Debrecen Messages #9 – The Functioning of the Human Spirit and Adam Invited to the Fellowship of the Godhead

And perhaps this is the most, one of the most important things about your spirit. Most of the time, your spirit speaks to you without human words. And if you’re getting it in words all the time, quite frankly, I think you might need a psychiatrist or a tranquilizer. The deep things of Christ are in the deep parts of our being. And when Adam walked with God in the cool of the evening, I’m not sure they spoke out loud to one another. Perhaps they did. I’ll go along with that if that’s how you feel, but there is a deep knowing of things. And I’m going to tell you, brothers and sisters, when it is really of the spirit, two spirit, you don’t particularly want to talk about it.

Every once in a while, something will happen in my life that is so unusual. I will share it with my wife. Boy, that happens about once over three, four, or five years. The rest of my time is a simple knowing, a deep knowing. And I live by that sense. Well, I might as well get out here on this limb and saw like crazy. We walk by our spirit. We do not walk by prayer. Now, I know an entire movement. Every time you speak with these people and you discuss something, you say to them such and such and such and such. I say, we have to pray about it. I know of no way better to lose the will of God than to pray about something. You come to God. Here we come. Lord, Lord, we don’t have your direction. We, Lord. Oh, and then your mind begins to say, well, there’s this possibility. And then there’s that possibility. And all this time you’re praying, you’re thinking, don’t tell me you’re not. It happens all the time, especially when you’re under stress. And you’ll draw some conclusions because you’re thinking while you’re praying; you think that you’re praying. Well, you’re not praying, you’re thinking. You’re just using the word God coming out of your mouth every once in a while. I’m sorry, but that’s not getting in touch with the Lord. You don’t know how to pray when you don’t know the Lord’s will. It’s real simple. I’m going to give it to you. This is another thousand dollars. Lord. The house. Or Lord. That letter. Lord. I got nothing to say.

The Lord has heard me say one sentence more than he has heard me say anything else, unless it was hallelujah or praise God or thank you or something like that. But in my prayer life, the sentence that comes out of my mouth most to the Lord, as I walk before his throne, I say, Lord, I got nothing to say. And the Lord knows that I mean by that. I’m trying to stay neutral. I’m not going to pray about this. I’m not going to confuse the issue by praying. You know, I’m in, I’m tied up here in a big problem. Lord, I got nothing to say. And I expect my Lord to lead me. And my Lord leads me in my spirit, in his spirit. And we’re talking about a fallen man. Adam was not fallen. And these things were greatly improved or enhanced or are more, more alive than they are in you and me. But I would beg, especially those of you watching the video, will you please go to a psychiatrist if God talks to you all the time? You’re too emotional. There’s something wrong with you. Your, your, your spirit doesn’t talk. Your spirit moves. Your spirit just barely does anything. See that? That was my spirit.

See that? Did you see that? That was my spirit. That was my spirit. Your spirit is very quiet. Only on the rarest occasions does your spirit go like this. And that’s usually a great big no. Spirit’s like this. Someone described your spirit very beautifully by saying, Your spirit is a dove. And can be frightened away very easily. And when I see people worshiping the Lord and it turns from worship to frenzy, I cannot help but think. They are trying to create God by this frenzy. He is usually like that. Sometimes in a meeting, and sometimes in things that are great that happened to us, their joy bubbles up out of that river that’s in us. But I’m not talking about that. That’s joy. That’s not, that’s not speaking to God or God speaking to you.

I’ve been asking you to have a time every morning where you just sit and behold your Lord. And I will tell you that that is better than all the prayer, prayer times, prayer times. We’re going to have prayer time every morning. Sister, what on earth are you going to study? I mean, I have been in prayer times, believe it or not. It’s a one-way conversation.

Lord, take care of mother. Take care of brother. Lord, take care of sister. Take care of mama. Take care of daddy. Take care of Aunt Nettie. Uncle Bill. And take care of my dog and my cat. Thank you. And be with all the starving people. And bless my pastor. And oh man, it only goes, who do you think God is? That this is of any interest to me. Excuse me, but every year, there are hundreds of thousands of letters written to Santa Claus. And the government takes them and, after a few days, throws them away. I think God has a Santa Claus box. He puts these kinds of prayers in and …. There’s nothing more beautiful.

I’m off on prayer here, and I didn’t mean to be. There’s nothing more beautiful between you and the Lord. And that’s just then to come and relinquish your will before him. And to say, Lord, I’m broke. Lord, my baby. Lord, Jack. Lord, Mary. Well, while I’m here chasing down prayer, I might as well go after another elephant. Pray for me. I’ll pray for you. Gene, will you pray for me? I hate it when you people say to me. Will you pray for me? So this is true confession time for Gene Edwards. I always pray for you when you say, Pray for me, but I accept on rare occasions. I don’t think you would appreciate the prayer that I pray for you. Alright. Mary Ellen gets on the phone and tells me this long, terrible story, and says, Gene, we need your prayers. Pray for me. I say, all right. Or please, Gene, would you pray for us? Okay. I hang up the phone and I say, Lord, Mary Ellen. What do you want me to do? What do you wish that I would do? You only get down on my knees and agonize? I’m sorry, but I would be a hypocrite. Peggy, am I such a terrible, horrible person?

My relationship with the Lord is somewhere other than prayer. And these people who write books about Jesus’ prayer life are full of hot air. Jesus got away at times of crises to be with the Father uninterrupted by humans. But I’ll tell you the prayer that is the great insight into his life is when he was about to raise Lazarus from the dead. And he said, Father, you know, I don’t need to talk to you out loud. I’m doing this for the benefit of the people watching. And then he said, Lazarus, come forward. He didn’t even need to say that.

His fellowship was internal. Brothers, what you’re doing in the morning, just spending a little time before Christ, before his face. I beg of you to pursue this. It’s real. It is real. And so much other is not real. And so much other can turn to hypocrisy. What you see of Adam and his Lord is a shadow of Christ and the Father before eternity. It is a fellowship and probably a fellowship outside of words. And I’ll tell you again, your spirit is usually above or beyond human language and outside of human thought.

While we’re talking about the human spirit, the most important thing I can say to you, and then I have to qualify that I’m so sorry I do, is that there is a sense of peace within your spirit. Have you ever really been confused about what to do?

I noticed that the brothers to whom I wrote all responded like this. Why did you respond to me with a yes? The Romanian brothers. Because there was immediate peace, immediate witness, spirit to spirit. Something said yes, but you did not hear a voice say yes.