WALKING IN THE SPIRIT IS CONSTANT WORK

WALKING IN THE SPIRIT IS CONSTANT WORK

To many of you walking in the Spirit is no more than a shallow charismatic phrase. The truth is walking in the Spirit, when practiced will make you super human. Walking in the flesh is natural, so in walking in the spirit is supernatural. When all your thoughts are Spirit inspired your body will respond to those thoughts. Your body will always respond to your thought life. If your appetites inspire your thoughts your body will reflect that appetite.

Thinking food will lead to increased body weight. Thinking sleep, will start to immobilize you. Letting circumstances inspire your thoughts, will cause a yoyo type personality. Letting sexual appetites inspire thoughts will make you sensual and eventually lead to perversion of some kind. But if the Spirit of My Father Who raised Me up from the dead dwells in you, (inspiring your every thought) then Father Who raised Me up from the dead will also restore to life, your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you." Romans 8:11 (AMP)

Your thoughts determine your walk, continual Spirit inspired thoughts will cause a walk in the Spirit. It's a no brainer, however, when the eye gate and ear gate are added to the equation everything changes. Now the rubber hits the road when you discover you are dwelling in hostile territory and must depend on your eyes and ears in order to function in this enemy territory. Now the no brainer, becomes a constant struggle because the eyes and ears, which function every waking moment, flood your mind with hard to erase recordings and pictures.

These pictures feed and create appetites which in turn inspire thoughts. So now the no brainer shifts it's focus to the gates. It's a no brainer, that you must guard the gates with great diligence. Pictures and talk of food are bad for the overweight person. Sexually explicit pictures and language are bad for everyone. The inquisitive people must guard the ear gate against gossip, lest they become a ... "busybody in other men's matters." 1 Peter 4:15 (KJV)

Before your new birth the eye gates and ear gates were left wide open, and your personality was formed accordingly, but when you were born again, the eye and ear gate rules changed. The Spirit needs to reshape your soul and body.
Now this is where you "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." Philippians 2:12 (KJV) with constant and continual control of the ear and eye gate.

In order to walk in the Spirit you MUST shrink the gates way down until only the "things that are true, things that are honest, things that are just, things that are pure, things that are lovely, things that are of good report; and only if there be any virtue in them, and if there be any praise in them, (these and these only can come through the gates, so that you) think on these things." Philippians 4:8 (KJV)

If the true cannot pass the pure and lovely test, DUMP IT! If any of the data coming in the gate has no virtue, and does not help you look like Me, DUMP IT! If its even the slightest bit dishonest, DUMP IT! You can walk in the Spirit, but it's only going to happen if you "strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able" Luke 13:24 (KJV) because they leave the gates wide open.

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Jim Hammerle

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