Ways To Tap Into Your Inner Knowing

Did you know that you can develop your intuition and strengthen your skills as an intuitive being?

If you’ve ever been in a situation and had a strong instinct, or gut feeling, about what you should do or shouldn’t do, then you know exactly what I’m writing about.

It’s hard to technically define intuition, but you can think of it as an innate sort of “knowing” or “understanding” of what’s true. It looks different for different people, but when you feel it, you generally know.

What Does Intuitive Mean?

Intuition is mercurial. It doesn’t come from your conscious mind and isn’t an analytical skill. You can’t develop intuition to research or throwing yourself hard at a goal. In contrast, intuition is typically more noticeable or resonant when you are still, take time to reflect, or engage in more positive activities.

Highly intuitive people generally feel they can pick up on their gut. Response is easily and are comfortable listening to them. For example, perhaps you have a friend who’s quickly able to discern what the next right thing for them to do it, where, as others new waffle, back-and-forth between their available choices. Or maybe you know when someone who can tune into a different energy in a room and understand how people are feeling, seemingly without much effort.

Some Intuition Examples Experiences

  • A strange “knowing“ that something is going to happen
  • An unexplained feeling that won’t go away and is later explained by something that occurs
  • Feeling very strong emotions towards someone or something and later understand that those feelings were correct and why
  • Flashes, or glimpses, of things, people, or situations that seem to come out of nowhere

Intuitive people don’t have anything you don’t. You can put effort into actively developing intuition. If you know the right way to go about it strengthening your intuition through five unique energy meditation can help you access your intuition.

You can develop new ways to relate to your dreams, and how they connect to your intuition.

How To Develop Your Intuition

Try doing these things

1. Meditate

When your energy is scattered, it’s harder to get in touch with your intuition. Because intuition arises during quieter times, spending time in silence can you help you to get more in tune.

Meditation can be as simple as sitting for five minutes with no distractions, or you can opt for guided meditations

2. Take a chance I’m following your gut instinct

If you notice a strong instinct to do something or move away from it, try following the advice and see what develops as a result. Seeing a positive outcome after following, your intuition can help reinforce that you know what’s best for you and give you more confidence to trust your gut in the future. Start with small, low stakes, like which route to take on a drive.

3. Start doing daily body scans

Many of us are used to overriding the way we physically feel and just pushing through from one situation to the next. Make a practice of really acknowledging the way your body feels, and what it’s trying to tell you. Scan your body throughout the day and note any tension you’re holding or sensations, good or bad. The goal is to get more present so that you can better pick up on subtle messages your body might be sending you.

4. Spend time outside

Being outside is good for so many reasons. Spending time in nature, and being mindful about its beauty and innate perfection can help you decompress, clear out distracting thoughts, and be more aware that you, too, are a living being, perfect just as you are. Be aware of what thoughts come to you as you’re outside; this could be your intuition speaking to you.

5. Do I technology fast

With so many distractions, coming out of from a myriad of screens, we might not even know when our intuition speaking to us because we’re too busy bouncing from one alert to the other.

Consider doing a purposeful technology detox. How might you entertain yourself for 4 to 5 hours without technology? Freeing up this digital free space could allow new messages and insights to pull up from your subconscious.

6. Ask your intuition a question

Try being direct: write out a question you’re thinking about and then sit with it. Do any answers seem to arrive in your mind? Journal about anything that comes to you that could be a potential answer or piece of guidance. If nothing comes up, don’t be discouraged. Sometimes just focusing on the question at all is enough to bring an answer to you later on, as you’re doing something totally unrelated.

7. Journal

Writing can be a way to override your conscious mind and allow things to come to the surface. Try sitting down once a day and writing one to three pages about what’s on your mind. Write things that seem like signs or interesting coincidences; see if there are ways you can connect the dots or make sense out of them,

8. Draw, doodle, or do some art

If you’re annoying, it’s too intimidating, or if you don’t connect with writing, explore more visually oriented techniques like art journaling. Putting your pen or pencil to the page is it ultimate goal for these activities, whatever that looks like for you. Drawing your thoughts, or a vision for your life or future, can help you on earth what’s going on inside.

