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His Spirit Bears Witness With Our Spirit
We read in Walking With God that God’s Seal of Salvation, is His witness (assurance, anointing, testimony) deep in believers’ hearts that they have eternal life.
The Bible says that every believer in Jesus Christ has the Spirit of God in their heart, confirming that they are God’s child with the life of Christ in them.
In the previous Lifeline, I asked you to take time to locate this witness of God’s testimony in your own spirit.
Why?
Because it is vital to learn to focus on the deep inner witness, that’s where God directs you in every detail of life: Not through your mind, not through thoughts, feelings, or circumstances, but through His Spirit in your spirit.
The Holy Bible teaches that, under the New Covenant, the main way the LORD leads His children is by the Inner Witness of the Spirit of God.
Many scriptures confirm this, for example;
God’s Witness
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.
Rom. 8:16 KJV
Notice; He doesn’t bear witness with your mind, but with your spirit, your heart.
God is Spirit, so He communicates with us through our spirits.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Rom. 8:14 KJV
So children of God are led by His Spirit, who resides in their heart, their spirit.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Jn. 1:4 KJV
The life of Christ is His Spirit in your heart, and His Spirit lights your way.
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
Pro. 20:27 KJV
The Lord’s candle, or lamp, lights and reveals the path we are to take, and He shines it in man’s spirit, his inmost being, not his mind.
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
1 Jn. 2:27 KJV
The born again anointing within our hearts instructs, or teaches, us about all things, and believers are to trust and follow that anointing because it is real, and from God.
Understand: You Are A Spirit
The word says that man, is a tripartite being; spirit, soul, and body, made in the image of God. Gen. 1:27, 1 Thess. 5:23b KJV;
And I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The real you is the human spirit.
You have a mind, will, and emotions, which constitute your soul, and you live in a body.
Tell yourself, “I am a spirit, my mind, will and emotions, are my soul, and I live in this body.”
Don’t confuse your spirit with your soul, they are entirely different, yet many people erroneously speak of them as though the terms are interchangeable.
They are not, and that’s why some Christians get tied in knots over God’s will for their lives.
They listen to their souls, instead of listening to their spirit. They are carnal instead of spiritually mature Christians.
They fail continuously because they follow their flesh, not their spirit. They’re very immature or deluded phoney Christians.
Become Spirit-Conscious
Learn to distinguish your spirit from your soul, and you’ll avoid all kinds of problems.
Christians are Spirit-led, we are instructed to follow the Spirit of God in our hearts. The Bible often uses the word heart for the human spirit.
It is your spirit that has been born again, not your body, or your soul.
Your spirit was made holy and righteous, a new creature, a new creation, the moment you received Christ and His resurrection life.
Dominate Your Flesh & Renew Your Mind
You still live in the same body.
You also had the same mind, will and emotions; the same soul, didn’t you?
That is why Christians are instructed to keep their bodies under the control of their spirits, and to renew their minds according to God’s word. It is our duty.
God re-created you a new creature in Christ, but it is you who must control your body, and renew your mind.
Here it is, in Rom. 12:1 KJV;
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
We are to ensure our bodies behave in a holy manner, pleasing to God, in view of His mercy to us. The next verse goes on to say;
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.
The same teaching is repeated in more detail in Col. Ch. 3.
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