Debrecen Messages #9 – The Function of the Human Spirit: Discernment, Peace & Knowing God

Now, let’s say that letter would come to me, and I had to choose between that or having the main part in a movie as a movie star. I had to choose between being a movie star coming here for four months. I would get confused, and I would look for peace because peace is the greatest sense of intuition. And I would come to the Lord, and I would wrestle with this, and I would not know what to do, and I wouldn’t know which way to go.

And finally, I would surrender my will to him, but there is an excellent chance that at that moment, I would lose the last vestige of any peace. This has happened to me, and it’s going to happen to you. You relinquish your will into His, and there comes a moment of stark terror. And many people who have sensed that moment of stark terror back away and say, well, it wasn’t the Lord. Because as soon as I decided to do this, I had this really terrible feeling. Well, sure you did.

Have you ever known you had to go to someone and apologize to them, and you weren’t going to do it? And you just hated them? You weren’t going to do this, Lord. I’m not going to do this. One thing I’m not going to do. And there came a moment when you finally surrendered to do it, and your whole being inside was gripped with fear because your soul was screaming no, but you still knew. So, there are times we lose that peace for a moment when we relinquish our hearts and wills to him.

But I want to tell you something. We almost always know the will of God. We just don’t want to admit it. We almost always know the will of God. And I refer myself often. By the way, I’m talking about the function of the spirit, in case anybody’s interested in what this subject is. The function of the human spirit that God gave Adam. And I have one, and you have one. Ours is a little different than Adam’s situation.

Everyone knows the will of God. Almost always. And if we don’t, waiting a little while, we will, but boy, can our mind play tricks on us. I have a memory of a brother. I think this stands out to me as a trick. And I have a memory of a brother who we all knew there was something he should not do, and he was about to go do it. And one day he said, I gave it to the Lord, I’m not going to do it. And inside, we all cheered. About a day later, he went and did it. And he said, after I surrendered it to the Lord, I discovered that God wasn’t opposed to my doing it. He just wanted me to surrender it. And I surrendered it, and then He let me go do it. Well, he had a whole church that was witnessing in the other direction.

We play tricks with our minds. We play tricks with our logic. And if you’re a very logical person, you’re going to have a hard time following your spirit. If you’re a very emotional person, you’re going to be led by the Lord more than all the rest of us put together, but if I have to choose between an intellectual person who does it all with his thinking or a feeling person who just gets led by the Lord all the time, I’ll be a feeler. I don’t want to be a thinker.

And you’re going to run across this teaching of never trust your feelings. And has this come to you? Never trust your feelings. Surely, this has gotten to Europe by now. Do not trust your feelings. Why do they never say, Do not trust your thinking? They never do. Your thinking is less trustable than your feelings. Your spirit is closer to feelings than it is to thinking. And every Christian on earth knows that if you stop and consider it.

Alright, what was my point? Your spirit, the spirit was given to Adam to lay hold of his Lord and of things unseen. He was given a soul to lay hold of the things of earth.

Have you ever watched your dog? Did you know that a dog has a language? Did you know that when he sticks his front legs down on the ground and throws his back end up, he’s saying, Let’s play? That is a dog’s way of speaking. You do not use your spirit to understand that. When a dog growls viciously at you, but wags his tail, he probably won’t bite. Boy, if that tail’s not moving, you’re in big trouble. You’re going to get bit. A dog has language. You don’t need your spirit to understand these things.