Skip to playerSkip to main content
  • 5 months ago
In this video: If you want your spiritual sense of touch to be active, check out “Touch” on https://matrixofjustice.org/ to learn how your spiritual senses help you “see,” navigate, and discern spiritual things. Think about it for a moment… Have you heard the verse Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! (Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!) and thought to yourself, “It is not like I can taste or see God?!” (Psalm 34:8)

Or 2 Corinthians 2:15 For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, and think…these are just idiomatic expressions! It’s beautiful poetry from the Ancient Near East but meaningless to my walk with the Lord?

I am happy to tell you, there’s so much more, and it is very meaningful to your growth in the Lord and for ministry as well! Just as we have our 5 physical senses to help us discern the world around us, we also have at least 5 spiritual senses to help us navigate and discern spiritual things and the spiritual realm around us.

Spiritual senses?

Discerning spiritual things, you might ask?

Yes. You can discern spiritual things and touch them.

For more equipping content, subscribe to matrixofjustice.org

Check out the whole series!
Spiritual sense of Scent: https://matrixofjustice.org/see-through-scent/
Spiritual sense of Taste: https://matrixofjustice.org/taste-and-see/
Spiritual sense of Hearing: https://matrixofjustice.org/taste-and-see/

Listen to the MOJ podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/29Nwee6qdn4w76kmzWaaxt?si=zrBslSxzTWqdgOcNI5vKqQ
Listen to the MOJ podcast on Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/012c3b57-b6d3-4735-bee1-47e938f76523/marvel-and-mysteries

Come say hi: Twitter- https://x.com/matrixofjustice
TikTok- https://www.tiktok.com/@matrixofjustice
Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/matrixofjustice/?hl=en
Gab- https://gab.com/MatrixofJustice
Gettr- https://gettr.com/user/matrixofjustice
Truth Social- https://truthsocial.com/@MatrixofJustice
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/MatrixofJustice/

Other platforms:
Bitchute- https://www.bitchute.com/profile/YTUlhLxg6MWb
Rumble- https://rumble.com/c/c-436225
Daily Motion- https://www.dailymotion.com/matrixofjustice

Matrix of Justice (matrixofjustice.org) is a resource center that provides individual Christian equipping with a prophetic edge. My desire is to see spiritual truths birth tangible results in people's lives. Helping others grow into the fullness of their identity as a Son of God and becoming who He created them to be is the fuel that drives me and the heart of Matrix of Justice.

