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Did you hear of the little boy learning to ride his bike in a suburb? His mom felt it was safe since a nice, smooth sidewalk went all around the block. The boy couldn't get the hang of it for a long time. But finally he found both his balance and his boldness and swept out of sight around the corner. A minute later, he came into sight from the other end of the block, and to the cheers of his mother, began a new game: he held his hands in the air and steering by balance, yelled, "Look Mom! No hands!" and again he swept out of sight around the corner.

When he appeared again, he had his hands in the air and his feet sticking up away from the bike and swiftly coasted by, yelling, "Look Mom! No feet!" The last time he coasted into sight, he had hands up, feet out and yelled, "Look Mom! No teeth!"

I learned to ride a bike and it wasn't easy. Can you guess what was the greatest hindrance to my learning to ride? My brain.

A few years ago someone in a group tried to pay me a compliment and said that my brain was "overdeveloped". Everyone laughed (and some agreed more heartedly than necessary) but she caught her mistake and changed it to what she'd really intended to say. But it's true that my "brain" is overdeveloped -- it tries to "do" things it can't and isn't supposed to do.

Like learning to ride a bike.

My biggest problem in learning to ride a bike was that I kept trying to "figure it out" with my mind. The truth is, to succeed in riding a bike, what has to "learn" isn't the "brain" but the body. It's a body thing. Technically, "balance" is produced in the labyrinthand cochlea of your inner ear - not your brain. And the processes required to keep balance on a bike or a balance beam are not rational or logical, but physical and intuitive. To balance successfully, you sort of have to "forget thinking" and instead, "let yourself go" into a physical sense of balance.

An encyclopedia tells us that "balance" is produced from sense organs located in the ears, eyes, joints, skin and muscles -- all working in coordination together. Notice -- "rational" or "logical" thinking isn't part of the sense of balance.

You could even make a rule out of it and say, "You cannot understand 'balancing' with your rational, logical mind, because 'balance' is 'understood' by your natural body."

Now - let's "lift up our eyes" [John 4.35] and look beyond the mere natural into the supernatural.

Does it make sense to you that you can't learn to balance a bike with your "intellect" because your "intellect" doesn't "sense balance"? Then it should make sense to you that you can't learn to live in the Spirit with your "intellect" -- because your "intellect" doesn't "sense" things of the Spirit.

Someone might say, "Hold it! I can love God with my mind!" And I'd say, "Maybe." Someone else might protest, "But Jesus told us to love God with our heart, our mind and our soul!" Which is true. We aresupposed to love God with our entire being -- but we cannot sense or understand spiritual things with our natural mind. Only in our spirit-beings.

Here's what the Bible says about spiritual sensitivity in 1 Corinthians 2.14: "The natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit." [BBE]

Have you heard about the guy who took a college course in riding a bike? To get his credential in "Bike Riding", he had to complete over 36 academic hours, pass a final exam both written and oral, and present a 300 page research paper reviewed and accepted by a board of 12 professors.

Of course, he never actually got on a bike.

But he could talk your leg off for hours about how to be a Bike Rider.

You don't learn to ride a bike with your intellect but your body. And according to the Bible, you don'tunderstand the things of the Spirit with your intellect but your spirit.

Is your spirit alive? Do you live by your spirit or by your head?

Did you become a Christian through your spirit or through your head? If you're alive in your spirit, is the daily life you're living now just like Jesus' Life?

Or did you get your degree in Christianity through your intellect?

If you did, maybe you better go find a bike somewhere and try actually riding it.

© 2008 by Emil & Michele Swift

"KingdomScribes" is a ministry led by Emil and Michele Swift. Their website can be found at KingdomScribes.net

The Swifts have been called by God to minister together uniquely to the Body of Christ and share a revelatory teaching ministry - gifted in the Spirit to teach mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven in a simple, direct fashion. Emil and Michele are "Kingdom Scribes" whose hearts are to raise every Believer into living and ministering in the power of the Spirit and the Word as "scribes of the Kingdom". A passion to engage the hearts, souls and spirits of their listeners has led the Swifts into a teaching style characterized by its lack of religion, rituals and church jargon. They minister in words easily understood by those to whom they speak.

BBE Soul Vibe Pedal $129.99 BBE Soul Vibe Pedal

Bbe Soul Vibe Pedal $129.99 BBE Soul Vibe Pedal

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BBE SOUL VIBE PEDAL $129.99 The Soul Vibe is a vintage vibe/rotary speaker simulator known for its chewy phase-like textures made popular in the late ?60s and ?70s by such players as Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour and Robin Trower. Height: 6 Width: 0 Weight: 3

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BBE Stomp Ware Plugins $149.99 Stomp Ware is a suite of eight plug-ins modeled from BBE's very own line of boutique analog effects pedals. The effects plug-in suite consists of virtual versions of the BBE Free Fuzz ('70s fuzz), Green Screamer (vintage overdrive), Mind Bender (vibrato/chorus), Opto Stomp (optical compressor), Sonic Stomp (Sonic Maximizer), Soul Vibe ('60s rotary speaker simulator), Tremor (vintage tremolo), and Two Timer (analog delay) to warm up every facet of your digital audio production.Stomp Ware supports sample rates up to 192kHz and is compatible with all AU, RTAS, and VST host applications including ProTools, Logic, Cubase, Cakewalk and Digital Performer for Mac OS X, Windows 7, Vista, and XP.

Bbe Stomp Ware Plugins $99 Stomp Ware is a suite of eight plug-ins modeled from BBE's very own line of boutique analog effects pedals. The effects plug-in suite consists of virtual versions of the BBE Free Fuzz ('70s fuzz), Green Screamer (vintage overdrive), Mind Bender (vibrato/chorus), Opto Stomp (optical compressor), Sonic Stomp (Sonic Maximizer), Soul Vibe ('60s rotary speaker simulator), Tremor (vintage tremolo), and Two Timer (analog delay) to warm up every facet of your digital audio production.Stomp Ware supports sample rates up to 192kHz and is compatible with all AU, RTAS, and VST host applications including ProTools, Logic, Cubase, Cakewalk and Digital Performer for Mac OS X, Windows 7, Vista, and XP.8 unique virtual effect pedals accurately modeled for you computer audio productionWorks with both basses and electric guitarsSample rates up to 192kHzCompatible with all AU, RTAS, and VST host applications including ProTools, Logic, Cubase, Cakewalk and Digital Performer for Mac OS X, Windows 7, Vista, and XP

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