I am a spirit being

 Is 26:9

My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

This is one place in the Old Testament where we become aware of the fact that we have a soul and a spirit, separate from each other.  We usually look to the New Testament to affirm this, as it is written in 1 Thess 5:23

May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We are mostly not aware of our spirits until it is pointed out to us that we actually have one!  We tend to live in the soul-area of human emotions, will and personality.  This is then also the part of us most often fed through worldly persuits like education, entertainment, promotions, hobbies, and the like.  Soul rules, and decisions are based on external factors which we filter intellectually and then choose the options best suited to our personality, our particular world-view, and our humanly-acquired wisdom.  Spirit is present but largely ignored, just going along for the ride, not allowed to really give an input.

But God!  When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Saviour, our spirits are instantly transformed and come alive to God!  We suddenly have a beautiful holy spirit within us, a place where God can dwell through His Holy Spirit, a place where God wants to meet with us and build a love-relationship with us, a place where we can behold Him – how awesome is that!

From then on, we have to start changing the order of command in our being.  God designed our spirit to be dominant and our soul to be subordinate to it.  And it really is a decision that we have to take concerning ourselves, as Scripture says in Prov 25:28 “ Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls”.  How do we go about it?

Firstly acknowledge that you are really a spirit being, who lives in a body and has a soul, with which you interact with the world around you.

Start feeding your spirit with spiritual food – read the Word; pray both in the Spirit and in the body through using your mind and speaking your earthly language; worship God; meditate on Him; actively seek a living relationship with Him; spend time with Him.

Bless your spirit with spiritual truths and promises from the Bible spoken over it – how?  Call your spirit to the fore and read those blessings over you, this is how you grow your spirit.

Points to ponder:  As you get up every morning, call your spirit to attention and instruct it to follow Holy Spirit’s promptings throughout the day, leading body and soul on this journey!

By Your Spirit