Spiritual Perception
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· 581 viewsThe ability to see beneath the outward form to the underlying, often hidden, reality. It is a necessary gift in dealing with people, understanding spiritual teaching and interpreting events. Perception is important for effective service, though is often lacking, even among God’s people.
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Introduction
Introduction
Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
God will give you victory over seemingly unsurmountable odds that push against your life and calling in Christ.
What He asks for is that you trust in His knowledge of you whether you trust yourself or not.
Perception in dealing with people
Perception in dealing with people
Perception in dealing with people
Perception in dealing with people
God will give you victory over seemingly unsurmountable odds that push against your life and calling in Christ.Perception in dealing with people
God’s knowledge of human hearts
God’s knowledge of human hearts
O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginery ones that are unconquerable.
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would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
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If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?
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Jesus Christ’s perception of those around him
Jesus Christ’s perception of those around him
But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people
and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.
There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear,
but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
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And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.”
But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
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Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’;
for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
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and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.
Jesus is intimately knowledgeable of everyone past, present, and future. He knows everything that draws us away from the truth of God.
United wishes and good will cannot overcome brute facts, truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is. -Winston Churchill
True understanding by God’s servants
True understanding by God’s servants
Now when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (although up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),
Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come and let us meet together at Hakkephirim in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to do me harm.
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“Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.
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But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property,
and with his wife’s knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?
Perception of spiritual truth
Perception of spiritual truth
Recognizing God’s ultimate authority
Recognizing God’s ultimate authority
After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”
At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne.
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Understanding Jesus Christ’s teaching
Understanding Jesus Christ’s teaching
Then the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
See also The parable of the sower is about the way Jesus Christ’s teaching in parables is received.
Understanding who Jesus Christ is
Understanding who Jesus Christ is
He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
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Understanding about Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection
Understanding about Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,
and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,
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Perception to interpret events
Perception to interpret events
The building of a palace in the newly captured Jerusalem confirms to David his election by God; Through his miraculous direction of his people’s history, God is perceived as the one, true God.
See also ; ; Jonah recognises God’s hand in the storm; Through the circumstances of his guidance, Peter realises that God’s salvation is for Gentiles too.
Perception leading to effective service
Perception leading to effective service
Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?”
See also Samuel perceives that David is to be king; A Shunammite’s perception of Elisha leads her to extend hospitality to him; Moses’ perception of the invisible God
Lack of perception
Lack of perception
By those in the OT
By those in the OT
Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
See also Pharaoh; Balaam; Israel in the wilderness; the people of Jerusalem; Israel
By some Jews in the NT
By some Jews in the NT
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By Jesus Christ’s disciples
By Jesus Christ’s disciples
not understanding what makes a person unclean; not understanding about the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees; Peter cannot accept that Jesus Christ must be crucified; Philip does not understand that Jesus Christ reveals the Father; not understanding about the resurrection
Not recognising the risen Christ:
Not recognising the risen Christ:
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