i know you want to do what the lord god had in mind. but we must let go off the flesh and live in spirit. agree?

[Holy999]

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[DuckieLady]

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[Windmill Charge]

"know you want to do what the lord god had in mind. but we must let go off the flesh and live in spirit. agree?"

No I don’t agree. We have physical bodies and live among other people who also have physical bodies.
We are to live lives that honour God and remind those who don't know God that he exists.
Yes we all have a spirit and have a spiritual life but non Christians are not aware of or reject the idea of worshipping GOD in any way.

 

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Galatians 5:16-18 KJV
16) This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
17) For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
18) But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

Exactly true!

Much love!

 

[MA2444]

We have to walk in the Spirit. Scripture tells us to.
We have to overcome the flesh. Scripture tells us to.

Remember, we are in the world but we are not from this world.

We're not humans on a spiritual journey.
We are spirit beings on a human journey.

It was sort of scary and spooky to start being led by the spirit moment by moment. Hard to learn but easy to do once your used to it.

I once had a (well intentioned) brother in Christ make a strange remark to me. I said, I am going to search for the Lord in spirit...and he said you better not because you can get into a lot of trouble fast with the wrong demons and you wont even now if you can go home after astral projecting!! And I said, Huh?!

It isn't astral projection. He isn't out there. The kingdom of God is at hand. Jesus is already inside of me. He stands beside me. He goes before me to clear a path. He is also my rear guard. He is right here, I don't have to astral project anywhere, lol!

Dangerous? Ha! (He who seeks me will find me). How could it ever be dangerous? Is He a Father that will give his son a serpent when he asks for a fish? No, absolutely not.

All being led by the spirit means in it's simplest form of thinking is to be sensitive to the presence of the Lord. Now, you know He is with you anyway at all times whether you are born again or not. So your perspective must shift as you realize that, there has never been anything approaching privacy as we think of it on this earth. No man or woman has ever been without the presence of the Lord and perhaps some extra helper Angels. You have never had even one private thought! He is listening.

Aint no promises in scripture about privacy!

But! This is our friend that sticks closer than a Brother! So acknowledge that you know that He is there. Talk to Him. Jesus said since you know He is with you all the time that you should talk to Him constantly (Pray without ceasing)

 

[marks]

It was sort of scary and spooky to start being led by the spirit moment by moment. Hard to learn but easy to do once your used to it.

It's like jumping off a cliff, but then finding you are flying.

Much love!

 

[MA2444]

"know you want to do what the lord god had in mind. but we must let go off the flesh and live in spirit. agree?"

No I don’t agree. We have physical bodies and live among other people who also have physical bodies.
We are to live lives that honour God and remind those who don't know God that he exists.
Yes we all have a spirit and have a spiritual life but non Christians are not aware of or reject the idea of worshipping GOD in any way.

Have you ever heard the Cherokee Proverb about two wolves?

https://theacademy.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/two-wolves-cherokee-story.pdf

The two wolves which fight inside of us are your spirit and your soul. They fight over who gets to command the flesh to do this or do that.

Your soul is your mind, will and emotions and how it communicates with the world is through the 5 senses, and that's what the flesh does, so the soul always wants to do what the flesh does.

The Holy Spirit bears witness (means, talks to) to our spirit so our spirit has a direct connection with God and always wants to do God's will. The right thing in every circumstance, Your spirit talks to your soul (carnal self) through your conscience and will accuse you when you think about doing the wrong thing, and it will make me feel good when you do do the right thing.

So you can't live in the flesh. You have to let the spirit lead. You're not getting away with anything. Jesus is there, your Guardian Angel, scribe Angel and who know all of who else?! Oh, Jesus is in the Father and the Father is in Him so he's there too! They don't go away, only you turn your back to them and make your own decisions in your carnal mind, and I think that puts you in rebellion to the Lord.

 

[MA2444]

It was sort of scary and spooky to start being led by the spirit moment by moment. Hard to learn but easy to do once your used to it.

I used to say my morning prayers and then go to work. I remember praying Lord, speak to me...and then blah blah blah Amen got up and went to work. And one day it hit me. I didn't even really give the Lord a chance to answer. I got up and walked out without a thought.

This is the God that one day to Him is like 1000 tears to us. What if it took Him a minute to answer? I was already gone. I blew it. So many times I was running late of course and so as I was finishing up praying in the morning, I just went on and invited the Lord to ride with me to work! And I kept thinking during the day, you don't take your best friend which sticks closer than your brother and forget He is with you. I imagined Him sitting in the passenger seat. He prolly really was since scripture says he is beside us always. And all day long I would talk to Him like my best friend was with me.

Then I started seeing these videos about hearing the Lord's still small voice and I understood that Prayer is not a monologue. Prayer is a dialog. A two way conversation. I started praying differently. I would pray and ask for something or ask a question and then I would pause my "prayer" and listen for the Lord to answer me inside of me.

I figured that the Lord created us and knows the thoughts and intentions of a mans heart, and He wants all of His children to be able to hear His still small voice so it had to be in my mind. God can prolly put any thought into our minds that He wants to, so all I have to do is focus and pay attention. And I'd ask something and pause. and listen to the first thing that pops into my head. That must be Him. Sometimes it is a scripture. Sometimes, it is a "thought", and sometimes, He doesn't answer so it's crickets! A few times He has changed the subject on me. I didn't ask the right question, I guess, lol.

At first it felt like a game that I was playing in my own head. But I figured, oh well, we're supposed to become as little children to enter and what do children do? They play!

So my little game went on and on and basically it just turned into a regular conversation. I could hear Him and differentiate Him speaking over my own thoughts! He don't talk like I talk or think. He always says things in just the right way that holds no condemnation yet teaches and provokes my thought.

After I learned how to hear His still small voice, we was talking one day and He told me that He wants all of His children to learn to hear his voice, and obey instantly.

A few times it was like He turns up the volume for me on His voice. That's in situations that happened and I reached right out for Him! And it was just like Psalm 91 says he shall call upon me, and I will answer him. I will be with Him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.../ Because that's what happened and it was a sensitive situation, there was three cop cars of 6 men searching for me to arrest me. I was on foot and can't walk far due to that accident that I had. So I was calling on the Lord, Please help me Lord! I don't want to go to jail! And it was the Holy Spirit that spoke to me and he turned up the volume inside my head so there was no difficulty hearing Him. He had me walking in circles up and down alleys and streets, turn left here, turn right up there, rest here, get up and go quickly go right, now go right again and just on and on for about an hour while they searched for me and a few times I seen them crossing intersections a few blocks down while I was walking around. And the Lord told me to stop and rest a few times. He knew my back was a problem, lol. And then after about an hour He said, ok you can go home now, it's safe, they've gone...(Wow!) That was super cool. Then I was reading Psalm 91 one day and I thought, hey that sounds familiar!

So you can't live for your carnal self or your flesh all the time. You will die and go to hell. If you let the spirit guide you and call the shots, then you get to live in the Lord's presence eternally! And while you yet walk on earth, you have His protection.

 

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