Getting to Know Your Spirit Nature

The key to having a victorious life is to know that you have to protect, train, and give priority to your spirit nature.  Let me explain:  You were designed and created by God to be a three part being.  Let me show you this in the Bible.  1 Thessalonians 5:23 says, “And the very God of peace sanctify YOU WHOLLY; and I pray God your whole SPIRIT and SOUL and BODY be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”  Did you notice that this verse is talking about the complete you?  Then the verse goes on to describe your three part design:  Spirit and Soul and Body.

Let me describe this to you.  First of all, and most importantly, you are a spirit being.  That means that you are like God in this regard.  It means that you are an eternal being that will exist forever; it’s just a matter of where and how.  Your spirit is the real “you” on the inside.  It is your “heart” or center of your being.  The Bible describes your spirit as the “inner man” or “inward man” or “hidden man of the heart” (Eph 3:16, 2 Cor 4:16, 1 Pet 3:4).  Psychology has discovered that every person has an inward personality but they call it the “subconscious mind.”  It’s not a subconscious mind that they’ve discovered; it’s the human spirit within a person.  Have you ever had an inward intuition that you should or should not do something?  That’s your spirit.  Your spirit is the most important part of your design and what you do with your spirit will determine where you spend eternity and how victorious you are in this life.  

Secondly, you have a soul.  So many people think that the soul and the spirit are the same thing but that’s not true.  The word “soul” used in 1 Thessalonians 5:23 means “mind, intellect, will, and emotions.”  Your soul is the part of you that has emotions and feelings.  Your soul is what gets afraid and nervous in the face of an apparent crisis.  Your soul is what hurts when a loved one passes away.  The soul is easily confused for the spirit but they are not the same.  This is very, very important to understand.  We must learn to tell the difference.  We must learn what to do and what not to do with our mind if we are going to live in peace and have joy in our lives.

Thirdly, you live in a body.  Your body consists of your flesh with all the five senses.  Your body is what contacts the physical realm.  Now that should be a warning to all of us who understand anything about the Bible.  Who rules the natural realm?  That’s right, Satan does.  The Bible tells us that Satan is the god of the natural physical world (Eph 2:2, 2 Cor 4:4).  That means if we are not careful, our flesh will get onto Satan’s turf and hurt our lives.  That’s why many people are hurting today in our society.  They’ve gotten into wrong fleshy habits where Satan can destroy.  

Pastor Tim

Family Church Jamestown is a non-denominational church located in Chautauqua County in Jamestown between Lakewood and Busti, NY. The senior pastor of Family Church is Pastor Tim Stahlman a native to the Jamestown, NY area.