worship, but the Father is looking for those who
will worship in spirit, because when they get into the spirit they will know who they
are worshipping. They will be able to hear the voice of the Father and fellowship
with him in a whole new dimension. They can have a koinonia with Him, their
fellowship will be deeper, and they know him.
I remember, after establishing our ministry in here in Britain where I call home, I
went to Zimbabwe to establish the second chapter of the church there. While in that
country I was invited by another man of God to minister for him in the prophetic at
his church since in those days there was no one who was really walking in the
prophetic in Southern Africa the way I was and as I walked into the auditorium there
was a big crowd, but I was drawn to one particular man. As soon as I got close to
him, I heard the unmistakable voice of my Father I’ve grown so accustomed to and he
said to me,
I did not know this man, and this was not even my church. In fact, I had just moved to
that country, and before my mind could object, I heard the same words echoing out of
my mouth.
Brother the Lord is ministering to me that you need to divorce your wife.
This was the voice of God I was hearing. There was no doubt in my mind that God
could back up what He had just told me to say. The whole place went quiet. You
could have heard a pin drop; I could see the hearts of the people. Some were now
thinking, but God hates divorce, what kind of a man of God will encourage such a
thing? The integrity of my whole ministry was on the line.
You see, when I made the first statement they didn’t hear it directly from God, but I
did. I believed it, and they doubted me. They only believed after I had pointed out to
the man where his wife—whom I did not even know—was at the time, and when he
was expecting her back and a lot of other intimate details that he was now
confirming. This is why you need to hear directly from God. The voice of God is the
stronghold of faith but sometimes it won’t make sense to the hearers. You cannot hear
the voice of God and doubt him; the book of Psalms says his voice is mightier than
the voice of many waters.
It was however much to my dismay that I found out the man didn’t even listen to the
voice of God that day. Only a year later whilst ministering in the same place the man
cried out from the crowd, ‘man of God have mercy on me’. I had forgotten him but
the man of God I was ministering for remembered the man from the previous year. He
came up to me and whispered in my ear that it was the same man I had told to divorce
his wife. When he said that, I called for him to be brought to where I was standing
and his story was a sorry one. To cut the long story short he didn’t listen to me, they’d
both taken to the internet to accuse me of many things and their accusations were
taken by rogue papers as real stories. Now he was standing in front of me alone. His
wife was dead and he was now H.I.V positive. He was crying for healing when he
could have lived in health had he listened to the voice of God!
Let me say you can doubt the voice of God if your ear is not used to hearing him but if
you know his voice and hear it you can’t doubt him. No one hears the voice of God
and doubts him. Faith comes not just by hearing the word of God, but principally by
hearing from God. If you have a look at the heroes of faith as recorded in the book of
Hebrews chapter 11, you will find 80 to 90 per cent of them heard directly from God.
Abraham to this day is referred to as the father of faith, but when you study the
scriptures, you find that the stronghold of Abraham’s faith was having access to the
voice of God. Access to rhema is the bedrock for unshakable faith, as it is what God
has to say today to you personally about a particular situation that will push you to
unshakable faith.
Faith tends to be shaky when it is not rooted in what God has said. Behind every
verse of scripture is the voice of God. Every verse of scripture has the voice of God
behind it. There are situations in life where you need something extraordinary to
happen, and you need unshakable faith to see you through, but with no access to the
voice of God, you are stranded.
Now the Lord had said unto Abram, get thee out of thy country, and from thy
kindred, and from thy father’s house unto a land that I will show you.
You have to admit it takes extraordinary faith to leave behind family and friends,
everything you are familiar with to go to a place that you will only be shown after
you get moving. For many right now, a pink elephant has to appear in the room
waving a white flag for anyone to convince you to leave your job, let alone to leave
all your family behind and fly abroad with no assurances of what the end result will
be.
Hearing directly from God is the stronghold of faith. As already mentioned, most of
us have been hearing the word of God without hearing from God. No one hears from
God and doubts him. There is no room for unbelief. The voice of God is the cure for
the doubts of life. You cannot hear from God and doubt him.