Please consider supporting Matrix of Justice via the donate button (https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=T9M4EFHWQBDV4) on www.matrixofjustice.org
Transcript
00:00Welcome to Marvel and Mysteries. My name is Tracy. Thanks so much for joining me again.
00:14And this is part four in a series on the spiritual senses. So, just to make sure that you know to
00:19watch the other ones, there is See Through Scent, Taste and See, and Ears to Hear. And today,
00:26you are going to learn about the spiritual sense of touch. It's important to remember that we have
00:32five senses in the natural. Those five physical senses help us to navigate the world that is
00:37around us. And the unseen world around us that we cannot see with the naked eye, well, that's where
00:44our spiritual senses come into play. And that is designed by God to be able to help you discern
00:51good from evil and the movements and the things that are going on around you in the spirit.
00:56We were made in the image of God, and every day we are being transformed more and more to function
01:02and to be like Him. 1 Corinthians 2.14, and this is kind of my paraphrase, is that people that don't
01:09have the Spirit of God don't have the capacity to understand what He is doing and when He is
01:15revealing things. They just consider it to be foolishness because you need the Spirit of God
01:20to discern what God is doing in the first place. And then 1 Corinthians 6.17 says that he who is
01:27united with the Lord is one Spirit with Him, and that is what we need to remember always.
01:33We are one Spirit with the living God, and it is His good pleasure to show us what He's doing.
01:40He calls us friends. So, this is part of that, and this is part of being able to function like Him.
01:45When I was transferred out of the dominion of darkness, and it really is the dominion of darkness,
01:51and we may not even realize it, but when you get born again, and even that terminology has
01:58been so mired and thrown out. Like if you say, I'm born again, that puts you in a certain basket
02:04that the world considers to be crazy or whatever else. But you literally get transferred out of the
02:12dominion of darkness into the kingdom of His beloved Son. And when that happens, the scales
02:19come off of your eyes. Everything that was obscured from you when you were in the dominion of darkness
02:26begins to get revealed to you. You start to understand there's so much more happening in
02:32the world around you. And I'm not just referring to a demon seeing a demon or seeing an angel or
02:38something like that. You begin to recognize a structure that has been formed and built around
02:45us that is not from the Lord. But then you also see the Lord in His fullness and His structures that
02:53are around us that are there to help us. It really is a kingdom of the Most High God.
02:59And the most important thing that we can remember in this is Hebrews 5.14, which says,
03:05solid food is for the mature, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern
03:13both good and evil. Or discern is another word for to distinguish, to distinguish between
03:19good and evil. And it's that that we need to keep in mind through all of this is that as you're
03:27growing, you know, you might get the kingdom bazooka on day one, but you don't know how to use it yet,
03:32right? So you grow into being able to use that kind of power and the fullness of who He is. It's
03:39something that we mature into into sons of God to the point where you experientially know the Lord.
03:46It's beyond just what is written in the Bible. And you start to really understand who He is and who
03:53you are in Him. So in this topic of touch, I wanted to go through some of these more standard ways that
04:01we would be familiar with. If you follow the Lord for any amount of time, or you've been
04:05in a church service or something like that, you're going to be familiar with certain
04:09touch. And I'm starting here in this case with the physical ones that do have a spiritual
04:14connotation to them. So we are familiar with the laying on of hands. We're familiar with the Great
04:20Commission because it says that believers will lay hands on the sick and they will recover.
04:26There will be that healing that moves through their physical touch. So even though it's a
04:31physical thing, on a spiritual level, they're getting healed. So you have that. You have the
04:37laying on of hands for the conveyance of authority, for receiving Holy Spirit, for blessing, for anointing,
04:45and that sort of thing. So we're all familiar with that. And some of the examples that we would see
04:50in Scripture, let me just look at my notes. If you go to Mark 1, 41 and 42, I like the Gospel of Mark
04:56because it's like action Jesus. It's always like, suddenly, next! And it's like, bam, bam, bam. So
05:01I particularly like that Gospel. I like to read it because it rolls out like it's some kind of movie.
05:07Oh my goodness. But Mark 1, 41, 42, you'll see that Jesus is moved with compassion for a leper who is
05:16saying like, if you're willing, I can be cleansed. And the Lord says, I am willing. And He reaches out
05:23and He touches him and He says, be cleansed. And He is healed then from that leprosy. So we see the
05:31Lord in His compassion, which you see so much in Scripture. His compassion moved Him and He would
05:37reach out. He would touch someone. And we need to remember that we do that all the time. When there
05:42is someone who is having a hard day and they're talking to us or they've suffered a loss, we
05:47oftentimes will automatically reach out and lay our hand on their hand like, I hear you. I'm with you
05:55in this. I understand and I'm listening to you. We're heart to heart right now. And it's so powerful
