He who joins his spirit to the Lord is one spirit. 1cor 6:17 Joins is in the continuous tense. It is something we need to continuously do. It is called abiding in the Lord. We need to be continuously aware of the presence of the Lord. If we lose our awareness of His Presence we have to tune back in.
Cares of this world, desires for other things, persecution, trying circumstances can break our spirit’s connection to the Lord. We get out of the realm of the spirit and into our soul, we need to step back into our spirit so that it is in the forefront of our consciousness.
I can tune into the Lord, it is called joining my spirit to His. Through that spirit connection, His life flows through my spirit into my soul where I am conscious of it.
Joining our spirit to the Lord is called drawing from our relationship to Him, He becomes all things to us, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, redemption. Whatever we need He becomes to us. It is called looking unto the Lord.
In the new birth of our spirit, we have a yes in our spirit to God. Our will has direct control over our spirit but not our soul. Our soul is affect by things from without. But as we join our spirit to the Lord, the life of God flows through our spirit into our soul and we become conscious of the fruit of the Spirit, of the divine nature of God.
By my will I can tune into the love of God, the joy of the Lord, the peace of God, I can tune into all the attributes of the new nature, and they flow into me, I am being filled with the Spirit.
Now this does not mean that I am not troubled at times. That I am not tempted by some lust of the flesh, or some oppression of the enemy. But I have learned how to break connection with that, sometimes it my take a while. I just quite my soul and be still before the Lord, and know that He is my God. I wait on the Lord, I worship and praise the Lord.
If you have not been baptized in the Spirit, with the ability to speak in tongues at will, you might not be able to draw at will the life of God into you. But you can still be filled with the Spirit but it takes longer.
We have to first of all be aware of our spirit, when we speak in tongues we are instantly aware of our spirit. We have to learn how to speak from our spirit. We need to put the Spirit or release the Spirit in our words. The moment we are aware of our spirit, then we direct our focus toward the Lord. Our spirit has senses, it has eyes-we look to the Lord. It has ears we listen to the Lord. Our spirit intuitively knows things. Our spirit has feelings, we can feel God’s Spirit.
Our spirit can also tune into our brothers and sisters in the Lord, we are all one spirit with the Lord. There is no individuality in the new birth of our spirit. We are all of one spirit with the Lord.
Our individuality is in our soul. And our soul receives redemptive gifts from God, which make us different and interdependent upon one another in the Body of Christ.
We have to learn how to be aware of our spirit and join it to the Lord so that it is one spirit. Then we need with our spirit to tune into our brother and sister in the Lord, then we can intercede and pray for them, then we can speak words filled with the Spirit to them.
It is through this oneness of Spirit, that we are able to walk with the Lord and begin to be led by The Spirit. But first we focus on becoming, joining our spirit to the Lord, abiding in Him, and then we can focus on doing, on walking with the Lord.
Jesus is no longer just one spirit with His Father, when He ascended and sat down on the right side of the throne with His Father, He universalized His Spirit by pouring it out upon us, so that we too are now one spirit with him. In the Spirit the Lord is a many member body and wants to live through you, it is an exciting life, it is a walk in the Spirit.
Jesus’s individuality resides in His soul, but we worship Him through our spirit and magnify Him with our soul.