Spiritual Life 101 - Unders tanding the Mechanics of the Spiritual Life
To live a godly, peaceable life in the World, a Believer must be filled with the Holy Ghost and have the Fruit of the Spirit in his personality. However, before he can possess these emotional qualities, the field of his mind and emotions must be cleansed by the Word of God and he must understand basic spiritual principles that govern and support the Word that he is standing on.
Unfortunately, Satan is not going to sit back and let this happen so he uses all kinds of sly, deceitful maneuvers to slow down or stop the fruit bearing process in our life. He systematically uses sin, unrestrained emotions and false teaching to dig holes in our health, character and personality. If we intend to reach the more and much fruit-bearing stage that Jesus spoke about in John 15:5, we must strive to catch the foxes we see in our life, go through our wilderness experiences and take advantage of every opportunity to grow in grace and gain more spiritual knowledge and understanding.
The woman who was healed from the issue of blood understood what the him of the priest's garment represented. As a result, her knowledge, her need and her determination energized her faith and pushed it to a level that drew so much virtue out of Jesus that He had to ask, 'who touched me?' When we understand the basic spiritual principles that support what we believe, it will energize our faith and maximize the level of what we receive from the Lord! Understanding is the key to spiritual success!
To live a godly, peaceable life in the World, a Believer must be filled with the Holy Ghost and have the Fruit of the Spirit in his personality. However, before he can possess these emotional qualities, the field of his mind and emotions must be cleansed by the Word of God and he must understand basic spiritual principles that govern and support the Word that he is standing on.
Unfortunately, Satan is not going to sit back and let this happen so he uses all kinds of sly, deceitful maneuvers to slow down or stop the fruit bearing process in our life. He systematically uses sin, unrestrained emotions and false teaching to dig holes in our health, character and personality. If we intend to reach the more and much fruit-bearing stage that Jesus spoke about in John 15:5, we must strive to catch the foxes we see in our life, go through our wilderness experiences and take advantage of every opportunity to grow in grace and gain more spiritual knowledge and understanding.
The woman who was healed from the issue of blood understood what the him of the priest's garment represented. As a result, her knowledge, her need and her determination energized her faith and pushed it to a level that drew so much virtue out of Jesus that He had to ask, 'who touched me?' When we understand the basic spiritual principles that support what we believe, it will energize our faith and maximize the level of what we receive from the Lord! Understanding is the key to spiritual success!
To live a godly, peaceable life in the World, a Believer must be filled with the Holy Ghost and have the Fruit of the Spirit in his personality. However, before he can possess these emotional qualities, the field of his mind and emotions must be cleansed by the Word of God and he must understand basic spiritual principles that govern and support the Word that he is standing on.
Unfortunately, Satan is not going to sit back and let this happen so he uses all kinds of sly, deceitful maneuvers to slow down or stop the fruit bearing process in our life. He systematically uses sin, unrestrained emotions and false teaching to dig holes in our health, character and personality. If we intend to reach the more and much fruit-bearing stage that Jesus spoke about in John 15:5, we must strive to catch the foxes we see in our life, go through our wilderness experiences and take advantage of every opportunity to grow in grace and gain more spiritual knowledge and understanding.
The woman who was healed from the issue of blood understood what the him of the priest's garment represented. As a result, her knowledge, her need and her determination energized her faith and pushed it to a level that drew so much virtue out of Jesus that He had to ask, 'who touched me?' When we understand the basic spiritual principles that support what we believe, it will energize our faith and maximize the level of what we receive from the Lord! Understanding is the key to spiritual success!