Way back in olden days the angel of the Lord visited Mary and told her how she was
to conceive a child, yet she had not known any man and she was a virgin. Think about
it. Mary was just another small-town girl, and was not known for having great faith
until this point.
Luke 1: 26–28
And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of
Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was
Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. And the angel
came unto her, and said, hail thou art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee;
blessed art thou among women.
This required extraordinary faith—it was unheard of to bear a child while you were
a virgin. How would she explain this to her fiancé Joseph and all the family members
that were looking forward to celebrating their union in matrimony? After all, to put it
lightly, the angel that appeared to her never made any promise that he would help her
explain this rather tricky situation to all her relatives.
Mary heard from God, and the words of the angel were as good as if God himself had
spoken them. That message carried the weight of everything that God is, when it was
delivered. Mary had encountered that irresistible voice. Mary’s response could only
have been, as she said herself:
Because Mary suddenly heard that voice, in her own mind it was possible to
conceive without the seed of a man. Remember, without faith it is impossible to
please God. I don’t care where she might have read it, but I can assure you her
response would not have been the same.
The voice of God is irresistible it makes you as bold as a lion. No one in their right
mind would dare the ultimate authority of the land as Moses did, but the voice of God
will make you bold in the face of the fiercest opposition. God spoke directly to
Moses, as follows:
Exodus 4: 22
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my
first born: And I say unto thee, let my son go that he may serve me and if thou
refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy first born.
Moses heard those words directly from God, and when you hear the voice of God, it
is irresistible and makes you break all protocol. As if that were not enough, note
what He says a little further on:
Exodus 7: 1
And the Lord said unto Moses, see, I have made thee a god unto pharaoh and
Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
Moses knew his new status immediately, just by hearing that voice, and he did not
approach pharaoh as a man, but as a god. Even when he stood before the Red Sea
with the Egyptian armies in pursuit, the seas had to give way because he was
exercising his authority as god over pharaoh. When he cried out to God, God’s
response was, don’t look to me. March on. He knew Moses already possessed
everything he needed, to be able to overcome his enemies. There was nothing left to
give him. Moses could not resist the voice of His majesty. If you can access His
voice, you are free. God still speaks today. He wants to speak to you.
Because of the prophetic call upon my own life, growing up as a child I always
thought that everyone could hear the voice of God as I did. My father was a preacher,
and when he stood before the congregation and taught the members of the
So at seven years of age, I thought, let me also share with the man how the God who
speaks to him every Sunday was also speaking to me. To my surprise, I got the
beating of my life, because he thought I was crazy, and didn’t believe a word of what
I was saying. That is when I realised how even God’s own people were strangers to
his voice.
It took years for my father to understand what was happening with his son but when
he started to get the revelation boy did he believe! He was the one now pushing me to
help people everywhere and would stand and tell people about me everywhere.
It has always been my desire to prove the reality of God’s existence through his
voice. I have always wanted to share the reality of my experience and walk with the
master. This desire is still burning within me and that is why the Lord has released
me to write this book. I knew Him, and I walked with Him every day. The words of
the apostle John can best describe how I felt.
1 John 1: 1
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen
with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled of the
word of life.
John had first-hand experience with the things I am teaching you in this book. He had
come out of the shallow waters and could fellowship with the Lord on a deeper
dimension. He said, that which we have heard, he could hear from God for himself.
You can tell from his language that this was something he could not contain, and he
wanted to shout it from the mountaintop. Look at what the Bible says in the book of
Acts.
Acts 4: 20
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
When you hear that voice it compels you, and it moves you. The apostles had been
forbidden from spreading the gospel by the authorities of the day, yet they could not
stop. They were risking lengthy prison terms, beatings and even death, but their
answer was, ‘we cannot but speak the things we have seen and heard’.
Jeremiah said it’s like a fire shut up in my bones. He could not contain it. He had to
open his mouth and proclaim those things that he had heard of him. The voice of God
Jeremiah 20: 9
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak anymore in his name. But
his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary
with forbearing, and I could not stay.
