Christians can yield their minds to godly thinking or ungodly thinking

Christians can yield their minds to godly thinking or ungodly thinking. Ungodly thinking tends to be very religious and self-righteous. In Godly thinking, the root or beginning of reasoning is divine revelation directly coming from the mouth of God and nothing is added to or diminished from that root. God may reveal something about a passage in Scripture, something in the physical realm, or something in the spiritual realm. He may speak through Scripture or any of the means of divine revelation mentioned in Scripture such as prophecy, visions, dreams, words of knowledge, etc. When you seek Him, you find Him.

An ungodly thinker can fake divine revelation and say, “This is what Christ showed me” when they weren’t listening to Christ at all. This is what the false prophet is all about. Another kind of false prophet is the person who interprets Scripture using human assumptions, presuppositions, worldviews, learned doctrines, learned principles, or other forms of made-up stuff.

Christians always interpret Scripture—either by the fleshly mind or by divine revelation. They may claim they are looking at the Bible directly, but they are looking at Scripture through the veil of their deceitful fleshly nature. They are not depending on the voice of Jesus Christ. They are depending on their own assumptions.

It’s very common for these ungodly thinkers to project their problem on you. It’s very common for ungodly thinkers to assume that you are also basing all your reasoning on assumptions and other forms of made-up stuff.

When you spend time in Christ’s presence, seeking His will and understanding and wisdom and not adding your own analysis to it, you can expect that Christ will continually lead, teach, and correct you.

The carnal mind wants to turn that revelation into dogma because the carnal mind wants closure. The carnal mind wants closure because the carnal mind isn’t comfortable with allowing Christ to be our truth, understanding, wisdom, and knowledge. In fact, the carnal mind wants to disconnect from Christ.

Stay connected to Christ in His ever-unfolding revelation.

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Trust Jesus, NOT Human Intellect

The enemy of your soul loves to convince you that revelation is risky. With divine revelation, you might get it wrong. With the alternatives to divine revelation, you are certain to get it wrong. With divine revelation, you should always be teachable and open to correction. With the alternatives to divine revelation, dogmatism is built in. A person receiving divine revelation may get recognition, which might allow fleshly pride to well up even though the Holy Spirit guides Christ’s people away from pride. It still happens. With the alternatives to divine revelation, pride and thirst for power are built in. The alternatives to divine revelation are rationalism or conjuring evil spirits, both of which assure failure.

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Listen to brothers and sisters in Christ. By the Holy Spirit’s testimony, weigh what they say to determine whether it’s coming from the Lord or from human reasoning. Accept correction if it’s from the Lord through a brother or sister. Always remain teachable. Realize the weakness and deceptiveness of the carnal mind, and depend entirely on Christ. Then you will be safe.

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God Wants a Relationship with You

Don’t turn the revelation God gives you into a doctrine in the sense of dogma. God may reveal something to you, and it’s wonderful and exciting. Remember, revelation, knowledge, and understanding are always in part. Your carnal mind wants closure. God wants a relationship with you. Your carnal mind will automatically fill in the blanks, and that can be deceptive. That’s why God warns not to add to His words or diminish any of them. So, receive the revelation with thanksgiving, giving all the glory to God. But guard against pride or a sense that you have it all figured out. God always has greater light and wants to give you more complete revelation. Ask God to correct you and search your heart for errors and false ideas that need to be cleaned away. This is humility. Be humble.

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THE CARNAL MIND VS CHRIST’S MIND

Is Revelation Risky?

The most important way to receive revelation from God without risk is to spend time in His presence, seek His will and His righteousness, desire Him and His presence, and praise and glorify Him and thank Him for the wisdom and knowledge He gives you.

Acknowledge that any wisdom or knowledge or goodness you have ever had came from Him. Focus on Him and Him alone. It’s so easy and natural to try to mix divine revelation with human intellect—your own and that of others. It’s very important to stay away from ungodly counselors—like most media and educators.

When you have a sense God wants you to do something, do it without question or delay. When you have a sense He wants you to avoid something, avoid it without question or delay.

Ask Jesus your questions. Expect answers. Above all, don’t doubt that He can give you the answers.

