Did you get a chance to practice stillness? I still struggle with that. In the business of life, I am learning to be more aware of His presence in and around me.

In part three of this curriculum, we can look at some examples of questions and exercises, but first a few things in how to overcome our minds.

God is calling us to go beyond rational Christianity. He created us for the supreme purpose of having a loving relationship with Him.

Rationalism defined is reliance on reason as the basis for establishment of religious truth, a theory that reason is in itself a source of knowledge superior to and independent of sense perceptions.

Knowledge can be transmitted Spirit to spirit.

Take a couple minutes and read 1st Corinthians 1:18-2:16 about the mind and the Spirit

Rational Christianity	Spiritual Christianity
1.Code of Ethics	1.The power that works within
2.Laws	2.Intimacy (Abba Father)
3.Works	3.Romance (marriage of the Bride)
4.Head knowledge	4.Illumined truth
5.Theology	5.Spirit encounter
6.External guidance	6.Inner witness
7.Self effort	7.Fused strength
8.Conscious level only	8.Dreams, visions, conversation

God is calling us to present our minds and our hearts to Him to fill and to flow through. Biblical meditation incorporates both Spirit-led reasoning and heart revelation.

Come to Jesus with the

Eyes of your heart, which see dream and vision.

Ears of your heart, which hear God’s spoken words

Your Inner mind, which is able to ponder and meditate deep within

Your Inner will, where we can make commitments

The emotions of your heart, where we are able to sense and experience the emotions of almighty God flowing through us.

For example, love, joy, and peace are all emotions of God that are grown within us as a fruit of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is joined to our spirits (see 1st Corinthians 6:17) and thus we experience the feelings of God through the emotional capacity of our spirits, which have been designed by God to feel and incubate the emotions of His Holy Spirit who lives within us.

Mark Virkler, author of this curriculum, said the Lord spoke to him a verse of Scripture from John 5:39,40 -“Mark, you study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about Me, yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.”

The Lord says, COME TO ME to have life!

Using the four steps given in the previous post, write down a question in your journal that you would like to ask the Lord. Here are some examples to begin with.. Lord, what do you want to say to me? Lord, do you love me? Lord what do you want to say to me about the truth? 

After you have written the question, ask Jesus to open the eyes and ears of your heart so that you can receive what He wants to share with you. Then picture Jesus in a comfortable setting. He may be sitting next to you, or walking along the Sea of Galilee with you. Become like a child. Take His hand. See His character. See His joy and expectancy in excitement over sharing this time with you. Lock eyes with Him and ask Him the question you chose.

Write what begins to flow within you.

Write with simple childlike faith.

 

Curriculum: Dr Mark and Patty Virkler, Communion With God