How You  Develop Your Spiritual Intelligence (SQ)

The Lens – I’ve been reviewing eschatology for the last couple of weeks. The two major streams of thought are Dispensationalism and Preterism. The former is wacko and the later makes more sense but has some holes. What dawned on me during the process was that both arguments were entirely intellectual. There were no Living Prophetic Words from the proponents, only their intellectual lens with all the logical bible verses to go with it! There was not even a pretense of a relationship with the Spirit of Truth (Holy Spirit) or conversations in the Council that include the 7 Spirits!

Parables – The second thing that became obvious was that Father doesn’t reveal everything. Some things really are hidden “too deep” because He wants conversations with His sons, not intellectual independence. He speaks in parables to draw us into conversations. Sons do search matters out, but we’re looking in the Council, not just between our ears!

Pro 25:2 – It is the glory of God to conceal a matter;
to search out a matter is the glory of kings. (In the Council)

Pro 25:27 – It is not good to eat too much honey,     (feeding self, ambition, reputation)
nor is it honorable to search out matters that are too deep.

Be positive – Sonship, Ascension, and Reformation is an Isa 61 good news story that is very positive. we are generally very optimistic, loving, and leading without driving. So, we communicate the priority of putting the Kingdom first, Father’s heart to repopulate His Council with sons who oversee, and His love for Reformation of Nations.

Yet Realistic – Yet we are still aware of three intellectual alternatives to relational sonship that are clothed in religion and tradition, filters we can contrast with Living Words.

• Independent intellectualism (the honey of human wisdom, ambition, fame, and fortune)
  1. In contrast to conversations, Living Words, following the Lamb,
  2. Intellectualism puts Father’s Top Priority way down the list.
• Dispensationalism (others are God’s chosen, we’re the waiting remnant)
  1. See Victorious Eschatology
• New Thought (I can leverage God to get what I want, Spiritual Witchcraft)
  1. See Happy Lies

It’s the Holy Spirit (the Spirit of Truth, a living entity) that leads us into Truth and shows things to come. It’s the Holy Spirit that prompts us with invitations to the Council for full conversations with Father, Jesus and the 7 Spirits.

Don’t be Stupid – We’re not advocating ignorance over intelligence. The balance is that our minds aren’t the source of Father’s guidance. Spiritual Intelligence is wisdom from Heaven.

1. We get purpose and direction in the Council. That’s what releases Father’s power.
2. Then we can innovatively take initiatives and authority to implement Father’s heart on Earth. It’s called courage. Living Words empower sons to do exploits! (Jn 5:19)

What doesn’t work is being your own god and doing whatever you want. That’s stupid!

Weapons of Warfare – Many of us have tried to do the right thing in the wrong spirit of intellectualism. We tried to defend the gospel or reveal truth with human reasoning.

1. We’ve seen it blow up in our face and been embarrassed by our contempt and anger.
2. And then we’ve vowed never to confront evil, to only be loving and accepting.

Now were healing the passivity in sons. There is still a need for David’s to kill Goliath’s. Your land and spiritual heritage are still occupied by giants needing to be slain by Caleb’s. There are still weapons of warfare that are not carnal. Breaking strongholds in the Courts of Heaven is real!

Our weapons are Living Words that shred lies like butter, the sword of the Spirit. The prophetic light of truth can easily make the darkness flee.

Put on your Armor – One faulty logic that leads to intellectual independence is “because I’m filled with the spirit, I have the mind of Christ (1Cor 2:16). But the context is a few verses earlier. We are taught the wisdom of Heaven’s Council by the by the Spirit, not by being vaccinated with the propaganda of human wisdom or the elements of religious principles (Col 2:8).

The humility it takes to ascend to the council is in stark contrast with the religious, independent spirit of intellectualism that leads us to be deaf and dumb to spiritual things. It’s not just ignorant; trading ascension and conversations for human wisdom opens a door to earthly, unspiritual, and demonic deception – vain philosophies that are dangerous entanglements.

