Understanding the Spirit, Soul & Body - Part 1

welcome to speak the word with Bible teacher Joanne Ramsey please join pastor Ramsey now as she continues to teach God soldiers how to wield the sword of the Spirit the Word of God gonna begin tonight in Genesis chapter 2 verse 7 an amplified Bible it says and then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of spirit of the breath or spirit of life and man became a living being sometimes some translations that's referred to as a speak in spirit verse 8 it says in the Lord God planted a garden toward the east in Eden which means delight and there he put the man whom he had formed so it says in the beginning that number 1 God formed the body of man at number 2 God made the soul of man and number 3 God created the spirit of man and Saints he created all of us into his image and in his likeness and at first the solonian sinned 5:23 in a newly living translation it says now made the God of peace make you holy in every way and may you whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again and Hebrews 4:12 in a New Living Translation it says for the word of god is alive and powerful he says it is sharper than a sharpest two-edged sword cutting between soul and spirit between joints and marrow he it exposes our innermost thoughts and our desires Saints this passage of Scripture makes us aware that the spirit and the soul are not the same because they can be divided by the Word of God so therefore the three are not the same they're different the Lord revealed this to me one morning as I was confessing his word how his word he revealed to me how his word acts as a sword that will cut through pain actually it'll cut through anything he says through bone and Merrill even to dividing the spirit and soul so his word will cut through anything but he he revealed to me how his word cut through pain and I recall on father's day I was experiencing this enormous pain in between my shoulder blades and my back and it was I was in terrible pain and it seemed like it just came to me all of a sudden I couldn't bend down and I couldn't even hold out my arms to reach for anything as a matter of fact I had my daughter's back there she was with me she was in the kitchen cooking we had about 15 people over at my house that needed to be fed and so but I couldn't I was in so much pain with my back in my arm I couldn't reach out and reach I couldn't bend over to the cabinet opening up to get anything out I had to get her to get it out for me but I prayed over my back and my husband David he prayed over my back and it but it continued to hurt and so I want you to remember that I prayed but it continued to hurt most of the time because we pray for something and we don't see something right away we just automatically assume where God didn't hear me or I'm not healed or I didn't get that or whatever it is because we didn't see it right away and we're gonna be talking a little bit about that but I was still in pain even though I had prayed over myself and my husband had also prayed over me it continued a heart but the next morning it was 98 percent better not a hundred percent but 98 percent better in my prayer time the next morning the Lord showed me this as I was confessing his word as a matter of fact I text my daughter and I told her I said it's not 100 percent but it's 98 you know 98 percent and one of my confessions that morning was Lord your word is a sword which cuts through my joints and heals them your word cleans up the very blood marrow inside my bones and gives me well-being through new stem cells and another one I confess is this one I declare that your word prospers me and all the places it is declared and absolutely does not return to you empty but fulfills its purpose praise God and that comes from isaiah 55:11 the Lord says that he shall write the word it's like the rain that comes down and he says he'll send his word forth it shall go where he sends it and it shall prosper the thing for which - he sends it and he says it shall not return unto Him void but the main thing is is like I said we have to have faith in the Word of God the power is in the word the powers in the blood the powers in the word of God and we if we have faith in that and not be moved by our feelings and that's why we're going to be talking about the spirit soul and body tonight to give us a better understanding I want you to think about what I just said the Lord was showing me that when David and I prayed that his word acted like a sword cutting through my joints and healing them as we were praying his word was acting like a sword or a laser that was cutting through that pain and even though I didn't have a manifestation immediately by morning I did by morning I did and you know and there have been cases where that didn't happen before I knew the importance of the word of God you can tolerate things or you can go to the doctor you do a lot of things and there's nothing wrong with going to the doctor if I need to go I go but I'm learning more and more to go to God first because he is the ultimate doctor he's the ultimate physician the doctors all they can do is put band-aids on it God he's the Hillier so we go to him first and since this is that's one of the reasons I want to talk to you tonight about your spirit your soul in your body and the importance of renewing your mind with God's Word so that your spirit and your soul can come together in agreement with each other and that way whence they come together in agreement then you will be able to see receive what you need from God some of you here tonight for instance you maybe need a heat you maybe need to be healed in your bodies maybe there's some of you here tonight are needing a financial breakthrough I don't know I don't really know what your needs are but I do know this that you need to get your spirit and your soul into