Saturday, December 5, 2015

Our New LIfe - Living By The Spirit - Walking By Faith

My Utmost For His Highest
 
“God has given us the responsibility to rule over all “the temple of the Holy Spirit,” including our thoughts and desires (1 Corinthians 6:19). We are responsible for these, and we must never give way to improper ones. But most of us are much more severe in our judgment of others than we are in judging ourselves. We make excuses for things in ourselves, while we condemn things in the lives of others simply because we are not naturally inclined to do them. Paul said, “I beseech you…that you present your bodies a living sacrifice…” (Romans 12:1). What I must decide is whether or not I will agree with my Lord and Master that my body will indeed be His temple. Once I agree, all the rules, regulations, and requirements of the law concerning the body are summed up for me in this revealed truth-my body is “the temple of the Holy Spirit.”” CHAMBERS
 
If you had surgery and the doctors has to put something in your body, you would feel it.  Depending upon what “it” was, every time you touched the area where the device was implanted, you would be reminded that something  was put in you.  At the point of conversion, God seals us with His Spirit.  (Ephesians 1:13-14)  When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.”
 
Like a pace-maker, His Spirit enables us to live .. in the case of a pace-maker, it keeps our hearts functioning properly.  In the case of the Spirit, He enables our spiritual lives.  We don’t actually feel the Spirit in us, but we do “feel” the result of His presence.  When we are convicted of sin.  When we have sudden insight into the Word of God.  The natural man cannot understand spiritual things.  We can … by the presence of the Spirit.  The thing is, we should not forget that the Spirit is in us.  We should always be aware of the fact that we have a new nature, a spiritual nature.  Our spiritual nature that can be neglected … even ignored.  (1 Thessalonians 5:19) “Do not quench the Spirit.” 
 
Perhaps you know others who have drifted away from the faith.  One of the last things they want to do is be around Christians who are walking in the Spirit, living by faith.  But that is exactly what they need.  If you are reading this, you have an interest in Spiritual things … but there is a danger that we can be like the man in the mirror .. seeing spiritual truth  .. knowing that it applies to us, and then turning away, immediately forgetting what we were thinking or understanding.  (James 1:22-24) “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror  and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.”  I want to encourage you to encourage others to keep the faith.  Submitting to the Spirit and not forgetting  about the great gift that we have been given.  ELGIN
 
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)
 
Charley Elgin

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