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I see it like big breaths and little breaths. A big breath is going in and out of the Spirit over long periods of time. Then there are the little breaths...the little things, like revelations, or miracles in the moment. Like when you feel a peace of the Lord come over you. So we give thanks for...

But to feed one needs real food...not a purely dogmatic reasoning that has no life in it. We feed on His life (blood). The dogmatic food I call "dog" food. Not fit for human consumption. Yet so many feed on it. But they feed the inner dog in themselves. A human being needs to feed on an actual...

LOL...A beautiful example of someone contradicting themselves in the very thing they err in.

How about...it becomes automatic through a lot of practice and trials! :) It's like playing a musical instrument. At one point your musical sensibilities become highly tuned...without effort. But behind that seeming ease is a LOT of experience and practice.

Our effort is always to enter into the close fellowship with God. The righteousness we are learning is quite automatic. We have been changed because we have been with Jesus. No, not trying to perfect ourselves by laws and techniques. Our righteousness is as an afterglow of His righteousness...

This idea begins well and then drops into a fallacy. Crucifixion is not a revelation...but an experience of God that must be entered into in real life. It is God operating on us...as Paul said by the operation of God...not the revelation of a doctrine. Col. 2:12 Buried with him in baptism...

We are learning to be righteous in our own lives. The time IN the Spirit helps us to have the courage and potential to do well when the Spirit is not in control. IOW we begin to act as Jesus even when we are not IN the Spirit. So we become dyed in the wool servants of God and righteousness...

Eating and drinking Christ represents that we partake of His life both in the visible (tangible) things represented by the visible flesh ....and the invisible (intangible) things represented by what we can't see such as the flow of blood (life) in a body. If we only do those things that are...

There is much truth to this. But if we skip a step, the step of going to the cross of Christ, we will be renewing a mind into a religious way of thinking...like taking verses and spiritualizing them into our lives. So instead of saying we are having a good day...we say blessed. And there's...

That's why these back off after a while...unless they be exposed as being in the flesh even as they say how wonderful it is to be in the Spirit. Brainwashed is the right word. There's a LOT of false ministry out there.

:rolleyes: Have you any experience with positivism? (I think I have come across every kind of person in my time.) A positivist thinks he/she is always in the Spirit...always abiding...because of a positive attitude. As in..if you believe it hard enough..it's real. So the idea of reckoning...

There is a kind of believer out there (and here) who choose to see everything with positivity...even impossible things for the flesh are claimed positively by the flesh. So then if you ask a person if they walk in the Spirit...they will say...All the time...it's easy! But really these have no...

Do you have a testimony about the crucified life? This is the right thread for it. Please share. We are to always be ready to communicate what the Lord is doing in our lives after all...for the sake of encouraging others into the same walk. Like...how much time do you spend in the Spirit...

I think the difficulty with some here is that we are comparing what is good with what is perfect. There is a clash there. With the idea that there is more than just good. It's like this idea that we can get progressively crucified...like a finger at a time. But a partially crucified person is...

Anything over your head...which is anything spiritual...seems super-spiritual to you. It's like never-never land to you. But your honesty is so lacking in that you don't understand half or more of what Paul is saying. But your religious posturing compels you to judge others who do. Paul is not...

I shouldn't have to say this on a Christian forum...but if a sister opens up in vulnerability and weakness... that is not a signal for the dog within us, or in you in this case, to attack. SBG was trying to help a younger brother who has difficulty understanding sanctification. She never...

Exactly! :)

We are admonished as Christians to put on Christ. To put on the full armour of God. To put on the new Man. If everybody was doing that already and automatically, there would be no need to go to the throne of grace to get more grace. There would be no need to exhort people to do so. Paul is...

Ok I'll bite on this post! ;) You are right. Except for this... I believe all who are born again both are indwelt by Christ, and are in Christ. We are indwelt by Christ when we are born again. Yes. We have received a FREE sample of the life of God in us. But to unleash the POWER of that life...

You are describing here the life that's trying to be crucified. The crucified life is watching from the backseat while Jesus drives the car. It is for the flesh to be helpless on a wall....out of the way...so that you walk in a resurrection power in His presence...ALWAYS. It is the keeping power...