2 Peter 1:4
We begin to live with an awakening spirit that lays hold of all the "exceedingly great and precious promises" (2 Peter1:4) of God. This in turn, brings us into the realization of the power and authority that we actually have in Him. We begin to live on high! You may have the word, but you need an awakened spirit. The Word is not alive until it is moved upon by the Spirit of God.
Like the sailors in the mouth of the Amazon, many of us are dying of spiritual lack in the midst of the abundant riches of God. In this present time, more of the preaching the Word than in any previous era. The wonderful truths and promises of God are being declared in churches around the world by men of God with sincere hearts.
However, great teaching becomes just "knowledge [that] puffed up" (1Cor.8:1). In the minds of those whose spirit have fallen into slumber. An awakened spirit is one that is free of the doping effects of the flesh and the canal mind.
Who you are and what is yours now Christ is nothing short of phenomenal! But the carnal mind (the sinful, fleshly mind that you lived with prior to conversion) cannot even begin to see this let alone appreciate it. Neither can you grasp it if you are still controlled by your emotions and feelings. The reason is that, when your emotions rule, your spirit slumbers. When you feel happy, think you believe; but when you are sad, down, or depressed the faith you thought you had seems to disappear. You are riding an emotional roller coaster up, then down; belief then doubts; trust, then worry and so on. Who and what you are in Christ is nothing short of phenomenal.
The solution is to live by your born-again spirit, an awakened spirit ruled by Holy Spirit, and not by your mind emotions. But how do you do this. God is looking for those who will do the same. Lord, let of us ever live with an awakened spirit. Take us out of our slumber, so that we might be all that You desire totally filled with all that You have for us.
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