Spirit, Soul and Body

What do you mean by spirit? Your spirit is, is the holy of holies, your innermost being where God dwells and fellowships with you. Its where you are birthed a new creation* through the entrance of the seed of God's word*, **. He desires that you be a person who always keeps oil in their lamp!* He searches your innermost being with His own lamp*. He wants you to soak up His presence during prayer time and worship through intimate fellowship with Him*. He wants to share with you His heart and mind, His love for you and reveal to you joint endeavors*.


What is your soul? Its traditional definition is that it encompasses all of your will, mind and emotions. It's the immaterial part of you most connected to your affairs on earth. God wants you to change your old thinking to conform to His higher principles and ways*. You are being reprogrammed to live like a princess. He wants your thought life to reflect your new place as a child born to Him spiritually*. This is also where the battle rages*. Girding yourself with God's Word is going to be crucial to win*. Where as being born spiritually happens instantaneously, upon your acceptance of Jesus into your heart, this takes some unlearning, discipline and time.

Your body is the temple where your spirit and soul reside. (Take good care of it! ) It operates under natural laws that do not always co-operate with the other two parts mentioned above*. It is at variance with your spirit and in constant fighting*.So a large part of the struggle becomes bringing it under the control of the spirit and letting it be guided by a renewed mind. At first failure is almost inevitable and it becomes a place where you learn to fast and pray, but as your spirit man grows into the full stature of Christ* it will begin to outweigh your bodies petty desires and you can have victory. You are simply advised to crucify lust* when it comes in the way of your soul's progress and freedom. God promises to supply you with all the grace you need*!


Also read poem at,
http://www.geocities.com/helojes/Threesis.html
More detailed resource on the subject:
http://www.dtl.org/dtl/treatise/soul-spirit-1.htm

The shulami magazine!

http://www.geocities.com/helojes/shulami
I just did a couple of articles with you girls and boys in mind with the hope that the upside down gets rightside up again! It came out of my own(frustrating) search for a better half. In the back of my head was a nagging line from a Jars of Clay song that goes, "you can't attract the things that you lack, you are trying in vain" I hope you know what you lack within yourself and try to find the stuff that belongs in there. This goes back to the old Agustinian itch, "There is a void in the heart of a man(or a woman) that makes him (or her) itch until he (or she) finds God". 'The three sisters' poem is about realizing there are people behind the people( A spirit-soul behind the outwardly seen body) and that all there is, is not just what one sees on the outside! This is true of both men and woman, although you can't title a similar poem about the duplicity of human soul and spirit the same way if you are talking about men. Perhaps a piece titled, 'Dr. Jackyl and Mr. Hyde(hide)' might yield a worthy exploration of the subject. I will let a woman writer tackle that. However, this is not a site about trying to get into peoples psyche but how to build one's inner spirit-person with God's building blocks so as to become beautiful and whole persons, thereby attracting the same. Hope it blesses you! I hope you can overlook the apparent 'corny-ness' and find the deeper meaning and gems hidden right bellow the surface to help you make a headway in this crazy world. Finally, may the almighty add His blessings to it! Only He can make the murky waters clear. This is just my weak, faint offering to help the process! Thank you and may God bless you for reading it! You can leave comments, opinions and questions bellow by using the comments link! Love ya all! And I appreciate all your feedback!