06:02to remember to do that because that touch brings so much healing. If we go to Luke 6, 19, you're going
06:10to see something similar because it says that the crowd, and this was similar to some of the other
06:16scriptures as well, like the woman with the issue of blood. But what it is saying in Luke 6, 19 is that
06:22the crowd set themselves to touch Jesus for power came out of Him and healed them all. And when you
06:31look at the actual scripture and you look at the Greek and everything else, it is the dunamis power to
06:37heal diseases that was coming out of Him. This proceeds from Jesus. You are made in His image
06:44and likeness, which means healing proceeds from you too. Power proceeds from you too. So, we have to
06:50remember that, that we also walk in these things. And now we're going to look at touch from a spiritual
06:59sense. But there's one example that I love, and I just kind of mentioned it, just referenced it from
07:05the scripture, the woman with the issue of blood. And what is so cool about her set of circumstances
07:10is that she was already getting ready to go. Like, she knows Jesus is in town. She's getting ready to
07:17go find Him. And she's saying to herself, if I only can touch the hem of His garment, I will be healed.
07:24And the beautiful thing is, think about this. Okay, so that's her faith. That's her faith.
07:30Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not yet seen, right? So,
07:37her faith is a substance. Her faith had already reached out. So, her faith was already going for
07:43it. And then she makes the physical connection with Jesus and bam, the virtue comes out of Him.
07:50And He's like, whoa, somebody touched me. And of course, that's when the disciples were like,
07:53well, everyone is touching you, okay? So, look at how powerful that is. Her faith reaches out
07:59and basically takes a hold of Him before her fingers even hit His garment. And then wham,
08:05you've got that both in operation, the physical touch and the spiritual touch by faith being that
08:11substance. I love that so much. It's so cool. But in terms of spiritual touch, what I want to direct
08:19you to first is Daniel 10. And there are lots of different encounters throughout the Bible. So,
08:26I just recommend that you go and look all of these up and really dig into them. And Daniel 10 is just
08:33incredible anyway. It's a good place to spend a day to just go in Daniel and read through it. But in
08:39Daniel 10, he is at the banks of the Tigris River with his men. And as he's standing there,
08:46he looks up and he starts to see this supernatural being. Like he's having this like, oh my goodness,
08:52here comes this supernatural being. Now, the curious thing is, he's seeing this happen.
08:59His men do not see it at all. But a great terror hits them and they take off running and they go hide.
09:06So, Daniel's left there. All his dudes split on him. And he's sitting there and he's looking at this
09:14being that's coming like, ugh. And so, when the being comes, when this angelic messenger comes and
09:20starts to talk to him, Daniel ends up, it says that he goes into this deep sleep. And I'm thinking
09:26like, I need to look up the word study on this because he probably passed out, you know, because
09:30it's probably like too overwhelming for his whole system. But he's on the ground. And it actually says
09:37that the being reached out, like touched him and set him up on his knees. And he set up on his knees
09:43trembling. And then eventually he even tells him to stand up. And it's just such a unique encounter
09:50anyway. You should check it out because he rolls out everything the Lord's going to do
09:54in great detail. And this is the whole passage where it's like the fighting against the Prince
09:59of Persia. Michael, the archangel, is sent in to deal with these guys so that the full message can
10:04actually come to Daniel about what is to come. So, it's an amazing, amazing passage. You'll get so
10:09much more out of it. So, go check that out. But another example that all of you will be familiar
10:14with is from Isaiah 6 because in Isaiah, he has just seen the Lord. So, the guy is undone.
10:22He has just seen the Lord. And when you're in the presence of the Lord, anything that isn't like him
10:27becomes really obvious to you. And it's not in a condemning way. You just, it's like you're suddenly
10:32very self-aware, like, oh, like, I thought I was very, you know, very good, very holy, very whatever.
10:40And then you're like, oh. So, anyway, Isaiah is standing there. And after this happens, he says,
10:47woe is to me for I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips and I live in the midst of a people
10:55of unclean lips. And a seraphim goes over and grabs a coal, a live coal from the altar, and he touches
11:02Isaiah's mouth with it. And the seraphim tells him that with that, that his iniquity has been
11:11taken away from him and his sin has been purged. And this is right before the classic, beautiful,
11:18well, who shall we send? And he's like, here I am, Lord, send me. You know, here I am, send me.
11:24And in that, he is being sent out to deliver a really tough word to the people. But he gets
11:31cleansed beforehand. And this is the importance of dealing with iniquity. The sum total of all of
11:38Isaiah's junk from himself, from his mom's side, his dad's side, and everybody back, all the sum total
11:46and accumulation of all the ways that they've missed the mark and sin and everything else,
11:52all of that gets dealt with. Boom. Iniquity is gone. So, that fuel, that fuel that is a substance,
11:59iniquity is also a substance. Faith is a substance, and iniquity is also a substance.
12:04And that stuff, there's a lot of yuck that can run off of that. And so, that gets dealt with. So,