9. Start a dream notebook

Making some small adjustments in your daily life, and the way you pay attention to them can help you become more present in your dream life. This is so hard referred to as a “lucid dreaming.” and gives you the ability to pick up on things in your dreams you might have missed otherwise. When you wake up, try to write down what you can remember from your dreams, and see if there are any messages that resonate.

10. Make a vision board

What does your biggest, brightest future look like it? There was nothing standing in your way, what would you dream up for yourself? sometimes giving ourselves permission to dream can activate our intuition. What feels right for you when you think about your future? How can you get there? What is part of your highest self in the life if you let your mind run free? Are you doing that one?

11. Act fast

Try not to overthink things. If you get a suggestion in your gut, try to write it down, so you don’t forget it, or make a point to act promptly. If you get into a place of thinking about it, too much, it is easy to talk yourself out of the suggestion or over analyze it, and lose the feeling altogether.

Your intuition is always available to you, but it’s up to you to do the work on your ability to recognize and acknowledge it, using these tips, you should be able to get a clearer sense of what your intuition feels like to you. This will give you a foundation for developing intuition, from which you can take a deeper dive if you choose.

Who’s Behind The Weather? The Supernatural

Revelation 7

The fundamental need of our world today is a rebirth of belief in the supernatural.

Arnold Toynbee

The current age is dominate mainly by reliance only on what can be seen and tested. We live in a time of rank materialism, which essentially dismisses the spiritual and argues that all life movements result from material interactions.

For example, if one were to ask what controls the wind, most people would probably answer it has to do with the relationship between earth and the sun, temperature, and pressure imbalances. There are few people that think of God as the winds cause or it’s lack thereof. But, if we look at Revelation 7:1-3 in says

‘Then I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds so they did not blow on the earth or the sea, or even on any tree. And I saw another angel coming up from the east, carrying the seal of the living God. And He shouted to those four angels, who had been given power to harm land and sea, Wait! Don’t harm the land or the sea or the trees until we have placed the seal of God on the foreheads of His servants.”

In these scriptures the Bible says God employs His angels to restrain the winds to accomplish a specific purpose. The wind belongs to God. The winds are under His control and subordinate to His Will. It’s not so much what’s behind the winds and storms; it’s who.

In the Old Testament it often pictures the winds as God’s agents employed in His acts of judgment.

Zachariah 6:1-5 says, “Again I lifted my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots came our from between who mountains; and the mountains were mountains of bronze. In the first chariot we’re red horses; in the second chariot black horses; In the thirst chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot dappled horses, all of them powerful. Then I asked the angel who talked with me, ‘What are these, my Lord?’ The angel answered me, ‘These are the four winds of the sky, which go out from the standing before the Lord of all the earth.”

Zahum 1:3, speaks to the Lord who has His way in the world wind and the storm.

Jeremiah 4:13 says, God comes with His chariots like a whirlwind.

In Isaiah 66:15, Chariots we’re used for warfare and judgment on one’s enemies. The wind the breath of God (Job 37:9-10). The wind tends the mountains (1Kings 19:11) and withers the grass (Isaiah 40:7,24). and dries up the stream, the river and the sea (Nahum 1:4; Psalm 18:15). God’s day (Judgement day) would be the day of the whirlwind (Amos 1:14). The whirlwind of God goes forth in its fury and falls on the head of the wicked.

Other scriptures provide a window for looking inside God’s pilot house, not only the winds but weather in general.

Look at what happened in Exodus, and the seven plagues. Did the earth, sun, and air pressure and temperature cause this, if you think about it it couldn’t have

Recipe For Growth

Psalm 71 is a prayer that was written by King David. This prayer is still revenant to us today.