You cannot hear God and remain the same. In the next chapter I want to take you into
an area that very few understand, that is visions. Stay with me as we delve deeper
into hearing the voice of God in visions.
Visions
While I was ministering prophetically in one of my live Sunday services, the whole
auditorium suddenly disappeared before my eyes; I knew I was still in the service,
but I was now experiencing what no one else in the room could see. I had been
ministering prophetically to a certain gentleman, and just as I was asking the Lord to
show me the details of his life, I found myself standing there while the whole
auditorium disappeared before my eyes.
All I could see was a baboon in handcuffs riding on an elephant standing right before
me, I got confused. I knew what I had seen, but what did a baboon in handcuffs riding
on an elephant have to do with the man I was ministering to? I had been taken into a
vision right there in the middle of the service, and I started to describe to him what I
was being shown in the realm of the spirit.
As a prophet, I was able to see by the Spirit of God, that the man’s surname, when
translated to English from his native language, was baboon, and that he had come to
ask for help for his brother, who was in jail for stealing ivory. This explained the
handcuffs and the elephant the Lord showed me in the vision. As I said earlier the
prophetic has the ability to interpret the language of God and speaks through visions
as well as different forms of revelation.
God speaks through visions, and yes, not just to prophets. You too can hear directly
from God through a vision. The Bible tells us that when the Spirit of God comes to
earth, young men shall see visions, and those day are upon us.
Joel 2: 28
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh;
Had he been in his right mind, David would have never taken Bathsheba for himself,
but the enemy knew that he could influence what was in his soul through the physical
eye, and it clouded his judgement.
Now the devil works from the outside. He tries to get your eyes to see the wrong
thing, hoping to impress a wrong image into your soul, and lead you to make a
decision that will cause you to fall in the spirit. He knows the connection, but very
few believers understand that there is a connection between what they see physically
and the soulish and spiritual realms.
Now the key to understanding inner and spiritual vision is to understand the
connection between the spirit and the soul, just as Satan understood the connection
between the soul and the physical in order to deceive Eve. You must understand the
relationship and know how to deal with that area, to help you to really know what
God is saying and what is coming from the devil or self.
As mentioned in a previous chapter, many can differentiate the body from their soul
to a certain extent. You know that there is a part of you that thinks, called the mind.
There is also a bodily part called the brain. These parts are related, but you don’t
quite know how they are related. They can dissect your body in a laboratory and they
When you are asleep and dream, you are not aware of your physical body at all. Your
consciousness resides in the realm of your sub-conscious. So, you have the sub-
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conscious realm as well as the conscious part of your mind which is called the nous.
This conscious part of your mind relates to the physical world and to the soul realm.
The nous represents the consciousness of your soul that is in contact with the
physical world, and yet it’s in contact with the other world inside you, your soul, and
indirectly the spirit world at the same time.
Your consciousness is what stands as this veil between the body and the soul. You
are relating to two realms. You are relating to the physical world and the inner realm
of your spirit and your soul indirectly. When you are asleep, your consciousness
moves out from the conscious realm, and goes into the level of your subconscious.
That is where your nous is sort of closed up. The physical world is still there, but
you are not conscious of the physical world at all at this stage, your consciousness
would have moved deeper.
Now the clarity in your inner vision is affected by where your consciousness is. If
you happen to be active in the physical realm, then your consciousness is not that
much a part of the inner realm of your soul; you are more conscious of the physical
realm. That is why when the Holy Spirit is giving you an inner vision, sometimes you
have to possibly close up your body realm. You may even need to close your eyes, so
that you can concentrate in order to see clearly what you are receiving in the spirit.
Watching too much T.V. or reading too many wrong things can affect the inner vision
that the Holy Spirit is giving you. As you close your eyes, right now, you will see
some of those things from your memory echoing through your soul realm. Right now,
you could actually see some things in the corridors of your nous. Your consciousness
right now is at your nous.
