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Here's a little word that is related to the subject of crucifying the flesh etc that I hope will be a blessing and encouragement to some here. It's from a brother in Africa...haven't communicated with him for a while, but I'm sure he wont' mind me sharing this: Short Words on Living Above...

@stunnedbygrace Can't find your earlier post about this, but wanted to say a little something regarding where you were talking about your back pain and submitting to God's will in it. If you, BY the Spirit, were yielding TO the Spirit, His will, regarding your back pain, then you were IN the...

Can we not discuss without you getting into a snit all the time brother? I do not get into snits about anyone suggesting that we need to seek God's face, so why are you are even mentioning it here in a dialogue between me and you. I just tried to express how i understand some of these things...

Bless you brother! Outwardly wasting away, but His grace is sufficient. ;)

I think we are sold under sin.....and still are even after being born again....that is not we ourselves, not our inner man, but our flesh and flesh nature still is in the sense that sin still lives there...we know that is true since we have to battle it. IF I'm understanding some of what is...

I think I understand the question, but if I'm not getting it right, it's no fault of your English brother, just my brain. .....I don't know for sure about Paul, he was speaking of himself as an example, whether past or present, but I think for the vast majority of believers it is that we are...

On the contrary, I think I'm very slow, lol! Yes, and what I understand is that "we" are that husk containing the seed, our earthen vessel, that is our flesh and flesh nature (old man), which you call the outer man. So yes, the power of the flesh needs to be broken/torn. God helps us to that...

Amen, I agree. Paul is writing to believers, and if we delight in the law of God after the inward man, i think that has to be because of regeneration. Our inner man isn't quickened to love the Lord and His ways of holiness otherwise.

I unfortunately haven't been able to keep up with the thread very well, but sure, I'll say Amen to that. And that treasure in us is PERFECT, RIGHTEOUS AND HOLY, since it's created after the image of He who created us. That is what is sanctifying and saving us...the spirit of Christ within our...

Oh yes we are seated in heavenly places. There is a mystery to that.......need to at least partially grasp how the Lord and heavenly realm exists outside of the realm of time though.

Yes, I agree there is more that we need to be reaching for, but we better just not dig out the foundation...we sure do need to be building on that foundation. Well, I'm not pretending anything, just bringing scriptures here. I know what I am. In me, that is in my flesh, dwells no good thing...

I think that is lovely. Amen. We delight in the law of God after the inward man.......because our inward man is created righteous and holy. That's why Paul wrote, If I do what I don't want to do (therefore this is not talking about willfully sinning) then it's no longer I who sin, but sin...

You are not getting what people are saying. And that is why you are making a wrong assumption about what we're "claiming". We are only claiming to have received a gift that we didn't earn in any way, and that not of our own that no man may boast. while we were yet sinners. We have received...

No one is sinning when they are in the spirit. On the contrary sinning is what people might do when they are walking in the flesh (but of course not necessarily). If someone is sinning they are not in the spirit, but in the flesh, and walking after the flesh in those moments. I don't know...

Sister...are you born again? Did you receive Christ at some point, where the Lord was miraculously revealed to your heart? Where you suddenly believed with a faith that came from outside yourself and was not your own? When you knew that you knew God was real? Experienced a joy unspeakable...

With me, I have not experienced 24/7 walking in the spirit, only times of being in the spirit, though I've heard of people being in a trance for a number of days. Well, for the sake of discussion I wonder if it depends on what people mean by being in the spirit and walking in the spirit. The...

No, people are not justifying themselves, nor making claims about themselves. But you are just not getting it.

Haven't I talked about the need to crucify the flesh and die to ourselves. Didn't I just mention even today about following Jesus so that the veil of our flesh could be torn, like His was? Certainly we need to come to the end of ourselves. Loving not our life to the death....if we lose our...

I didn't actually bring the scripture about walking in the spirit. Christ in us - the new man, inner man renewed and righteous because it is created in righteousness and true holiness (Eph 4) after the image of Christ (Col 3) - is the foundation. But I believe walking in the spirit is always...

Just to add that it's not positive thinking, it's FAITH. Real faith in a real reality of what Jesus has done for us. And as the apostle wrote to remind and instruct us because we need to be, it's not of our own, so that no man may boast. If any are smug or boast (as we know some are...