Prayer is our means of communing with God

O Lord, you alone are my hope. I’ve trusted in you, O Lord, from childhood. Yes, you have been with me from birth; from my mother’s womb you have cared for me. No wonder I am always praising you! My life is an example to many because you have been my strength and protection. This is why I can never stop praising you; I declare your glory all day long. 🙏 AMEN

Signs of Demonic Oppression

I you’ve read the scriptures than you know that demonic activity is real and there should be no debate about that. As a Christian, I don’t believe you can be possessed by a demon. However, that does not mean you cannot experience demonic oppression. Many true believers have experienced demonic oppression, and surprisingly some may have not even been aware that is what they are experiencing.

It is helpful to identify the signs of demonic oppression because those who are true followers of Jesus have a different way of dealing with this than who are not.

What Is Demonic Oppression?

Before I identify that signs to look for with demonic oppressions, it makes since to define exactly what it is. Demonic oppression (bondage). Is a spiritual attack from a demonic spirit that seeks to influence a person’s thought’s, emotions, and even their actions. Since a demon cannot possess a true follower of Jesus to control them, then oppression is the next best option. Because of the way we are created as humans, these attacks will often begin in our mind because this is the central hub that dictates what we think about, how we feel and ultimately what we do. The goal of demonic oppression is to keep a person trapped and bound (in bondage). The desire is to paralyze the believer so they become ineffective.

When I was under demonic oppressive, I had some awful things, I was a sexual addict, I did cocaine, I drank, basically anything that could numb out my reality I did. I had so clue that Satan was after me. All I knew I just didn’t want to feel anything and that made ineffective in anything I tried.

What Are The Signs Of Demonic Oppression?

To understand the signs of demonic oppression you must understand the way Satan operates because he is the leader, and demons follow his cues. One of the challenges in identifying this is many times that areas of the attack may not appear demonic at all. Sometimes they can even mimic other conditions that may cause you not to consider the possibility of a demonic attack. I finally went to a psychiatrist and he diagnosed me borderline personality disorder. I knew I had some issues, and needed help, but as a spoke to him, I realized that he was not describing me a person with BPD. I left and never went day.

After I had my daughter, I began having hallucinations, and hearing voices. I would also seen or feel black figure following me some. I thought I was crazy. I went to the dr again and was diagnosed with a mood disorder which was caused by me childhood traumas.

There are three signs of demonic oppression that are possible to overlook as attacks from the enemy.

1. Abnormal Fear

Be alert and sober minded. Demons prowl around looking for someone they can use their tricks and lies on. Satan loves to operate in the realm of fear and intimidation. These are two of his greatest weapons and can be indicators of oppression or being kept in bondage. Because we all experience moments of fear at some point in our lives. You can suspect demonic oppression is in play when the fear escalates beyond what is normal or useable. (Like the black shadow that followed me around. I knew this was not a normal thing. Remember the attacks are often in our thoughts, which work their way into our emotions and actions.

A person who is under attacks are often in our thoughts, which work their way into our emotions. A person may shut themselves off of interaction with other people because of fear of the outcome.which often never materializes. To the outsider this ma seem irrational, but to the person experiencing it this feel very real. I want to be clear: a person experiencing fear may not be facing demonic oppression. But if it escalates, it’s something to be considered.

2. inability to rest; having nightmares

One of the things we must recognize in this spiritual battle that we face is Satan is often willing to play the long game to keep you from having a life of abundance and turning to God. He extends length of a attack over a long period of time with the hopes of wearing you down. If you remember the account of Samson and Delilah, she was relentless in her pursuit of finding the source of Samsons strength, and he eventually wore down. Another way Satan attacks is to attack a persons rest. This can be an attempt to attack your dreams, or cause you great fear and worry that prohibits rest. I used to have a nightmare I was being pushed a giant worm, and as I reached the end of the worm, I would wake up severely sick. Satan wants us exhausted because we are more vulnerable. So he can ultimately take away our will.