1Cor 2:13 – This is what we speak,
  not in words taught us by human wisdom
  but in words taught by the Spirit,
  explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.   (Conversations)

Ja 3:13 – Who is wise and understanding among you?
  Let them show it by their good life,
  by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
14)    But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts,
do not boast about it or deny the truth.
15)    Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
16)    For where you have envy and selfish ambition,
there you find disorder and every evil practice.

Deception in Ism’s – Part of the reason people can be deceived in mass is that there is a spirit behind the intellectualism that is not at all logical and doesn’t lend itself to human analysis. We are intellectually defenseless against spiritual strongholds. Our safeguard is the Spirit of Truth and Spiritual Wisdom that comes down from heaven, our only offensive weapon.

Read the list; none of these make sense!

1. Humanism – Man is the center; exalts human reason and morality apart from God. “We don’t need God—we are our own solution.”
2. Rationalism – Truth is determined solely by logic or intellect. “If I can’t explain it, it can’t be real.”
3. Relativism – Truth is subjective; “what’s true for you isn’t true for me.” “There’s no absolute truth—just perspectives.”
4. Materialism – Reality is only what you can touch, buy, or measure. “The more I have, the more I matter.”
5. Scientism – Science is the only path to truth; anything spiritual is superstition. “If it’s not proven by a lab, it’s irrelevant.”
6. Intellectualism – Worship of ideas, theology, or knowledge over intimacy with God. “I know about God, so I must know God.”
7. Moralism – Good behavior equals righteousness (often apart from transformation). “I follow the rules, so I’m right with God.”
8. Legalism – Salvation or approval from God is earned through obedience or performance. “Do more, try harder, be better.”
9. Universalism – All paths lead to God; no repentance or lordship required. “Love wins—no one’s excluded.”
10. Fatalism – Life is pre-determined; there’s no real hope for change. “It is what it is—I’m just stuck.”
11. Sensualism(or Hedonism) – Feelings and pleasure are the highest goals. “If it feels good, it must be right.”
12. Nationalism – Elevating earthly kingdoms (or political ideologies) above God’s Kingdom. “God is on our nation’s side, no matter what.”
13. Zionism(in its dispensational, not biblical sense) – Equating God’s promises with a political state rather than Christ’s Kingdom. “Support Israel no matter what—it’s the key to prophecy.”
14. Narcissism – Self-obsession, often cloaked in self-care or self-help language. “I am the hero of my own story.”
15. Socialism – The belief that centralized government should control resources to ensure equality of outcome, often replacing personal responsibility and Kingdom stewardship with state dependency. “The government should meet all needs and fix all injustice.”
16. Climatism (Climate Alarmism) – The belief that climate change is the ultimate existential threat and must be solved through global control, often leading to fear-based politics and anti-human policies. “The planet is doomed unless we drastically change everything—now.”

The inspiration for this blog came from a Council session that has more info on this topic. It’s  also a template for your own Council Sessions.

• 2025-07-12 Council – Intellectual Ignorance
• also more in this sister blog from 2022, Spiritual Intelligence

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Cutting Room Floor

From the Council Session Intellectual Ignorance

Pro 1:7 – The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge,
but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Pro 16:25 – There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.

Pro 25:2 – It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.

Pro 25:27 – It is not good to eat too much honey,     (feeding self, ambition, reputation)
nor is it honorable to search out matters that are too deep.

Isa 40:28 – Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.

Ja 3:13 – Who is wise and understanding among you?
  Let them show it by their good life,
  by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
14)    But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts,
do not boast about it or deny the truth.
15)    Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
16)         For where you have envy and selfish ambition,
there you find disorder and every evil practice.

Eph 6:12 – For our struggle is not against flesh and blood,
but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world
and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

2Cor 10:3 – For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.
4)   The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world.
On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
5)   We demolish arguments and every pretension
that sets itself up against the knowledge of God,
and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

1Cor 2:13 – This is what we speak,
not in words taught us by human wisdom
but in words taught by the Spirit,
explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.   (Conversations)
14)   The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God
but considers them foolishness,
and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
15)   The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things,
but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,
16)   for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?”
But we have the mind of Christ.           (Because we’ve had the conversations)

Col 2:8 – See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy,
which depends on human tradition
and the elemental spiritual forces of this world              (G4747 principles, laws, lens)
rather than on Christ.