Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Spirit life Vs Natural carnal life

One thing that is increasingly clear is the separation of natural and spiritual. Our natural man has created its own reality we expect the spirit man to fit in with. To emphasize this we find everything we do in worship of God comes back to manifestations. Those manifestations could be supernatural or knowledge or blessing etc. It is obvious a lot of what Christians do is for such and in doing such we add spirituality to our natural life. Instead of being that life. You know how that goes I was with a young man recently who told me their ministry wins people for Jesus and makes money as without money they cannot exist. That is a perfect example of one who is struggling to live spiritual. They have one foot in the supernatural and one in the natural. Of course it would never be seen this way but when it becomes about what God can do for us we have missed the mark. When it becomes about what we can do for Jesus we have missed the mark. We work to keep something we use for Jesus and in reality we are working for ourselves as we fear God may not pay the bills. In reality if God wants us where we are, that building or whatever it is will have a life of its own. It will BE when we walk spirit and if it disappears let’s be honest our fear is God may not want it and we need it to validate ourselves. We live carnal and fool ourselves if we think otherwise. We have fear we can’t manipulate God or God has us working for His ministry. That is just a flat out lie and deception, in spirit life if we relax it will come. People struggle to grasp the fact there is no such thing as building a ministry or having a ministry. To seek a label for the life we live suggests failure of identity. So we have a body of believers winning people for Jesus and working in ministry for Jesus and running this and doing that. Failing to see it is not what we do it’s who we are. When it’s who we are it will be. So in the same vein an interesting life is developing. It was in moving to this house it became apparent the house has a life of its own. The Holy Spirit was at work and there was no prayer I could pray, no action I could do and yet here we are living beyond any blessing I could ever have lived in my ability. It was in this I start to understand our natural ways have limited the Spirit lifestyle in our lives. We are insecure about how much God really loves us or cares. We struggle to see why we deserve the blessing we get maybe and miss the point we don’t deserve. Everything we have done has been for manifestations but as we step outside this carnal natural default and let Spirit be spirit then we see spirit life manifest. It is the sin we entertain that bolts us to the carnal. As where we are looking we will go, what we are entertaining will entrap us to this world. Yes Jesus set us free and gave us the default of the holy Spirit but as we have made this life a manifestation we have stepped outside of life and into mortality, a limited existence we call life. We use manifestations to justify and validate who we are and what we are doing and fail to understand the bigger picture. Manifestations are not validations they are invitations and wooing to spirit life. The problem becomes when we run with manifestations we fail to live our spiritual state. For example prophecy is something the modern spirit filled church thrives on. When someone uses prophecy as a manifestation it is in danger of being hijacked by their natural man. It becomes about validation of one’s self to one’s self. If it is not what I do it is who I am, then we do not prophecy we are prophecy. In being prophecy we will prophecy but probably more of an act of who we are than what we do.

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