agreement with God's Word because whether you need a financial breakthrough or where you need healing in your body you're gonna have to get your soul and we're going to talk about that here in a minute but you might say well Pastor Joe what's the difference between my spirit and my soul well I'm gonna put it to you this away with your body I want you to listen out with your body you contact the physical realm and with your soul you contact the realm of the mind and with your spirit you contact the spiritual realm which is the heart of God I'm gonna repeat that with your body you contact the physical realm and with your soul you contact the realm of the mind and with your spirit you contact the spiritual realm which is the heart of God someone some someone once put it this way you are a spirit you have a soul and you live in a body so you really your three parts your body really your body that's your flesh that's your house the Bible refers to it in some places as your tent or your house but that's all that is it's just a house it's just a tent and that in other words that's where your five senses are that's where your hearing your seeing your tasting your smelling and your touching we view the body as the house and we view this as our earth soup as touching the material world through our five senses which as I said is your sight your smell your hearing your taste and your touching st. your body expresses what the soul tells it to do the body is the lowest part of you but all during the message tonight I want you to understand that your soul is the decision-maker your soul is the filter and your body is gonna do what your soul tells it to do it's the part the the body part of you is the part that is world conscience its carnal meaning that the desires of the flesh are always warring against the spirit and I might add that the last of your five senses which really is your touching is the one that keeps you in trouble because so many Christians live by their emotions they live more by their feelings their touchy feely by their emotions more than they do by the Word of God or by their faith they live based on how they feel is also the soul the soul consists of your will your thinking your reason and attitude your emotions and your memories it's it's also known as your filter the soul is the filter that allows everything that God has deposited in your spirit to flow through you and affect your body and your life in other words is your personality I want you to hear me whatever decision is made this is where you permit it this is where it's allowed to happen is in the soulish part of you in other words your soul is the point of permission this is where you make a decision to take an action are you hearing me for instance let's put it this away let's say that you decide that you want to sleep in maybe you want to sleep in - you want to sleep in the day for 10 hours and your body is gonna say oh yeah sure why not that sounds like a good plan you know just gonna sleep in today for 10 hours but since your soul can also have your body do something evil just as easily because it's control unless you renew divine your soulish part it's it's going to do it's not going to do anything good as Paul said there's no good thing and you know in my flesh there is no good thing that dwells in my flesh there's no good thing that dwells in any of our flesh your body is going to do what the soul tells it to do in Galatians 5 16 17 and New Living Translation Jesus said so I say to you let the Holy Spirit guide your lives and then you won't be doing what your sinful nature craves verse 17 says the sinful nature wants to do evil which is just opposite of what the spirit wants and the Spirit gives us desires that are opposite of what the sinful nature desires jesus said that these two forces are constantly fighting each other so that you're not free to carry out your good intentions you can have all the good intentions that you want to have scenes but if you haven't renewed your mind your and your soleus which is your soulish part it doesn't make any difference what your good intentions are or your willpower it won't it won't benefit you at all Paul puts it this away in Romans 7:15 in New Living Translation Paul says I don't really understand myself he says for I want to do what is right but I don't do it he said instead I do what I hate and Paul says I know nothing good lives in me that is in my flesh Saints there is nothing good that lives in our flesh he was talking about his flesh without the presence of the Holy Spirit Paul said I want to do what is right he says but I came I had a phone call today and I've had several phone calls from a partner mine I won't give the state because he may hear it on the radio but I had a phone call from a partner mine that as he puts it has been having a bad hair day but I think he's been having a bad hair week you know and so and I don't mean that to be flippant because the person is really in trouble spiritually and and he's really being controlled by his flesh you know and he used the words to me on the phone this morning and actually in the end my messages I haven't yet spoken to him today I did speak with him a couple of days ago but he left a message and he said what Pastor Joe he says I'm having a really bad hair day he said I don't really know what to do because he had told me this before he said I really don't feel like going on he said I'm just ready to go he said this man he said this flesh he said I know my flesh is so wretched and my flesh is so evil and he says I'm getting tired of fighting it but we are fighting you know we have to fight the flesh with the Word of God this is why it's so imperative that you renew your spirit your soul so that you can receive all that stuff that when you got born again that God poured into you through your spirit and we're going to talk about