True Christianity is the greatest adventure a person could ever have, it is a journey into the very heart of God where we experience Him in such a way, that His thoughts become our thoughts, His feelings become our feelings, the very essence of His being penetrates us so that we become a new creation that never existed before in the history of this world. We enter into a life from another realm.
But unless we learn how to keep the eternal life of God flowing into our spirit, through our soul and body out into the atmosphere surrounding us, life can become very discouraging, as we get caught up into the cares of this world.
Our spirit existed, before we were conceived in our mother’s womb. Our spirit came out of eternity; it was the unformed substance that was in the heart and mind of God.
Within our spirit is the very D.N.A of God which is activated by the new birth of our spirit.
When our spirit entered the womb of our mother there was a flash of light and our soul was created and we became a distinct, unique individual.
Our body was formed in our mother’s womb and nine months later we were born a human being.
Our soul is directly related to our blood and we receive in it the D.N.A of our human parents.
Our soul is our distinct personality. Our soul is human but it is also eternal and hasa dimensional form. It has depths to it that we can explore and discover. It has different senses like imagination and reason. Our soul can think and feel.
As our soul begins to grow and develop it becomes conditioned and programmed through the law of heredity, or D.N.A programming that we receive from our human parents.
Our soul becomes conditioned by-environmental programming, our environmental upbringing, how we are being raised by our parents and peers.
Our soul becomes conditioned by experiential programming or trauma, the good and the bad things which we begin to experience in our life.
Everything our soul learns is from the outside in. It comes through our five physical senses into our soul.
God has ordained the time and place we were born that we might feel after him and begins to draw us to Himself.
Acts 17: 26And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined (Destine, to mark out definitely, appoint, to mark out the boundary of a place) the times (season, opportune time) before appointed, and the bounds (a setting of boundaries, laying down limits) of their habitation (place to live); 27That they should seek (to seek in order to find) the Lord, if haply (“if accordingly”) they might feel (to feel after a person, limited to the five senses, to feel your way uncertainly, be without guidance, to grope after as in the dark) after him, and find( to meet with, discover) him, though he be not far from every one of us: 28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
As we respond to His drawing, He convicts us through the light of His Spirit.
God is light, so when His Spirit is drawing us we come in contact with it and the result is that it reveals the areas of our soul (human life) that are not like Him.
Depending upon the condition of our soul it can be a struggle to come to the light. People do not come to the light because of darkness in their lives. They are not willing to surrender their lives (soul) to God because they want to hang on to the things that they are finding pleasure in.
The conditioning of people’s souls, cause walls to come up to God, this is why it takes wisdom to become a soul winner. To become a soul winner, we have to become a spirit opener.
A person’s soul has been conditioned from the outside in; some people have experienced traumatic experiences in this life that cause a wall to come up to God. Some have been programmed with religious doctrines, so that we cannot reach them through their minds. We need to learn how to minister to a person’s spirit until it begins to open up to God. It is called the law of attraction.
As we learn how to walk in the spirit, we will create an atmosphere that will attract people to God. The Holy Spirit is the happiest person you will ever meet in your life. He is so excited about what He will begin to create in our lives. As we learn how to allow the Joy of the lord to continually flow into our spirit and out through our soul and body into the atmosphere, it will attract people to the God inside of us. They will begin to ask us the reason for the hope that is continually manifesting through our lives.
The Holy Spirit loves people because that is who He is, He is love. His love is based upon who He is and not upon what other people do or say. He loves us the same on our best day as on our worst day. When people hate Him, He responds by loving them. The love of God never fails, because there is nothing you can do to stop it, and it will eventually break through the darkness in peoples souls and reach their spirit, if we learn how to walk in it.
The peace of God is like a mighty river, it has such power and force, that nothing coming against it can stop it. Nothing that happens in this life can affect it because it is eternal. As we learn how to get this peace flowing in our spirit it becomes a counter force, so that we are no longer moved by contrary circumstances, and people will be attracted to the peace in us. Why does nothing bother you?
You see it makes absolute sense to surrender our spirit to Jesus Christ to govern it through the inflow of His eternal life. No good thing will he withhold from those who learn how to walk in it.
Jesus just wants to remove from us all the things that steal, kill and destroy or are a counterfeit of the eternal life found in Him. The pleasures of sin are for a season and end in pain. But at His right hand are pleasures forevermore, they are eternal. Spiritual pleasures are far more gratifying, than those found in fulfilling the lusts and desires of the flesh.
The reality is that we have to surrender our spirit to the Lord, but the conditioning of people’s souls makes this hard for them to do because they do not understand what God is really, really like.
Unless God is given access to our spirit, He cannot transform our soul.
The reason a person’s spirit is not born of God is because they are not willing to give up control of their lives (soul). The word for our natural life is soul in the Greek.
But once a person’s spirit is born again, then their spirit will begin to desire after the things of God, and the desires in their soul that are contrary to their spirit’s desires, will no longer be able to compete, once they learn how to build up their spirit so that it becomes strong in the Lord.
We have heard must teaching on winning souls; the reality is that we need to learn how to become a spirit opener. Once a person’s spirit gets saved, then they will have the desire to deal with some of the things in their soul-life that they struggle with.