In one of the village outreaches we held, during prayer, a team member gave a word of knowledge that we should pray against food poisoning. I did not take it serious though I prayed.

Days after, the woman whose house we stayed, a villager, served me hot tea and put bread on it. I decided I will take my tea after bathing. I left the tea in the room and dashed to the bathroom.

While in the bathroom, I had a strong impression within me about the tea and it was as though someone was telling me that the tea was poisoned and the tea will pour away when I attempt to drink it. That was the sign. I discarded it as one of those funny or random thoughts.

When I returned to the room, I positioned myself properly on the mat to drink my tea and eat the bread. Mistakenly, my body made contact with the tea cup and it poured on the mat. My trouser became wet. Immediately, I remembered what transpired in the bathroom.

When I discussed the incident with the team member who gave the word of knowledge, he told me he sensed it wasn't a poison to kill but to weaken me spiritually as the team lead. I once heard apostle Arome share about how he received a gift that made him insensitive to a particular operation of the Spirit for five years.

There are poisons that can make one blank spiritually. That's what witches do, especially with gifts and sex.  Personally, I believe that was what the enemy planned for me in that village but the Lord preserved me.

For a Spirit filled believer, some thoughts you call random thoughts may just be the Spirit's way of notifying you about something you need to pay attention to. That's why we have him but when he is talking to us, it is either we are insensitive to him or we trivialize his instructions.

Pay attention to repeated thoughts or deep impressions on your heart that seems to come from the blues. Not all of such thoughts are 'random thoughts' as we call it.  They might be God's way of calling your attention to what the enemy is planning.  

We need to learn of the Spirit so that we can benefit from our relationship with him.