In the last article, we looked at what it means to have access to the mind of Christ. I stated that spiritual communication is intuitive and I described how the indwelling Spirit communicates directly to your spirit through thought transference. Building upon this concept, this article focuses on how God designed your spirit with the innate ability to know intuitively.
To begin, Paul said, “Who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him?” (1 Cor. 2:11, emphasis mine).
The word translated as “know” is oida, and it means “to know by perception.” According to the Oxford Languages dictionary, perception is the “ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.” Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines perception as “quick, acute, and intuitive cognition.”
This verse reveals your spirit has the innate ability to know intuitively what your mind is thinking. If you think about it, your spirit knows every thought your mind thinks.
This verse and our own experience tell us, then, that God created our spirits with the innate ability to know by intuition the inward activity of the soul.
Defining Intuition
Intuition is a knowing deep within you—a knowing that doesn’t come by any outside information, mental processing, or feelings. Intuition is the part of your spirit that senses, diametrically different than physical senses.
Intuition is a direct sensing, independent of any external influence. It’s a knowing unaided by the mind, will, and emotions of the soul or the five senses of the body.
Intuition is in an inward, unarticulated knowing, often contradicting what the mind deems logical, how the emotions feel, or what the will wants.
Your spirit’s intuition is the sixth sense, giving you the ability to know the indwelling Spirit’s thoughts immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning, proof, or evidence.
Further Clarification
When I refer to your spirit’s intuition, I mean your spirit’s innate ability to know intuitively what the indwelling Spirit communicates directly to your spirit. When I use your spirit’s intuition, I don’t mean, in any way, your spirit’s intuition independent of the indwelling Spirit.
In this article, I’m describing how to receive and discern God’s thoughts from the inside out. This is one of the most common ways the indwelling Spirit communicates with us. And after the Word of God, I would argue it’s the primary way He speaks in our relationship with Him.
However, it’s not the only way He speaks. He also speaks to us through visions, dreams, trances, prophetic encounters, the gifts of the Spirit, or angelic visitations.
Nevertheless, this article only focuses on hearing from the Lord from the inside out. My aim is to help you understand Spirit-to-spirit communication that comes from the indwelling Spirit directly to your human spirit.
God Designed Your Spirit to Know Intuitively
Knowing how God created the human spirit to function and the laws He established in its divine design are essential. Without this knowledge, you will continue to live from self-life in your soul rather than Christ’s indwelling life in your spirit.
For example, God created the five senses so you could communicate with the material world. He also created your mind, emotions, and will to process, express, and execute the input received from both the external world and the heart.
If you think about it, when you live from the soul, you live from the functions of the soul—the mind processing, the emotions expressing, and the will executing. When you live from the soul, your thoughts, feelings, and preferences govern you.
The same principle is at play if you want to live from your spirit. You must learn to live by what the Spirit communicates directly to your spirit—what you know to be true apart from conscious reasoning.
The Lord designed your spirit to intuitively know His thoughts, voice, and direction. That’s why the Holy Spirit reveals, communicates, leads, and directs you through your spirit.
The Lord created your spirit with the innate ability to know things immediately apart from rational thought. The Lord did this so you could communicate and fellowship with Him.
Putting all this together, your spirit has what I call a sixth sense, giving you the ability to perceive, discern, and know by intuitive cognition the activity of the interior life.
When you realize this, it helps you cultivate your sixth sense and be more in tune with the indwelling Spirit. If you will pay close attention to your spirit’s intuition, remaining alert, aware, and sensitive to the Spirit’s thoughts, whispers, and promptings, you will live much more from your spirit.
Conversely, if you neglect your spirit’s intuition, you will not detect the Spirit’s faint thoughts and whispers, and you will inevitably live from your soul.
The Indwelling Spirit Enables You to Know
John said, “But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know” (1 John 2:20, emphasis mine).
Once again, know in the Greek is oida, and it means “to know by perception” or you could say, “to know intuitively in your spirit.”
In this verse, John stressed the intuitive knowing that stems from the anointing within your spirit. The Holy Spirit, like anointing oil, is gently rubbed upon your spirit. This, in turn, gives you the ability to intuitively know Him and discern His nature, ways, truth, wisdom, and voice.
Going further, John said, “As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him” (1 John 2:27).
Putting these two verses together, the indwelling Spirit teaches you about all things by communicating directly to your spirit not to your mind, emotions, brain, or physical ears. He speaks directly to your spirit, and like John said, you then know.
These two verses showcase the intuitive function of your spirit, enabling you to know truth deep within you, unaided by any outside information. You just know that you know.
More Information
Your spirit was designed to commune with Christ spirit to Spirit. If you would like to learn more about this, I recommend my teaching called Your Sixth Sense and you can also purchase my latest book Indwelling Life.
