The In Series #3
Intuition from intuition
WHAT IS INTUITION?
Merriam-Webster:
1a: the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference
b : immediate apprehension or cognition
c : knowledge or conviction gained by intuition
2: quick and ready insight
Oxford:
Immediate understanding, knowledge, or awareness, derived neither from perception nor from reasoning. Immediate knowledge of a concept exists when a person can apply the concept correctly but cannot state the rules of its application; this form of intuition has been shown experimentally in studies of concept formation. The Chomskyan notion of competence (2), for example, implies intuitive knowledge of grammatical concepts. Immediate awareness of the truth of a proposition (1) (I have an intuition that I will win the lottery today) is essentially an unjustified opinion, in contradistinction to a belief or an item of knowledge. Compare attuition. intuitive adj. [From Latin intuitio a contemplation, from intueri to gaze at, from tueri to look at]
Collins:
Your intuition or your intuitions are unexplained feelings you have that something is true even when you have no evidence or proof of it
From psychology today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/intuition
“Intuition is a form of knowledge that appears in consciousness without obvious deliberation. It is not magical but rather a faculty in which hunches are generated by the unconscious mind rapidly sifting through past experience and cumulative knowledge.
Often referred to as “gut feelings,” intuition tends to arise holistically and quickly, without awareness of the underlying mental processing of information. Scientists have repeatedly demonstrated how information can register on the brain without conscious awareness and positively influence decision-making and other behavior.”
Synonyms:
Hunch, instinct, ESP (Extrasensory perception), clairvoyance, discernment, divination, feeling, foreknowledge, inspiration, perception, premonition, presentiment, gut reaction, innate knowledge, second sight, sixth sense, innate knowledge
Obviously some of these factors are not what we want to function in as believers.
Intuition is not a word that translators have used in scripture except that the NLT translated a verse in Job and used the word intuition, but the word that it is translated from is generally translated as “wisdom”.
SO for our intents and purposes we will define intuition as supernatural knowledge that comes from the spirit of God
When we attune our spirit to the Holy Spirit and the word, it results in wisdom, inspiration, revelation, discernment and the outpouring of the gifts and fruits of the spirit.
When we attune our spirit to the spirit of the age, to soulishness, to our flesh and to the enemy, it results in worldly wisdom, insight, the gifts and fruits of the spirit of the age, and all this is effectively divination
KEY: Fix your eyes on the gift giver, rather than the gifts.
The purpose isn’t to be “right”, it’s for the edification of the body and for salvation.
Intuition from in tuition
Impartation is an important key in the kingdom of God
Inner teaching of the Holy Ghost
The inner and outer development/transformation of the spirit as we engage with the Word
Get after serving and learning under a leader that God gives you.
Ropati Amosa testimony
How to Grow our Intuition
The Heart:
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can understand it?
Psalms and Proverbs have a LOT to say about the heart:
Proverbs 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Proverbs 3:7-8 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Proverbs 15:13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Proverbs 16:1 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Proverbs 18:2 A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
Paul affirms this:
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Jesus affirms this:
Luke 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
Matthew 13
The heart determines our relationship with God
The heart determines our relationship with His word
The heart determines our relationship with the Holy Spirit
The heart determines our relationship with the Church
The heart determines our relationship with outsiders
The heart determines obedience
The heart determines our transformation
The heart determines our thoughts
The heart determines our intentions
The heart determines our joy
The heart determines how we see and perceive and interpret and function in our intuition
The heart determines our foolishness or wisdom
The heart determines how we receive discipline and rebuke
The heart determines our faith
The heart determines our hope
The heart determines our love
The heart determines our forgiveness
THE LORD TESTS OUR HEARTS