I pretty much have Satan figured out, after 56 years. I know his ways and tactics to fool people.

3. Prolonged periods of unexplained depression.

As I said earlier, demonic oppression is often a attack that begins in your mind. I am no a clinical psychologist so I want to choose my words carefully, but there can be instances where depression of depression could be demonic oppression. And there are people who have a clinical diagnosis of depression and have been treated successfully under a doctor’s care. However, in spiritual warfare,depression sets in this can be a great paralyzer, This may not be the first place you go, but if it persists over a long periods of time, with no understanding of why it is happening, then it is something that you cannot rule out.

How Do You Overcome Demonic Oppression?

Regardless of the form it comes in, we must understand how to overcome this. I’m a firm believer that spiritual battles require spiritual weapons, and thankfully, God had given them to us. As you search through the scriptures you will begin ti see all God has provided so you can fight back against any type of demonic oppression (no matter which form it shows up in).

I would turn you to study the “armor of God,” the power of God, the work in the Holy Spirit in you. As you begin to see that God has equipped you and you don’t have to be overcome by demonic oppression and bondage any longer.

“But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won the victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives inside of you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world- 1 John 4:4

However to have to fight back, which means you must take God’s Word, study it, and apply it to your life. As you do this you will begin to become stronger and more confident in who you are in Christ, and this can give you what you need to fight back against demonic oppression or bondage.

Satan and his tactics are not something that should not be taken lightly. Your responsibility is to take what is given to you and use it so that you can be victorious in every spiritual battle. Even if a demonic spirit tried to attack you, God has equipped you so you can.

So many people believe Hollywood’s ploy to make you think Satan is man in e red suit with horns. Or, they think when they get to hell, it will be one great party. This is not the case.

Daily Bible Verse

Psalm 5

Give ear to my words. Consider my medication. Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for you, I do pray. Lord, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly. Where are you are not a God, who has pleasure and wickedness. Evil can’t live with you. That arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity. You will destroy those who speak life. The Lord arbors, the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness. I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you. Lead knew the word, in your righteousness, because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my faith. For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue. Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own councils; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you. But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice. Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you. For you will bless the righteous. Lord, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.

Psalm 5 is a reflection of how the righteous man prays for deliverance not only for freedom from suffering, but to allow himself to be able to serve God without distraction.

Why Do We Try And Hide/Run From God

When life is good and I am able to make good healthy choices, I rejoice with God in this, and believe He saying “Well done!” However when my, life is a mess or I make a mistake, I tend to not go to God with it. I run. I tend to be like Adam and Eve, who hid away from God, or Cain who left the presence of God to settle elsewhere (Genesis 3:9-10, 4:16). Why do we do this? Why do we run? When we know God we never leave us not forsake us (Hebrews 13:5).

God does not run away from us.

He is not embarrassed of us and we do not get demoted to be separated from Him because we made a few mistakes of some dumb choices. Yet how many times do we run away from God.

It’s like I can’t feel you and my life is a mess, where are you? Unfortunately, we condemn ourselves or feel guilty. (I felt unworthy as a child as God hated me). But, when we step out of the word and fellowship with Him. We isolate ourselves and run away from the one who wants nothing more than to embrace us and say, “It’s going to be okay, I love you, I am here, I’m not gone anywhere. If we look at the life of Moses,who murdered an Egyptian, God still sought him out and worked through him-a murderer. (Exodus 3:4). God found Moses, even when he was not seeking him. We have to remember the God will leave the 99 to bo looking for the 1 who is in trouble. He is after all the good shepherd. (John 10:11-12). God does not see our outward appearance (as man sees us). He sees our hearts. And if our hearts condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and He knows all things.

There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1). I have to remember this daily. Because the negativity of the world tends to enter my thoughts, instead of the positivity of God.