that in a little bit but you know he's having a hard time because he has not renewed his mind so he has no control over the flesh so the flesh is just doing what it wants to do you know and there's nothing there to stop it the only way that you can stop that flesh this old house from doing what it wants to do is to renew your mind your soul is part and he hasn't done that and he's getting to the point where he's tired he said I'm just sick and tired you know sometimes we all get a little sick and tired and I know as a fact sometimes I get tired of fighting too but you can't give up you can't give up I mean you have to keep on fighting it's worth you know life is worth fighting for weren't life is too precious to precious to want to leave this earth early it's gonna be wonderful in heaven but we don't have to go early we can stay down here and finish our assignments we don't have to go early so Paul was talking about his flesh without the presence of the Holy Spirit Paul said I want to do what is right he says but I can't he is saying that you can only do what is right when you're being led by the Holy Spirit since it's really a matter of which you feed the most your spirit or your body that's really what it's a matter of remember that the one you feed the most out of these two the body which is your flesh or your spirit is the one that your soul will tend to the most this one is one it's the one it's going to pay the most attention to your spirit which is your heart your spirit is that part of you that God communicates with the Spirit is the part of you that all of the life and the power of God flows through the spirit part of you is for all the power and the Spirit of God flows it's also the noblest part of you it's the God conscious part of you it's your purpose your love your relationship and I know this might be sounding like a boring message but I'm promising you if you're listening you're gonna learn something and it's going to help you in the future because everybody battles with their flesh every day in some form another it could be you battle it with a little bit or it could be a lot some days is more than others but you're gonna battle with that flesh and I'm just trying to give you some help that the Lord's given me to share with you that is going to help you to battle that flesh whether it's send your finances or whether it's in your health or whatever it is it's a battle fighting you know and I want to show you how you're going to get get be able to get those things that you need from the holy and get where you can get the the two of them together there's three and two is better you know is always going to win so we've gotten to get the spirit and the soul working together joined up instead of having a soul hooked up with the flesh of the body okay as I said your spirit it's the noblest part of you and it's the life-giving part is your spirit remember that you are a spirit you have a soul and you live in a body in proverbs 20 and the New King James it says the spirit of the man is the lamp of the Lord searching all the inner depths of his heart Saints we are made as I said in God's image and in his likeness maybe you haven't even thought about this but when you die you are and you are buried your spirit lives on it never dies your spirit never dies that's why that if when when someone is in a coma their spirit is not in a coma their body is in a coma and so that's why that and somebody's in a coma you can still go in and speak the Word of God over them and you can still pray with them and their spirit can hear you because your spirit is never gonna die it lives on Paul said in second Corinthians chapter five in the New King James he says for we know that if our earthly house this tent he's talking about is destroyed he says we have a building from God he said a house not made with hands eternal said in the heavens jesus said jesus told a thief on the cross and Luke 23:43 he says surely I say to you today you will be with me in paradise and most of you are familiar with the story when Jesus was on the cross and there was two thieves went on each side of him and the one of them that the thief said well asked Jesus you know about taking me and Jesus told him he said today you will be you know you would be in my kingdom you will go with me my point is Saints you will live on even when you leave your body your spirit never dies the part of man that is born again is the spirit your spirit receives eternal life the life of God and the very nature of God it's a matter of fact whether you're born again or not born again your spirit never dies you're going to live somewhere forever it never dies so it really does it as it does matter whether you're born again and not because that's going to determine where are you going to go but if you're not but as far as you having a spirit it doesn't matter whether you're born again or not your spirit is never going to die it's going to live forever and it takes the power of God to change to harder man your spirit is made in the image of God and your spirit should be leading your soul in your body in Romans 8 in Romans 8:14 a new trim Living Translation it says for as many are as led by the Spirit of God these are the sons of God and verse 16 it says that the Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God and if children then heirs heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ if indeed we suffer with him that we may also be glorified together the only way Saints that you can keep your spirit on top and keep it leading is to feed it more of God's Word but most of the time your soul and your emotions are leading to train in other words most of the time your soul and your motions and your feelings are ahead of the game there are the ones that's in control there are the ones that's leading and your emotions are telling your body of what