(JOB 13:15) Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:
It is the inner motive of wanting to follow Him that counts, even if we have not been too successful in doing that so far. Even if we lose, even if we fail, we must still always desire to follow Him.
The main way to do that is two-fold:
• die to ourselves so that we do not project our own emotions and opinions and ignorance on a topic. We must do our best to become a zero. We must realize that we do not count.
• our mission is just to reflect the Word of God.
Jesus, the Word, is the only One that matters.
So, walking in the Spirit we must take Jesus at his word. For the fulness of the Godhead bodily dwelleth in him.
We must regard ourselves as nothing. I am not interested in what suits me. I must want to do His will. So, all a person can do is surrender their self-will to Jesus, of their own free-will, because they want to do that. A person who has died to themselves and regards themselves as nothing, becomes a perfect reflector of the Word of God.
All we quote is what the Bible says. We do not point people to any person, just to Jesus the Word.
Each person must focus on their personal experience with Jesus, as He is revealed in the Bible.
(JOHN 7:38) He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
(JOHN 7:39) (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Water gives life in the natural. The Holy Spirit gives supernatural life.
“Believeth on Me”, refers to the thoughts in the mind or spirit that are produced by the faith in the human soul. These thoughts must be based on Scripture. Scriptural faith then motivates our actions or works.
The soul is a garden that is watered by the Holy Spirit. The Seed Word of God is planted in the garden of the soul. The Seed Word germinates the faith needed to control the spirit or mind. The thoughts of the mind bring the body under control.
(JEREMIAH 31:12) and their soul shall be as a watered garden;
(LUKE 8:11) Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Mind and spirit are used interchangeably in Scripture. Thus, they mean the same thing.
(ROMANS 8:27) And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit,
(EPHESIANS 4:23) And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
(I CORINTHIANS 15:38) But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Once the Holy Spirit comes into our lives, then He begins to bring the body under subjection. Then we do not rely on our self discipline, which may fail. We rely on the fact that the Holy Spirit changes our way of thinking and makes us want to obey His will.
(ROMANS 8:10) but the Spirit is life
(I SAMUEL 25:29) but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God
The human soul is bundled up inside the spirit.
The soul is where the Word of God grows like a Seed. The soul is where our faith is anchored to the Word.
(I THESSALONIANS 5:23) And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
This is the order that it works. The spirit is the water that is poured onto the garden of the soul where the Seed of God’s Word is planted. The Seed Word germinates and illuminates our mind or spirit which is then able to bring the body under subjection to the Word of God.
When we are born, we have a soul, but no supernatural in our human spirit. There is a vacuum there that readily attracts sinful activities, but these things fail to bring any lasting satisfaction.
This endless dissatisfaction makes people become atheists or want to pursue or worldly pleasures.
But for some, this worldly emptiness drives them to repent of their sins and accept the Lord Jesus as their personal Saviour.
When this happens, God injects a small portion of His Holy Spirit into that vacuum that is around the soul.
We walk in the Spirit as It guides us through what is written in the Word.
As we learn more of Scripture and walk more closely in God’s ways, so His Spirit guides us and grows within us to reveal more of Scripture that we had not previously seen.
This growth of the Spirit within us is called “growing in grace”.
(II PETER 3:18) But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
(I PETER 2:2) As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
SHALOM!
AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST 