![]() In order for us to remain in fellowship with God in our spirit, we need to reject the soul and turn to our spirit. This is why we need to reject the soul with its desires and preferences and exercise to turn to our spirit, so that we may follow the Lord and have His presence.Īnything that comes out of our self is connected to Satan and to demons. We must realize that, if we do not remain in fellowship with God in our spirit, we lose God’s presence and are capable of being in the flesh and of behaving like the worldly people (Phil. May we no longer walk as the Gentiles also do, in the vanity of their mind rather, may we learn Christ, for indeed we have heard Him and have been taught in Him as the reality is in Jesus. We need to realize that, once we forsake God, we too can do any kinds of evil (Eph. In the Old Testament, Israel became evil because they were unchaste as the wife of Jehovah (Hosea 4:1). The Lord considers anything that comes of our soul which is not renewed and transformed as being linked to Satan and the demons. We could say that Peter had a natural good desire to help the Lord and stop Him from dying, which can be considered something good.īut the Lord said, Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men (v. When Peter heard that the Lord was about to be killed by the Jewish people, he tried to hinder Him from doing this. We need to Reject the Soul and Turn to our Spirit to Follow the Lord and have His PresenceĪs believers in Christ, we need to realize that Christ dwells in our spirit, but Satan is still linked to and dwells in our flesh.Īnything that comes out of our self (the mind, the emotion, and the will of our fallen soul) is connected to Satan and to demons (Matt. May we daily enjoy Christ as grace to us for our enjoyment and satisfaction. He is our joy, amusement, and entertainment, and our soul is happy in the Lord. Our soul delights in God and magnifies God. When we turn to our spirit, reject the soul, and deny the self, we enjoy Christ in a real way. ![]() Christ is our real enjoyment, amusement, and entertainment. When we exercise our spirit, we experience the life of the Spirit and even the power of the Spirit working in us and empowering us to live Christ and express Him.Īnd we will flow out this Christ who lives in us and is our enjoyment. ![]() May we learn not to allow our soul to indulge in the things of this world in order to enjoy them but deny its enjoyment in this age so that it may enjoy God as its happiness and amusement. We have a soul that is daily being renewed and saturated with God’s life for us to live out and express God. We have a human spirit indwelt by the Holy Spirit for us to receive God and contact God. If we want to function in the New Testament ministry we must continually exercise to lose our soul-life and turn to our spirit.ĭay by day we need to exercise our spirit, contact the Lord, and reject the self. If we want to live in the reality of the Body, we need to turn to our spirit. If we want to enjoy the Lord’s riches, we need to turn to our spirit. ![]() If we want to worship God, we need to exercise our spirit. We believers in Christ do not only have an organ to contact God, our spirit, but we have a regenerated spirit, for the Lord as the Spirit is one with our spirit. When we set our mind on the flesh, when our mind is set on the things not of the Spirit, we remain in death.īut when our mind is set on our spirit, when our mind is set on the things above, we enjoy life and peace.įor us to follow the Lord and live in the reality of the Body, we need to continually exercise to reject our self and turn to our spirit. The mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace. We need to turn to our spirit again and again. Living the Christian life is not about obeying some rules and regulations outwardly it is about turning to our spirit. The secret to being a Christian is turning to the spirit. We need to realize that the way to follow the Lord is to reject our soul and turn to our spirit the real denial of the self is prayer, for when we pray even by simply calling on the name of the Lord, we declare, No longer I but Christ. As believers in Christ, we need to reject the soul and turn to our spirit through prayer, for when we pray, we declare that it is not us but Christ.
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