to do are you hearing me when your body takes over since your spirit and soul are in trouble and I say trouble with a capital T because when your soul and body takes over you're in big trouble that's and that's when you're going to experience defeat when your soul and your body takes over you're going to experience defeat in every area of your life remember whatever your body does is by your own will is by your own decision it's up to you in other words if you decide to watch that x-rated movie even when you know you shouldn't be watching it your body will say oh yeah sure why not that sounds like fun you know you might be flipping through the TV and you see this movie and and your spirit has it told you that's not good and that you shouldn't watch it but you think oh well why not it can't be that bad and you watch it anyway however and this is a big however if you have been renewing your mind and feeding your spirit then you're going to do the right thing and you're not going to watch the movie hear what I'm saying I remember not too long ago I think it was last year sometime I was watching the movie and and I knew after I watched a little bit of it that I really shouldn't watch it you know my spirit was saying then I really shouldn't want you but I watched it anyway sometimes we followed the flesh as Paul says I want to do the right thing but I keep doing the wrong thing you know and you will without the leading of the Holy Spirit but I kept watching the movie and and as soon as I finished I felt really bad I mean really bad because I knew I shouldn't have watched it and I knew that I had grieved a Holy Spirit I think sometimes we forget scenes that the Holy Spirit lives inside of us he sees everything we see he hears everything we hear he he hears everything that we say and he gets grieved by a lot of the places that we take him and he gets grieved about a lot of things that we watch and we see it grieves him the Bible says don't grieve the Holy Spirit but we do grieving we all do but I knew that I you know and so what did I do I repented I said lord I am so sorry I repented that please forgive me I I shouldn't have done that and that's what we have to do he still gonna love me just as much he didn't stop loving me because I didn't do the right thing when your child does something wrong its disobedient you don't stop loving him you keep on loving him but but he says what mom word I'm sorry I didn't mean to do that I won't try not to do that again and as he learns maybe he won't do it again but that's how we do when we feed our soul and we learn it's like I said if if when we continue to feed our spirit then we're going to do the right thing you know and we're not gonna greed the Holy Spirit you know and like I said this this applies to anything else that your body wants to do are you hearing me your body will do anything your soul tells it to do your soul is the decision maker I said that before in other words if you tell your body it can't watch the movie it might fight you it might put up a fight but if you have trained your spirit your spirit is going to win there's three two is going to win two out of the three whatever whatever decision is made is permitted by your soul your soul is to point of permission are you hearing me as I said earlier the more your spirit tells your soul how it should go and your soul receives it and and your soul is receptive then it's going to push whatever that is to the body and then the body has got to do it so whatever you're telling the body to do it's gonna push it over there if it's if it's good it's going to do it and if it's bad it's going to do it okay since your body will almost always comply your body always has obedient to the soul and it's gonna have to listen to it you are a new creature Saints and you should be led by the Holy Spirit and I don't know how I got all the way down to this part of my message because at the beginning of my message I I was wanting to have three people come up and it was in my notes and how I got past him I don't know but I wanted three people to come up so that I could use a virtual you know I think sometimes if you can see something a visual that it helps us to better understand you know what I'm trying to say you know I don't know about you but with me a visual helps me a lot when I can see what's going on so if I can have three people I'm going to stop right here and if I get down to that part and it comes up again that's fine and good we're going just go and past it but if I can have three people come up I'd like to demonstrate to you a little bit about the soul in the spirit so that you'll have a visual and a better understanding of what I'm trying to say okay here we've got the spirit okay you have to know that when you became born-again you became a Christian a believer that everything that God has got put on the inside of you all the power of God got put on the inside of you all the healing power every all the flowing power from God got him put inside of you okay and this is your soul this is this is the part this is the decision-maker the soul makes the decisions on what it's you know what it's going to do okay it's called the filter this is the part this is your thinking that's your reasoning and your emotions and your feelings okay and now we got we got the flesh to bought the whole body over here and let's say that the body is sick okay can you be sick for me a little bit you know just basic forms okay just kind of slump over there a little bit an old body is sick and this happened so much because he the body gets sick but grab the soul here the soul hasn't been renewed and so the body is sick but all the healing power in the spirit and all the healing powers right here in the spirit but see you've got the souls in between and it can't get to the body to heal it okay the only way it can get to the body is