to become stressed out in traffic trying to get
somewhere in a hurry. I'll even pull over on the side of the road if I have to because I am not going to get out of peace. I don't get anxious either. I see other people running to catch their plane in airports. I'll just walk—and if I miss it, I miss it. It doesn't matter to me. But I refuse to get out of peace over things. I value peace highly. If anything starts making me
anxious and upset, I change whatever is going on in my life in a hurry.
"Well Andrew, you wouldn't last ten minutes in the life I live." That's your fault. I wouldn't work a job that took my peace away.
There are two ways to approach this. If you don't know how to walk in peace, you'll be stressed out no matter what the situation is. But if you truly are in a bad situation that's stealing your peace, you need to change that situation. That's not healthy for you— physically or spiritually.
I just don't live in anything that takes my peace away. I don't do things like that. This is why I don't go to certain places to minister. I know it's not a godly situation. I make a lot of decisions based on peace. "I'm Not Coming"
In 1980, I was planning on going to Central America. I had been there before and saw awesome results. I'd already bought the tickets and everything was set up, but I lost my peace about it. At the time, I was
moving my mother from Texas to Colorado. I prayed about this Central American trip while driving the U- haul truck for seventeen hours. The more I prayed in tongues, the more I didn't like it and didn't want to go. I just didn't have any peace about it.
First of all, I checked to see if I was truly meditating on the Lord. Well, after seventeen hours of praying in tongues, I knew I was meditating on the Lord. But I still didn't have any peace. The more I prayed about it, the less peace I had. Finally, I just called these people up and said, "I don't know what the situation is, but I'm not coming."
I cancelled that trip because I didn't have any peace about it. Later on, I found out that the plane I was scheduled to be on had taken off from Mexico City, crashed, and killed all 169 people on impact. I was preserved because I listened to my heart and kept my peace.
God speaks to you through your heart. You need to let your heart begin to dominate you. However, if you aren't glorifying God, being thankful, and your imagination has become vain, then your foolish heart will be darkened. (Rom. 1:21.) In other words, it's blind. You're alienated from the life of God within you because of the hardness and dullness of your heart. (Eph. 4:18.) This is where most Christians are because they haven't been seeking God, putting value on Him, praising His name, and using their
imaginations properly. They're so dull and
insensitive to God that they can't hear Him speaking to them constantly.
"Pull Over And Park"
John G. Lake was driving up a mountain road. As he went around this sharp left-hand curve with a thousand foot drop-off, the Lord said, "Pull into the left lane and park." That doesn't make sense. If you pulled into the left lane on a mountain road during a sharp left-hand curve, anybody coming down the other way would run right into you. I hear the voice of God, but I'm not quite that sensitive yet. I
prob¬ably would have wanted three visions and a confirmation, and been two miles up the road before I responded. But Lake just instantly pulled over and parked.
Within seconds, a log truck came barreling out of control down the mountain. It couldn't handle the curve and was over in the outside lane. If Lake hadn't been parked where he was on the inside, he would have collided with that log truck and both of them would have gone off the mountain and been destroyed.
God is no respecter of persons. He speaks to
everyone every time anything is about to go wrong in our life. He speaks, but if our heart is darkened, we're alienated from that life—that voice of God— because of the hardness of our heart.
Many people wondered why God "allowed" Keith Green, a Christian singer and song writer, to die. He took off in a small airplane and hit some high wires.
When the plane crashed, the pilot, Keith, and two of his children were killed. Keith's wife had a dream that the plane was going to crash. She begged Keith not to fly. The pilot even told him the plane was overweight and they shouldn't fly, but Keith prevailed.
God speaks to us all the time. I've heard testimonies of people whom God told not to get on the freeway and something major happened. It's not God who is unfaithful, it's us who don't hear His voice because we aren't letting our heart dominate and lead us. Instead, we're just going along in the ignorance and blindness of our mind.
Perfect Wisdom
Your mind doesn't have near the capacity for
understanding and processing things that your heart does. Your heart is where the real wisdom lies. As a born-again believer, you "have the mind of Christ" (1 Cor. 2:16) and the Bible says to:
Put on the new man [your spirit man], which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.
Even in the natural realm, experts say that we only use 10 percent of our brain. I believe that if you were using 100 percent of your brain, it still wouldn't be able to compete with just 10 percent of your spiritual mind. Your spiritual mind has the mind of Christ in it!
Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
1 JOHN 2:20