by Demola Olanrewaju

Intuition is never wrong, even if it comes just to urge you to pay close attention to some particular operations within your life. Intuition helps you to detect the season and thereby determine your own movement and actions. When intuition says ‘flee’, don’t rely on your five senses and conclude that since you can’t see any reason to run just yet, then you’re probably fine.

Continuing the topic we’ve been discussing since last week Monday concerning the voice within every person which many call ‘intuition’, this piece examines how spirituality sometimes blocks intuition. To gain a better understanding of the issue, please read this piece, this piece and this piece.

The messages we get from within often come to guard us from situations and protect us. Lack of intelligence on spiritual matters sometimes obscures the message we get and one of the ways is that most spiritually alive people subsume their own inner voice under the mash of the external voice of God as interpreted by other men. I believe that intuition is actually the voice of God emanating from within each person. To explain this belief would turn this piece into a religious one but the understanding behind it is very personal and vivid. When one ignores the urgings from inside their own spirit and gives more attention to the urgings of any other person, that one has submitted his life to the control of another.

The external voice could be that of a person whom one sees as ‘more spiritual’ and therefore more able to hear God. When intuition tells you to be cautious and the external voice tells you to go forward, it is better to listen to intuition and live by it than to risk going forward only to find disappointment and then turn to blame.

God speaks to everyone through situations and events but always in the manner that we need to hear it – from deep within. Intuition is the factor that makes the difference in how certainly one carries out everything he does based on the conviction of life as one sees it.

The other blockage is a certain ignorance about how God works – a message obscured in the general revelation of God through most religions. Hinduism and Buddhism are more advanced when it comes to finding a personal revelation of God which is what intuition is. Christianity started out on a personal note but as people started to push out their own personal revelations, others who heard found the actions but not the intelligence or revelation behind the action. For instance, one person talks about how he gave out his entire salary in a particular month and received great wealth the following month. Another man on hearing this decides to do the same but doesn’t get the same result. Someone needs to tell such people that the only determiner of actions must be your own personal revelation – intuition.

Your instincts may tell you to be cautious in a particular operation such as a business deal for instance but because you believe that God is guiding you and you can do no wrong (back it up with a couple of scriptures), you enter into the deal and eventually lose your investment. Remember when Jesus (the Christ) was born and an angel appeared to his father and asked him to run into hiding in Egypt – that’s the operation of intuition. The man could have ignored the urgings and insisted that God would protect him even if he stayed in the same place because the boy he carried was after all the Messiah.

Intuition is never wrong, even if it comes just to urge you to pay close attention to some particular operations within your life. Intuition helps you to detect the season and thereby determine your own movement and actions. When intuition says ‘flee’, don’t rely on your five senses and conclude that since you can’t see any reason to run just yet, then you’re probably fine.

Spirituality can enhance intuition (I know this very well) and it can also be a hindrance to it. The good news is that ‘this is up to you’. The bad news is that ‘this is up to you’.

Make of that what you will as I wish you a great start to what I’m sure will be a fabulous week so have a great week, no matter what.

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