Friday, August 1, 2008

God MUST be your One and only teacher If you are ever to understand who you are in Him.

9:28 AM by Christi Bowman

When you come to the Bible you have to be willing to let God's Spirit interpret His Words to Your Spirit. Only when you truly allow Him to speak to you will you ever know who you are in Christ.

You can't come to God's Word with preconceived notions and ideas. You are not allowing Him to speak to you when you think you know everything or have been taught everything by people you believe are more spiritually minded or more educated than you. Matthew 23: 8 says:

"You all have a single Teacher, and you are all classmates. Don't set people up as experts over your life, letting them tell you what to do. Save that authority for God; let him tell you what to do."

Your church cannot interpret the Bible for you, nor can your church camp. Your Bible class teachers can't do it nor your Sunday School teachers. Your ministers can't. Your elders and deacons can't. Your denomination, or the lack there of, cannot tell you how to interpret the Bible.

No one can interpret God's Word to your spirit but God's Spirit...the Holy Spirit Himself. When you allow Him to, you will understand who YOU are. You will understand what YOU are to do with your one and only God given life here on this earth. You will know the truth.

John 14:26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

John 16:12-14 "I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 1But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you.

Here is an excerpt from an article that Andrew Wommack wrote "Understanding Spirit, Soul, and Body".

It's easy to know how your body feel's, whats going on in your mind, and what emotions you're experiencing. However, your spirit is much different. It cannot be accessed in any natural way.

John 3:6 says,

"That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit."

Jesus meant that there's no direct connection between the spirit and flesh. They are interrelated, but spirit is spirit and flesh is flesh. You simply cannot contact your spirit through your five senses or through your mind, will, or emotions. Therein lies one of the great problems of the Christian life!

If you don't understand that spiritual reality can't be felt, then you'll be confused when God's Word declares that you have the same power that raised Jesus from the dead living in you (Eph. 1:19-20). If you think truth can be discerned through your natural senses, you'll be baffled when the Bible says you're a brand-new creature who can do the same miraculous works that Jesus did (2 Cor. 5:17 and John 14:12).

The apparent disparity between your natural experiences and God's Word will cause you to throw up your hands in frustration and conclude, "It must not be true." It's understanding spirit, soul, and body that unlocks the spirit realm so you can experience who you are and what you have in Christ.

In the natural, the spirit realm can’t be seen or felt; the only way to accurately perceive spiritual truth is through the Bible. Simply take God's Word and believe it!

Jesus said in John 6:63,

"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life."

God's Word reveals spiritual reality. If you want to know what your spirit is like, you must find out from the Word, not rely on emotions or other perceptions. God's Word is spirit and life! When you look at your face in a mirror, you aren't really seeing yourself; you're viewing a reflection. Even though it's only a reflection, you have learned to trust it and act on what you see. God's Word is just like that mirror: it reflects perfectly who you are in the spirit.

"For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therin, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed”"(James 1:23-25).

You must look into God's mirror and trust the spiritual reality you see! It reflects your new born-again spirit, your innermost part. However, it does not reflect your body or your soul.

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