Hints for Workers

The supreme need of every spiritual worker is that he should discern the “stream” of the Spirit and follow that stream. “Machinery” which is no longer lubricated by God—or is out of the stream of the Spirit—gives a spiritual worker a sense of stagnation, whilst outside of it he may find a stream. The “stream” of the Spirit is more to some than others through keen spiritual discernment. The supreme question today is where is the “stream” of the Spirit, and where is it flowing? The Holy Spirit is working toward transformation. He is preparing to leave the world and to ascend, and they who will go with Him find the anointing only upon the heavenly call.

Workers often are not able to discern between the demons obstructing them from carrying out work, and God checking them from going on in any specific direction. If they think it is the opposition of the devil when it is the Spirit of God saying “stop,” in their wrong interpretation and effort to “go forward in spite of demoniacal hindrances,” they will descend from working after the Spirit, into drawing upon their own mental and physical resources, and so lose the stream—or anointing—of the co-working Spirit of God. They will then go on against the will of God, and into a false fight, and a conflict which has no victory. Workers in the face of spiritual obstruction, needing to discern whether it is of God, or of the enemy, should watch the effect of the attitude they take on their own spirit, e.g., going forward with God by prayer and service in the face of demon-obstruction, brings liberation of spirit, and going forward without God puts pressure on our spirit—a sense of heaviness and deadness of spirit, a loss of “spring” and liberty of spirit.