for the soul to get renewed and so if you can if you can renew that if you renew the soul with the Word of God and you and the body know as soul knows all about healing and by the stripes of Jesus you're healed you know by His stripes you know he was wounded for my transgressions he bore all of my pain so I went in half to God sent His Word and removed all sickness from my body so the more it back on up there get close to the spirit okay so put your hands on her shoulders there so now the more that the soul gets renewed by the word of God the more the soul meditates on the Word of God it's not thinking natural thoughts anymore okay it's not being controlled by what she what the soul is thinking in there are emotions and her feelings she's being controlled by the Holy Spirit all the power is right here this is in your body you you are a 3-person you are a spirit you're a soul and your body just you know you're three okay just like the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit you are spirit your soul and a body you're a tribe in and so once you hook up with that then all the power that's in here now can come over here and not even touch it now she can be healed but until until the soul gets renewed and in Trent is so that this the soul is blocking it your soul is what your way of thinking you know maybe you think maybe you Google maybe the doctor you went to the doctor and say he taught gave you a bad report so instead of going to the Word of God and seeing what God had to say about it you went to the Internet and you googled that disease and you googled all the symptoms and and how you supposed to act and everything so now break away spirit so now you're over here with your thinking and reasoning and now it's kind of hard for you to have faith because you've got more faith in your symptoms and more faith in what the doctor said then what what God said which is in the spirit but you have all the power you need right here to heal you everything you need has been placed on the inside of you God has already done everything he's ever going to do he's not going to do anything he's already giving it to you but it can't get to your body until you renew it and so if you're paying more attention to the newspaper and the radio and the TV and the news whatever if you're paying more attention to that then you are the Word of God then you're going to then the body is going to stay sick but it also is going to stay broke because prosperity is over here too everything you need is here but if you keep speaking and as far as prosperity goes as you keep poor mouthing and you keep talking about what you don't have instead of what you do have and how you know nothing ever good happens to you and every time you I get a little bit trying to get ahead something happens you know or this goes wrong day you know you're hooking up with your feelings do you understand what I'm saying and your mentality this is your this is your personality here your soul and if you're thinking that's your reasoning but you've got to get it hooked up with the spirit okay spearhook and once you get them all working together you know this Bonnie it's just dirt sorry honey the body here is just dirt it's dust it the Bible says it came from dust it's going back to dust it's just an old house okay and we can talk about that you can do anything you want to do this house to try to make it look good on the outside but it ain't going to help the inside at all don't know the things going to help the inside is the soul do you understand what I'm saying thank you guys and trying to paint you a picture of the importance of getting everything everything is in your spirit it's inside of you all the power of God is on the inside of you all the healing power every all of all the power flows from the spirit into your body but it can't get to your body unless you do something about the soul the filter the decision maker that makes that decision you know it's like this morning I wasn't feeling well this morning I had to make a decision what am I going to do am I going to do what God tells me to do and am I gonna pray or if I'm just going to give up you know my mind said you know the soul that's your mind as you're thinking Saul said Oh Joan ain't no way you can minister to honey you just think feeling good that's what the souls telling the body yet on the body says oh you're right you're right Joe you don't feel good maybe you want to go back to bed you know but that's the conversation that we're having all the time between their spirit the soul and the body you know and you just you just agree with it you know like I said you know if says you won't sleep 10 I would say oh yeah that sounds really good you want to watch that oh yeah I think we are to watch that movie you know I heard it's really good got some sex parts in it but the whole spirit said no you know the whole spirit was saying no you don't do that but as I said you are a new creature Saints inch so you should really be led by the Holy Spirit because the Bible says the true sons of God are the one who started led by the Holy Spirit all right here at me in 2nd Corinthians 5:17 into God word translation it tells us that the day that you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior you became a new creature ok second Corinthians 5:17 says whoever is a believer in Christ is a new creature the old way of living he says has disappeared and a new way of living has come into existence Saint your spirit became 100% complete at Salvation it was made perfect today that you accepted Jesus as your Lord the Savior your spirit became 100% complete but only the spirit part of you became perfect it would being wonderful when we accepted Christ and became that new creature if every part of us could have become the new creature but only one part of us became the new creature and that's your