So I have been studying about the things of the spirit and just wanted to kind of speak my piece about it.
First I wanted to understand what exactly is a spirit? Some might say it's the soul but I don't really think that's true, I think the soul is more like the true us not the us that was formed or influenced by this world or by our own mistakes and falings but the us that God knew before time began what we really look like and what we really sound like.
Maybe I am weird but Whenever I look at myself I feel like I am not really seeing me, like this fleshly body is just a shell and isn't at all what I really look like or sound like, I feel like my soul- the true me is completely different.
A spirit however seems to be spoken of several times in scripture as beings possibly demons but also notice how it is also spoken of as a state of being like the spirit of truth or say a spirit of virtue. I think that a spirit is something that can in fact be altered as one can transform from a spirit of anger to the spirit of love.
But apart from knowing and understanding what a spirit is which I still have much to understand in this matter what about spiritual warfare and for that matter what about the spiritual realm itself? What makes a person more prone to have top deal with spiritual warfare than someone else? Why do some excel in it while others struggle and are almost overwhelmed by it?
I have not yet found an answer as to why some are more prone to deal with it than others, it could simply be how some are more prone to receive dreams and visions or perhaps my other theory which is about doors.
I have met some Christians who are fascinated with the things of the spiritual but do not understand the things of the spiritual and I have had to warn them to have caution because the things of the spiritual are not all candy and rainbows there are doors that you do not want to open and if you do open them you may not be able to close them.
We open doors all the time we just don't realize it, when we are soaking in the scriptures we are opening all kinds of doors, doors of clarity, of peace, of love, of his spirit and his heart in general. When we pray we are open the door to him and letting him into our home, when we praise him and sing in the midst of despair we are opening a door of power and strength of life and hope in a seemingly lifeless and hopeless situation. But in the same manner there are Christians who unwittingly open doors for attacks because sometimes people can get more into the things of the spiritual than the things of God himself and the enemy loves to prey on such people. This of course is not to say that is the reason certain people deal with spiritual warfare but is a factor for some. There is also the fact that God has created in his body spiritual warriors, There is no rhyme or reason for his selection of such people at least for us because lets be honest understanding his reason for things is not exactly simple.
For instance I know better than to open doors for attacks yet I am by no means a stranger to spiritual warfare I have been attacked by demons more times than I can count, I don't really question why I just sort of roll with the punches. Yet in every encounter or attack I was never harmed and yes there were times when I really had to fight to overcome but in him I was able to. Which leads my to question from earlier why some can simply excel in these warfares and others just barely make it through. I noticed that some will go through these battles and come out stronger than before they went in while others are crippled and fearful and eventually become desperate for help.
My theory is that it all has to do with the relationship one has with God. I am by no means strong or special in any way but in every attack he and I have not just been victorious but we have always grown from them. I think the reason for that is the intimacy he and I share when I am in an attack I instinctively know what to do and how to overcome the situation and sometimes it's much harder than normal like that time when I was on my bed and suddenly a shadow figure rushed over to me cussing and yelling at me and I couldn't move and my tongue was tied.
In this instance I instinctively knew I had to call out to Jesus but clearly the demon didn't want me to do that but upon my tongue finally being able to say his name the demon vanished.
But another thing is that I never rely on my own strength and I think that is key, because when you try to fight with your own strength the cost is very steep you can come out of that battle far worse off than you were before and it might take a very long time to recover from it. I know that the things of the spiritual is not really a topic that the logical believer dives into much but in my studies I have seen that for every major event that happened n the bible whether that is the nt or ot there was a spiritual happening going on behind the veil that affected the physical realm, And so I think it is important for us understand how the spiritual works with the natural
First I wanted to understand what exactly is a spirit? Some might say it's the soul but I don't really think that's true, I think the soul is more like the true us not the us that was formed or influenced by this world or by our own mistakes and falings but the us that God knew before time began what we really look like and what we really sound like.
Maybe I am weird but Whenever I look at myself I feel like I am not really seeing me, like this fleshly body is just a shell and isn't at all what I really look like or sound like, I feel like my soul- the true me is completely different.
A spirit however seems to be spoken of several times in scripture as beings possibly demons but also notice how it is also spoken of as a state of being like the spirit of truth or say a spirit of virtue. I think that a spirit is something that can in fact be altered as one can transform from a spirit of anger to the spirit of love.
But apart from knowing and understanding what a spirit is which I still have much to understand in this matter what about spiritual warfare and for that matter what about the spiritual realm itself? What makes a person more prone to have top deal with spiritual warfare than someone else? Why do some excel in it while others struggle and are almost overwhelmed by it?
I have not yet found an answer as to why some are more prone to deal with it than others, it could simply be how some are more prone to receive dreams and visions or perhaps my other theory which is about doors.
I have met some Christians who are fascinated with the things of the spiritual but do not understand the things of the spiritual and I have had to warn them to have caution because the things of the spiritual are not all candy and rainbows there are doors that you do not want to open and if you do open them you may not be able to close them.
We open doors all the time we just don't realize it, when we are soaking in the scriptures we are opening all kinds of doors, doors of clarity, of peace, of love, of his spirit and his heart in general. When we pray we are open the door to him and letting him into our home, when we praise him and sing in the midst of despair we are opening a door of power and strength of life and hope in a seemingly lifeless and hopeless situation. But in the same manner there are Christians who unwittingly open doors for attacks because sometimes people can get more into the things of the spiritual than the things of God himself and the enemy loves to prey on such people. This of course is not to say that is the reason certain people deal with spiritual warfare but is a factor for some. There is also the fact that God has created in his body spiritual warriors, There is no rhyme or reason for his selection of such people at least for us because lets be honest understanding his reason for things is not exactly simple.
For instance I know better than to open doors for attacks yet I am by no means a stranger to spiritual warfare I have been attacked by demons more times than I can count, I don't really question why I just sort of roll with the punches. Yet in every encounter or attack I was never harmed and yes there were times when I really had to fight to overcome but in him I was able to. Which leads my to question from earlier why some can simply excel in these warfares and others just barely make it through. I noticed that some will go through these battles and come out stronger than before they went in while others are crippled and fearful and eventually become desperate for help.
My theory is that it all has to do with the relationship one has with God. I am by no means strong or special in any way but in every attack he and I have not just been victorious but we have always grown from them. I think the reason for that is the intimacy he and I share when I am in an attack I instinctively know what to do and how to overcome the situation and sometimes it's much harder than normal like that time when I was on my bed and suddenly a shadow figure rushed over to me cussing and yelling at me and I couldn't move and my tongue was tied.
In this instance I instinctively knew I had to call out to Jesus but clearly the demon didn't want me to do that but upon my tongue finally being able to say his name the demon vanished.
But another thing is that I never rely on my own strength and I think that is key, because when you try to fight with your own strength the cost is very steep you can come out of that battle far worse off than you were before and it might take a very long time to recover from it. I know that the things of the spiritual is not really a topic that the logical believer dives into much but in my studies I have seen that for every major event that happened n the bible whether that is the nt or ot there was a spiritual happening going on behind the veil that affected the physical realm, And so I think it is important for us understand how the spiritual works with the natural