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If you close your eyes right now, don’t try to think of anything, but let your inner
consciousness hang loose. As your inner consciousness hangs loose, you may just see
a dark screen inside you and if you have been watching too much T.V., then a bit of
that is coming up. If you have been reading a book recently or whatever things,
whatever is your latest impression, comes up on the corridors of your screen. If you
have been reading the Bible regularly and praying often, that also comes to your
consciousness. That means you see whatever your latest experience is. When you
close your eyes, your latest experience is the latest picture to come out. The most
recent picture comes to your mind, whether in the spirit, soul, or body realm of your
experience.
With all this information coming to you at once you need to be able to quiet your
spirit and be sensitive enough to know what is coming from the Spirit of God.
When I minister in the prophetic I have to quieten my spirit so that I can pick
whatever God is communicating at the time, it is easy to miss those signals when your
spirit is being dominated by your flesh that information will not be clear and it will
be difficult for you to know the source of what you are receiving. In this next chapter
I want us to go deeper into visions in the prophetic so stay with me.
Sometimes only the gist of the message in tongues is given, which would make it
shorter than the message in tongues, and different people receiving the same
interpretation may sometimes convey it using different words.
For example, the interpretation of a tongue may be Fear not, I am with you. Another
highly educated person may interpret it as God says do not hold on to any phobias
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for His presence is with you. A young person who receives the same interpretation
may interpret it as Don’t be scared for He is near us. The gist of the message is
given.
Daniel interpreted the four words Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Upharsin in three long
sentences. A strict translation would have been Number, Number, Weigh, Divide. The
interpretation of tongues brings forth an application of the message of God that makes
it the same as a prophecy, and you do not need to be a prophet to interpret tongues. It
is a gift that every believer can pray for, and then access the voice of God through
that gift. It boils down to your own desire to access the voice of God through tongues
as well as the development of your inner senses in picking and perceiving what is
being communicated in the realm of the spirit.
Daniel 5: 25- 28
And this is the handwriting that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL,
UPHARSIN. This in the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered
thy kingdom and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art
found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and
Persians.
You can pray for the ability to interpret your tongues according to the scriptures.
1 Corinthians 14: 13
Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may
interpret.
God does not require us to understand everything that we pray about in tongues, but
as you develop and grow in the things of the Spirit, you can receive an understanding
of the gist of what you are praying about.
By walking in the spirit and allowing the light of God’s word to enlighten your
understanding this spiritual sensitivity can be nurtured and developed. It is an
outworking of the anointing within, whereas the interpretation of tongues is an
outworking of the anointing upon. As we bring this whole matter to a conclusion in
this last chapter I need you follow very closely as we get into how you can hear the
audible voice of God.
So now that we have dealt with how you can walk in the spirit by walking in love
and you have no strife, grief or fear affecting the functioning of your inner sight as
well as the light of God’s word illuminating your inner recesses by making his word
the standard for your life and living by it with no reservation. We can now get into
how you can actually start to tune into the prophetic. You have to understand that this
is not the way I hear. It is just the basics of it but it will go a long way into hearing
the voice of God and if you get it sharpened you will shock your world. You see
these are the basics that I don’t use in this way because I was born like this and
before you start arguing with that let me give you biblical proof that prophets are
born prophets.
Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed thee in the womb I knew thee and made you a prophet
This happened while the man was still a thought in God’s realm of thought. Way
before his mother met his father.
Now without taking much of your time, the prophetic is not as complicated as you
might have imagined. That is because God wants you to hear from Him directly and
he is not hiding from you. As you begin to walk in the Spirit as I have been teaching
in this book it will become easier and easier for you to access the voice of God.
In this last chapter I want to show you what you need to do now that you are walking
in the spirit and have the light of God’s word illuminating your inner recesses. I
really need you to follow very closely, and please try not to over think what I am
saying just take it as it is.
Now I want to first of all look at the keys to the prophetic that were given by the
prophet Habakkuk, watch what the scripture says;
Habakkuk 2: 1
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I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see
what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
If you have ever watched me prophesy you might have noticed that I can stand there
in front of someone as if I am fixing my gaze on something. As a prophet, I can hear
from God in many ways. I have seen the Lord but what I am about to teach you, to me
are the baby steps into the prophetic but most prophets maybe not at my level still use
to the amazement of many.
