Man is a spirit, he has a mind or soul and lives in a body. This truth has radically changed the way I perceive everything!.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 King James Version (KJV)
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
If you read the bible, being conscious of this, it would make a lot of things become clearer. The man who is born again is a man whose spirit has been recreated after God.
1Corinthians 2:12 Now 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.
2Corinthians 5:17-18 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: Old things are passed away, behold all things are new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.
Features of Your Spirit
Your born again spirit is of the same nature with God. It is that part of you that thinks Like God, the part of you that knows what God knows, the part of you that can do what God does. This is the part of you that is born by the word of God. If you want to understand what I mean by being born of the word of God please read my post Begat by the Word, Born of God.
God communicates with you through your spirit because he is a spirit. Your born again spirit is alive to God.
John 4 :24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.
John 3:3 Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
The man who has not believed in Jesus is not alive in his spirit to God. That man’s spirit is cut off, he cannot understand the things of God. He does not know God and this is what the bible calls being dead. It is the most important thing for any man to become alive to God in his spirit. This is the part of us that has been blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms. This is the part of us that seats with Christ at the right hand of the Father. This is the part of us that is an heir of God and has the riches of the kingdom.
Living From Your Spirit
The human spirit becomes alive to God when it receives the Word of God concerning his son Jesus Christ. Once a man believes God’s testimony of his son Jesus and declares it on his lips, that word he heard goes in as a seed, an incorruptible seed and gives birth to his born again spirit, which is the spirit of God! You become a new creature, a new species. 1/3 of you is the very essence of God.
1Corinthians 6:17 For he that is joined unto the Lord is one Spirit.
1John 4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
God’s plan for us is to be governed from our born again spirits, and not be guided by our soul or body. Our spirit is born by truth and knows truth, so if we yield to our born again spirit which is the spirit of God we will walk in light. To ensure we are governed by the spirit we have to continue to feed our spirit, and educate our spirit with the word of God. Feeding your spirit and educating your spirit with God’s word will ultimately lead to a spirit guided mind, called the renewed mind which would produce life and peace.
Romans 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace (KJV)
Romans 8:6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace (NIV)
Your Mind and Your Body
The average person lives from his body and not from his spirit. He interprets the world from his physical senses. I was once like that. This body led man feels pained, upset , angry, or sick, anxious, broken and relays this to his mind as truth, but the born again spirit would not agree with this, and that man would have to decide what to yield to. Would he yield to the facts the body has presented or the truth the spirit presents, which says you are the healed, Jesus took your sicknesses and infirmities, you do not have the spirit of fear but that of power of love and of a sound mind. As I mentioned above, the bible describes the body led mind as carnal and this mind produces death.
Mind Renewal Causing Transformation
Your mind is your soul. Your mind responds to your beliefs. The bible says not to be conformed to this world but to be transoformed by the renewal of our minds. We have a big role in renewing our minds because left alone our minds would walk in error. The mind is like a computer that needs to be reprogrammed with the word of God.
2Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Linking these 3 verses together clearly shows you the pathway to transformation. Behold the glory, and be transformed into what you see, what is the glory? the glory is the Lord Jesus, and who is Jesus? the word of God!. When i behold the word of God i become who i see, my spirit man grows into maturity in Christ.
Here is a FANTASTIC animation describing this truth, explained by Andrew Wommack spirit, soul and body animation.
Remember always and be conscious of the truth that you are a spirit, you have a mind and you live in a body and let your spirit which is the Spirit of God govern your life.
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