spirit are you hearing me you might say well pastor Joe if that's true then why do I continue to feel the way that I feel or why do I still have those same old feelings and why do I still have those same old temptations and and why am I still plagued by that it's because that you still have that same old mindset the one that you had when you became the new creature you still it's it's kind of like going in and taking a shower you know you go out and you get dirty and you're working it's hot and sweaty and you're going you take a shower and you put back on the same old dirty you got born again but you still got that you still got your body it you know it's unredeemed it's been paid for but it's unredeemed but your spirit it's perfect it's never going can't get any more perfect even when you go home Eva Christ your spirit has been made perfect your soul in your body did not get born again they did not get made new in other words in other words Saints if you were skinny when you got born again you're still skinny if he was fat you still fat if you a bald-headed you still bald head if you it didn't you know you same got the same hair color unless you changed it when you got born again none of that changed just your spirit your body and your soul are still the same the only thing that got changed and got made new was your spirit see it's the only way that you can get your mind / soul renewed is by reading the Word of God and hearing the Word of God and meditating on the Word of God if you want to know what your spirit is like then you have to go to God's Word to find out James says in chapter 1 verse 23 says for if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer he is like a man observing his natural face in the mirror for he observes himself goes away and immediately forgets what kind of man he was now this passage of scripture likens the Bible unto a mirror that you look in to see your spiritual face to see what you're like in the spirit you may find this hard to believe but you have never Saints you know none of you in here have ever actually seen your face you've only seen a reflection of your face I was going to get a mirror tonight but I forgot it but like I said you have never you've never seen your face but you have gotten to the point to where you trust what you see when you're look in the mirror the Word of God is a perfect reflection of what spiritual truth is for example you know you can sit there tonight or I could stand up here before I came up you know maybe I I'm thinking you know well I think my hair looks okay and I believe I got my makeup on okay but I really have no way of knowing unless I go look in the mirror and so then once I look in the mirror I trust what I see I trust okay Joe your hair is in place you got your makeup on you're good to go but I really can't see my face I can only see the reflection of it you see what I'm saying so so you know you know what you have to look in the mirror but as we study the word of God your thought process begins to change and then your spirit man will be leading you but like I said as you study the word your thought process begins to change and then your spirit man will be leading and when your spirit man begins to lead then you're going to be able to receive from God and then you're going to experience victory once you get that mind lined up with the Word of God you talk to that body it's like this morning I said body you listen to me I'm talking to you you talked that but yet there's three of you talk to your body that's what the soul does you talk to the body you listen to me you know you know that you healed jesus said by His stripes you healed so but he says you got to talk to it you got you know is four things and I'll be getting into this tomorrow tomorrow night I don't think it's in this message thing as in tomorrow night but the four principles you know and one of those is that you have to speak it you got to speak it you call those things that be not as though they are you got it you got to speak it you got to believe it and I remember what the other are right now because it's I've got that point my mind is not there yet but let's look at it this away okay with God is one plus one plus one equals one Father Son and the Holy Spirit are you with me God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Spirit but they're still one okay you are a spirit you have a soul and you live in a body but you're still just one God is three and one and you are three and one your spirit your soul in your body are not the same they're all different your body is the earth suit that you live in or the house that you live in and you can fix up your body all you want to but it's not going to change it like you said you can you can get up and paint it like you know every now and then I like to put a coat of paint on mine maybe some mornings I need two coats of paint but it will make the outside my body look better but it's not going to do anything at all for the inside are you hearing me my point is st. you can do whatever you want to to your house to your body but it's not going to change those old thoughts and it's not going to change those feelings that you had before you got saved changing those old thoughts and feelings only comes when the renewing of by the renewing of the mind and by meditating on the word of God in Romans 12:2 in the New International Version it says therefore I urge you brothers and sisters in the view of God's mercy to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice holy and pleasing to God this is he said your true and proper worship do not be conformed to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you will be able to test and approve what God's will is his good pleasing and perfect will the key to transformation is to change the way you think God takes care of your spirit and he transforms it the