Challenges to Knowing and Hearing from God Part 4

We are challenged to acknowledge and take responsibility for the inheritance, gifts and authority God has given us.

All believers are gifted of God, but not all believers accept or act on that reality. In our physical bodies, whether we were taught that we each have a heart or not doesn’t mean we don’t have a heart, and that it is operating to give us our physical life. But many are educating themselves about how our actions today affect the health, longevity and effectiveness of our heart, affecting the quality and length of our life.

Likewise, each of us is responsible for educating ourselves regarding our gifts. Acknowledging and accepting responsibility, and sometimes accepting credit, for our own dependent relationship with God is one helpful measure of our understanding of our purpose here in this life.

We are challenged to deal with our individual temperament’s strengths and weaknesses.

Remember that God gave you the temperament He wanted you to have—it ain’t broke, and He ain’t gonna fix it! One of our goals is to be able to overcome the interference of our soul and recognize as truth what is going on in the spirit realm.

MIND (what we think/believe)

Over time, the strength or weakness of our mind will interfere less and less with the expression of our spiritual nature. A thinking person is no more able to move in the gifts than a less intellectual believer.

WILL (what we choose to do)

Some of us have no trouble acting swiftly on the direction we hear from God. This needs to be tempered, according to His training.

EMOTIONS (what we feel)

The level of our emotions, and their expression to others, depends on our temperament. As with the mind and will, social expectations and personal history also play a role.