Live In The Spirit (Part 2)

Last time I talked about how we are to live in the spirit by understanding that it is the spiritual realm that controls the physical realm. I also explained how Believers have the exact spirit of Jesus of which we are to operate from the realm of this spirit because this spirit of Jesus has all authority in heaven, earth and under the earth. The question I posed was, how do we live in the spirit? Let’s find out.

I talked about how Daniel got answers from God by looking unto the mercies of God; as I said, Daniel didn’t have the fullness of the Holy Spirit in him, so let’s look at the first one who had the fullness of God in Him, Jesus. For Jesus, “...having risen a long while before daylight. He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed.” (Mark 1:35 NKJV). If you check several places in the gospels you would find Jesus always went to solitary places to pray. The prayer here was deep meditation with His Father in heaven; He already had the Holy Spirit in Him so He meditated on who He was and His mandate on earth, so that was why He needed a place that was quiet. Quiet time is a very important part to in order to commune in the Spirit; it helps you focus on the scriptures without any physical distractions.

Another is fasting; fasting kills physical form distraction and allows you to focus when meditating on the scriptures and become the scriptures; you become the truth in the scriptures because in order to doubt the scriptures you need physical strength, but when the physical strength is taken away, you only have the spiritual to focus on. Jesus when answering the Pharisees about why His disciples didn’t fast, He said, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.” (Matthew 9:15 NKJV). Now that the bridegroom has gone and His Spirit is now in us, we need to get in contact with the Holy Spirit and allow Him work through us.

Another powerful way we can live in the Spirit is through speaking in tongues; this is the ability God has put on every Believers mouth that possesses the Holy Spirit in Him; this ability is the speaking of mysteries, mysteries that only the Holy Spirit understands; in order words, it is a spiritual language where we declare who we are in Christ in the Spirit. The mystery is so deep that it can’t be understood by man except through the gift of interpretation. When we pray, we pray with our understanding, but when we back it up with tongues the Holy Spirit takes over and speak the exact words to God. The bible says in Romans 8:26-27, “Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groaning which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the heart knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” (NKJV).

Praise is a very powerful way of getting into the Spirit realm; praise itself is Spiritual because your focus is on God and when you keep doing that, your faith is strengthened and you live in the realm of the Spirit. Praise is a form of meditation just the way speaking in tongues is. Fasting enhances our focus and as I said, it’s not a magic wand. All these mentioned enable us to see the Jesus’ Spiritual realm as the real life and not the physical world we live in.

The reason why we need to live in the Spirit is because the physical realm is controlled by spiritual forces. Once you get a hold of living the life of the Holy Spirit you have control of the heaven, earth and under the earth. This is the reason why when sickness attacks, you command it to leave your physical body and it does, this is because you’ve come to understand the physical world is not real only what the Spiritual world says is real. So we define the physical world by making it align with what we believe which is the Spiritual world of Jesus.

As we live in the Spirit, certain qualities emerge which are the fruit of the Spirit which is love, joy, peace, longsuffering or patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control [ref. Galatians 5:22-23]. So, if we live in the Spirit, we are to walk in the Spirit [ref. Galatians 5:25]. This is the quality of one who lives in the Spirit, and whatever you do prospers [ref. Psalms 1:3].

The scriptures which are meditated upon are inspiration from God, “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Focusing on the Scriptures is to live the life of Jesus since we are joint heirs with Him, so living in the Spirit is to live the exact life of Jesus who has total dominion in the universe. The Scriptures purify us just as it says, “...profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. Also it makes us transformed by the renewal of our mind.

The summary of all these is that we have been given a new life but we don’t know how to use this life; praising God, fasting, speaking in tongues all help us in our meditation on who we are which the Scriptures reveal to us; this cannot be understood with the ordinary mind but with the Spirit of God [ref. 1 Corinthians 2:6-16]. With this, we then have the mind of Christ; as a result of this all things become ours because we are of Christ [ref. 1 Corinthians 3:21-23].

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

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GOD BLESS YOU.

Unless otherwise stated, the following scriptures are gotten from King James Version (KJV)q