moment of your rebirth you spit your soul did not get changed or nor did your body only your spirit the soul is you know God is the one that takes care of your spirit but the soul is the responsibility of man that's your responsibility every person must make a decision to renew the mind and change his way of thinking since your body has been purchased but is not yet redeemed it is the house it's not the real person as I said before your body is unredeemed it just goes with whatever it feels good if it feels good do it is it's unredeemed just a spirit your body has control over nothing I'm gonna say that again your body has control over nothing but it is controlled by your soul your spirit is the real person whether you're born again or not as I just said earlier you'll never you're going to live forever because your spirit is going to never die the real you is the spirit spirit is what gives life or you might stay quickened you some of you might know me some of you may not want to know what quickens mean but quickens means to make a life sometimes I prayed that and I said Lord you know I prayed that you were quickening to my spirit so and so you know in other words make it alive to me reveal it to me make it live the Bible says that flesh and blood gives birth to flesh and blood but the Spirit gives birth to things that are spiritual according to John 3:6 first John 4:17 Jesus says as he is so am I in other words you are 100 percent a world overcomer Saints you are more than a conquerer Romans 8:37 says that you are more than an overcomer you're more than a conquerer God sees you in the spirit he never sees all this other stuff that's going on around you he sees you in the spirit you're his workmanship created into his image according to Ephesians 2:10 he has a picture of you in the palm of his hands and he thinks you're awesome you know you know somebody says well you know people sometimes thinks that God don't hear them or that he's not thinking about you know God's got so much to think about he's not ever thinking about me but he's got you on his mind all the time he says I cannot forget you he says even as a baby as suckling even he refers to it as a mother a mother that's nursing her baby just as that mother can't forget her baby he says neither cannot forget you he said she might forget he says but I won't I'll never forget you and you know how sometimes you ever see people that are right things on their hands you know maybe they want to remember something they'll write a phone number down in there you know they'll put scribble a name down on their hand or on the top of them I've seen people that just wrote all over their hands I guess maybe that was before Siri you know because I I talk to Siri all day long you know to remind me otherwise I would probably have it written all over me but they write phone numbers and names you know on the palm of their hands and on their arms and everything they do this because it's important and they don't want to forget and so God is saying I've got a he said he used his word engraved he said I've got you engraved into palm of both my hands he says and I see you daily you know so he's thinking about you all the time as a matter of fact he says in his word to his faults are so numerous that you can't count them there's so many the thoughts that he's having about you so he's got your name engraved in the palm of his hand and I used to say he's got a picture of me on his refrigerator if God had a refrigerator I think he'd have my picture on it but you know he truly does have our names engraved in the palm of his hands and because we're important to him and because we're special to him Isaiah 49:16 God said see he said I have written your name on the palms of my hands some translation says that he has engraved your name in the palm of his hands saying you can't limit yourself to what you see in the natural there is more going on than what you can see in the natural most people focus more on the natural but we should be really focusing on the supernatural that's why as a believer that we walk by faith and not by sight according to second Corinthians 5:7 your spirit is the center of your being life is in the spirit and not in your soul each part okay Saints you're gonna be ruled by your spirit when God's Word dominates you more than what you can see taste here smell or touch in other words what you continue to think on will dominate you and determine whether or not you walk in victory it's your thoughts the things that you're thinking about that's dominating you so if you're thinking about things that you know that defeating you know depressing thoughts or the thoughts of never making it or doing this net the other those thoughts are going to dominate you and you said they gonna draw you like a magnet and you're going to lead you're gonna be headed in that direction and the spirit spirit part of you has nothing to do with it they can't help you the spirit is waiting for the soul to renew itself so it can release the power through the soul to your body because your body is the one that feels everything your body's the one to get sick but it can't get healed unless you can get your mind renewed in other words what you continue to think on like I said it's what's going to be dominating you Andra Terman where you walk in victory not you can experience the abundant life that Jesus was talking about in John 10:10 when you operate out of the soulish part are you hearing me you have unlimited potential in the spirit realm sense it is the renewed mind that allows the blessings of God to flow from the spirit and manifest in the body remember I want you to remember this there all of the strategies and I'm coming to a close remember that all the strategies that Satan is using against you are directed towards your mind and that's why you have to renew your mind all his