When God speaks to us, He doesn’t speak to our mind, He speaks to our spirit. Our spirit knows things that our mind hasn’t caught up with yet, so we must quiet the mind enough to hear what our spirit knows. Although our spirit knows things, until it dawns on our mind, we can’t walk it out. What the Holy Spirit communicates to our spirit will float up and enlighten our mind.

Years ago, when my husband was ministering in Lima, Peru, God spoke to him and said, “Ninety-seven percent of My people are living beneath what I’ve provided for them. If I told you to take a whole year off from work, you ought to have enough money in your operating account to live on for at least one year, without touching any of your savings. If I told a pastor who had 100 families in his church to build a building, if that pastor is teaching the people the Word, and they are doing it, in one offering that congregation ought to be able to give one million dollars without touching their savings.” (That would be $10,000 per family.)