Planted by Water

Just thinking back to some of my posts last week concerning truth and life, and the importance of the Spirit over the mind, I was reminded of an email I received a couple of weeks ago from Jon Dumville (Jon is from the Huddersfield church and, with his wife Alison, is down at the School of the Word in Cardiff). I am posting it, with his permission, as it shows the importance of engaging our spirit as well as our mind in order to really receive revelation from God (it also shows the quality of students that the Huddersfield church send down to the College!! - tee hee!)

Another thing I was thinking about today was just the whole thing of
agreement and confession with what is being said. We you’re sat in
lectures you can / could just sit their numbly listening to what is
being said, take notes and then go home. To get the most of what is
being said you have to make a point of getting your spirit involved with
the lecture. By agreeing, saying amen, etc you are prompting your spirit
within you to also take notes. In confession I feel I am waking my
spirit up a bit more, then I’m fully involved mind and spirit with what
is being said. I find myself speaking in tongues during the lecture and
being prompted by the Holy Spirit on other things, perhaps personal
application to what is being said. I also seem to see and grasp things
in my spirit which then may or may not be revealed tangibly to my mind.
These things / revelations / understandings I would most certainly have
missed if I hadn’t in the first place deliberately woke up and got my
spirit involved with the lecture. I believe confession is so important,
you not only can grab a truth for your self by affirming it but it also
awakens your spirit not just your mind to what is going on.