Wife reached out complaining about house chores and caring for a toddler at the same time
Husband explained that he did not mind getting a maid for his wife, but the ones they had seen so far did not settle well with his spirit
Wife said he was only making excuses and threatened to leave for her parent’s house with their son if her husband would not sit up and get her the help she needed
Wife informed husband she has employed a maid on Monday evening, she said the maid will resume on Tuesday morning
The husband didn’t say a word
He didn’t feel a release in his spirit, but he wanted to avoid another fight with his wife at all costs
This happened yesterday
Wife employed a new housemaid to help with house chores and babysitting
The housemaid is 21
They have a three-year-old son
The housemaid resumed at 10 AM
Son was running around the sitting room at two pm, the housemaid was seated watching a movie
Son got in front of the housemaid
The housemaid stretched her leg in his path to stop him
Son fell clumsily and hit his head on the floor
By 2:30 pm, the son was dead
By 4 pm, the son was buried
The housemaid returned to her parents’ house this morning.”
This happened somewhere in Nigeria on the 22nd of April, 2025
There are many who are ignorant of spiritual matters, and for that reason, they’re buffeted by the crises of life and walk on in confusion. So, it’s important to build your spiritual sensitivity. For that to happen, you’ve got to study and understand the Word, to know the mind of God.
2 Timothy 2:15 says, “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” Also, as you study the Word, train yourself to act on it promptly. This should be natural for every Christian because we’re doers of the Word (James 1:22).
By responding promptly to the Word of God, you condition your spirit to recognize the effect of the Word in your life. That way, when you face challenges, you respond with the Word; you voice your faith. This practice trains your spirit to consistently align and respond to God rather than succumbing to the dictates of the flesh.
Also, in training yourself to be more spiritually sensitive, you must be filled with the Spirit every day. Incorporate praying in the Spirit into your spiritual routine. 1 Corinthians 14:14 says, “For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.”
Praying in tongues or praying in the Spirit enhances your spiritual sensitivity as it involves the Holy Spirit providing utterance to your spirit. When you speak in tongues, it’s the Holy Spirit guiding your spirit’s expressions. Your spirit, through this process, learns to function under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, contributing significantly to an increased sensitivity to God’s leading.
Many years ago, while casting a devil out from a dear lady at our Gathering in Abuja, the demon, trying to put up some resistance, said, “I’m not coming out; and then it began to display in front of the pulpit.
Of course, I didn’t bother to engage the demon in a dialogue; I simply said, “You’re coming out right now, in the Name of Jesus!” And he screamed and came out of the lady. Later on, the lady began to explain to me how she was given the wrong diagnosis and underwent a bilateral salpingectomy. She didn’t know demons were responsible for that cruel mistake.
This has happened to a lot of people.
We were in Port Harcourt in March 2025. A demon began to speak, and another lady who was filled with the Spirit of Prophecy began to run towards the one who was filled with an unclean spirit. I quickly announced out loud that the one in need of deliverance was not challenging the one who was prophesying by the Holy Spirit
This is also spiritual sensitivity
There are people who have had to go through surgeries they never needed; some died in the process. Many hospitals are deathtraps, where demon spirits lodge and inspire doctors to do the wrong things. We’re living in the days of intense spiritual conflicts and warfare.
A young girl of about nine years became demon-possessed; her behaviour suddenly changed, and her health became unstable. No one could understand what happened to her. She started having very strange dreams where she’d find herself at the bottom of a river with a “queen” and other girls of her age.
Her life became a mess. It was later discovered that it all happened at her school when her friend, who was demon-possessed, gave her a particular gift item, and the devil entered into her.
It’s essential for you to be spiritually sensitive to discern and decisively deal with the enemy whenever he shows up. Be on the alert. The Lord Jesus warned us to watch and pray (Mark 13:33). Speak in tongues often, because as you pray in tongues, spiritual realities are unveiled to your spirit, and you won’t be ignorant of the devices of the enemy. You’ll see and will be able to relate to the “real” truth concerning any situation.
During the apostle Paul’s second missionary journey, he was determined to go from the Galatian
region to a place called Bithynia, in what is now northern Turkey, near the Black Sea. There was
nothing wrong with Paul going to that place—the people there needed the gospel. And yet Acts
16:7 says: “…they were trying to go to Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them.”
This must have been frustrating. The fire of the Holy Spirit burned in Paul. He wanted to tell
more Gentiles about the salvation of Jesus.
But the Holy Spirit put the brakes on
Acts 16:6 says Paul, Silas, and Timothy were “forbidden by the Holy Spirit” to go north. The
Greek word for “forbidden” can refer to the way a horse is restrained by a bridle. The Holy Spirit
was literally pulling on the reins and saying, “Whoa!”
Thankfully, Paul did not trudge ahead willfully. He wasn’t bullheaded. He paid attention to the
inner witness of the Holy Spirit, and he tried to be sensitive to His voice. Shortly afterward, Paul
had a vision in the night of a man from Macedonia saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help
us,” (see Acts 16:9).
