Dear friend, I woke one day realizing that by allowing the soul to continue to dominate in seemingly unimportant aspects of life, stagnated pools began to appear in the ever flowing river of spiritual walk.
You may ask why I bother to talk at length now about this spiritual issue? Does it really matter? After all we all live in a physical world, isn’t intellect more important to ensure a good physical and mental life?
My friend, this was what I once thought. Alas, the presumptuous thinking is wrong. Nothing is more important than the spiritual realm and the reality of the spiritual God’s relationship with a believer, who was born again by the Spirit of Christ and has become a spiritual being living in a natural world with a soul housed in a physical body.
According to the Bible I am really a spiritual beings having a soul (mind and emotion), living inside a body. I have the capacity to communicate with the spiritual God. It is already programmed in the born again spirit of mine. It is up to me to follow God’s manual (the Bible), as taught by the Holy Spirit, to access the spiritual connection, which in turn will develop my knowledge of God through a close communion-relationship with Him. The enabling of all this started with the Holy Spirit drawing me to Christ Jesus, on the day of my salvation. I was given a rebirth with a new spirit. I was given a new status of being a child of God. I was given a new position/ID as being in Christ. My new spirit is joined to the Lord, one spirit with Him.
I know all these through head knowledge, but I need to practice the walk in the Spirit, as that is the only route. During the last three months I encountered the spiritual God’s reality even more. The more I look at the physical realm out there, the more I am aware of the prompting of an urgency to be continually spiritual as a way of life. There is no option. No believer can opt out. Christians are born again to be supernaturally natural. Jesus said we are in the world but not of the world. If this is not important Jesus would not have said so in His prayer to the Father in His last prayer for His disciples before He went to the cross. (John 17:11, 16)
What is so great about being born again?
The main thing is we are born of God. We are born of His Spirit. We become a new creation. We can now call God Abba Father. We are now the citizens of the Kingdom of God. We are God’s children, co-heirs with Christ. We have the same Spirit with Jesus. Because God is our Father, we now have supernatural in our DNA! All that Jesus had done needed supernatural spiritual authority and power. Jesus said we can now do the things that He did and even bigger things.
Why do I suddenly become so adamant to point out this truth? Because, many believers may be at a cross road of decisions over urgent physical issues. We have been complacent in blissful oblivion of the spiritual reality for far too long resulting what Jesus had warned in John 10:10 about the spiritual thief coming to pass. We have each received a big “divine-preventive-care” check from our Father and never cashed it in. Now we are confronted with the real big issue and many of us do not know how to cash the check because we have never walked or have forgotten how to walk in the Spirit or live by the Spirit.
No, my friend, it is not too late to cash your check as long as it is still today. The Father is ever ready to help you. How do we exercise our supernatural nature through the spiritual gifts, as in school for the mind, and in gym for the body? That has been my journey all these years of living by the Spirit.
There are many different specialized training schools with different spiritual/supernatural practical gifting focuses and purposes. For example, divine healing, tongues and interpretations, working of signs and miracles, prophecy, visions and dreams, deliverance from oppressions, words of knowledge and words of wisdom, discerning of spirits, word and faith, and many others. However, the best teacher Jesus has recommended is the Holy Spirit Himself.
Recently I heard this important phrase,”progressive revelation”. I have long acknowledged that I could not have all the revelations even if I had attended all the Bible schools in the world. We all need the Holy Spirit to reveal to each of us at each level in our walk with Him.
Because my Father is Spirit, spiritual things should be in my nature. There are many ways to commune with our Father in heaven and receive revelation. A friend reads the Bible, prays in tongue (all the time) and listens to the Father that way. I go to the attic and focus in the spirit (read the Bible, praise and worship, pray in tongue at length, and lately listen to Kenneth E Hagin’s leading his congregation in tongue), keep my mind focused on thinking of matters of God, mainly His words, and in the process the senses of my spirit would be sharpened and become more sensitive to God’s voice/words to me.
The manifestation spiritual gifts would appear in varying degrees.
Nine manifestation gifts are listed in I Corinthians 12:7–11:
Word of wisdom, Word of knowledge, Faith, Gifts of healing, Working of miracles, Prophecy, Discerning of spirits, Divers kinds of tongues, Interpretation of tongues.
