God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit
and in truth (John 4:24).
The Bible teaches that man is a spirit;
he has a soul and lives in a body. With his spirit, he relates with the
spirit-realm, the realm of his actual existence. With his body, he makes
contact with the material world, and with his soul he contacts the intellectual
realm.
Many people have never understood the
difference between the mind and the spirit; they think the mind is the spirit,
but they’re not the same. When you were born again, it wasn’t your body or your
mind that was born again; it was your spirit. The Bibles says, "...if any
man be in Christ, he is a new creation" (2 Corinthians 5:17) it’s your
spirit that’s in Christ; that’s the real you; that’s the man that relates with
God.
The Lord Jesus said God is a Spirit,
and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth. This simply
means worshipping God from the heart according to the Word which is truth. We
understand the things of God from our spirit. Romans 10:10 says "…with the
heart (i.e spirit) man believeth unto righteousness…."
Then based on that relationship, we
condition our minds to go in the same direction, and condition our senses
to function likewise. So, you’re to control your mind and your senses from your
spirit. That means, the character that you express outwardly depends on the
condition of your spirit which is your heart.
That’s why we need the Spirit of God to
guide us, because only the Holy Spirit can get deep into the human heart to
effect the changes that God wants in us: changes from one level of glory to
another. The Spirit of God guides our minds to think towards God, think like
God, and to think from God. Man can’t do that by himself; it takes the Holy Spirit
to help us do that, because our senses were not designed to relate with God; we
serve God from our spirit.
Prayer
Dear Father, I thank you for the power
of your mighty presence in my life. My heart and my mind are open to your Word,
and I’m yielded to your Spirit to be guided and positioned for excellence and
greatness, as I serve you with my spirit in the Gospel of Christ, in Jesus’
Name. Amen.
Further Study: Romans 1:9;
John 4:23
1 Year Bible Reading Plan : 1 Timothy 3:1-16
Jeremiah 9-10
2 Year Bible Reading Plan : Hebrews 10:19-39
Ezekiel 20
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