One On One #26

    The Holy Spirit leads Paul to write about the believer's covenant with the Holy Spirit, through Jesus in Heb.2:1(Amp), saying, "Since all this is true, we ought to pay much closer attention than ever to the truths that we have heard, lest in any way we drift past them and slip away." 

    We previously discussed the use of our spiritual languages, speaking in unknown tongues. Sometimes, the things we've learned and received from the Lord, "slip from us and drift past us" in our daily walk with Him. Paul writes in 1Cor.14:18(Amp), "I thank God that I speak in strange tongues (languages) more than any of you or all of you put together." 

    Paul was actually taken into the Third Heaven, into the Presence of God Himself, where He was given this Revelation that we call The New Testament. If Paul needed the Awesome Gift of God, then how much more do we this Gift, in order to understand and receive the Revelation for ourselves? In 1Cor14:2(Amp) Paul writes, "For one who speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not to men but to God, for no one understands or catches his meaning, because in the Holy Spirit he utters secret truths and hidden things not obvious to the understanding."

    These aren't secret truths or hidden things to God, but to our natural minds. These are hidden things that our spirit is seeking direction for our lives. When we pray in the Spirit, we're speaking one on One with God Himself and He is revealing all these hidden secrets to us, to help us understand them even in this natural realm. Jesus said in John6:63(Amp), "The Words I speak to you are Spirit and they are Life." Paul wrote a lot about renewing our minds and about not being carnally minded.

    He writes in Rom.8:12-14(Amp), "To be Spiritually minded is Life and Peace, while being carnally minded is death." Even though we're truly born-again and have been made one with Christ Jesus, we still think like we did and need to renew our minds. We were educated by the world and thought like the world, good and bad alike. Of course we needed to learn how to count, read and deal in this natural world, but these things had no Spiritual Revelation in them. 

    Paul never told us to forget how to read, write or think. Paul did instruct us to allow God's Word to direct our thinking about Spiritual things and to receive direction from the Father. Jesus told His disciples in John15:3(Amp), "You are cleansed and pruned already because of the Word which I have given you, the teachings I have discussed with." These teachings are the hidden things our spirits are seeking direction for. They are not hidden from us, but hidden for us to understand. Jude1:20(Amp) says, "But you beloved, build yourselves up, founded on your most holy faith, make progress rise like an edifice higher and higher, praying in the Holy Spirit."

   We can read God's Word and have enough education to comprehend the words, but still not have Revelation as to what they mean for us in this natural realm. This is what helps us to renew our minds. As the Holy Spirit reveals these things into our spirits, they become not only information but Revelation. The Promise of the Holy Spirit is one of the greatest things we have received from our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus told His followers in John16:13-15(Amp), "But when He (the Spirit of Truth, the Truth Giving Spirit comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth); For He will not speak His Own Message, on His Own Authority, but He will tell whatever He hears of the Father, and He will give the Message that has been given to Him, and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come, that will happen in the future. He will honor and glorify Me, because He will take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine, and will reveal, declare, disclose and transmit unto you. Everything the Father has is Mine, that is what I meant when I said that He (the Spirit) will take the things that are Mine and will reveal, declare, disclose, transmit them to you." 

    These are the mysteries and hidden things Paul wrote about in 1Cor.14:2. The Gift of the Holy Spirit is almost a forgotten gift in the lives of too many believers. We've allowed the Gift of the Holy Spirit to slip passed us in certain times. The Holy Spirit is an open doorway into the very Heart of God for us to enter and receive guidance around the enemy's traps. The Holy Spirit gives us a path in which God's Word has planned out for our walk with Him.