If you don’t know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, it is impossible to be sensitive in your spirit. An unregenerate spirit is only full of woe and hate. You can’t be sensitive and loving with a dead spirit. You could resolve to be loving and kind from now on and it won’t last, because it is not the sensitivity of the Holy Spirit. The kind of sensitivity we are talking about is the life of God. The Bible says that those who have blinded minds are alienated from the life of God. 

Yet, through the new birth, God has promised to give you a new heart. “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them” (Ezekiel 36:26-27). A deep sensitivity will come and abide inside you.

It is the very heart of God. You will have a heart of flesh that can feel the deep sensations of the heart of God. When He is grieved, you will be grieved. When He is full of joy, you will be full of joy. The life of God residing in your spirit is essential to your eternal salvation. Jesus said, “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:15). His life in you, is your assurance of victory in this life.

“For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?” (1 John 5:4-5). You can overcome all the pressures and problems of the age we live in through Jesus Christ and sensitivity to His Spirit, His life and His compassion abiding in you.

You do not have to be defeated by inflation, depression, divorce, religious traditions, or sickness and disease. The Greater One indwells you. “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4). 

If you do not know Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, you can receive Him now. I want you to join me now in praying this prayer. Don’t just read it; make a conscious effort to speak these words from the very depths of your being. When you finish praying, you will be born again:

Heavenly Father, in the Name of Jesus, I present myself to You. I pray and ask Jesus to be Lord over my life. I believe it in my heart, so I say it with my mouth: Jesus has been raised from the dead. This moment, I make Him the Lord over my life. Jesus, come into my heart. I believe that I am saved this moment. I believe that I am a child of Almighty God. I am reborn. I am a Christian. I believe that I have a sensitive heart and that I can know the very heartbeat of God.

I renounce sin, Satan, and all he stands for. I renounce the past and look to Jesus for the future. Now, I purpose to be sensitive to Your life and nature in my heart. By the help of the Holy Spirit, I will outwardly express the image of Jesus that I inwardly possess. Thank You for the power, the ability and the privilege, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries