April 3 – 10, 2026

POWERFUL EXPERIENCES

Genesis 2:7 “The Lord God formed the man…and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”

The Hebrew word for spirit is “breath.” So when God breathed into man, He actually put His own “Spirit” inside of man, and man became a spirit-being living within a body of flesh. God gave us a body so we can live and function in this world. But the real “us” cannot be seen with natural eyes. The real person is down on the inside of this body. The body is just the “house” in which the real person lives. Wouldn’t it be wise, then, for us to develop our spirits? To be as spiritually sensitive as we are physically sensitive? God is Spirit and exists in the “spirit world.” We cannot see God with our natural eyes. We cannot interact with Him by using our five physical senses! We cannot hear Him with our natural ears. We cannot touch Him with our physical hands. (Not that there aren’t exceptions!) The spirit world is just as real as the world we can see. We must learn how to function within the spirit world as easily as we do the natural world!        

God made us to have powerful experiences of hearing and responding to His voice. The Holy Spirit is constantly trying to communicate with us by showing us and telling us things. It’s important to learn how to listen to our spirits because that is where He communicates with us. We learn to see with our spirit’s eyes and to hear with our spirit’s ears instead of our natural eyes and ears! We will hear His voice in our “innermost parts.” We will hear His quiet still voice. We may not hear any “words” but on the inside we will just know things.     

He wants to speak to us every day. We must make a deliberate effort to learn to recognize His voice. Part of that effort comes in the form of spending time with Him in prayer, in worship, in reading our Bibles, and in journaling. We tune in to Him and our hearts open to Him at all times which opens our spirits up to Him at all times. Then when we hear the Lord say something to us, we must step out in faith that we really did hear Him. After all, our whole Christian life is a walk of faith.

 

This is an excerpt from a 90-day devotional written by Emil and Karen. To order the full devotional, click on the TO ORDER DEVOTIONAL page.