Each day we must wake up spiritually, today while it is yet called today, is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it!
When we wake up in the morning, if we are not excited and hop out of bed, our spirit is still asleep. Our spirit must wake up to! Our spirit must be awakened to God.
Our spirit must be activated, awakened in its communication with God. We must consciously open our spirit to God. Our spirit is awakened in its awareness of the Lord. A simple good morning Lord, is directing our spirit to the Lord, so we can allow him to lead us.
If we don’t learn how to walk in the spirit, our spirit may not wake up until we come to church and begin to worship.
If we don’t have a walk with God, we may sleep all week and then when we come to church on Sunday, we come into contact with a spiritual atmosphere which wakes up our spirit, and we begin to feel God moving in our heart. This is because we are still basically living unto ourselves and not the will of God.
The will of God is first a state of spirit, a state of heart, a spiritual condition, out of which The Spirit of God begins to work in our heart to desire and to do His good pleasure.
Our spirit must wake up, to begin to desire and to hunger for God. Once our spirit is awake, it must be sustained and fed. Our spirit is nourished and strengthened in its contact with God. When our spirit is awake, then our soul is conscious of the life of God.
The best way to locate our spirit is to begin to pray in other tongues, so that our spirit begins to make contact with God, and then it will overflow into the conscious level where our soul is conscious of the life of God.
If our soul is being clouded or oppressed by the things of this world, we can dial out the conscious level and reach into the realm of the Spirit until our spirit is strengthened enough, where the things that our soul is aware of, that are contrary to God, lose their power of influencing the things we do and say.
If we learn how to watch and pray, then if temptation comes, we will not enter the power of it. The weakness of the flesh will not overcome us. We will not be following the Lord afar off.
We will be able to possess our souls in the patience of the Lord. The word of God promises us if we walk in the Spirit, we will it is impossible to fulfill the desire of the flesh. The word not is a double negative, which means no-never. We will be able to rule our spirit, bringing our soul into subject to it, and in every circumstance be pleasing unto the Lord. Allowing the Spirit of God to rule and reign in our lives, glorifying the Lord.
God delights in every movement of our spirit toward Him, and this is a key to understanding the Christian life, it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
In and of ourselves there is nothing we can do to please God; it is His Spirit in us moving, bringing everything in our heart into submission to Him.
And this faith is His faith which is a gift of God. It is a mystery, without Him we can do nothing, but through Him we can do all things, we give Him all the Glory!
The crown He gives us we give back to him, we love Him because He put it in our heart his very own divine love to love Him back with. Our basic discipline is to expose our heart, turn our heart to the Lord. Exposure to His Glory is what motivates us and changes us!
Eph5:13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.
We start out in darkness, and unless we begin to walk in the light His Spirit reveals to us, darkness comes back upon us. It is only as our spirit is communicating with him, that we can stay free from the darkness and deception of this age.
Eph5:14 Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.”
A personal relationship with God involves a walk with God, we are following on to know the Lord.
A walk with God requires some basic disciplines in our life. The Lord is seeking worshipers; we will never be able to walk with the Lord unless we learn how to 1- worship the Lord. 2 -how to wait upon lord 3-how to meditate upon His Word 4- how to pray. 5-and how to communicate His Spirit to others.
Each day can be lived in the Spirit where we can walk in at least a measure if not all that the Lord has for us that day.
If we remember that we must wake up spiritually by spending a couple moments in the morning worshiping the Lord. We must open our spirit to the Lord, to stir ourselves up into the realm of the spirit. Meditate on at least one verse of scripture so that our spirit has something to reach into and spend a couple moments listening, waiting on the Lord for direction for the day.
Eph5:15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
A walk in the Spirit is a flow of the Spirit, God moving in our heart to desire and obey. As we learn how to be aware of His presence, His Spirit can be in everything we do and say. The key is in keeping an awareness of His Spirit during the day.
Eph5:17 Therefore do not be unwise but understand what the will of the Lord is.
As we learn how to keep our spirit right toward God, to keep our spiritual eye good, then our whole being will be filled with light. Our spirit functions mostly even below the subconscious level, it has to do with our intentions and attitude. We need to have an attitude of brokenness, total dependence upon the Lord, repentance, humility. We need to have an attitude of gratitude and worship and joy. We should be always able to feel the strength of the lord in our spirit.
Our spirit should be continually drawing on the Lord and released in the things we do and say. We need to learn how to continually keep our spirit in tune with the Lord. If we will spend time just praying in tongues, we can begin to discern the movements of our spirit. We need to begin to be aware of the difference between our spirit and our soul.
Baby Christians operate in the realm of the soul; I call it having a religious spirit. Until we learn how to keep our spirit active in the Lord, our soul will not magnify the Lord, but operate in independence of His Spirit.
Eph5:18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another in the fear of God.
Our will is more closely related to our spirit than our soul or body. We can set our will and determine we are going to do certain things and our spirit will respond. Once our spirit is awake, it is alive unto God, it starts communicating with God and drawing upon the Life of the Lord.
Our will is not that closely related to our soul or our body. If we set our will to overcome an addiction, like smoking-the soul and body will fight against it.
When Christ is first born in our spirit, there are areas of our soul that are still dead to God. The soul goes through a process of death, burial, and resurrection, where our soul goes through a transforming process and is renewed and restored to the image of God.
Some of our desires, feelings and thought patterns are contrary to the Spirit of God and must be restored. We have soul ties-to this world. We must lose our life (soul) in order for it to get saved. Losing our soul is bringing it into submission to the life of God in our spirit.
As we learn how to walk in the Spirit, our soul goes through a transformation. The life (soul) of the body is in the blood. Our soul and body are closely tied together. We literally need a spiritual blood transfusion, where the eternal life of God cleanses our soul and body-blood stream.
Our spirit affects every part of us, so that when our spirit is active and alive in God, it affects us mentally, emotionally, and physically.
It is as our soul comes under the lordship of Jesus Christ over our spirit, that we enter into wholeness, even our body is strengthened as the eternal life of God flows into our soul and body.