Are they of any practical use when we are not in a front line ministry? Lately I have discovered that it is essential to practice them because we never know when the Lord needs to manifest them through us. An unsharpened axe is of no use when you need to cut down a tree. If your ax is dull and you don’t sharpen it, you have to work harder to use it. It is wiser to plan ahead. (Ecclesiastes 10:10) For example, you cannot suddenly manifest a gift of healing if you have not been using it and seeing results. I am not saying there are no exceptions, and I also believe that each believer can manifest healing by faith in God’s words and promises. But often we see healing manifests when prayed for by regular users of that gift.
If all healings can be done by every believer then why is there a manifestation of a special healing gift to heal? Or a special gift of faith to heal? Or a special gift of working of miracles to heal? Let us not limit God and His works in us, no matter the ways through which the desired expectant results manifest. We can reach and heal more people when we do not limit God’s way.
The spiritual supernatural sharpening of our ability to tap into the spirit is essential. This is especially urgent and important as we note the coming to pass of God’s words, just as Jesus and His apostles had warned.
The apostle Paul advises believers our requirement to walk this life circumspectly, and the spiritual way to live.
Ephesians 5:15-21 (NKJV)
Walk in Wisdom
15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 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.
Words from Jesus in the book of John to assure and encourage us of how we can have an assured close relationship with God through our union in the spirit:
John 1:16, 3:3, 3:5, 4:24, 6:40, 6:63, 7:38, 8:29, 14:1, 14:12, 14:20, 14:26, 15:5, 15:7, 16:13-15, 16:23, 16:33, 17:3, 17:23
The apostle Paul’s testimonies of a believer’s relationship with God and how God communes with them:
Acts 17:28 “for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘for we are also His offspring.’
Acts 18:9-10 9 Now the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a vision, “Do not be afraid, but speak, and do not keep silent; 10 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to hurt you; for I have many people in this city.”
Acts 22:7, 8, 10, 18, 21, 26:14-18 The risen Jesus spoke to Paul on the way to Damascus, giving him his calling, and later in Jerusalem
Paul testified that the Gospel he received came direct from the revelation of Jesus Christ Himself. (Galatians 1:12) Total words written by Paul: 50,190 words Total words in the New Testament: 179,011 So Paul wrote 50190/179011 or 28% of the NT. Can you imagine the amount of time the Lord had spent with him, inspiring him what to write and how to write? Paul took about 14 years in preparation before he started preaching.
Paul’s writing revealed his deep knowledge of the Holy Spirit through a personal walk by the Spirit himself. One fact we know is that Paul prayed in tongue more than the whole Corinthians church combined! (1 Corinthians 14:18)! He knew how to work with the Holy Spirit, or rather, let the Spirit take charge!
In his letter to the Corinthians church, he said, “For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays” (1 Corinthians 14:14) He prayed in tongue to communicate with God, and in turn received in the supernatural from God, 14:2 2 “For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries. 4 He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself 5 I wish you all spoke with tongues15 What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding.”
For example, In Romans 8:1-26 alone we can find 21 mentions of the Holy Spirit, in these important doctrinal teachings about what the Holy Spirit who dwells in us accomplishes for us, and how we need to respond to the Spirit in our new life in Christ Jesus: The Spirit of life set us free from the law of sin and death, gives us life and peace, gives life to our mortal bodies (just as he raised Christ from the dead), bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, helps in our weaknesses, makes intersessions for us according to the will of God. We on our part need to: be led by the Spirit, walk according to the Spirit, live according to the Spirit by setting our mind on the things of the Spirit, by the Spirit put to death the deeds of the body.
1 Corinthians 6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
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Postscript: For those who are not yet baptized in the Holy Spirit, this is the time to get baptized now. The Pentecost Sunday will fall on 2022 June 5 this year.
A prayer to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit:
All you have to do is ask, believe, and receive! Pray,
Father, I recognize my need for Your power to live this new life. Please fill me with Your Holy Spirit. By faith, I receive it right now! Thank You for baptizing me. Holy Spirit, You are welcome in my life.
Congratulations! The Lord promised that He would give the Holy Spirit to all who asked Him in faith (Luke 11:10-13). If you believe His promise, you’re filled with God’s supernatural power!
kainotes, 2022-04-24
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