Our Subconscious

[Jim Watt]

“*TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES*

*Jim & Marie Watt*

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July 26, 2011


 A SOUND MIND IN A SOUND BODY - 2001-06-23


 Mrs. Maryann Bilton from Yorkshire, England was my Elementary school
principal in Murrayville, BC from 1933-1937, and my teacher in Grade 7 & 8.
She delighted in giving us Latin proverbs and maxims to encourage us to do
our best. The above title in Latin is, “*mens sana en corpore sano.” *


 From this we should understand that the two impinge upon one another. If we
look after our bodies with proper diet, exercise, rest etc., then our mind
is sharper. Conversely when we look after our mind and pay attention to read
good wholesome things, and talk along the same line, -- then our body also
profits. Today we call it “psycho-somatic” medicine.


 But the above philosophy or psychology is viewing man as a “dichotomy,” a
person of but two parts. This accords well with Behavioral Psychology and
Evolution, but does not accord at all with God’s thinking in the Bible.
After all, God is the Creator of all things, and who should understand us
better that the One who made us?


 The Spirit of our Creator speaks these words through the apostle Paul, “May
the God of *shalom *make you completely holy – may your entire *spirit, soul
and body *be kept blameless for the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah”
(1 Thessalonians 5:23). God is called the Father of the *spirits *of all
men. Man is essentially spirit, has a soul and lives in a body. God is also
a spirit, and has made us in His image. Man is therefore a Trichotomy, not a
dichotomy.


 When man ever since Adam is born into this world, his spirit is dead unto
God. He is dead in trespasses and sins. When Adam sinned, his spirit died to
relationship with God, and his progeny has inherited his fall. But when man
receives the birth from above, his spirit is resurrected, and immediately
communion with God is restored.


 At this point the mind now must be renewed and brought up to the level of
the recreated spirit. (Romans 12:2). This is both immediate and progressive.
One man upon receiving this experience of the new birth was asked to give
his testimony. He said, “I feel damn good!” His mind was not yet renewed.
Three weeks later when asked to give his testimony he said, “I thank God for
saving me and giving me His Holy Spirit on the basis of Jesus Atoning work!”


 Perhaps the following will help you to see the difference between soul and
spirit. In the universe we find 5 Kingdoms. The Plant kingdom reaches down
into the Mineral kingdom and by osmosis converts mineral life into plant
life. Then the cow from the Animal kingdom reaches down and eats grass and
converts it into the animal kingdom. Man then eats hamburger and drinks
milk, and converts the animal kingdom into the Human kingdom. Finally God
reaches down on the basis of the Atoning work of Jesus at Calvary, and
converts man into the Kingdom of God.


 Now separate the Animal kingdom from the kingdom of man, and you will see
the unique gift of God to man, his spirit. Animals do not worship God – just
look at the adoring eyes of a dog as he is with his master. But God has made
man for Himself, and he is restless until he finds his rest in God (St.
Augustine). Until man experiences the new birth he is not much better than
the animals. But once his spirit is alive unto God – what a difference there
is between man and animal or bird life.


 Notice: it is the higher kingdom in each case which initiates conversion
unto a higher level. Unless God enlightens the eyes of man and opens the
door of the Outer Court of the Tabernacle, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.
He must be born from above by the grace of God to enter the Kingdom of God
(John 3:3; 5). Then He can see Jesus as His Savior at the Brazen altar, and
the necessity of baptism and sanctification through the laver. It is here
that man becomes an evangelical Christian.


 But unless God again enlightens man on a higher level to see through the
door of the Holy Place, he cannot understand the filling or baptism of the
Holy Spirit. He will not understand the 7 spirits of God at the Menorah, nor
the 9 gifts of the Spirit and the 9-fold fruit of the Spirit. He will not
know how by the help of the Holy Spirit to feed on Christ at the Table of
the Bread of God’s presence, nor how to worship in spirit and in truth at
the Altar of Incense. When God opens his eyes and man opens this second
stage of the 60-fold believer, he then understands the Feast of Pentecost or
Shavuot, and the testimony of Charismatic and Pentecostal believers.


 But don’t stop here! Ask God to open your eyes so you can see through the
riven veil into the Holy of Holies. Like David, enter in to sit before the
Ark of the Covenant, and worship God as one possessed of Him. Here, having
passed through the Feast of Passover with justification by faith, and then
the Feast of Pentecost in the Holy Place – now enter into the Feast of
Tabernacles, the GREAT feast of the Jews. Here be possessed by the Holy
Spirit and lose yourself in Him. Here understand full intimacy with Jesus in
the spirit and be unto Him as He was unto the Father.


 Here understand chapter 5 and 32 of “Rees Howells, Intercessor,” by Norman
P. Grubb, the autobiography of Madam Guyon, the life of Amy Carmichael, J.
Hudson Taylor, George Muller, Andrew Murray and many others.


 Don’t sell yourself short at any time of the initial states. Press on into
the Holiest of all, and there find the satisfaction of St. Augustine. It is
only when God opens your eyes, and with great hungering and thirsting you
press into the Holies of all, that you will find true rest unto your soul.


