Yesterday marked a new chapter in my life. I had a revalation at my church Sunday school class that changed the way I think. This change is not going to happen over night, because saving a marriage is a process, not an event.
The flesh and the spirit are in battle for your soul. The flesh includes thoughts of the world, and ultimately of the enemy. The spirit, if your a Christian, is the spirit of God within you. According to Galatians 5:16- If we walk by the Spirit, we will not give into the flesh. Visually, the soul would be between the flesh and the spirit. A door connects the flesh to the soul, and another door connects the spirit to the soul. If you allow the door to be open of the flesh, then the door to the spirit will be closed. You can't have both doors open. You can't listen to the spirit and the flesh at the same time. Therefore, if we allow the spirit to speak to us, and walk by those truths, that opens the spirit door up and, in turn, closes the door to the flesh.
I have struggled a lot in the past week with a spirit of discouragement and hopelessness. I have allowed thoughts to dwell in my mind of all the reasons why my marriage is not going to be saved, and all the things reasons why I should not believe. I have to close that door, and only allow the spirit to speak truth into my life. Each and every thought that comes in I have to analyze, is this of God or of the flesh? If it is of the flesh, I need to rebuke that thought immediately and then start speaking truth from the Word, and allow the spirit door to be open once again.
Philippians 4:8- Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy- meditate on these things.
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