The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

spirit over the human heart and its emotions. They may emerge as mental responses to emotion or affection that comes from the soul. Unlike the spiritual song, the soul song is self-motivated and manifested by what is taking place in the singer’s world. Spiritual songs are sung by the redeemed in Jesus Christ, or any worshipper, which is another of their most noticeable marks. Review Isaiah 26:9 and 57:15–16. Refer to Psalm. 1436. Spiritual Understanding—The phrase is found in Colossians 1:9: “For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.” A) As used in this passage, spiritual understanding is the ability to put things together from the spirit with the mind. B) The intelligent flowing together of knowledge and understanding to comprehend life and its wisdom. This type of understanding stresses prudence, those thoughtful considerations that precede and guide one’s courses of action. The book of Proverbs exhorts us to get wisdom that is the wisdom of God. Spiritual understanding distinguishes itself by quickly apprehending and sizing up events and situations to consider the most prudent courses of action. Proverbs 4:5, 7 urges us to unite wisdom with understanding. What is meant is the wisdom that created the worlds, governs creation, and redeemed humanity. Such is the nature and scope of the spiritual wisdom that fosters spiritual understanding. It is a responsive awareness of the foundations that established the earth and the world (Psalm 24:1) and how these influence its succeeding generations and their activities as a result. Refer to Deuteronomy 4:5–8. Spiritual understanding springs from God’s wisdom and exceeds human and secular wisdom because it includes and exalts the unseen over the seen, the intangible over the tangible, and the eternal over time. In addition, it resorts to or relies on them before engaging in natural or human ventures. God’s wisdom integrates God’s knowledge on all His worlds and all their creatures while at the same time gives us insight on the modes and motivations of His creation. Spiritual protocol, protocratics, sin and righteousness, holiness, and truth all permeate God’s handiwork and so dominate His wisdom and demand our understanding. For all these reasons, the term spiritual understanding is useful to prophetic language. Lastly, spiritual understanding pertains to the cultivation of God’s knowledge and wisdom in our natural faculties. Isaiah 26:9; Ephesians 4:23. 1437. Spiritual Versus Supernatural—In a spiritually charged society anything ethereal and otherworldly is craved and prized. Prophets should understand that