Well, I'll teach more about this in the module on awareness, where we are so perceptive and observant of ourselves that we notice, “This thought I just had; this thought didn't originate from me.”.

I'm not just saying this concerning the Holy Spirit. I'm saying that when you are just sitting down on a casual afternoon, all of a sudden, you just get a thought. “Oh, you've not masturbated in a while, and images of pornography just enter your head." You have to be able to identify when a stranger or something external comes in. You are just sitting down, and the next thing you know, you have thoughts of being irritated with your friend, your wife, your husband, or your mother. From nowhere, it just comes in. What is going on? Yes, you must be perceptive of the happenings in your inner life.

In the same vein, as I'm talking and answering all these questions, I'm not just answering them by myself. I have help; that's why we can do this for a long time. Even if there are 100 questions, if there is time, we can do it because there is help. Because as I look at the question and I begin to talk, a thought will just enter my head, and that's why sometimes when I'm responding, I will say, “It just came into my mind." What I'm saying is that God blew it into my mind.

So every story I use, every analogy, I did not make in my imagination. There is support behind me. But you see, because I've been working with God, I'm able to recognise that it's not just my bright ideas; I'm receiving help from God; he gives me jokes, he gives me analogies, he gives me stories, and he gives me the relevant scriptures that pertain to the particular thing I'm saying.

Before one can discern that, one has to know the voice of God, and the first way to know the voice of God is through the scriptures and teachers of the word of God. Those two are so important.

I know that in our generation, we say,” “Know God for yourself," "Know God for yourself." Hallelujah! If anybody could just open the Bible and become an apostle, why would God make people stress and write all those books? Because Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Paul—all these people who wrote—are teachers, are they not? The whole New Testament is nothing but a commentary on the Old Testament. That's what it is: a commentary on the Old Testament. Everything written in the New Testament has its roots and foundation in the Old Testament.

If there was no need to explain, expand, and reveal what was written, they would not have done that. So there will always be a place for teachers and instructors who can educate the people of God as to the nature and mindset of God.

So you must spend time reading scriptures, meditating on scriptures, and also listening to the instructors and teachers that God has raised for the body of Christ. That will help you understand the nature of God and his ways.

When you understand the nature of God and his ways, the first thing that will happen is that you will know when something is talking to you that is not like God. You understand? God will never tell you to get up and slap that person. He will not tell you that. God will not tell you to gossip about that boy who just lost his job and mock him before your friends. God will not tell you that. But you see, if you are in a room and everybody's gossiping about a boy, and all of a sudden you feel this nudge to say, “I don't think this is right," Now, that nature is not the carnal nature; it comes from somewhere, and then you realise, Oh! God is talking to me, and you say, “Thank you, Jesus.”.

It doesn't have to be “Oh my friend, I talk to you...” (In a deep voice), it can happen, you understand? It can very much happen; God can talk like that. In a general sense, God enters as a thought, a whisper, or a wind (which blows air). And because you know the nature of God, you can discern what has just entered your mind. And you say, Ah, this is the Holy Spirit.

So for example, as I said, when I teach, it's the Holy Spirit—that is, I'm just sitting down, and it's like there's an open book, and I'm just flowing. I'm just flowing. I'm just flowing. I've learned how to rely on God when I'm teaching. So I can teach for 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12 hours, and the word will not finish. Because I'm not speaking with my strength.

So when I sit down, my mind is out of the picture (well, not really). Everything passes through my mind, but I'm not leaning completely on my mind. I'm leaning on the "wind." And it comes in as suggestions. Okay! Remember David? Oh! Remember Joseph? Oh! Ah! This is what Paul said in Galatians. Oh! In Revelation 6, Oh! And I've gotten to the point where it's natural because I'm used to it.

But it begins by being perceptive of your inner life and the different things that are entering that space. “This feeling I'm feeling now—when did it begin?” You know! We don't spend time observing ourselves.

I'm going to teach on this, you know. We're going to learn a lot, so, you know, this is just week 2. I'm spending time in module 1 introducing a lot of concepts and a lot of theories so that we get some basic things, and then we start going through deep practical matters that would separate those that are here for business and not because it will get very practical because it’s a practical course—it is not theory. You understand? For this course to benefit you, you have to put into practice the things that are taught.

So there'll be a lot of practices, or introspection, self-review, self-awareness, and self-observation, and from there, you know, you begin to observe your inner life and the things that are transpiring within you. And you can start to discern, ah! This doesn't sound like God. But you cannot know what sounds like God if you have not learned about Him through scriptures and instructors.

The Holy Spirit speaks to everybody; there is nobody the Holy Spirit doesn’t speak to. Even if you have never heard of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit has spoken to you. But you see, because you don't know his voice, you cannot know that that was God talking.

There's nobody who hasn't heard the voice of God. Everybody has heard the voice of God. The issue is discerning God's voice. The first way to begin discerning God's voice is by understanding His nature through scripture, and through this, He begins to reveal Himself through the instructors that He has raised.