attacks are directed to your mind because he that's where all the trouble starts is in your mind your reasoning your thinking your emotions the soul over here and that's why we have to bring every thought into captivity that exalts itself against the true knowledge of God according to 2nd Corinthians 5:10 in closing this part of the message because I'll continue tomorrow night it says here that through Christ Satan's power over your heart and mine has been broken so Satan's power over your heart and over your mind he says it's been broken in Romans 6:3 he says for when we died Christ we were set free from the power of sin you should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Jesus Christ the word says Saints I'm going to close with this first and I'm sure that most of you are familiar with it I just read it earlier in second Corinthians 5:17 it says therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature old things have passed away and behold all things have become new all things made new refers to the spirit the new creature must be worked out in your life by the renewed mind and the controlled flesh there is no other way there is no easy way you don't want to get to the point where the man was this morning that's been calling me several times this week and as a matter of fact he had left me four messages long messages he is battling with the flesh and I talked to him and I pray with him but that's all I can do I can pray with you and I can talk to you and I can encourage you but unless you renew your soul and then on the other hand I spoke to another lady this morning from Newport News that as recently you know not too long suffered a great loss she's already suffered a loss loss loss loss loss but I can tell by talking to her her spirit her soul is her spirit his soul is renewed her mind is renewed you know she she her son she lost her son that was killed he was 28 years old a couple years ago left two sons behind and she's adopted them they had the house taken last year her husband's lost her job and she says it was a homeless person and did it and he's killed a couple of people she said and they know who did it but you know she says that she doesn't hold this against him and she says I work in a homeless shelter you know she goes there to volunteer so even though she's suffering a lot she's out there still helping others and she says I even served a person who I'm sure is dead the one to kill my son she says they beat him up and laid him on a railroad track you know but you can tell by talking to her that she loves the Lord and she's not angry with God because she knows God didn't have anything to do with it okay and she knows that you know that the love of God in her is bigger than anything else it's like I told her sometimes things are so powerful that our human our natural selves maybe we can't in our natural selves forgive this person or be loving or give loving but God says we don't have to because his love has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit and it's the power of his love that this lady was B has been able to keep on going and keep on praying and forgive the person that's done this to her she understands that it really wasn't the person it was the Spirit on the person when bad comes to you it's not in the the person that does is the spirit on the person when evil comes to you it's coming to you in flesh form and when good comes to you it's coming in book flesh form because God is a spirit and he works this is why he said Jesus says when you do for them you do for me and when you don't do for them you don't do for me so everything that he does he has to do through us everything Satan does he has to do through us and he does that by deceiving you and he does it in your mind so all of his strategies as I just said to defeat you or aim toward your mind to your way of thinking and until we can get that soul lined up so we can receive the things that God wants us to have he's deposited everything inside of us regardless of what you may have heard and people say some people say well you get a little at the time God did not does not give himself to you a little bit of pieces a little bit here and there depending on your growth he gave it to you all of it at once all of it all we have to do is just take advantage of it I'm going to close in prayer father God I just thank you so much for this word tonight I thank you for your presence here tonight father I thank you for your strength I thank you for your wisdom and I thank you for your knowledge I thank you for the word you went forth tonight I thank you Lord for anointing two ears tonight to hear and receive this word I thank you Father for opening up two eyes or their hearts to receive it and father I pray tonight that they gained a new revelational knowledge and insight into the mistress of thy word I pray tonight Lord that when they look at the word and begin to meditate on your word that they will see it in a different way they will see it as the spiritual mirror that when they want to know what they're like in the spirit that they will go and look at your word and know that this is who they are and this is how you see us Lord that you don't see us the way that we see ourselves but you see us as the righteousness made righteous by you and father we just thank you Holy Spirit just thank you for your presence here tonight I thank you for helping me to deliver this word and I thank you for all those that came to hear the father again we just praise you and we give you all the glory for it all and father I pray traveling graces and blessings upon all those that came press in Jesus name we praise and we thank you amen

Channel: Speak The Word Ministry

Views: 18,795

Rating: 4.7610064 out of 5

Keywords:

Id: 6yjCYx9Q6Dk

Length: 52min 45sec (3165 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 15 2016