Dividing Soul and Spirit
So many people have this idea about life that whatever comes down in their life they have to roll with it. That is wrong we have choices God has gives us that right to make choices and it is us that does the choosing. That is why it is so important because whoever controls your soul controls your destiny and your experiences in life. The contest is between the god of this world who is Satan the prince of the powers of the air he has legal spiritual right to manipulate circumstances with people until the end of this dispensation as the god of this world to accomplish his purposes which are to persuade you through the worldly arena and your flesh which we live in to navigate this world, to make choices for death and cursing.
On the other hand God is laboring through your spirit according to the word when you are born again your spirit is reconnected with the spirit of God we have been joined with him once again in his image and likeness to become a temple of the Holy Spirit. So God labors to influence your decision making through your spirit. As the temple of the Holy Spirit he labors to bring influence to bare in your life through your spirit, so we will make choices for life and blessings. This is a truth of what our daily challenge is. Spiritual warfare is really what it all boils down to. This is what life as a born again believer is all about or should be about. The enemies attempt is to generate so much pressure through the worldly arena, through your flesh that you make decisions designed to relieve the pressure. This is what the challenge is all about. When the pressure is on we are always tempted to make decisions to relieve the pressure. Let’s look at Matt. 16:19 to see if we can find some keys:
Matthew 16:19 (AMP)
(19) I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind (declare to be improper and unlawful) on earth must be what is already bound in heaven; and whatever you loose (declare lawful) on earth must be what is already loosed in heaven.
Now this is a verse that is familiar with many people but how many real understand what Jesus was talking about. Most people take this verse and from time to time they will bind Satan they will loose the angels to go get their finances. We might bind sickness and diseases and loose the anointing of God. I believe this verse goes much deeper than just causal understand of this verse. It says that there are keys that are going to do the binding and the loosing. We have to understand and utilize the keys that he is talking about. So it seems imperative that we need to understand the keys of the kingdom of heaven before we can effectively use the binding and the loosing. We need to understand what the keys are. What do keys do what are they all about? They usually open something like doors to the kingdom. Jesus told us that we were to pray that his kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. So we are looking for keys that would help control our lives so we could experience the kingdom of heaven. There are three keys to the kingdom in regards to controlling our lives so we can experience the kingdom of heaven.
Key to controlling your body (words)
Key to controlling your Soul (renewing the mind)
Key to controlling your Spirit
We have already been through two of them but let’s do a quick review. The key to controlling your body: James 3:2
James 3:2 (AMP)
(2) For we all often stumble and fall and offend in many things. And if anyone does not offend in speech [never says the wrong things], he is a fully developed character and a perfect man, able to control his whole body and to curb his entire nature.
This is the first key to controlling our body, the words we speak.
Romans 5:17 (MSG)
(17) If death got the upper hand through one man’s wrongdoing, can you imagine the breathtaking recovery life makes, sovereign life, in those who grasp with both hands this wildly extravagant life-gift, this grand setting-everything-right, that the one man Jesus Christ provides?
God has given us the power to reign over our domain because we are kings and priest which we have inherited through him. God has given us the power to reign over our domain which is our life and anybody he has put under my spiritual authority we can speak into like our children our family anyone who god has put over me. To many believers surprise that even includes Satan.So my domain is Me. So how does a king reign he makes a decree and then everyone is subject to that decree. So when the king speaks things get done so there are a lot of people listening to your decree and when you decree negative words you have made a decree to the hosts of darkness and they will ensure that your words come to past. So when you get up in the morning and declare that you are a healthy child of God and you are not going to receive any negative thoughts into your spirit you are decreeing Gods best for your life. This is a decree that the angelic hosts respond too. Always use your words to better your situation. Your words are the key to your body. You have to understand the power of your words they are very powerful.
Now let’s look at the soul in Romans 12:2
Romans 12:2 (AMP)
(2) Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].
The Key to controlling the Soul is a renewed mind. Because the soul is where decisions are made and we talked about the decision making process in the section on the soul. Transformation is a key to the kingdom. Renewing of the mind is changing your entire thinking process to line up with God’s word. This is a daily thing not a onetime experience. You know when your mind is being renewed because your feelings begin to change.
Now we get to the lesson for today the key to being spiritually controlled.
Now the first question is; how can you be lead of the spirit if you have no idea what direction you need to go? You have to know where he is trying to take you. We have to have an understanding of what the life Jesus wants us to lead is all about. Let’s look at Mark 4:26-29
Mark 4:26-29 (AMP)
(26) And He said, The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed upon the ground,
(27) And then continues sleeping and rising night and day while the seed sprouts and grows and increases—he knows not how. (28) The earth produces [acting] by itself—first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.(29) But when the grain is ripe and permits, immediately he sends forth [the reapers] and puts in the sickle, because the harvest stands ready.
He said in the beginning of verse 26 the kingdom of God this is a key. You have to understand the principles of sowing and reaping. It’s a shame today that most believers equate sowing and reaping to be all about money. Money is not the seed God wants us to sow the seed is God’s word. He tells us in this parable that the seed is his word. The harvest is the fruit the seed produces after its own kind and we know the seed is the word so the harvest produced is the word. A man’s life depends entirely on what he sows. Now to make sure you are sowing the correct seeds your heart has to be right can’t be stony and sandy or weedy it needs to be fertile ground so it will grow and produce a good harvest. Good ideas about life “the book leading by intimidation” is a weedy seed it doesn’t come from God it comes from the world. We have to take our ideas about life from God’s word not the world. The first process of all this is, it has to be sown in your heart. You can’t give someone else an idea if it hasn’t been sown in your heart first. We can’t sow the seed into our own heart all we can do is cultivate it and water it, weed it so it grows up to produce good fruit of the seed that was sown in it 30, 60 , 100 fold. Now have we arrived no; now we have to sow what we have into someone else’s life, fruit bearing? It’s the will of God that we all bear fruit. The fruit is for someone else that we continue the process or cycle. That is why God says our lives our written epistles. Let your joy effect someone else let your peace encourage. This is part of the principle of the seed. This is the first way you become a sower. How else do you become a sower by speaking the word.
Galatians 6:7 (AMP)
(7) Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap.
Galatians 6:6 (AMP)
(6) Let him who receives instruction in the Word [of God] share all good things with his teacher [contributing to his support].
When the bible talks about money or sowing money it is always to support the propagation of his word. So don’t listen to these preachers that tell you to sow $1000.00 and God will bless you with seven fold that is not a sowing principle that is a love principle and nowhere does it say you will get seven times your money back. So what God is saying is wherever you are taught that is where he wants your support to go because in this world it cost money to do things.
The more fields you sow the more harvest you can reap. The harvest you produce in your life you have to be willing to give it to somebody else that’s what it is all about. God uses people. Here is the beauty in this if you use your money to support a ministry that is preaching the word and that ministry is successful you will reap in that success because you contributed to the ministry. God’s whole kingdom works on this principle. Our needs will only get met by the word of God. Have a great week! 
Shalom Alecheim,
PapaJD.