12:10he gets sent out then to prophesy, and he's just absolutely pure. His sins are purged. His iniquity
12:16is dealt with. So, just a cool thing for you guys to pray into. And lastly, I want to go through
12:22a couple of experience that I have had, just so you can kind of see how some of this stuff would
12:27function just in everyday life. Some of this stuff is scary. Some of this stuff is funny.
12:33And then some of it is just, I mean, it's just a blessing from the Lord, because you are made in
12:37His image and likeness. And so, we are learning and growing to be able to function like Him.
12:43So, the first time that I had this happen, I was in a prayer room in this little ministry.
12:50And it was a big room, big open room, and there was no ceiling fans, nothing hanging from the
12:57ceiling, just your classic fluorescent light flat sort of thing. There were chairs that were all
13:02around the outside of the room because it would be used for different prayer meetings and things
13:06like that. So, I'm in this room. I was early, so I had the room to myself to just pray and worship
13:13and all of this other stuff. And I was just singing to the Lord and dancing, and I had a lot of space
13:17because there's nothing in the room. So, as I'm in the middle of praying and proclaiming,
13:24my hand went up like this. Like, it just went like, real quick. And I smacked something so hard,
13:32and I felt it. And I went like, ooh! And I turned around, and I had no idea what it was.
13:38But whatever it was, I mean, it almost felt like you could feel like tissue and dimension to whatever
13:45it was. I don't know if I accidentally smacked my angel in the face. I don't know exactly what it
13:52was. I apologize because I kind of figured it was probably my angel who was also enraptured in
14:00worship with me, and then I basically socked him in the face, poor guy. But that was the first time
14:06when I went, oh, okay, all right, I just ran into something solid. And there's nothing in this room
14:12at all because it's a big open space, a big open room. There's nothing I could have run into. So,
14:17that was the first time. And then over the years, we kind of, we read these scriptures,
14:21and we just have a tendency to accidentally blow them off because we've been trained by the world
14:26instead of Holy Spirit. So, this scripture from Hebrews, he makes his angels winds, his ministering
14:33spirits flames of fire. And you go, okay, that's interesting. I wonder what that's about.
14:38And we just chalk it up to poetic imagery or something like that. But what it really is is
14:46that those ministering spirits of the Lord being flames of fire, oh my goodness, I can't tell you
14:51the number of times I've been at home or at the grocery store in a meeting, not in a meeting,
14:56wherever, and all of a sudden, I will feel the radiant heat of a ministering spirit completely up
15:03and down usually one side of my body, wherever it happens to be standing. I would feel that. And
15:10it's wonderful because it's such a beautiful radiant heat. It's not something that is scary,
15:16but you clearly know it's there and you clearly know that it's going on. And so, those ministering
15:22spirits, a lot of you may have experienced that and you just don't know maybe what it is. And so,
15:28I just want to encourage you with that. And another time where an angel of the Lord was able to help me
15:35so that I didn't smack myself real good. And think about Psalm 91, that they're lifting us up in their
15:42hands lest we would dash our foot against a stone, right? We say it all the time, we pray it all the
15:46time, but then we don't realize that it really does happen. And in this case, I was standing outside of
15:52a church and I was talking to some folks and I was sharing a testimony with them and I'm animated.
15:58So, I was telling my story to these folks and I was going to take a step backwards. And I didn't take
16:06the step fully backwards. I had started to like with all of my might and I'm so glad that I didn't
16:12because there was a parking bollard right behind me, like one of those big cement like pole things to
16:18keep cars from going into the front of buildings. There was one of those behind me. Had I stepped
16:23back all the way, I would have been so hurt in my lower back because I would have nailed this thing.
16:28But instead, I go to step back and I get this boop, this push forward. And I honestly thought it was
16:35one of my brothers messing around. So, I turned around because I figured I'm going to punch somebody
16:39in the arm, whoever pushed and shoved me. But there was nobody there. There was nothing there but the
16:44parking bollard. Nothing there. And I thought, oh my gosh, I almost just nailed that thing and I would
16:51have been really, really, really hurt. So, that was like, whew, that was such a relief. So, they really
16:58do that. And they'll warn me sometimes by, I joke, I'm like, what is up with the Pillsbury doughboy
17:07thing? Sometimes when I need to be warned because dangerous things are about to happen or at a minimum,
17:15it's like, hey, your head needs to be on a swivel right now. Pay attention. I will feel this little
17:22poke right in my stomach. And there is no woman on this earth who likes to be poked in the stomach.
17:29It sure does get our attention when that happens. So, I get a little poke and then I know, okay, heads up,
17:35be aware, have situational awareness, keep your head on a swivel because there's a need to pay
17:42attention. And that has happened so many times. And the first time that it happened, I missed what
17:48the memo was supposed to be, was not paying attention. I thought, oh, that's weird. I wonder
17:54why that happened. And then this situation happened in public that was just crazy. So,
