One thing I'm yet to fully understand...In the Spirit, Spiritual

[Classik]

In the Spirit, spiritual etc sound imaginary to me...(And these are one thing I'm struggling to understand from our 'physical'). I'm not kidding

 

[Classik]

Be in the Spirit! In the Spiritual realm... Demons operate...!

 

[destiny]

What are you doing with Galatians 5:16? "This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh."

I'm going to be honest, it would be useless for me to be a Christian without the spiritual aspect of walking with God, otherwise I would be fulfilling my flesh with other things to fill that void. And that goes along with the scripture above. You've got to learn to sit in a quiet place and talk with Jesus for awhile and regularly (daily and more than once), read the word and ask God to teach you as you read. Go do these things in faith.
If you will do this you will begin to build your spirit up.. then you'll know.

 

[digging]

For me the spirit is very gentle and I perceive the blessing of the spirit as a soft warmth radiating out from my heart that responses with joy from spiritual thoughts.

Digging

 

[Davies]

For me the spirit is very gentle and I perceive the blessing of the spirit as a soft warmth radiating out from my heart that responses with joy from spiritual thoughts.

Digging

Hi digging, Classic,

This verse came to mind:
1 Corinthians 13:6

New King James Version (NKJV)

<sup class="versenum">6 </sup>does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

I was watching this old movie the other day called "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao." There is a scene at a circus where the Greek character, Apollonius of Tyana(a person who tells the truth about the past, present, or future), tells the fortune of a lady. Apollonius tells her the truth about herself and her future, and the woman runs from the fortune telling session crying.

The reason I bring it up is because, how does one rejoice in the truth when it so often reveals that we are very sinful, and ugly people. If we were to to hear the truth about us from God in a face to face meeting, I think we would all be devastated and brought to tears. Can you imagine how Peter felt after Jesus told him, 'Get behind me Satan'?

I don't think there is anything tangible we can put our finger on about walking in the Spirit other than discovering that you love the truth when you hear it, and when you find yourself doing the list of items found in 1 Corinthians 13. I think it starts with trusting in Jesus and not an image of Jesus we make up in our mind. A very difficult lesson to learn. The old man doesn't die easily.

- Davies

 

[Classik]

This is really superb....insightful thanks