Five Senses Plus One More

When I consider the human body and how marvelous it is, I stand in total amazement at God’s miraculous creation of perfection.  I am awestruck when I think about the following five senses: smell, sight, taste, hearing, and sense of touch.  Five senses in one body are beyond amazing.

Allow me to explore one more sense that I call the “sixth sense” of which I am well acquainted.  In my trek through life, I experience heightened awareness or feelings concerning specific things before they happen.

If I think it is necessary to make certain adjustments to counter and prevent what may happen, I do so.  It’s not that I am psychic, or walk in fear because of my premonitions, I just have specific feelings at times and if I don’t follow through with my adaptations, things seem to happen as I anticipated that they would.

I believe it must be some kind of gift from God.  I know this phenomenon may seem odd to you, but it is what it is, which goes beyond my five senses.  It is my sixth sense that picks up on things, as strange as it may sound.

I do not know if this sense goes together with any of the nine spiritual gifts spoken of in the Bible, so I just live my life and allow my mind to use these feelings in positive ways.

The nine gifts of the Spirit are these:  The word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, faith, gifts of healings, working of miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, different kinds of tongues, and interpretation of tongues.  (1 Corinthians 12:1-12)

When I told my brother concerning these experiences, he called it the God-mind.  I don’t talk about my observations; it is just who I am, and I thank God for the ability to recognize the necessity of doing something early on.

I believe that my sixth sense runs parallel to those times when I feel a driving force to share my faith with others or to take a moment and extend God’s hand, by proxy, when I sense that someone is in need.

Christians do not have to walk around thinking that they need the sixth sense to do something for the Lord.  I am just sharing my experiences with you.  One does not need a revelation or earth-shaking sign from heaven to share the salvation message that Jesus Christ can set humanity free from sin. 

We stay sensitive to the nudging of the Holy spirit and do what God is asking us to do.  Yes, this act of love and having compassion for others, with the follow-through of putting action to our feelings, can be intimidating at times. 

But remember, when giving away from oneself, we may be helping someone make the right choice in a crucial decision that they are facing.  It could change the destiny of the rest of their life in positive ways. 

We might even be used, by God, to lead them to Him if they need salvation.  God knows the need.  One thing is certain, I want to always be sensitive to the God-mind to step out in faith and be His hand extended when good things are needed.

You may or may not call it your sixth sense when God uses you, it really doesn’t matter when Christians maintain the desire to be God’s ambassador.  It is the Holy Spirit that draws people to God, through Jesus Christ, God’s Son.  We should always look for opportunities to share the Good News about God’s love. 

Please allow yourself to consider, for a moment, the senses or gifts that may be within you, but you have not explored the depth of your awareness of what they might be, or a spiritual gift that may be lying dormant within you.

Perhaps someone has told you or you heard that the nine spiritual gifts are not for today.  One or more of these gifts may be deep inside you and just waiting to be released to be uses for God’s glory.

I believe supernatural gifts are needed as much for today’s ministry as they were in the days when the disciples of Jesus performed miracles in His name.  In that the Lord knew the importance for His disciples to exercise the gifts of the Spirit, how much more, today, are these gifts needed?

Maybe you have placed your gift on a shelf, because you have been influenced with wrong information from people that believe they have supernatural insight of what God wants by saying the nine gifts are not for today’s ministry.  I believe they are. 

I say, search your heart and see what God reveals to you and let Him use you in areas of ministry that you once were used in or areas that are yet to be discovered.  Five senses plus one more may equal a spiritual gift that is within you.  Seek God and He will show you. 

The Bible says to stir up the gift that you have.  The following scripture sounds like a positive affirmation concerning gifts.

(2 Timothy 1:6,7) “Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.”  (7) “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”

God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.  Shake yourself and stop listening to man and listen to God.  Allow the Lord to use you in mighty ways, His wonders to perform through your obedience to Him.

Written by,

Papa Boyd