17:59anyway, that's another thing to kind of pay attention to. And on some of the scarier sides
18:06of things. And again, this is stuff that you walk through, you process through with the Lord,
18:11you overcome, and you realize that it's all some kind of an attempt to keep you from your destiny
18:16in the Lord. The awful classic stuff, being shoved, being pushed, being strangled, like all of that sort
18:27of stuff that happens has happened to me. And again, you pray through it because the Lord
18:32does protect you. And the name of Jesus in those moments is, it's the name above every name. So,
18:39it's power, it's authority, and it will help you deal with those situations that happen.
18:45And one more story that I can think of that happened that I want to leave you with is,
18:50in a meeting once, we were all singing to the Lord, and I cannot remember the song,
18:56but we're all in unison singing with the Lord and standing kind of up at the front of this
19:02church. And we're singing, and all of a sudden, I feel this presence behind me. And it was really
19:08powerful, very powerful presence. So, I turned this way to kind of look to see who it was,
19:15because I expected it to be the man that was ministering, that we were there part of his
19:19ministry team. So, I was trying to keep an eye on him if he needed help with something. So,
19:23I went to turn like this, and I realized there's nobody standing there. And it's about the time that I
19:29realized there's nobody standing there, that this bass voice from nowhere starts singing with us
19:35like right here behind my ear. And so, now my eyes are like the size of silver dollars,
19:41because not only can I feel this presence, but now I've got this bass voice coming. And it's like,
19:48I can even feel like breath almost on my hair, on my ear. And as I'm looking over, I end up where
19:55I'm locking eyes with a brother in the Lord standing next to me. And he has a really deep
19:59voice. So, for a second, my brain goes, oh, it was just him. He was singing too. But then I look,
20:06and he's singing, and I can hear his low voice, and then this bass voice. So, he's looking at me,
20:11because he's hearing the same voice. So, his eyes are also the size of silver dollars,
20:16as we're there in worship, and the angels of the Lord had just joined right in, because that's the
20:21whole idea, right? We are in a never-ending worship service unto the Lord, where we are forever
20:27getting changed to be like Him, and it's so wonderful. So, I want to encourage you, because
20:32we often think that these things couldn't possibly happen to us, and that's just not true. They do
20:39happen to us, but the world has schooled us to ignore it, and to completely filter out spiritual
20:47things. I can remember getting prayer, and I felt an actual hand depress my heart. And when I told my
20:53friend, she was like, Tracy, you just have indigestion. I was like, no, I don't have
20:59indigestion. The Lord touched me. But the world will continually do that and try to help you along
21:06with filtering out every spiritual thing that could happen with all this logic and reason and the Greek
21:12thinking. And that's what needs to go out of our thought process with the Lord is that Greek mindset
21:18and Greek thinking. Because again, think back to Corinthians about you need the Spirit of the Lord
21:26to discern what He's doing, because otherwise it's just foolishness to you, and you'll just blow it off.
21:29So, we've been trained to consider a lot of things foolishness and to just blow it off. So, I want to
21:35encourage you to pay attention. So, let's be schooled by Holy Spirit like we're supposed to be.
21:42And the last thing I want to leave you with is the most powerful touch that ever happened. And we're
21:48going to go to 1 Peter 2, 24. He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross so that we might die
21:57to sins and live for righteousness. By His wounds, you have been healed. Think about that for a moment,
22:03because the Lord Jesus took the worst possible touch ever upon His body so that through the centuries
22:11through what He accomplished on the cross, He still is reaching and touching all of us so that we can
22:19have healing in our bodies. He took everything upon His flesh and upon His body, the weight of our sins,
22:26and He took the torture and the torment upon Himself and then touched us and brought healing and always
22:33brings healing and continues to bring healing to all of us. So, think about that kind of touch that is
22:38reverberating throughout the centuries. We're made in His image and likeness, and touch is important
22:43to all of us. It's important to our families. It's important for us as human beings to feel love
22:49and to have that conveyance of healing power and all things that our kingdom come through one another
22:56and through the Lord. So, thank you so much for watching. Lord, I pray that you would help us to
23:01recognize all around us how you're moving, the ways in which you're moving, the touch of Holy Spirit,
23:08and how we impact one another by even something as simple as a hug, Lord, what that actually brings
23:15to another person. So, Lord, help us with that in Jesus' name. Amen. And I want to just remind you to
23:22watch those videos on the other spiritual senses so that you can learn more about the ways in which
23:28we are like our Father and how we can operate. As Jesus Christ is, so are we in this world. So,
23:35I encourage you to watch that and also add your comments of the things that you've experienced
23:39because we're all learning together. None of us has it all together by any stretch of the imagination.
23:45So, leave a comment, leave a testimony, and help the others who are watching. Thank you so much.
23:51God bless you.
Be the first to comment
Add your comment

Recommended