Jesus wants to remove that ‘thing’ that keeps dragging us down, and He wants to give you peace instead.

Some of think “Nah, God has my back. Okay . We run away, because we get overwhelmed by the trials and afflictions. Yet the Word reminds us. Many are the afflictions of the righteous. But the Lord delivers us out of them all.

We need to remember that our carnal nature, and at our sin, rather than looking at our spirit and our righteousness.

We I was growing in Christ. I remember reading in Joel 2:25, “I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten – the great locust and the the young locusts, the other locusts and the locust swarm.”

As I read this for the first time I have to say I was in doubt, “How can the Lord do this, it is impossible. After I began to heal, I began to realize He restored everything I had lost. And so much more.

We all tend to run away when we feel guilt or our life is in disarray. God knows this. But try trusting in Him. He won’t let you down.

The Spiritual And Material World

We live in a world that is both material and spiritual. On the material side, we access our world through our five senses: sight, touch, taste, smell, and hearing. No wonder that the apostle John warned about the “lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. All that is in the world (1 John 2:16). Is easy to become enticed by the things of this world, to you think they will bless our lives.

But the Bible says that God’s blessings are both material and spiritual. He forgives our sins, heals our diseases, and redeems us from destruction, lives us, shows compassion to us, satisfies our life with good things, and even renews our youth (Psalms 103:3-5). The world cannot awkward anything to compare with the door dimensions of gods blessings -spiritual and material. When we are tempted to seek blessings and contentment in the things of this world, we need to look to God’s promised blessings.

Look around you today and counter blessings. Thank God for his provision, and commit all your needs for Him.

The vast majority of mankind never gives a thought of gratitude towards God for all His care and blessings. -Donald Gray Barnhouse.

Daily Bible Verse

Psalm 4

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

You, sons of men, how long till my glory returns to dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah

But know that the Lord has set apart for himself him who is godly; The Lord will hear when I call on him.

Stand in awe, and do not sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in the Lord.

Many say, “ Who will show us any good?” Lord, let the light of your face shine on us.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

In peace, I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, the Lord alone, make me live in safety.

Why Is Life So Hard

How do we explain what we see in this world? Terrorist attacks, sex, slavery, racism, world, hunger?

We often ask ourselves questions like these quite often. But consciously we really do. We’re so busy living our lives. We really stop and wonder why?

But then something happens to wake us up. Our parents get a divorce. The little girl down the street gets abducted. A relative, or we get cancer. That works out for a while. But then we can often sink back into the denial. That is, until another tragedy hits, another incongruence. Then we are likely to think. Something isn’t right here. Something is really really wrong. This isn’t how life’s supposed to be.

So, Why do bad things happen? Why isn’t the world a better place?

Not surprisingly, but answer can be found in the Bible. But it’s not an answer that many people like to hear, the world is the way it is because it’s the world that we, innocence asked for.

Sound strange?

What or who can make this world different than the way it is? What or who could guarantee that life is pain-free for everyone all at the same time?

God could. God could accomplish that. But he doesn’t. At least not right now. And we Can be angry with him as a result. We say, “God can’t be all powerful, and all loving. If he were, this world wouldn’t be the way it is.

We say that, hoping God will change his position on the matter. Our hope is that putting a guilt trip on him or make him change the way he’s doing things.

But he doesn’t seem to budge. Why doesn’t he?

God doesn’t budge -he doesn’t change things right now —. because he’s giving us what we asked for: a world where we get to treat him as though he is absent and unnecessary.

Remember, the story of Adam and Eve? They ate that “forbidden fruit.“ That fruit was the idea that they could ignore what God said we’re good to them, and strike out on life apart from God. For Adam and Eve, sort of help that they could become my God, without God.

It kind of seems like that’s what we’re doing today. People are trying to become their own Gods. Only God can give and take away lives, there are people body harvesting,

They consume the nation that there was something more valuable existence than God himself, something more valuable than having a relationship with God. And this world system with all its faults came as a result of the choices they made.

