We need to learn how to abide in our spirit under pressure. Therefore, we need to learn the difference between our soul, our heart, and our spirit.
Our soul is our conscious mind, the heart is our sub-conscious mind, and our spirit is deeper than our conscious and sub-conscious mind, but also has a mind, the mind of Christ. The mind of Christ is the measure of the living word of God we get in our spirit. This is why our spirit has to eat the word of God to assimilate it into in our spirit.
Our spirit, soul and heart have more functions than just our mind, but the mind of our spirit is harder to discern, unless we have been baptized in the Spirit and can pray in tongues at will.
Think of your spirit as your breath, when YHWH breathed your spirit into your body the soul and heart was produced, I am not talking about your physical heart, but what the bible talks about when it mentions your soulical heart.
Je 17:9–10.9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; Who can know it? 10 I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Our heart which is our sub-conscious mind has been programed from the outside in through living in the world. That is why when we are under pressure our heart responds by murmuring, complaining, swearing and fear. This is why when we sleep, we usually have messed up dreams.
But when we enter the New Covenant, God gives us a new spirit, a new heart, and puts his Holy Spirit in us causing us to want to do the will of God.
So, our heart can be reprogramed. It is programmed by our physical brain, our life experiences being human.
But now that Christ has been born in our spirit, the brain can be reprogramed by our God encounters. Every time we encounter the manifest presence of God, where revelation flows into our spirit, it renews our mind. We are being transformed from the inside out.
The Lord is with us always; He never leaves nor forsakes us; but we must learn how to tune into Him so that His life is flowing into us.
Although the Lord or Holy Spirit is always with us, we do not always feel him, or hear him. That is why we must continually join our spirit to the Lord that it becomes one spirit. Joining our spirit to the Lord is just being aware of him. When you lose that conscious awareness of the presence of God, you just turn your focus back to him, in worship, which is surrendering to his Lordship over your spirit, soul and body, where you are being led by the Spirit in all your daily activities.
He is an ever-present help in times of trouble. He lifts us up above our enemies. He keeps us and sustains us. His willingness to help us is the foundation of our relationship with him. We must partner with the Holy Spirit, because without him we can do nothing that really pleases the Lord here on earth. This is why we are commanded to be continually filled with Him. To draw the fruit of the Spirit into our spirit so that it overflows into the rest of our being, creating a kingdom atmosphere around us, where we manifest the divine nature to those around us.
Do not fear, for am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely, I will help you, Surely, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand – Isaiah 41:10.
When we dwell on our circumstances, we becomedrawn into all the little details of the situation, which can be overwhelming. Then we begin to pray to the lord from our soul, instead of living in our spirit.
Then we begin to try to fix the problem moving independently of the lord, which is the flesh-that union of soul and body that acts independently of the Lord.
Because it is not working, we attempt to bring God into our circumstances. We pray to Him through the details of our circumstances, often telling Him what we want Him to do.
We are not to live in our circumstances; we are to live in Christ. We can either live in our circumstances or be seated in Christ in heavenly places, in a place of rest. But we cannot do both at the same time.
The father is always drawing us, and when we respond to Him, we are separating ourselves from our circumstances and we are coming into our prayer closet and shutting the door behind us.
A closet is a confined place, where we are shut in with God, not distracted by other things, and the enemy is shut out.
We do not take our problems into the closet; we take our revelations, our destiny, our identity, and our promises and provisions from God.
We are coming to the Lord face to face, to appropriate more of Him, so that when we come out of the closet, we will not be so influenced by the circumstances we may find ourselves in.
In His presence, we feel lighthearted, and we are enabled to joyfully cast our cares on to Him.
In times of, adversity, pressure, and assault, as we enter the secret place within, and become caught up in our awareness of Him, then we often forget our reason for entry.
We need to allow the father to separate us from our circumstances. We cast the whole of our care upon Him. How do we do this? Picture yourself holding a heavy weight above your head, then throw it as far as you can.
This is casting your care upon Him; you are no longer focusing on it; and come into the place of intimacy and affection where we receive a revelatory perspective that empowers us through the provision of God. We see what we are becoming in Him, and the other things are added to us, because we are seeking first His kingdom and His righteousness.
In the earth realm problems become a threat, causing hurt and interfering with our well-being. But in the kingdom realm of heaven, they are opportunities to discover the promises and provisions of the finished work of the Cross that will enable our destiny to be fulfilled.
As we learn how to enter the kingdom realm, we find ourselves being immersed in God, His Spirit fills us and surrounds us and even sometimes overwhelms us, so that we are enabled to look through His eyes, feel his heart.
His viewpoint is utterly amazing and as we begin to see what He is doing; we are empowered to step back into our circumstances and live out what we are hearing and seeing once we learn how to develop our spiritual sight.
Jesus is always talking about having ears to hear and sometimes eyes to see. He is referring to spiritual ears and eyes. When we were born from above, YHWH commanded light to shine in our hearts, that we might have spiritual ears to hear, and spiritual eyes to see.
As we learn how to live in the kingdom realm, we will find the Faith of God coming into us; no longer will we struggle in the earthly realm of unbelief.
As we learn how to live a lifestyle of celebration, worshiping the Lord through our spirit, we will begin to find it easier and easier to enter the secret place in times of difficulty.
It is through our worship and praying in the spirit, that we are transported into another dimension. We continue until the world fades away from us, and we enter a different dimension of God’s presence.
When our spirit is activated and being filled with God the senses in our spirit open, and we intuitively sense what we need to do and hope begins to be birthed in us.
The peace of God begins to fill our being and all the stress and tension slips away. We begin to see a vision of our circumstances with a different ending.
The secret place enables us to have a heart relationship with God that refreshes our soul, renews our mind, and increases our faith as we begin to see things in the spirit.
Human reasoning keeps us earthbound. Revelatory insight comes from a different dimension. It is a manifestation of the Spirit that comes from being in Christ in heavenly places.
We need to speak out of our spirit, not our head. Our mind is influenced by our spirit, and we receive a renewed capacity to think differently. What we hear in our spirit reforms our thinking and becomes our confession.
When God speaks to our spirits, we have an experience of Him to go with His words.
It is possible to have knowledge without revelation. We may know much, but we have no experience of what we know. Eventually we are disheartened because we know about God, but we don’t know Him intimately where we are being led by him.
It is in our prayer closet, being shut in to encounter God, that we will get a new perspective on the circumstances of life that are keeping us earthbound.