Genesis 1:26-27 (Amplified) tells us, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them."
When God created mankind, He created them in and as a spirit. Jesus said in John 4:24 (Amplified), "God is a Spirit (a Spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and Truth." Genesis 2:7 (Amplified) goes on, "Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the Breath or Spirit of Life, and man became a living being." The part of you that is in God's Image and Likeness, is your new creation spirit. If you were purple when you received Jesus as your Lord, then you'll still be purple after you're saved or born-again. If you were short when you got saved or born-again, then you'll still be short after receiving Jesus. If you were a women when you got saved or born-again, then you'll still be a woman afterwards. The part of you that changed into His Image and Likeness, was your spirit.
God's Holy Spirit and your born-again spirit, are back in God's Original Intent for mankind. Unlike Adam, after his fall in the Garden, we're once again in a position to be led by and led through our spirit man. Our new creation man is now back into the place of hearing and being led by our spirit, instead of our senses or soulish realm, according to 2Corinthians 5:17.
Our bodies and souls weren't affected by this new birth. We still look the same, think the same way and follow the same way of doing things, like we did before being born-again. We're part of God's new creation family and are to use God's Word and listen to His Spirit, in order to bring the flesh and carnal parts of our being, into subjection to His will. Many have become discouraged in their walk with the Father, because things didn't happen like they thought or heard. This doesn't mean that they "thought wrong or heard wrong." God's Word isn't magic. Magic is a demonic slight of hand or is simple witchcraft.
God's Word must be sown into your spirit and not your intellect, in order to work. The Word is Seed and seed must be sown into good soil, in order to bring about a harvest. Our carnal minds and flesh aren't good soil for Spiritual Seed to take root in. Only our hearts can produce what the Seed of God's Word is designed to do. Your spirit will grow and produce the Spiritual Seed of the Word. The Word is Spirit, the Father is Spirit and you're a spirit. The harvest of Spiritual Seed will produce in and from your spirit and overflow into the soul and body. It must first germinate in your spirit, though.
The senses are necessary for our life on earth. We rely on our five senses, in order to drive vehicles, shop or walk across the street. We need to rely on them, but if we rely on them for spiritual relations, then they won't produce the Truth of God's Word in our lives. We're designed to be led by our spirit, to the place where the senses have led us, before we were born-again. Our five senses or carnal minds, were in charge of everything we did in life, before we were born-again. We relied on our emotions, to the point they dominated every waking moment in our lives. Such out of control emotions as depression, stress, fear, and worry, ruled our lives. We couldn't find a way out of the carnal world, that surrounded us. We looked everywhere, but could't see an answer or a better way, until we received Jesus as our Lord and Savior.
God created us to have the five senses, in order to contact this physical world, but He never intended them to lead us or dominated our spirit. Hope came through our new birth and when hope entered, faith came into play. We could hear from God by faith, and we finally had The Answer to the hopelessness that blankets all of mankind. Some simply hold faith, in their going to be with God when they die. Others had hope and faith in God's ability to intervene in our lives, while we're here on earth. Both could now see the Light.
The carnal mind instructed us into the realm of what God used to do, but the carnal mind is hostile towards God and cannot understand the Super-natural or the Spirit realm. We decided then, that "God no longer does these great deeds or healings, that He used to do." We were deceived and held in bondage by the devil, even though we've been made free. We've believed that we are saved, but that was the extent of God's Grace and power in our lives here on earth. We believed that if we just lived "right," then someday everything will be okay.
This lie has held God's free children in bondage to the carnal realm, for nearly two-thousand years. Some have dared to believe God at His Word and have moved into the Super-natural realm. Many of them have sadly been ridiculed by the brethren, but God doesn't see them as ridiculous. God spoke more highly of some believers in Hebrews 11. All were men and women of faith, but some stepped into a place of trusting God at His Word, like Joshua and Caleb did. This is the place God wants this generation to step into.
We've remained in the Wilderness for far too long and it's time to enter God's Rest and inherit the Promise. God has held it in reserve, for such a time as this. The Super-natural should be a normal way of living, for the Church today. The Holy Spirit is revealing more in the Revelation of God's Word, than ever before. We have the Epistles, God's Word and the Holy Spirit as our Teacher. The Revelation knowledge He's giving, is now abounding for those who have ears to hear.
Let's never be afraid to trust God in His Promises and His integrity. You must weigh what you hear and learn for yourself. Don't be like those who listened to ten men and didn't seek for themselves. There were nearly two million people in the Wilderness who relied on the reports of those ten men. Those reports of fear and helplessness, caused them to remain in the Wilderness for forty more years. Today, there are many voices like Joshua and Caleb's, but which voice will you believe?
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