Everything shifted when Paul took a left turn and went westward. When he arrived in Troas, a
city on the Aegean coast, the pronouns in the narrative in Acts change from “they” to “we.” This
is where Luke joined Paul’s team. Together they sailed to Philippi, and the gospel began to
spread throughout Greece.
Has the Holy Spirit ever put the brakes on your plans? Have you ever had your entire journey
mapped out, and then the Spirit changed the directions? Here are three ways you can develop the
ability to follow the Lord’s supernatural leading:
Surrender your schedule to God daily.
James tells us that we should walk in humility when
it comes to making plans. It’s perfectly fine to have a schedule, but we should surrender that
schedule to the Lord since He is our ultimate authority. James 4:13 and 15 says, “Come now, you
who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city and make a profit.’ … Instead,
you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this and that.’”
Many believers lose their joy if they experience any disruption or delay to their plans
But I’ve learned that God allows our schedules to be interrupted so He can have His way.
Don’t be so proud that you can’t accept it when God overrides your plans. Embrace his
unexpected detours.
Ask the Lord to break any stubbornness in your life. King David prayed for God’s clear
guidance, and the Lord promised him: “I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you
should go,” (Ps. 32:8). But then the Lord gave David a warning: “Do not be as the horse or as
the mule which have no understanding, whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in
check…” (v. 9).
Mules have to be dragged to go in the right direction. Don’t be a spiritual mule. Stubbornness
frustrates the Holy Spirit. Some Christians are obstinate when it comes to God’s leading. They
make plans without consulting the Lord, and then they lock in their coordinates. If you look at
their journey with God, you will see skids along the path! They Lord may give them
continual promptings and even warnings to change course, but they are inflexible.
Expect God’s leading. This week I began feeling troubled about an event I was scheduled to
do in a few months. Whenever I prayed about it, I felt a sense of heaviness. I began to realize
that the timing for this event was off track, and the right people were not on the team. So I
decided to postpone it until next year. When I did I felt an overwhelming sense of God’s peace.
Paul told the Romans, “For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God,”
(Rom. 8:14). The Lord uses different means to guide us. He can speak through a Bible verse, a
dream or vision, a pastor’s sermon, a gentle nudge, a nagging sense of urgency or a prophetic
message from a friend or a minister. Always keep your spiritual eyes and ears open for heaven’s
directives. And learn to obey.
God has a specific path for you to follow. Just as Paul was willing to scrap his original plan,
always yield your itinerary to Him. Don’t be so self-willed and headstrong that you can’t change
course. Give the Lord your “yes” daily, and He will guide you.
Spiritual sensitivity and discernment of the voice of the Spirit should not be difficult as a child of God. If you find it difficult, it’s not because His voice is weak when He speaks. Rather, it’s because you are yet to train yourself to discern the voice of the Spirit.
Oftentimes, God’s will is different from what natural signs tell you, and what your feelings (or those around you) may tell you.
The things of God don’t appeal to the senses, for they are spiritually discerned. “But the natural man receiveth, not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned”
Spiritual sensitivity and discernment
As believers in Christ, we’re enjoined to grow unto maturity in the things of God
This admonition is not just for some class of Christians, but rather, for every child of God.
Clear evidence of spiritual maturity is the ability to discern and walk in God’s perfect will for your life.
God’s word is His will expressed.
And as the Psalmist describes in Psalm 119, the Word of God is a lamp; it’s a light that gives direction and guidance.
#1- Develop a voracious appetite for the Word
You need to know God’s Word, as that’s the only way you can understand and walk in His perfect will for you. Study the Word and know it for yourself. The voice of God’s Spirit is made known to you through the written Word.
#2- Learn to act on the Word quickly
When you receive instructions or counsel from God’s Word, don’t delay; act at once. That’s learning to train your spirit.
#3- Pray the Word
Prayer helps to condition your spirit to become a dependable receptacle of God’s ideas, visions, and promptings. In other words, how you pray, what you pray about, and the content of your prayer (on the basis of the Word), determine how sensitive your spirit will be to His voice.
#4- Desire spiritual things
Desire things that matter to God: desire them from your heart and pursue them. The proof of desire is pursuit. Engage in activities that’ll edify your spirit such as soul winning, participation in church meetings and services, etc. Commit your resources – time, money and attention to the things that matter to the Lord.
#5- Pray fervently and consistently in tongues
This is very important in discerning walking in God’s perfect will. Because it keeps your spirit attuned and sensitive to the Holy Spirit. Prayer times are moments
of heavenly glory and spiritual ecstasy as your spirit is refreshed and your sensitivity to the Spirit is enhanced.
As you fellowship with the Lord through prayer, it becomes easier for you to receive direction and guidance in your spirit.
Say this
“My spirit is sensitive to God’s voice. I’m able to discern His voice and counsel to me always because I’m His sheep. The ways of the Spirit have been manifested unto me. I am guided from within and through the Word to know and walk in the paths of life, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.”
-GSW-