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Replacing Rationalism with a Broadly-based Philosophy for Knowing Truth

Mark, you can trust the voice of My Spirit within your heart more than you can trust the reasoned theology you have built with your mind.

There You go, messing with my mind again. Lord, I have everything so neatly tied up and organized. If You make me go with my heart, the order is likely to get all messed up.

I know. That is precisely why I am calling you to go with your heart: because I am the One Who leads your heart. You are the one who leads your mind. Remember I have spoken that I have given you a new heart and a new mind. Well, it is My heart and My mind. You now have the mind of Christ in your heart. Don’t you think that might be a bit wiser than your mind?

Well, sure, I suppose so, but...

But what? Is your mind all that brilliant? Are you all knowing? Are you all seeing? Are you all powerful? Are you all present as I am? No, and again I say no! So why do you want to lean to your own understanding when I have commanded you not to?

I’m not sure.

I will tell you why. Because you have been trained that it is the right way to go. But trust Me, it isn’t. If it were right, then only the mentally gifted could find Me. Only the mentally gifted could walk with Me in perfection and holiness. However, that is not My way. No, I have chosen to fill the heart of man with the mind of Christ. So now you are to come to the heart and live out of the heart.

But I can mistake the leading of my heart also.

And right you are. That is why I have given you several methods for confirming the leading of My Holy Spirit within your heart. First of all, of course, you will find Me confirming the leading of your heart by showing you confirming examples in Scriptures. When you come to Me in prayer and ask Me to confirm your leading through Scripture, I will. I will illumine verses and principles from Scripture to your understanding. They will be the verses I give to you, with the understanding I give you of them.

But Lord, can’t I still be wrong? Can’t it be my own interpretation rather than Yours?

Yes, My child, it can. That is why I have given you another counselor, and that is your spiritual counselor with whom you share your heart and life. It is the one or the ones I have placed over you in the Lord. In the multitude of counselors there is safety. I have not called you to walk alone. I have called you to walk with others. One can put a thousand to flight, but two can put 10,000 to flight. When you team up, you multiply your effectiveness tenfold. Therefore, do not walk alone. Receive counsel from those who are around you. Submit yourselves one to another in the fear of the Lord.

And when you ask for counsel, do not ask for their advice, because their thoughts are not My thoughts. Their ways are not My ways. No, you are going to them to ask them to pray and seek My face and share with you what I have spoken to them about you and the situation. Thus you have the leading of your own heart confirmed through the leading of your counselors’ heart also. Thus it is no longer you walking alone without adequate covering. It is you walking under the umbrella of protection I have given you.

Finally, My child, allow Me the honor of speaking back to you through a revealed understanding of life. You see, you can test truth by what it produces. Does a fig tree produce thorns? No! So you can check the purity of the root by examining the purity of the fruit. If the fruit is rotten, so is the root. You can always discern the root by the fruit. This is an important principle in life. This is a key principle of life. Much can be learned about the root by examining the condition of the fruit. By doing so you will find many defiled roots, which My children have been living out of.

You do not have the wisdom to examine the fruit of life yourself. It is only I who can disclose to you truth from the examination of life’s fruit. You see, when Habakkuk looked at life in Habakkuk 1, he was quite convinced that life was not fair and that I was not anywhere around. However, when I told Him what I was doing and he could see and hear with spiritual understanding, he perceived that I was around and that life was fair. So you see, My son, you do not have enough wisdom to know what life is speaking back. No, only I can interpret the meaning of life.

For example, when one finds himself in the wilderness, is it because I have led him there, or is it because he has led himself there? Only I know the answer to that. That is why you must come to Me and let Me explain the meaning of life to you.

Lord, I think I see. It is You who must explain all. And You will explain all and confirm all through many avenues. You will illumine my mind. You will illumine my heart. You will illumine the Scriptures. You will illumine the counsel of others and you will illumine my understanding of what life itself is speaking back to me.

That is exactly right, My child. And I will speak to you directly through dreams, visions and revelation which you are to write down and live out of. Now you see that life is not based on the mind or the heart. It is based on Me speaking to both the mind and the heart, and confirming it through many other means also.

So now you have a much broader methodology for establishing truth. It is broader than rationalism. It is broader than mysticism. It is broader than humanism or hedonism or biblicism or believism. It is broader than all these put together. These are only small, incomplete parts of My truth. My truth is much grander than all of these put together. And My Word teaches this grand scheme, so the one who will come to My Word, unprejudiced and unhindered, will find more than all of life can offer put together. He will find full and abundant life.

My Word teaches this methodology for establishing truth. It is not you who teaches it. It is My Word. It is not My Word that teaches that one is to live out of My Word alone. No, that is the perversion of religion. That is what the pharisees did when I walked this earth. They taught laws and rules for life. I lived interaction with the Holy Spirit. Many of them rejected My approach to life. I rejected theirs. They called me of Beelzebub. I told them they were of their father the devil. We did not mix. You cannot mix water and oil any more than you can mix My Holy Spirit with religion. You must accept one or you must the accept the other. You will either live out of yourself and your interpretation of My Word, or you will recognize that you are not wise enough to live life on your own and you will come to Me and I will lead you through My Holy Spirit. The choice is yours. However, remember they do not mix. If you try to mix them, you will end up in religion because whatever is not filled with light becomes the dwelling place of darkness. Darkness and light do not co-exist together. Do not mix My Spirit with your efforts. You will end up with an Ishmael. You will not have an Isaac. Then you will only have heart ache. You can know things by their fruit.

Yes, Lord, I understand. Lead me away from religion and into relationship with your Holy Spirit. Let me abide in Thy holy hill. Let me walk in Thy ways. Let me delight in Thy paths. Lead me into the place of understanding, my Lord and my God. Lord, then will I see clearly all things?

No, My son, you will only see that which I allow you to see. You see only the light for the path you are on. Each one is on a path to Me. However, each path is a bit different because each child is a bit different. Each one is at a different place on his path of life, and therefore there are many contradictions in life. Only I understand them all. Only I unravel the complexities of life. You are not able to do so. And you need not do so. Indeed you have not even been asked to judge another man’s servants. It is before their master that they stand or fall. So the wisdom I give to you, I give to you and you alone. True, if I have called you to shepherd others, then I shall give you wisdom for them also. But mostly the wisdom I give to you, I give for you and for the place on the path that you are on.

Therefore, walk in meekness one before another, because blessed are the meek. Those who think they know all have already fallen because I resist the proud, and give grace to the humble. So walk preferring one another, sharing the testimony of where I have you and letting others share the testimony of where I have them.

You see, even for your own life, you see through a glass darkly. You do not see all. You only see that which I allow you to see. So you know in part and you see in part, but at the end of the age you shall know all. Therefore, be content in the bit that I show you and do not be arrogant. But walk humbly one before another, preferring one another above yourself. And I shall be with you always.

the above is exerted from the book 49 Lies I Rejected When I Renounced Phariseeism.