The Spirit of Faith
1 Thessalonians 5:23 (New Living Translation)
23 Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.
We are a spirit we possess a soul and live in a body!
“We’re not just human beings having a temporary spiritual experience. But we’re spiritual beings having a temporary human experience.”
- Teilhard de Chardin, French Priest
We live in a natural world which our natural bodies constantly and overwhelmingly contact at all times.
Due to the constant contact that we have with it we can be very consumed and distracted from the reality of the spiritual world.
Your flesh is continually starving for attention!
It wants to be fed, noticed, and pampered!
It wants to look in shape and not like a shape!
It wants nice hair, with streaks, highlights and tips.
Your flesh wants food and it wants it now.
Your flesh is selfish and only wants to satisfy itself.
It’s lazy and if you live life being led by the cravings of your flesh you are destined to destruction!
Galatians 5:19-21 (The Message)
19-21It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on.
This isn’t the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God’s kingdom.
These are the results of life after the flesh.
Naturally we have a physical father.
However, we are children of GOD. He Is our Heavenly Father.
Heb 12:9
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
KJV
We are Spirit beings!!!
John 3:5-6
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
KJV
The spirit of God comes and makes his residence on the inside of us.
1 Cor 6:19-20
19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
NKJV
John 4:23-24
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
KJV
We need to remind ourselves that we are spirit beings. Conscious of the spirit and fully aware of the eternal spiritual world that in reality is the source of this temporary world.
You are a three part being you are a spirit, you live in a body and you possess a soul.
The real you is your spirit being.
The things of the spirit are more real than the things of this natural realm.
The more conscious you are of God, His Holy Spirit and your human spirit, the more sensitive you will be to allow His spirit to lead you.
1 Corinthians 2:9-12 (King James Version)
9But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
John 6:63-64
63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. NKJV
We have been set free from the spiritual chains of prison. God gave us the freedom to be who we really are on the inside.
We’ve been set free. And who the son has set free, spiritually, is free in deed physically!!!!!
Galatians 5:13, 16 (King James Version)
13For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
We are spiritually alive. We have the eyes to see, the ears to hear and the faith to believe all that the spirit of God has for us.
Ephesians tells us that we who were once dead (spiritually) in our sins and trespasses have been made alive (spiritually) in Christ!!!
Our spirits are the source and vitality of our Christian Lives!!!!
They are the batteries that charge our lives with unseen, unlimited, total power and strength!
Proverbs 18:14 (King James Version)
14The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
Proverbs 18:14 (The Message)
14 A healthy spirit conquers adversity,
but what can you do when the spirit is crushed?
Proverbs 18:14 (Amplified Bible)
14 The strong spirit of a man sustains him in bodily pain or trouble, but a weak and broken spirit who can raise up or bear?
With all this being said, this is why our faith has nothing to do with this natural world.
Our faith is supernatural. It is something that is spiritual and changes the natural world we live in.
2 Corinthians 4:13 (King James Version)
13We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
The same spirit of Faith!!!!
That Moses had when he led Israel and trusted God to provide the deliverance for them.
That Abraham had when he took Isaac to the top of the mountain to offer him to the Lord and God provided a ram in the thicket.
That David had when he took on the Giant and defeated him publicly!
That Paul had when he traveled through out the many regions preaching the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ!
That Peter had the day He preached to 3,000 on the day of Pentecost!
That Jesus had as he walked on this earth and performed every miracle and healed every sickness he came in contact with!
We have this same spirit of faith to empower us to live our lives as a believer in Christ on this earth, with our families, in our businesses and to the world!
Walk in confidence today knowing that He who is in us is Greater than he who is in the world!
We got something on the inside that we need to allow to start working more and more on the outside to show and tell this world that our God is Alive, ready and willing to make a difference in their lives today! Amen!!!!
