2Cor.5:17(Amp) says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether). The old previous moral and Spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
Walking naturally Super-natural becomes something we don't need to stop and think about, like when we were babes in Christ, because we learn and grow into mature Christianity and salvation. It once seemed impossible solve math equations, but once we learned the principles of math, we could easily apply them and solve them.
This applies to growing in the Lord too. We must learn how to walk by the Word, instead of by the flesh. The more we learn and know what the Word says, the easier it is to do as the Word and the Spirit teaches. We need to renew our minds by God's Word, according to Rom.12:2, so we will no longer simply follow the impulses of the flesh, but walk naturally Super-natural by God's Word, without needing to stop and think about it.
It seems impossible at first, to know how to "walk pleasing to the Lord," until we know that He is already pleased with us and that it pleases Him while we're learning. We don't punish our children for making a mistake when learning to count. We simply correct their mistake and teach them how to do it. We're pleased they're eager to learn and follow our direction.
Contrary to common belief, God isn't always angry with us, when we make mistakes. He understand what we go through and how difficult it is to learn to live in our new Kingdom Life. It takes determination and patience, to function in our new creation life. Even after we leave our lives on earth and enter into the Fullness of God, we'll learn that what we believed about Heaven is so far below what the Father has for us and that it was only His Grace and patience that got us through.
Don't get discouraged and stop striving to walk with Him. Be encouraged by the Truth of the Holy Spirit, our Teacher, knowing that He will lead and teach us to walk above our old nature. This isn't some magical thing that only happens to certain people, but is a growing and learning process. It's not something that we stand by and wait to happen either. Paul said that he didn't "learn this by the teaching of men, but he learned his knowledge by Revelation from the Lord," in Gal.1:11-12(Amp), saying, "For I want you to know brethren, that the Gospel which was proclaimed and made known by men is not a man's gospel (a human invention, according to or patterned after any human standards), For indeed I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through a direct Revelation given by Jesus Christ (the Messiah)."
We might have been born with eyes, but it takes the Holy Spirit to let us "see" God's Word. We might have been born with ears, but it takes the Holy Spirit to let us "hear" God's Word. Mark4:22(Amp) says, "Things are hidden temporarily only as a means to Revelation, For there is nothing hidden except to be revealed, nor is anything temporarily kept secret except in order that it may be made known." Many read the Word, without having revelation knowledge about what it says, because they're reading it in a carnal, natural sense. When we read it without revelation of what we're reading, it's just words, instead of the Word of and from the Father Himself. Different denominations have their own interpretation of what The Bible says and believe their interpretations are the way it's supposed to be. These are all real born-again people who love God, but they will believe other denominations are "wrong," because they believe their interpretations are correct.
Most of us have revelation knowledge on some things, while others have revelation knowledge on other things. The trouble is that when we receive some knowledge, we believe there's nothing more we can or even need to know. How much do we not know about God or our place with Him by His Own Word and Spirit? 1John2:20-21(Amp) says, "But you have been anointed by (you hold a sacred appointment from, you have been given an unction from) the Holy Once, and you all know the Truth, or you know all things. I write to you not because you are ignorant and do not perceive and know the Truth, but because you do perceive and know it, and know positively that nothing false, no deception, no lie is of the Truth."
The Holy Spirit of God knows all things and is now living in our own spirit. The Holy Spirit is God and knows all that God is and everything God has and says for us. We must listen to the Spirit of God within us, to bring forth the same Revelation given to Paul, for us. We have the letters the Apostle Paul wrote to the Church, but if we read them without the revelation of the things he delivered to us, then they're just "the man-made gospel." God's Word isn't a "man's gospel or human invention, after human standards," according to Gal.1:11-12
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