Part 15 Faith the key to a new reality Part 3 Spiritual Awareness and Faith AWARENESS AND MATURITY

Part 15 Faith the key to a new reality Part 3
Spiritual Awareness and Faith
AWARENESS AND MATURITY
THE PATHWAY TO MATURITY BEGINS AND CONTINUES WITH AWARENESS

John 5:19	Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
John 1:51	And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

AWARENESS

John 5:30

I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

Developing awareness is very important to your spiritual life. The scriptures make plain that God wants you to have an awareness of the realm in which He, God lives, the realm of spirit. As you develop awareness you will grow rapidly in God. In order to keep your finger on the pulse of Gods activity the spirit realm you have to develop spiritual awareness.
Adam was able to walk with God, talk with Him and generally was aware of His presence. All of his senses were open to the spirit realm, Sight, Touch, Hearing, Tasting and Smell.
Real faith requires that you are able to receive the communication of God to you. Faith cometh by hearing, in one sense your whole being is a giant ear, a large antenna by which you pick up signals from the realm of spirit. You can pick up communication from the Lord via your feelings emotions, where you feel as the Lord feels. You can pick up signals via touch or physical pressure. I often feel the anointing as a light pressure around my upper forehead that is around the hairline (if you still have all your hair). The impact of the spirit realm upon your physical body is quite common, thou not very often recognized. Have you ever been in a situation around people or places where a light shudder went through you? You are in the presence of evil often a spirit or a person or a place where evil has been committed and the residue is still there. This is quite common where murder has taken place or some other gross evil and the environments bricks and motor etc still hold the evil vibrations of the atrocity.
Just as in this physical world we have the ability to smell, even so in the spirit realm smell is a reality of that world. Every evil spirit has a distinctive smell. In heaven some of the perfumes there are exquisite. I once stood in a very large garden in heaven with the Lord and the smell was so incredible I could feel it healing me. Have you ever been in a home that was clean, but had the smell of poverty there? The spirit of poverty has a certain smell whether the home is clean or not.
Spiritual awareness is important if you are to walk with the Lord and remain in communication with Him. Faith Come through communication from the Lord.

Psalms 34:8

O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

One of the ways that the gift of discerning of spirits operates is through the sense of Taste. Certain evil spirits can be detected by a slight change of taste in your mouth, Sour, Ascitic, coppery, and so on. You have to be aware and learn what these subtle tastes mean when they occur. You can sometime sense that the Lord ha drawn near by sensing a smell or taste.
Fear is the enemy of Faith
How much do circumstances occupy your awareness?  If you have fear: You are more aware of your circumstances than you are aware of the Lord.
Peter the water walker

Matthew 14:29	And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
Matthew 14:30	But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.

NOTE: The shift in awareness.
Peter became more aware of his circumstances as his awareness shifted from the Lord, and he began to sink. You will always begin to sink when you take your eyes of the Lord.
You have to be more conscious of the Lord than you are of your problems
The apostle Paul was fearless in the storm because he was aware of the lord

Acts 27:22	And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of [any man's] life among you, but of the ship.
Acts 27:23	For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,

ALL TRUE MINISTRY FLOWS OUT OF AWARENESS
I do only those things I see hear. Then:  It’s not self but God.
The anointing in the book of Zechariah is symbolised by the lamp-stand

Zechariah 4:2	And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all [of] gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which [are] upon the top thereof:
3	And two olive trees by it, one upon the right [side] of the bowl, and the other upon the left [side] thereof.
Zechariah 4:6	Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This [is] the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

The oil or anointing fed the lamp, all the lamp had to do was be there, and burn.                                                                                                            
You can either be a candle or a lamp:  A candle consumes itself; a lamp is fed oil from a source other than itself.

Philemon 1:6

That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

Not self confidence as such, but God conscious
A mark of immaturity is Impulsiveness; Acting on your own ideas.
BELIEVE AND SEE
AWARENESS STARTS WITH: Seeing in the invisible with the eyes of the heart.

Psalms 19:14

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

Meditation both in Hebrew and Greek always includes imagination.
LAY A SCRIPTURAL FOUNDATION FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO, SO SATAN CANNOT DISCREDIT YOU.
THEN: Picture in your mind everything that is yours in Christ.
Picture the Lord. Picture in your mind the will of God for you. See it live it.
When based on Gods word, or on a word from God; your imagination of it is not an illusion it is a reality. Reality is in the spirit realm.
Use your imagination to break through the barriers to reality. You are made to walk in the spirit with the lord.
CHANGE COMES THROUGH EXPOSURE

II Corinthians 3:18

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.

EXPOSURE BEGINS WITH LOOKING INTO THE INVISIBLE. BY USING YOUR IMAGINATION AS A TOOL TO FOCUS

II Corinthians 4:18

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.

Read the word, meditate on it or visualise your self being,or doing it.
ACTIVATE FAITH OR UNBELIEF

Proverbs 4:23	Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life.
Matthew 12:34	O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Romans 10:10	For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

IF YOU SAY GOD HELP ME ITS GOING TO BE AN AWFUL DAY:  It will be. You have activated unbelief.
IF YOU SAY, TODAY I AM A CHILD OF GOD WITH POWER VICTORY AND JESUS WITH ME AND IN ME, You will activate faith
USE YOUR SANCTIFIED IMAGINATION AS A MEANS OF EXPERIENCING GOD
Fulfilled promises come with the inward seeing of what you are claiming to walk in
Faith is like mounding clay (the substance)
It has no form until Gods speaks to you and reveals His will, His word His promise. Then your heart mind imagination shapes it into form and speaks it forth.
God Bless you
James N Johnson © 2005