At The Spoken Word Church today Pastor Bill Novak taught on the REAL battle field for the born again believer. We must realize that we, like the One, True God, are triune beings (1 Thessalonians 5:23)! We ARE spirit, we HAVE a soul and we live IN a body. When we were born again, receiving Jesus as Lord and personal Savior, the Spirit of God entered our dead human spirit and recreated it in the image of God (2 Corinthians 5:17)! Our spirit man is now perfect and became so instantly! When Jesus appears to catch the church away, our bodies will be changed instantly, also (1 Corinthians 15:51-53). The part that does NOT receive an instant transformation is our soul, which consists of our mind, emotions and will. Our soul is made new daily, and progressively, by meditating on the Word of God and by getting to know HIM! Look at Romans 12:2:
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].
Our enemy, satan, cannot touch our born again spirit, and he cannot stop our resurrection body. His most diligent work is found in the fight for our souls! His weapon is the lie, and IF he can get us to believe something contrary to the Word of God, then he will succeed in affecting every area of our lives! Proverbs 23:7 tells us that our thoughts greatly affect us:
7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
THAT is why the battlefield is in our minds! Remember that we are told that OUR weapons are NOT carnal, fleshly weapons. The weapons of OUR warfare are mighty through our God for the pulling down of the enemies strongholds (2 Corinthians 10:4)! 2 Corinthians 10:5 tells us how to use these weapons!
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; KJV
5 [Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One),
Do you get the idea now? In order to get the results that Jesus did in His earthly ministry, we must think, speak and act like HIM! In order to do THAT we must renew our minds on a daily basis by meditating on the Word of God, allowing the Spirit of God to make this Word come alive to us. When we are diligently going about this, the enemy is being frustrated at every point of his attack against us! AMEN! The victory is ours when the battle is the Lord's and HE has already defeated the enemy! Anything else is nothing but an empty lie, from the father of them (John 8:44)! AMEN! Continue to renew your mind and EXPECT the understanding of the Word to come so that YOU can be a GREAT Ambassador of Heaven! Check in a few days for the teaching from today to be posted on our website (link on the left) and get the specific Scriptures that were covered so that YOU can learn how to "reject and replace" thoughts of the enemy with the thoughts of God! Here is a new song from Hillsong United called "Rule":
Shalom in Him!
