Most of us have failed to obey the Holy Spirit's leading, because we've never been trained to hear His voice. The Lord is always endeavoring to lead us, but we have been led by the five senses for so long that we haven't listened very much to the Spirit of God.
Many have decided that only a very few persons can actually hear or know His voice. Hearing and following His leading requires training our spirit to listen beyond our five senses. Jesus told us that, "God is a Spirit." Genesis 1:26 says we were "Created in His Image and Likeness" and that we are truly "spirit beings." We were born with a flesh and blood body to live in, just like Jesus was. This body is to have contact with the natural earth and with nature, but we were always meant to be led and raised by the Spirit.
Since we are now (and were from the beginning), a spirit in His Image, our spirit is the way His Presence must be reached and understood. We can only come to a mental ascent to His presence, without contacting God by our spirit. God's Word is also Spirit, according to John 6:63 (Amplified) where Jesus said, "It is the Spirit Who gives life (He is the Life-Giver); the flesh conveys no benefit whatever (there is no proof in it) The Words (truths) that I have been speaking to you are Spirit and Life."
His Words (the entire Bible) are Spirit. God speaks to us by His Spirit and His Word. If only we would allow the Holy Spirit to reveal His Word into our spirit, instead of trying to understand it with our carnal minds. The only way to understand its truth is by our spirit, because His Word is Spirit and Truth.
The Holy Spirit is the Only One Who can reveal the depth of the Father's heart and intent. 1Corinthians 2:13-14 (Amplified) tells us, "And we are setting these truths forth in Words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Holy Spirit, combining and interpreting spiritual truths with spiritual language (to those who possess the Holy Spirit)." Verse 14 goes on, "But the natural, nonspiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts and revelations and teachings of the Spirit of God, for they are folly (meaningless nonsense) to him; and he is incapable of knowing them (of progressively recognizing, understanding, and becoming better acquainted with them) because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appreciated."
If someone tried telling you that you can simply lay hands on the sick and they would be healed, then your carnal mind would dismiss it as foolishness. Anything that has to do with the supernatural things of God in this natural world, seems to be foolishness to the natural man.
There has been a division within the Body of Christ over these spiritual truths. Some seek to believe, but fail, because we won't accept by our spirit. Some truly believe that God can do anything, but they cannot believe that He will. All have received the truth from the Holy Spirit, as far as they will Him to take them. When we stop receiving in our spirit, we stop in our quest of understanding our Heavenly Father.
Jesus said that, "I and the Father are One" and then He prayed in John 17:21 (Amplified) saying, "They (those who will believe in Him by the words of the disciples) all may be one (just) as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be One in us, so that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me."
The Oneness that Jesus and the Father had (even while Jesus was a Man in the flesh), is the same Oneness He prayed for us to have. If there was ever a Person Who had His prayers answered, then it would be Jesus. You know that God has answered Jesus' prayer for us to be one with Him and our Father. The same potential to hear the Voice of the Spirit that Jesus had, is ours too.
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