 One other word needs to be said. God speaks to us through His word. Rees
Howells spent two hours a day letting God speak to him through the written
Word. Then he waited on God in prayer, not just speaking to God, but letting
God now speak to him by the word of the Spirit, the Rhema word.


 The written word in Greek is “Logos;” in Hebrew, “Davar.” The living word
of the Spirit in Greek is “Rhema;” in Hebrew, “Amar.” Learn from these
saints who have gone before us how to be with God on His throne in heaven by
knowing and walking in the written word – but just as importantly, know God
on the throne of your heart and hear the 7-fold Spirit speaking and leading
you from this place of intimacy.


 Remember the word spoken to Madam Guyon by the Franciscan monk. He showed
her why her life was a failure. “It is, madam, because you seek without what
is within; accustom yourself to seek God in your heart, and you will there
find Him.”


 God is no respecter of persons – and what saints of yore have experienced,
you too can enjoy in God today. The Kingdom of Heaven is within you!


 It was the above word that led Madam Guyon into an interior relationship
with God so deep and real, that men like Archbishop Fenelon came from across
Europe for her to mentor them. They knew she had found the secret of
intimacy and overcoming life in God.


 St. John of the Cross thoroughly understood this same secret shortly after
the days of Christopher Columbus. He taught how to purge oneself of the 7
capital sins of the flesh under the title, “The Ascent to Mt. Carmel.” Then
under its sequel, “The Dark Night of the Soul,” he led believers into the
second stage of purging their spirit of these same 7 capital sins. Finally
in his song of songs, he showed how to enter into the Holy of Holies, and
experience union and communion with the Beloved of our souls. It is a 3-fold
path, paralleling the teaching of the Tabernacle of Moses. Notice how truth
so often comes in a 3-fold manner. Too many believers stop at stage one –
and even too many at stage two! No, don’t rob yourself of the blessing of
realizing the overcoming life in this life. Press on for *all *that God has
for you. The Feast of Pentecost is not the acme and final goal, but the
Feast of Tabernacles. There is the potential of an experience in this today,
not just tomorrow. Don’t short-change yourself by settling for either step
one or two. Possess and be possessed by all of God.


 E. Stanley Jones saw this same truth in his day. I am adding one of his
readings. It concerns the possibility of overcoming through the Holy Spirit
those deep problems that lie in our subconscious.


 Have you ever said, “I can’t understand whatever made me do that?” Well,
there is a hidden part of us that is not subject to our full control. But
when we let the Holy Spirit loose in our lives, He is able to tame all the
wild animals within us. Try Him! Invite Him in to take full charge. Turn
every compartment of your life over to Him. He understands you, and He is
able to do within you abundantly above all you can ask or think according to
His power that works in you! J.A.Watt

Taken from “Abundant Living,” p. 15


 *THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKS IN THE SUBCONSCIOUS*

*John 14:25-26; 15:26; 16:7-14*


 * We come now to the question: Can the **whole **nature be changed –
conscious and subconscious? If so, how? The answer is that Christianity
provides for this deeper cleansing in its teaching and provision for
receiving of the Holy Spirit. The area of the work of the Holy Spirit is
largely, though not entirely, in the realm of the subconscious. There the
Holy Spirit works – purifying, redirecting, and dedicating age-long driving
instincts. The wild horses of nature roaming in all directions are tamed and
harnessed to the purposes of the Kingdom. The Holy Spirit is tamer and
redeemer, for only He can work at those depths. “For the Spirit fathoms
everything, even the depths of God” (1 Corinthians 2:10, Moffatt) – and man.
But the Holy Spirit not only fathoms the depths of man; He refashions the
depths of man and unifies man at the center, so that the conscious and the
subconscious speak the same language, understand each other, drive for the
same goals, and own a common Lord.*


 * But here is where the Christian Church is weakest. It believes in and
teaches the Holy spirit – partly. The disciples were at this stage when
Jesus said to them: “He [the Holy Spirit] remains with you and will be
within you.” (John 14:17, Moffatt.) The Holy Spirit was with them, but not
within them. The same is true today. Most Christians know the Holy Spirit is
with them – He disturbs them by momentary touches, by flashes of nearness,
by illuminations and insights, by saving here and saving there. But all this
is “with,” and not “within.” He goads us rather than guides us, illuminates
rather than invigorates, prods us into activity rather than penetrates all
activities – it is from without in, instead of from within out. The capital
and government is on the outside, rather than on the inside. The sense of
outsideness will persist in religion until we enter into what the disciples
entered into at Pentecost. There they passed over from the “with” stage to
the “within” stage. Their religion was no longer a prodding, but a
penetration; no longer a restriction, but a release.*


 * O Spirit of God, I, too, long for this withinness – I would be every whit
whole. I would have the seat of Thy authority within me. For I cannot
conceive that Thou has come so far in Thy redemption and wilt not come the
full way. Thou wilt not stop on the threshold – Thou wilt move within. Come,
Spirit, come – within, within, entirely within. Amen. - E. Stanley Jones *



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