The Inward Witness

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THE INWARD WITNESS.

I  say  the  truth  in  Christ,  I  lie  not,  my 

conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy  Ghost.

—Romans 9:1

The number one way the Spirit guides us is through the inward witness. Number two is by the inward voice. The inward man, who is a spirit man, has a voice—just as the outward man has a voice. We call this voice of the  inward man conscience. We call this voice the still small 

voice.

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Your spirit has a voice. Your spirit will speak to you.

 In September 1966 we moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma,  from Garland, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. We had lived  there 17 years. The move came about like this: My wife  and I were in Tulsa on business. The ministry was growing and I had already figured out in my head what I would do  with my office and home in Texas to accommodate the  growth. But a friend with whom we were staying in Tulsa,  said, "Brother Hagin, you ought to move to Tulsa. Brother T. L. Osborn's old office building is for sale. His business  manager asked me to sell it for them. "Then he quoted their  price.  It was  extremely  low.  But  I  was  not  interested. 

Finally, he said, "Let's go look at it." I went along just to humor him.

The minute I stood inside that building a buzzer went  off inside of me. (Sometimes that inward witness is so real  it can almost sound like an inward "buzzer.") I knew as  well as I knew my name,  this is it!  But I didn't want to 

listen to it; I wanted to stay in Garland.

(That's why we don't hear a lot of times. We don't want to hear. We say we do, but we don't.)

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Back at our friend's home, my wife asked me about the building.

"Oh, no. I've already got it all figured out. We'll stay where we are. We'll turn our whole home into an office. And we'll just stay in Garland."

We went to bed that night, but I couldn't sleep. Ordinarily, I have no trouble sleeping. The Bible says, 

"...  he giveth his beloved sleep"  (Ps. 127:2). I am His  beloved. So are you. "... he hath made us accepted in the  beloved'' (Eph. 1:6). 

So I always claim the promise of God  and say,

 "Lord, I'm Your beloved. So I take You at Your Word. I thank You for sleep." 

And I always go to sleep. But this time, I couldn't. My conscience was hurting. My conscience is the voice of my spirit. My spirit knows I didn't listen to it. Lying there quietly in the nighttime, I said, 

"Lord, if you want me to move to Tulsa, I will. In the natural, I don't want to move there, but I wouldn't want to stand in Your way."

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Then on the inside of me I heard the still small voice. Now I'm not talking about the Spirit of God speaking. 

When the Holy Spirit speaks it is more authoritative. The still small voice is the voice of our own spirit speaking. But  our own spirit picks it up from the Holy Spirit who is in us.

That  still  small  voice,  that  inward  voice,  not 

authoritative, just something on the inside of me said, "I am  going to give you that building."

I laughed. I know there is a lot of unbelief about this,  but I said, "Okay. When you do, I'll believe it."

That inward voice, picking up on what the Holy Spirit was saying, said,

 "You watch me."

Without going into all the details, it would surprise you how God gave us that building.

-Kenneth E Hagin ( How to be Led by the Spirit of God  )

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University Vision

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A UNIVERSITY VISION

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One night in 1952, Oral Roberts was driving around Tulsa, Oklahoma, and pulled his car up to a piece of property on the corner of 81st Street and South Lewis Avenue. Helping his children out of the car one at a time, Oral stood with them and Evelyn. In wonder, the children looked up at their father. What were they doing standing in front of this empty lot?

Oral said, “Children, we are going to pray. I believe someday the Lord wants a school on this property that will be dedicated to Him.”The family prayed and then drove away, leaving the outcome in the Lord’s hands. It wouldn’t be the last time that the Roberts family would lift this piece of property to the Lord in prayer.

It was the fall of 1961. For nine years, Oral and his family had prayed for the land on the corner of 81st Street and South Lewis Avenue. Oral believed in his spirit that it was the spot God had chosen for the university to stand. Five hundred dollars of seed money was all that Oral had at the time. Often, he would drive out and walk the land, praying in tongues and asking the Lord what to do and who to work with. He could picture tall, graceful buildings filled with students who wanted to bring honor to the Lord and spread His Word.

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However, when Oral’s lawyer, Saul Yager, approached the property owners, they insisted that it was not for sale. They were a rich, oil family who had owned the corner acreage for years, and they wanted to keep it in their holdings. The attempts to purchase the property dragged on for weeks.

Oral continued to pray and wait. One day, while in California, Oral sensed the Lord’s voice say, This is the day. He could see the land in Tulsa in his mind —the buildings that would soon make up the campus, the students eagerly searching for the Lord’s answers to their life quests, the young people sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ.

He called Saul. “Go today and buy that land.” Impatiently, Saul insisted that Oral was wasting his time. But Oral replied, “I’m telling you, Saul, I know today is the day. Buy it today.”

 Saul got off the phone and called the owner’s attorney, who, like Saul, was of the Jewish faith. Saul explained Oral’s insistence that today the owner would want to sell the land.

The second attorney contacted the owner, and his response marveled them all. “I woke up this morning and decided that if Mr. Roberts’s lawyer approached me today, I would sell.” The attorneys were amazed at the way God had worked in the situation. Oral was thankful to the Lord, but not surprised by His unfailing faithfulness.

- God’s Generals ( The Healing Evangelists)

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