SPIRITUAL AWARENESS MAKES YOU KNOW THE WAYS OF GOD. IT
Bishop-Elect Emmanuel Rotimi Onabanjo on ” Building Spiritual awareness ” at Power and Authority Ministries Sunday Service.
Hallelujah, let’s be victoriously seated in his presence. Last week we started a series titled; Building Spiritual Awareness, today we shall Continue that teaching.
I want to tell you few things this evening, when you grow in spiritual awareness, there are few things that will change in your life. These things will leave your life, they are envy, anger, lust and acts that show rebellion against the Church. Growing in spiritual awareness makes these things fall off from your life. When you have spiritual awareness, you will be full of testimonies always. Testimonies are giving thanks, warning people and building faith in God. You give thanks to God, you warn people against disobeying instructions and you build their faith in God. I decree you will have abounding testimonies this August.
We look at 1 Corinthians 2:12-14
The ways and workings of God can only be known to those with Spiritual awareness, without awareness, the things of God will look foolish to you. for example, you will want to calculate and say 2+2 equals 4, whereas with God 2+2 does not equal 4. He says one will chase a thousand and two will put ten thousand to flight. If I come to you now, you are seeing just one person, whereas you are not seeing just one person, but a battalion with an innumerable number of Angels
2 Corinthians 4:34.
When people saw Christ, they saw him as a crisis, he came as their desire, they saw him as a disaster and nailed him. to the cross. What happened, there is no peace In the Middle East today, because the Prince of this world has the ability to blind people ChurchGist.
Ephesians 1:12-19.
Once you build your spiritual awareness, you start doing things like God and when you do things like God, you can’t end up as a failure because God is not a failure. Once you have the spirit of Revelations, the eyes of your understanding become enlightened, then you understand the hope of being a believer. You will know the exceeding greatness of God’s power because that’s what Jesus brought for you, God’s power is mighty, I pray you will contact it. ChurchGist.
Let me tell you a story, This is the story I call the story of the Excited worshipper and Enlightened Gospeller. This represents two groups of people in the Church today, who are just excited but not enlightened. Let’s see the story In Acts 8.
This Eunuch read the scriptures and got excited and fascinated by it, but he was not impacted by it, that’s why I always pray to God that when I am preaching, let there be no distractions. The spirit of God told Philip to join himself to the Chariot and he explained what the Eunuch didn’t understand. The number one thing you need is to cultivate a relationship with God. Most people don’t have a personal relationship with God, all they have done successfully is rote Learning, the Eunuch had the Torah spirit, but had no awareness. That’s what people are today. they cram the scriptures and come to recIte portions of scriptures, that can just be head knowledge. I know a man who can quote Psalms 119 word for word, but it won’t make a real impact because it’s not depth filled.
Philip preached Jesus, the man became enlightened the blindness disappeared and he was baptized. He requested for baptism, whereas he had been seeing those rivers before, but this time he requested to be baptized because he had his eyes opened.
Critical times like these require Spiritual cognizance. Cognizance is different from mere looking at things. Cognizance takes you deeper, it makes you realize and understand the ways of God. The optic nerves can never give you revelations, remember that’s the work of the Holy Spirit to Grant access to realms of revelations. Jesus labored so much on Earth on his disciples but after his departure, they purported to go back to their previous works. Tough times will always be tough, but you will scale through. Tough minds grow in tough times, these last days are perilous, yet believers will prosper Spiritually.
Reading things alone won’t give you eternity, you need to come to an understanding of what the Lord has in store for you. The worst thing that can befall a man is to be in blindness. Because you hear a noise and you don’t know why people are shouting, so it’s a terrible thing to be in spiritual blindness, where you hear sounds of Victory, but you don’t know where it came from or why your testimony hasn’t come. You need awareness to detect the manipulations and craftiness of the devil. The devil is an intruder and needs to be shown the way out always. God comes to inhabit, but the devil came to intrude into your life, that’s why you don’t embrace him, but you resist him.
Signs of Building Spiritual awareness.
- You will be readily open to learning and yielding to God’s word. Psalm 119:33. When you catch the revelation you will have the awareness. Psalms 119;15, meditation is the medication of believers. Psalm 1:12.
Once you start having an appetite for the word of God, spiritual awareness is been built up in you.
- Your Eyes will be set on the eternal, not the temporal. Isaiah 50:7
- You shall be able to see God’s kingdom and your Joy shall be amazing. You don’t need to die to see God’s kingdom, even while here on Earth, if you are spiritually awake and alert to what has been freely given to you by God, you can enjoy that kingdom here on Earth. Yes, the streets of heaven are made of Gold, but you can also be on the Golden carpet on the Earth. You can enjoy and drive the best cars too on Earth. You can enjoy divine wealth and Health as it is done In heaven.
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