You need to understand that I have been hearing from God since I was seven years
old and you cannot expect just to wake up and start walking in prophetic visions or
hearing the audible voice of God as I do, so I will try to make it easier at your level
in this first part of How to Hear the Voice of God.
You need to understand that as you start to walk in the spirit and sharpen your senses
you may not necessarily start by hearing the audible voice of God or entering into
open and closed visions that I described to you. The easiest way for you to pick up
those signals in the realm of the spirit will be in picture form.
If you notice the scripture we have just read Habakkuk says that; I will watch to see
what he will say. So how do you watch to see something that is being spoken if it is
words that are being released? You cannot see words. That means Habakkuk was
seeing pictures that were showing him what God was actually communicating. This is
why I have been teaching you how to get the light of God into your spirit and sharpen
your inner sight because God will show you what he is saying most of the time, rather
than speak to you with the audible voice. So when you see you will know what God
is saying. Now you are getting it.
Now we are getting into how you can see what is being said. So the first thing that
Habakkuk says is to; stand upon my watch. What that means is you need to calm
your spirit clear your mind and control your environment.
If you have ever seen the people I imparted the prophetic on, you will notice that they
are very particular about where you stand, what they are singing in that place and
who is allowed to move around, why? They are controlling the environment. You
will not be able to tell what is coming from God if you are all over the place. You
are trying to prophesy and at the same time you are thinking about your lunch meeting
after church. Your will be too clouded and even if God tries to show you anything
you will not be able to get it.
Now this is where most people miss it so I need you to follow closely. When you are
stood in front of someone remember the one who is giving you this information is
God and you are not fishing it out of some unknown source. It is important that your
mind has this fact settled and I know I said mind not spirit, that is exactly what I
mean.
To do that, you have to put in your mind the image you associate with the person of
the Lord. Whatever you have in your mind when you think of the Lord, whatever you
think he looks like, that is the image I want to be in your mind. Now I know you have
never seen his face, but whenever you hear his name your mind has already pieced
together images in your head to represent him.
And because it is your mind that we are trying to educate that we are hearing from
God that image is important and has to be there if you are going to see anything. You
place that envisioning of his image between you and the thing you want to know
about. It might be just a bill. Remember this book is mainly for you to know about
things that affect you not for you to control people’s lives. I wrote this book for you to
hear the voice of God and not you moving around claiming you are some sort of
predicting machine.
So let’s go back to our scripture now that we have established the ground rules.
Habakkuk 2: 1
I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see
what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
Habakkuk says; I will set me upon the tower, so now you are standing there with the
thing you are ministering to or about in front of you but in your mind the image you
have of Christ is between the two of you. I know right now some are thinking what I
am saying is too simple but remember I am the one who can prophesy and you bought
this book to learn from me. Don’t try to figure out what I’m about to say before I say
it you will only confuse yourself.
Ok back to hearing from God, so now that you have quietened your spirit and cleared
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your mind and the thing you want to know about or you are ministering to or about is
in front of you with the image of Christ between you and that thing, now wait for
spontaneous thoughts to come to your mind. Remember, this whole exercise is
pointless unless your mind knows that we are hearing from God, so if you forget what
I am telling you about placing that image of Christ between you and the person in
front of you nothing will work.
As you are standing there you are now doing what Habakkuk calls, ‘watching to see
what he will say’ and in this part you can actually start waiting to hear spontaneous
thoughts and that is how the Lord speaks in a basic form before he moves to audible.
However, if you learn this no one will tell the difference. We need to know how to
test if the spontaneous thought we have received or spontaneous sight is coming from
God and there are four ways to know that;
In this Chapter, we dealt with hearing but mainly in the spirit. In the coming parts of
this series we will deal with how to be sensitive to angels and also how to see in the
Spirit as you see in the natural. God gave me this mandate and I will fulfil it as best I
can. I know his love for you is endless. Go and change your world with this truth!