What does it mean to \u2018live from your spirit\u2019? Yesterday we looked at how we are a three part being: spirit, soul and body. With our body and our soul (mind, will and emotions) we can worship and cry out to God, but it is through our spirit that we commune with and receive Him. Think about that for a moment. When you communicate with God through your spirit you can hear Him; in fact, that is why you exist!<\/p>\n
It is through your spirit that you perceive what is going on spiritually speaking \u2013 and if ever there was a time to know what\u2019s going on spiritually, it\u2019s now! As Christians, it is vital to live with an open spirit to God. You receive from God through your spirit, which is why your spirit is so important to Him.<\/p>\n
John 3:6<\/strong> says, \u201cThat which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the [Holy] Spirit is spirit [your spirit]\u201d. The Holy Spirit takes up residence in your spirit.<\/p>\n Living from your spirit stops the chaos that comes from living in the realm of your soul. Much of the content of your soul is learned behaviour from your upbringing and experiences. Unless the negative attitudes and wrong belief systems are corrected in line with God\u2019s Word, they will dominate your thinking and sabotage your life. If you are controlled by your soul, you will be ruled by what others think and say. But when you live with your spirit connected to God\u2019s, you can break free of the control of what other people think about you.<\/p>\n Ultimately, your spiritual life is led by God\u2019s Spirit in your spirit. God will speak to you uniquely and personally. He won\u2019t say the same things in the same way He does to anyone else.<\/p>\n O\u00a0Lord,\u00a0You have searched me and known\u00a0me.<\/em>\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>You know my sitting down and my rising up; You\u00a0understand my thought afar off. You\u00a0comprehend my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. For\u00a0there is<\/em>\u00a0not a word on my tongue, but<\/em>\u00a0behold, O\u00a0Lord,\u00a0You know it altogether. \u2013 Psalm 139:1-4 (NKJV)<\/strong><\/p>\n You can trust God with your life. He knows you inside and out in a way no one else possibly can. When you open your spirit to His, He will guide you, and tell you the future. He will instruct you regarding the right choices for your life from the smallest to the greatest, leading you on a path to peace and fulfilment; a life that shines forth His glory.<\/p>\n It stands to reason, doesn\u2019t it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he\u2019ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ\u2019s! \u2013 Romans 8:10-11 (MSG)<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What does it mean to \u2018live from your spirit\u2019? Yesterday we looked at how we are a three part being: spirit, soul and body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,165,15407],"tags":[325,15050,15409,15408],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n