Christian Living

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Spirit Filled, Spirit Led, Spirit Controlled

This is what you say you are; spirit filled, spirit led, and spirit controlled. Well how can certain things happen in your life that seems to crunch your confessions? Well let us make you aware that it does happen, in your marriages, doing separation, in divorce and remarriage.

In the times that we live in, it causes us to look to things or people, other than the true source of all of our needs. Our need for inner strength is often clouded by our own inner feelings. Well, how many of you know that we do not serve God by how we feel. Our feelings are not in the equation of life whereas God is concerned. It is all about God or should be. Although God does not go against our wills, in the final analysis you will return unto him one way or another.

It will come a time in your sanctified saved life that you will wonder what your soul is worth. To find out, you must look in the inner man of the heart, search out your spirit, let the heart abide in his word, keep a clean heart, clean hands and a clean spirit, be spirit filled, for then and only then can the spirit come, let the spirit lead you, control your life, and see how God sees you.

What is your soul worth? Romans 13:1-4, let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but, of God; the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resists the power, resist the ordinance of God; and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou shall have praise of the same. For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain; for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that do evil.

Do not compromise your salvation., being under the power of the working of the anointing do not work in a practiced church unless the leader opens his heart to the full power of God. Taking the power to the practiced saints do not work unless they are receptive to God’s spirit, but practice to power do work if they freely receive. When we go to do the right things as we think is right, we have to ask ourselves will it compromise your beliefs. Light has no communion with darkness.

Except God anoints you for a work, do not try it on your own. When you go somewhere thinking God will move because you are there, think again. If that leader is not receptive to the Spirit of God, what make you think he will be so receptive to you, with your most holier than thou self. You are unequally yoked together with unbelievers when you cuss over your faith and lower your standards of reception of the power of God, to hear them and their anointing is of man. You have to realize that you are watering down your convictions when you cross reference with that good Baptist. That good Baptist unless he is saved, sanctified, Holy Ghost filled, fire baptized, that is all he is, is Baptist. He has no power for deliverance, not only for himself. Your soul will not be fed as it is used to and it will suffer malnutrition. I speak to you out of experience. Your soul will suffer, why torment your mind and soul by carrying your body through those changes. They will lie, deceive you, cuss you out, disrespect you, and says you are nothing and nobody.

God said, obey your husband in the Lord; that is if he is leading you in spiritual things and living right. You follow him as he follow Christ, but you do not sit under spirits that will only take you away from God. You will find that you have blood on your hands; for he that has knowledge to do what is right and do it not, it is sin. You are trying to please men; rather than God to gain the approval of an unsanctified person, by watering down your convictions and lose out with God. What is your soul worth to you?
You do not consider that you can walk off into evil and end up in the wrath of God.

Subject means you are under the power or authority of another; owing obedience or allegiance to another, to submit for consideration, to the discipline or authority of.

Resist is to strive or work against, fight off, oppose, actively, to remain firm against the action or effect of, or to withstand. It also means to keep from giving in to or enjoying, abstain from, offer resistance, and to act in opposition.

Powers is the abilities, or capacities to act or perform effectively specific capacities, faculties; or aptitudes. The strength or force exerted, the ability or official capacity to exercise control over others.

Ordained means to invest with ministerial or priestly authority, confer holy orders upon; to order by virtue of superior authority, to decree in part, of the order of nature or of the universe. It also means to prearrange, or predestine.

Damnation is the act of damning; which means to pronounce an adverse judgment upon, to criticize adversely, bring about the failure of or to ruin. It also means to condemn as harmful, illegal, or immoral, or the condition of being damned. Condemnation to everlasting punishment, and failure or ruination occurred by adverse criticism.

Wrath is the violent, resentful anger, rage, or manifestation of anger. It is also the divine retribution for sin, it is wrathful, fiercely angry or vengeance.

So here we see that we have to submit and be subject to a higher power, which has determined the resting place of our soul, even as it has been ordained that if we do not obey God, we will receive God’s eternal wrath, which is damnation.

What is in the hidden man of the heart? The hidden man of the heart is the Spirit man. We need to enhance the positive things in us so that we can go to the next level in the spirit. Get rid of the negative things in us. The inner man spends more time pampering, and cleansing the inner man and we will be much better.

Now what is inside the inner man of the heart, the hidden man of the heart?

So many people hide their sin and do not want to be around the power, for the anointing destroys the yoke. The anointing contains a yoke destroying power that the con artist spirit that has crept into the church does not want to properly address. When we do not allow our spirits to be spiritually enhanced we are carnal, unsaved or either we are spiritual but malnutrition and saved.

Operating in our spiritual lives is that, that which is not corruptible, or contrary to the will, we should have a meek and quiet spirit; one that is power under control, not contentious, root of problems, regularly quiet, and not causing problems. Jesus was meek but he knew how to handle things as well as do things right. God considers love is something of a great price and it will constrain you. We also need to be submissive and be wise in all things.

