What No Eye Has Seen

“But, as it is written,

‘What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,

    nor the heart of man imagined,

what God has prepared for those who love him’—

these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.” (1 Corinthians 2:9-11 ESV)

So, when Jesus Christ was about ready to leave the earth and to go back to the Father, prior to his death and resurrection, he told his disciples that he was going to prepare a place for them, and that one day he would come back to receive them to himself that where he is there they may be also. And so he told them, “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you” (John 14:1-3,26).

Now we who believe in Jesus Christ with genuine God-gifted faith in him have the Holy Spirit living within us, serving as our teacher, counselor, guide, encourager, helper, and the one who pricks our consciences and convicts of sin and who warns us of danger and who leads us in the way of righteousness and holiness. He also gifts us with spiritual gifts which we are to use within the body of Christ to encourage our fellow Christians in their walks of faith in obedience to our Lord in holy living.

[Mk 13:11; Lu 2:26; Lu 4:18-19; Lu 10:21; Lu 12:11-12; Jn 14:26; Jn 15:26; Jn 16:13; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:17-18; Acts 11:12; Acts 13:2; Acts 20:23; Rom 8:9,14; 1 Co 2:14-16; 1 Co 6:19-20; 1 Co 12:1-31; Rom 12:1-8; Eph 4:1-16, etc.]

But God reveals to us the things of God which are not evident to human flesh and only via the Holy Spirit, and in ways which are not of the flesh and which cannot be determined by the flesh. These are things which are not seen with our human eyes nor heard with our ears audibly nor are they things that we can even possibly imagine. But God speaks to us through his Spirit in our inner beings revealing to us the things of God which we cannot know in any other way. They are not intellectually discerned.

Now there are people who deny totally the gifts of the Spirit, if the gifts are not things which can be determined and controlled by human flesh. And then on the other end of this we have people who abuse the gifts of the Spirit and who teach them erroneously and who are leading many people astray to follow after even demons who disguise themselves as angels of light and as servants of righteousness. And so we must exercise much spiritual discernment in what we believe is of the Spirit or not of the Spirit.

“Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies, but test everything; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.” (1 Thessalonians 5:19-22 ESV)

So, what is this saying? We are not to automatically shut out everything that we cannot see or control or discern ourselves, or even what is absolutely plain in the Scriptures, if we read them in context, unless the Scriptures clearly teach that what we are seeing or hearing or reading or perceiving is not of God. For Jesus sent us the Holy Spirit to indwell us to teach us the things of God, even things which we cannot see with our physical eyes, but which are to be spiritually discerned. But we should test everything and abstain from evil.

So, how did I know that God was calling me to this ministry 20 years ago? I can’t find it in the Scriptures, not with my name on it, anyway. No human being suggested it to me. And I did not think it up of my own accord. The Holy Spirit spoke to me through his word in Habakkuk 2:2-3 that I was to write down what he teaches me from my time spent in his word, and to write it on a tablet (my computer) and to give it to the internet (the herald) so that the herald could “Run With It,” the name then given to my blog.

And so that is what I did. I wrote what I understood and what I was learning as I was learning it to the best of my understanding of it. And little by little my understanding began to increase, and I learned so many things I did not know before, and so many things that were absolutely spiritually discerned. And I learned, too, of the things that I had learned incorrectly, and where I had been deceived or brainwashed, and where I needed to accept the truth and to reject the lies. It was the Holy Spirit revealing these things to me.

How can we know our calling that God has for us individually in the specific gifts and ministries to which he has called us if we are not listening to the Holy Spirit’s voice within us? There is no way that I would have posted over 8,000 documents on the internet in nearly 20 years or written the things the Lord has given me write or to speak or to sing, including songs, poems, memes, devotions, short books, and video talks, if I was not being led by the Spirit and gifted of the Spirit and called and equipped of God.

So, yes, read the Scriptures every day. Read them in context so that you interpret them correctly. But read them under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, allowing the Spirit to speak truth to your heart and to counsel you in the way he would have you to go. But let him speak truth to you within your spirit. Test what you hear against the Scriptures to make certain it is the Holy Spirit you are hearing, but don’t quench the Spirit because someone has told you that the Holy Spirit doesn’t speak to us that way.

There is so much evil going on in this world of ours and in the USA and among our political leaders and our church leaders, and so many people are being deceived by the voices of men because they are not testing what they hear or read against the Scriptures and in prayer, letting the Holy Spirit reveal to them the things hidden that are deceiving people’s hearts and minds. So, please, ask the Lord to reveal to you the true character of all those who are running for the office of president of the USA.

For Our Nation  

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Trust Him with your life today.

Make Him your Lord and your Savior.

Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.

He will forgive you of your sin;

Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.

On our knees to God we’re praying,

Seeking God to give us answers

That are only found in Him.

God is sovereign over all things.

Nothing from His mind escaping.

He has all things under His command,

And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing

In our Lord, and interceding

For our nation and its people

To obey their God today.

He is our hope for our future.

For our wounds He offers suture.

He is all we need for this life.

Trust Him with your life today.

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