Understanding Body, Soul, and Spirit

This will help you to understand…You. You might wonder why it seems like your passion for God can be intense one week, only to become cold the next. Or you may have noticed a strange desire for something more, something deeper, like you’re not seeing the full picture, just capturing glimpses. 

This Bible verse reveals something interesting about you.

“Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.” - 1 Thessalonians 5:23 (NLT)

Notice the three components of you. Spirit. Soul. Body.

Your body is your earth suit, the vehicle through which you exist in and experience this life. 

Your soul is the realm of decision, the place where you exercise your free will. Your thoughts, what you think. Your will, what you desire. Your emotions, what you feel. 

Before you became a follower of Jesus, you consisted only of a soul and a body. When you were born into this world, you were born with physical sight, physical hearing, and physical senses. But when you were born again, you were born again “of the Spirit.” That is, the part of you that’s connected with God came to life. 

Your Spirit is your connection with God and the source of your true identity. 

With the soul, you can either face the exterior or the interior. And to be clear, so that I don’t say anything that puts you under a religious mindset, I don’t think it’s evil to enjoy the world that God created. So when I talk about facing the exterior, I simply mean being consumed by worldly considerations to the point that there’s no thought of the Spirit.

This is why some believers experience passion for God that seems to come and go. Their soul is focused on the exterior - circumstances, relationships, responsibilities, troubles - and so as the world around them shifts, their emotions shift with it. 

However, those who face the Spirit, those who are aware of their connection with God, are stable mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. They live life from the inside out, rather than the outside in.

This is why you long for something deeper. Your spirit is crying out unto God. Your spirit explores the depths of who God is by the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:10-12). The real you wants to come forth, the spiritual you desires to live and exist in this world, through the physical body.

For more content, watch my teaching “Living in the Holy Spirit (Body, Soul, and Spirit Explained)” on YouTube by clicking here.

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