SPIRITUAL COGNISANCE

SPIRITUAL COGNISANCE

Cognisance definition: Awareness, Realization, or Knowledge; Notice/Acknowledge; Perception:

Spiritual cognisance has to do with the ability to acknowledge with tounderstanding of the intent of the unusual presence of Yahweh our God. He is Jehovah Omnipresent; present at all time in all places, but not manifest at all times. That’s why it’s paramount to have a high affinity of Spiritual cognisance of Him in the Divine visitations or manifestations. The Spirit of God in us witnesses to our spirits (Rom 8:16) when these moments of visitation happen in our lives, ministry, working space, jobs etc, thus He is called our helper.
Spiritual cognisance is the interplay between the spirit of a man and the Spirit of God in a man. The is that link we ought to work on continually and relentlessly. In as much as the Spirit of God is witnessing of the visitation, our spirit has to be in sync with the Spirit of God to receive the witness. The disposition of our spirits with respect to the witness of the Spirit of God determines our spiritual cognitivity of His unusual presence or manifestation. Matthew records an account of Jesus Christ visiting Gennessaret:
Matt 14: 35 And when the men of that place recognized Him, they sent out into all that surrounding region, brought to Him all who were sick,
36 and begged Him that they might only touch the hem of His garment. And as many as touched it were made perfectly well.
God’s Visitation is a two way encounter; He visits you and in-return you recognize His presence. Divine visit is never a visitation unless/until there is recognition of His presence. Spiritual cognitive is key is every visitation or encounter with the Lord Almighty; I love referring Him as, ‘The Ever Presently Present God.’ The readiness of Christ to reveal The Father to us is ever beyond our preparedness to accommodate Him in many instances of our lives. This dictates how much we are committed to working on our spiritual cognitive. Abraham mastered His desires and spiritual alertness so well so that he detected the presence of the Lord among the three men passing by his tent.
Genesis 18:1 Then the Lord appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day.
2 So he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing by him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground,
3 and said, “My Lord, if I have now found favor in Your sight, do not pass on by Your servant.
It is our sole responsibility to work on the link between our spirit and the Spirit of God. The fineness of the link dependent on:

1. Our commitment to seeking God:– (But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. Deuteronomy 4:29). It’s important to have a commitment to seek God. The more seek Him, the more our spirits become alert and aware of His presence. (Seek the Lord while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near. Isaiah 55:6). God is not revealed to those who are not waiting on Him. Our waiting is not dictated by lengthy prayers and fasts; but the expectations of Him in our hearts.
2. Our sincerity and genuineness in seeking Him:– (You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. James 4:3). The sincerity of seeking Him is the first witness of our prayers and supplication at the Highest throne. Our sincerity and genuineness in wanting Him and endowment with power will testify for or against us before Him. (“Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord! Joshua 24:14).
3. Our consistency in fellowship with Him and with one another:– (And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. Genesis 5:24). Fellowship with God is a deliberate thing that we do without coaction. We choose to remain in communion with Him until it is testified of us that in Him we live, move and have our being. Many are living by their means and by the time they are called home or the tent is unpegged, they are perfectly exhausted. A man in fellowship consistent fellowship with God is a revitalized man- But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; Isa 40:31.Those who are planted in the house of the Lord Shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in old age; They shall be fresh and flourishing, Psalm 92:13,14.
4. The indwelling fear of God in us:– (Surely He scorns the scornful, But gives grace to the humble. Proverbs 3:34). The proud He will overthrow and humble them, and the humble He will exalt. This kind of exaltation is not the earthly exaltation as so understood, but the elevation to the disposition of understanding Mysteries of the kingdom of God. It is the elevation to the realm of the knowledge of God. Proud men get wealth and become rich but mystery of the knowledge of Him is the heritage of the humble.

The link should not be mastered by our selfish desires, or subject to fleshly ambitions, pressures of life and pleasures of living as though we have already arrived. The only luxury that we have in this side of eternity is the breath that we breath every second and not luxury of time; every breath should be a reminder that you have task to accomplish and an instruction to heed to; hence, you ought to be alert.Dr. Luke in his gospel records in chapter 19 the account of Jesus entertaining Jerusalem where He would be condemned and; 41 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, 44 and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”The men in Jerusalem had been mastered by the Roman lordship and this changed their expectation of their delivery as a savior to a deliverer who would redeem them from the Roman lordship. Their priests and scribes were even worse; their spirituality was subject to legalism and commandments of men; they taught this commandments as doctrine which was an inhibitory to acknowledgement of a savior born in their midst; And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.` Mark 7:7). Sometimes hardships and tough times may overwhelme you but do not allow them to hinder your spiritual cognisance. They should not overshadow your sincerity and genuineness in seeking God, neither your commitment and consistency in seeking Him, nor be your detractor from walking in the fear of God. Do not be mastered by your desires and earthly whims, that you forget to work on your Spiritual cognitivity. AMEN. Shalom!!