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Jesus is alive, and you can know Him in a real way.

Jesus is alive, and you can know Him in a real way. He will lead, teach, and correct you in many ways. He speaks through the Bible, through prophecies, words of wisdom, words of knowledge, dreams, visions, a quiet inner voice in your mind, or through intuition. He will speak to you through your personal senses of spiritual hearing, seeing, feeling, tasting, and smelling.

Though revelation is partial, it’s real. Everything else is artificial and fake. Though you may get it wrong, continue to seek the Lord for unfolding revelation and continual correction. Keep on keeping on and never give up.

Keep in mind that all revelation is in part, but the deceptive and desperately wicked human intellect will try to fill in the blanks. It always gets it wrong. The Bible says that if any Christian thinks he or she understands ANY thing, that Christian doesn’t understand that thing as he or she ought to understand that thing. We don’t worship dogma. To worship dogma is idolatry and worship of human intellect. We don’t worship personalities or saints of the past because that would be idolatry. We don’t worship organizations because that would be idolatry. We worship and follow One Lord Jesus Christ. He is our One Teacher and Lord.

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The problem is not whether God is speaking. The problem is discernment. We need to be able to discern between God’s voice and all the other voices. The difference is where you focus your attention. You need to turn your attention to Christ at all times.

If you ask God for a fish, He won’t give you a serpent, the symbol of a demon. As your vision improves, you can better discern the Body of Christ. You see who you are in Christ. You now identify with Christ in you. You have died to your fleshly nature. That’s not who you are. You see what is and is not part of the body of Christ. You see Christ in your brother and sister and no longer know them after the flesh. You realize you are dealing with the living Lord when you are dealing with a brother or sister. You see how you fit into the body of Christ.

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How God Speaks to Those Who Refuse to Acknowledge Him or Thank Him

How does God speak to those who refuse to acknowledge Him or thank Him?

He speaks into their minds just as He speaks into your mind, but there’s a big difference if they refuse to acknowledge and thank Him. Demons also speak into their minds just as they speak into every mind. We’re all aware of their voices, but we don’t all listen to them and follow their direction. In fact, an ungodly person is ungodly because they are listening to demons and demons are forming their worldviews.

Ungodly persons who desire truth will eventually recognize God Who is speaking to them. Those who hate truth and righteousness will persist in taking the credit for themselves for any wisdom and knowledge God gives them. They will not give God the glory. They won’t thank Him. Then, they will slowly lose the distinction between God’s voice, their own self-talk, or even the voices of demons.

At some point, they can no longer tell the difference between reality and make-believe. They don’t know right from wrong. Even now, you hear them declaring that good is evil and evil is good. Just look at the culture. It’s all around us.

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Some people imagine that turning to Christ happens once when you are born again and that’s it. That’s not true. While being born again is a one-time event, that’s just the start. Turning to the Lord is a moment by moment decision. Moment by moment, you decide whether you will turn to the Lord, to the human mind, or some evil spirit.

You must desire God and His righteousness and yield yourself to His Spirit. This scripture goes on to say “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”

Walking in the Spirit is about progressive and continual transformation that will be finished in the manifestation of the sons of God and the redemption of our bodies. That transformation from glory to glory is maturity. Right now, we aren’t as mature as we will be, but we must begin from where we are. God knows our weakness, and He’s right there cheering us on.

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Even False Prophets

Even the false prophets were given this promise in Jeremiah 23:21-22

“I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied. But if they had stood in my council, they would have proclaimed my words to my people and would have turned them from their evil ways and from their evil deeds.”

So God would even speak to the false prophets if they would listen to Him. As we stand in the council of Christ, we begin to see Christ because He takes away the fleshly veil.

2 Corinthians 3:16 says, ” When one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.”

It’s talking about how this fleshly veil keeps people from seeing the Scripture as it actually is. Because of that veil, all we see are the preconceived ideas in our fleshly minds. Without turning to the Lord and standing in His counsel, not even Scripture can help us. We would interpret it wrong. Millions have interpreted Scripture wrong for the same reason, and the results have been disastrous.
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