The carnal perspective is what to do as a spiritual person in a natural world. We need to look at the heart, the hidden man; for God will beautify the meek with salvation. In
I Samuel 16:7 God exhorts us not to look on the outward appearance of man, but, look on the heart, the inner man. God wants us to have a circumsized heart, one that has had the excess of sin cut out of it according to Galatians 6:15. He wants our heart full of nothing but love and obedience that we may live the gospel. I Corinthians 9:14 tell us, that; they which preach of the gospel so ought to live the gospel. This, life we live in righteousness and holiness is the thing that will separate us and make us different.

Our heart must be one that abides in Christ. I Samuel 16:7 but the Lord said unto Samuel, look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature, because I have refused him; for man see not as God see; for man look on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart. Psalms 15:1 says Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

Abide means to wait patiently for, to be in store for, wait, to withstand, and to persevere under. To accept the consequences of, to put up with, tolerate. To remain in ones place; or state, to continue, or endure, to dwell or sojourn, to conform to, or comply with. Abiding, simply mean enduring. The heart is the vital center of man’s being, emotions and sensibilities, the seat or repository of emotions, emotional constitution, and disposition or mood. It has a capacity for love, affection, sympathy, inner strength or character, and fortitude. It is the central or innermost part. The heart is the hollow muscular organ that pumps blood received from the veins into the artery, supplying the entire circulatory system.

The abiding heart is one that endures hardness as a good soldier. It stands the test of time and it waits patiently to pump life into what seems like lifeless situations. It also waits on change to come, change for the good, and comply with it. An abiding heart is one that flows after God’s orders, the truth, his ordinance and knows his purpose.

Who shall abide in God’s spirit is the heart with pureness in all three areas, clean hands, a clean heart, and a clean spirit. Psalms 24 tell you how you may abide and Psalms 15 tells you who shall abide. You need to know these scriptures because sometime the abiding heart gets discouraged, gets broken sometime, falls in love with God and stays there, and it do not put pressure on love ones but relieves pressure because of the love they show. It is also not cruel or mean, it does not hate, it satisfies without price, their motives is right and it shows God out of a pure confession.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornication, thefts, false witness, and blasphemies. These are the things, which defile a man. We should love the Lord with all of our heart, all of our soul, all of our mind and with all of our strength. If we keep our hearts pure and abide in the truth then our mind and soul will be clean.

An abiding heart will keep our spirit clean and cause us to be blessed, but if you will not hear and lay it to heart, to give glory to God out of a pure heart, God will curse you. We have to lay these; things that we have heard to heart, to do them and to abide in them. We need to be concerned about how God sees us.

How does God see you? Genesis 6:8 but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Can grace be found in your life? What do God see when he looks at you? Do he have to repent he made you, or can he use you? Now grace is to bend or stoop, condescending or unmerited favor of a superior person to an inferior one. Man’s actions turned God’s heart and it changed his whole direction for them. He saw them as evil. God do not deal in evil. Evil is associated with Satan. Just as man hurts, God hurts. He made man in his own image, his finest creation and here man has caused his very heart to hurt. Sometime we change our minds about people by certain actions exhibited by them. We make an opinion and see them a certain way and when they are not the way we see them, we do not want them or we get away from them. Well God is no different. We change our minds and our intentions toward them are no longer the same. We may even repent we ever knew them, because we are hurt. We should show forth more grace and forgiveness than we do. God gives grace according to Proverbs 3:34 and so should we have a spirit of grace, and be full of grace and truth. Romans 5:17 remind us of God’s grace in abundance, as some of us, has had to have a plenty of grace, for it is by grace that we are saved. Because of grace, we have mercy and peace, for which we should be eternally grateful.

People put options where eternity rests. They dismiss the power and use every other idea they come up with. It is usually not a God idea, but a good idea. When you walk in the spirit, work in the spirit, people will look for you, just as they did Jesus in the word. People needing deliverance sought out Jesus. They just believed that if they could only reach him, they would be healed, delivered, and set free. The spirit of God; will have its perfect work according to John 4:41. God’s spirit will also help you to give up the world, as well as anoints you for a specific work, Matthew 10:37 and Luke 4:18-19. After you have been anointed for what God has called you for, he makes provision for the vision and he gives you an undying passion for the word and the work, Isaiah 40:7-8. A passion for the word of God stimulate in you a fresh hunger for the word of God, it helps you understand your identity and encourages you to persist in prayer.

A hunger reveals your deficit in an area of life. You should have a hunger for souls. A hunger also measures you spiritual state. It gives you a hunger for lost souls, and this means you are hot and you must have the word, not only have the word, but be an authority of the word according to Genesis 1:3. God spoke the word, he did not draw, use sign language, cry, mummer, shout, or play musical instruments, God, spoke the word. He spoke that he could use words and that for our sakes. By using the spoken word, God has mysteriously revealed to us one of the secrets of life and of spirit.

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