Adam and Eve’s story is for all of us, isn’t it? Who hasn’t said -If not audibly, at least, in their hearts. “ God, I think I can do this without you. I’ll just go alone on this one but thanks for the offer.”

We’ve all tried to make life work without God.

Why do we do that? Probably because we’ve all bought into the notion that there’s something more valuable, more important, than God. For different people, it’s different things, but the mindset is the same. God isn’t what most important in life. In fact, I guess, as soon as you do it without him altogether.

What is God’s response to that?

He allows it. Many people experience, the painful result of others, or their own choices that run contrary to God‘s ways…murder, sexual abuse, greed, lying/ fraud, slander, adultery, abortion m kidnapping, ect.

All of these can be explained by people who refuse to give God a access and influence over their lives. They are going about their lives as they see fit, and they end others suffer.

What’s God be with all of this?

He’s not smug. In fact, God could rightly be viewed as leaning forward, compassionate, hoping we will turn to him so that he can bring real life to us.

Jesus said, “Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” But not all are willing to go to him. You just commented on this when he said.: “O Jerusalem Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who sent you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.

Again, Jesus bring her issue back to our relationship with him.“ I am the light of the world. He who follows me, will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

But what is life is unfair, when bad things happen to us?

What about those horrible circumstances that hit us in life, caused by someone other than ourselves? When we are feeling victimized, it’s useful to realize that God himself and her horrendous treatment from others. God more than understand what you’re going through.

There’s nothing in life that could be more painful than what Jesus endured on our behalf, when he was deserted by his friends, ridiculed by those who would not believe him, beaten, and tortured before his crucifixion, then now to across naked and showing for public display dying I’m slow supplication

He created us, yet allowed humanity the freedom to do this, to fulfill scripture, and to set us free from our sin. This was no surprise to Jesus. He was aware of what was coming fore knowing all the details, all pain, all the humiliation.

Imagine, knowing something that awful what’s going to happen to you. Jesus understands emotional and psychological anguish. The night that Jesus knew they would arrest him, he went to pray, but he took some friends with him.

And taking with him, peter, and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, ‘ my soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here and watch (keep awake) with me. I’m going a little further he fell on his face and prayed, My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless not as I will but as your will.”

Oh Jesus, confided in his three friends, they didn’t understand the depth of his tournament, and when Jesus returned from prayer, he found him asleep. Jesus understand what it’s like to be going through pain and extreme sadness alone.

Here it is summarized, as John described in his gospel: “ He was in the world, and the world was made through him, if the world knew him not. He came to his own home, and he’s on people received, and not. But you are who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God. For God sent his son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. For God, so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.,

There is no question that there is pain and intense suffering in this world.

Some of it is explained by selfish, hateful actions on the part of others. Some of it defies an explanation in this life. but God offered us himself. God gives us the knowledge that he has endured also, and is aware of our pain and need. Jesus said to his disciples, “ peace, I leave with you, my peace, I give you, not as the world gives do I give you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”

There’s a simple reason to be afraid, troubled, but God can give us peace, which is greater than the problem before us. He is after all God, the. creator. The one who had always existed. The one who created the universe on the backstroke.

Yet, even in his power, he’s also the one who knows us intimately, even the smallest insignificant details. And if we trust him with our lives, relying on him, so we enter difficulties, he was a hold us securely.

Jesus said, “these I have spoken to you, so that in me, you may have peace. In the world, you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”

He went through our ultimate threat -death – and overcame it. He can take us through the difficult circumstances of this life, and then bring into eternal life, if we trust him.

We can either go through this life with God, or without him.

You might find her self asking, Why is life so hard? Without God, humanity is easily drawn to hatred, racism, sexual abuse, and murdering each other.

Jesus said, “I have come that you may have life and have it more abundantly.“

Jesus Came To Us As A Lamb. But He Is Coming Back As A Lion.