When our spirit becomes alive to God where His life begins to flow into it, we will find that the main problems we have in our life are rooted in our soul; this is where self will or the self life exists. The problems are rooted in self but then become centered in the mind.
The flesh is that union of soul and body that acts independently of God. When we do things in the flesh it affects our mind and it becomes unclean. We need the washing of the water by the word- how does it work?
The river of life flows out of heaven into the gateway of first love in our spirit, out of our spirit through the gateway of revelation into the gateway of our mind in our soul.
Revelation flows out of our spirit as spontaneous thoughts into our mind. This is actually hearing the voice of God. It is the Holy Spirit bringing to our remembrance, or bringing to our mind the living word of God.
A lot of things take place by hearing God. We know the bible says that faith comes by hearing God. But actually everything comes by hearing God. Everything comes from God through a flow of His Spirit, but the senses of our spirit have to be opened up for us to perceive it.
We are always reading in the word about having eyes to see and ears to hear. This is mostly talking about the eyes and ears of our spirit. It is all a matter of awareness.
If God is speaking to us but we are not hearing, if he is trying to show us things but we are not seeing them, it is not going to benefit us we will remain in darkness.
Faith comes to us by hearing God, this is a result of the infilling of His Spirit, it is His faith not our faith but we partake of it. It is part of His divine nature or the fruit of His Spirit or His eternal life.
The divine nature or fruit of the Spirit, His love, His joy, His peace, His faith, His gentleness and all of His divine attributes flow into our spirit, awakening it, flow into our soul awakening it, and then flow into our body and out of our body to the world around us as we minister the Spirit of God to others.
When our spirit senses God then it becomes a gateway for God to move through. We are a gateway of heaven upon the earth. So we are learning about the different gateways of our spirit, soul and body. So that we can get them opened, cleansed and flowing so that we become the move of God upon the earth.
The main way our soul becomes transformed is through the renewing of the mind. Our mind no longer thinks independently of God. Our mind is no longer influenced by unclean or familiar spirits. But our mind becomes a dwelling place of God for him to inhabit.
Because of self will and looking to have our soul-needs met from the outside in, through the things of the world we have been hurt and damaged. So in our soul are thoughts and feelings and attitudes and all kinds of things that need to be cleansed and healed. And this all happens through a flow of the Spirit into our mind.
As the thoughts and feelings of God enter into our soul, they cleanse and heal and displace all the thoughts and feelings that do not originate in Him.
In our brain is where all the storage programs are. Our brain is like a marvelous computer. Here we find our memories, the word of God, and our belief systems. It is like the hard drive of a computer. Everything is stored there.
Our subconscious mind has been affected by our D.N.A from our parents; in it are defense mechanisms and coping skills which keep the self life alive.
Our old man has been crucified together with Christ that the body of sin might be rendered powerless-Rom 6:6. Our old man is everything we inherited from the D.N.A of our parents. The body of sin is our physical body.
Our old man or self-life has been crucified, but our flesh, the body of sin is not automatically rendered powerless. We have to reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus, the anointing of the son.
Reckon is an imperative, a directive from God or commandment that we must do continually. Reckon has to do with our thinking, any thinking that is contrary to our being dead to sin must be displaced through the word of God. Then we must activate the word by speaking it. Thank you Lord I am dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus, sin will not be my master.
Then we have to yield ourselves to God as those that are alive from the dead and the members of our body as instruments of righteousness.
Because our brain has been programmed by our physical senses and not our spiritual senses our subconscious mind affects the way we think. So things like our reactions, our attitudes, our responses, fear, and worry: all these come from our memory banks and have to be reprogrammed.
When revelation comes, from the word of God, to renew our mind then things can start to change. Then we have an opportunity of responding in the spirit to the circumstances of life.
Our behavior patterns start to come from the revelation of the truth of God’s word, especially about who we are in Christ. Our mindsets become based on the truth of who God says we are. Our attitudes, the way we think and feel the dreams that God has for us begin to flow into our spirit and into our minds, they are flowing from the inside out.