WE MUST DIE IN THE FLESH FOR OUR SPIRIT MAN TO BE ALIVE


1Cor 15:36: "Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it dies:"


Unless we are dead to desires of the flesh through our obedience to the words of God, our spirit man will remain dead within us, his potential will be buried and inactive in our souls. It is only by being dead to human nature that the Spirit of God will be able to resurrect from the control of the flesh and free us from attachment to things of this world. If the flesh is still very much active in your life, it means that you have not fully yet surrendered your whole life to God to obey all His instructions. Your loyalty is still to the world and not to God, and your spirit man will be inactive within you. Believers who are living in disobedience to the word of God are still glued to the world and they only obey instructions of God that are pleasing to their flesh, their spirit man is deadly buried to the earthly things. And it is by the power of the Holy Spirit that their spirit man will be resurrected and separated from the control of the flesh through their obedience to the word of God. When you are dead to the desires of your human nature through your obedience to the word of God, you will begin to discern the voice and witnesses of your spirit man within you. If you continually live in obedience to the instructions of God your spirit man will speak, enlighten, correct, and lead you from inside through the quickening of the Spirit of God. You are doing great disadvantage to yourself if you are still allowing flesh to control your life through your disobedience to the word of God. Your spirit man who was supposed to be the channel for the Spirit of God to be witnessing, speaking, guiding, and empowering you from within will be rendered ineffective through your disobedience to God. The potential of God within you, your vision, your anointing, and the grace of God inside you will not be awakened for the world to see and experience if you continue to disobey God. It is only through a living spirit that the glory of God will be made manifest and not through a dead and dumb spirit of a man that is controlled by the flesh through his disobedience to God.


Rom 8:13: "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live."


If you live according to the desires of the flesh, your spirit man will be motionless, dumb, and blind to the things of God. But if through your obedience to the instructions of the Spirit of God your spirit man will be alive, speaking and seeing the visions of God from inside you. The living spirit of man is the guidance of God within him, and by it, he searches the heart of God in partnership with the Spirit of God to know the will of God. The spirit of a man who is alive in him is the prophetic equipment of God inside him, and he will say what the Spirit of God is saying within him. When your living spirit man is speaking or witnessing about a matter continually inside you, you should take heed to what He is saying, because the Spirit of God bears witness with our spirit about what God is saying concerning us. The sons of God are known by their obedience to the instructions of the Spirit of God and not by their activities for God alone. All scriptures are given by the Spirit of God, so to be led by the Spirit of God is meant to obey the word of God either the written word, the revealed, or the spoken word. And as many who obeyed the instructions of the Spirit of God are called the sons of God. Romans 8:14.


Pastor Samson Adelanke

Twitter:@samsonadelanke


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