An interesting perspective I thought I'd share. I hope we can participate in this discussion in the peace of Christ and the spirit of love that is our souls journey in this life as we abide as temples of the holy spirit. Blessings. Just as a note here: Please don't engage in kind if confrontational personalities try to derail this thread with darkness and bad manners. This article isn't offered as an alternative to our faith. It is written by a sister who is alive in the spirit as we are. This is her blog and her observations. Just as we share in our own blog's and hope negative energies don't disrupt the flow of our soul's journey that is one of peace and love in the image and likeness of Christ.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
No one can make a thread dark unless we let them.
Let's not ever let "them".
Amen.
POSTED BY YVETTE DEMPSTER ON SEP 30, 2016
The Most Surprising Thing You Might Have Never Heard About Your Soul
There are many sick and dying in the Church because they believe their souls are sick. But a Christian’s soul is not sick. It’s just waiting to be saved. But meanwhile it can be renewed.
We all have someone in our life who is dealing with issues of the soul. Maybe you yourself are dealing with soul issues (emotional trauma, anxiety, depression. Any thing that negatively affects or oppresses the mind, will, emotions). But do you know how to help these people? Do you know how you can be free?
One day I was praying for several people who are dealing with issues of the soul (doesn’t matter what caused the issue), when I asked God if He cares about the soul. I told Him it seemed there were lots of scriptures on forgiveness and healing of the body and I’ve heard many sermons on these topics, but what about the soul?
God overwhelmed me with kindness when He said, “I care deeply about the soul of man. If I didn’t there weren’t be scriptures that exhort you to renew your mind. And I wouldn’t have promised a day when you will receive salvation of your soul.”
Then He reminded me of this verse in 1 Peter 1:3-10
It’s important to understand that our souls are as important to God as the rest of us because He knows our soul often gets in the way of our living by the spirit. Our emotions can often get in the way of us living supernaturally.
I will explain what I mean.
We are made up of three parts: our spirit, our soul, and our body.
Most of us have been taught to listen to the cues our body gives. For example: if we have a pain in our stomach we might consider first if it’s hunger, and if we have eaten, then maybe it’s indigestion? Or sickness? And so on. Similarly we take cues from our soul, primarily our emotions, to tell us something about ourselves. For example, if we feel sad is it because we are grieving? If we are angry is it because we have suffered an injustice? Or our emotions flood with a reaction to our situation and we get angry or cry when we’ve been misunderstood or hurt. Well, you get the idea.
All of this is really elementary. To explain about how our body and soul work might seem silly since we all know what it means to have signals from our body and our soul. But what about our spirit? We are told to live by the spirit, but in order to do this we must take cues from our spirit which means we have to train our body and our soul to be subject to our spirit.
[FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED HERE]
Part 2 of the article , as noted in the blog at the bottom of the page, if you follow that link to the full article, doesn't appear to be available under the title, Part 2 How we can live completely free in every area.
Rather, what I found instead is this: HOW TO OVERCOME FEAR LINK It is an article a few years older than the Soul Sickness piece. However, I think many of us can relate to the sisters experiences shared in this blog.
[Excerpted] "Anxiety, panic and depression are all related to fear.
All fear comes from the fear of death.
The fear of death means that somewhere ‘death is ruling.’
So how can we overcome fear? Since fear comes from the fear of death, how death entered the world needs to be defined.
Death came through sin. When man first sinned death not only came on the scene but Scripture says thatdeath reigned. The whole earth lived under the dark canopy of death until Jesus came. Jesus brought light and life and ripped the canopy of death forever. Light streamed in and overcame darkness. Righteousness came and crushed sin forever. When sin was crushed, death was defeated. Life had won.
So why do Believers still struggle with fear?
If we battle fear or any of its cousins (anxiety, depression, panic and many more) it’s because somewhere in our understanding death is ruling. It’s a symptom that our perspective needs to change. Our minds can be retrained.
Living with fear means we haven’t understood our true identity. We have been taught by the world (death) and not Jesus (life, righteousness) what is ‘normal’ and we’ve accepted it. But Scripture says to renew our minds; to put off the old and put on the new. When we renew our minds we are trained by the Kingdom of God and not the kingdom of the world.
But aren’t we born-again?
Yes! When we are born-again our spirits are made completely new, but our minds need to be retrained (renewed) by the Spirit.
How do we retrain our minds?
The Scripture says,
“Don’t become like the people of this world. Instead, change the way you think.” Romans 12:2 [MORE READING]
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
No one can make a thread dark unless we let them.
Let's not ever let "them". Amen.
POSTED BY YVETTE DEMPSTER ON SEP 30, 2016
The Most Surprising Thing You Might Have Never Heard About Your Soul
There are many sick and dying in the Church because they believe their souls are sick. But a Christian’s soul is not sick. It’s just waiting to be saved. But meanwhile it can be renewed.
- We are three parts (spirit, soul and body) and every part affects another. But at best, the church has only focussed largely on two parts: the spirit and the body. The spirit in salvation (usual definition: being forgiven from sin) and the body in healing.
- But does God care about the soul?
We all have someone in our life who is dealing with issues of the soul. Maybe you yourself are dealing with soul issues (emotional trauma, anxiety, depression. Any thing that negatively affects or oppresses the mind, will, emotions). But do you know how to help these people? Do you know how you can be free?
One day I was praying for several people who are dealing with issues of the soul (doesn’t matter what caused the issue), when I asked God if He cares about the soul. I told Him it seemed there were lots of scriptures on forgiveness and healing of the body and I’ve heard many sermons on these topics, but what about the soul?
God overwhelmed me with kindness when He said, “I care deeply about the soul of man. If I didn’t there weren’t be scriptures that exhort you to renew your mind. And I wouldn’t have promised a day when you will receive salvation of your soul.”
Then He reminded me of this verse in 1 Peter 1:3-10
It’s important to understand that our souls are as important to God as the rest of us because He knows our soul often gets in the way of our living by the spirit. Our emotions can often get in the way of us living supernaturally.
I will explain what I mean.
We are made up of three parts: our spirit, our soul, and our body.
Most of us have been taught to listen to the cues our body gives. For example: if we have a pain in our stomach we might consider first if it’s hunger, and if we have eaten, then maybe it’s indigestion? Or sickness? And so on. Similarly we take cues from our soul, primarily our emotions, to tell us something about ourselves. For example, if we feel sad is it because we are grieving? If we are angry is it because we have suffered an injustice? Or our emotions flood with a reaction to our situation and we get angry or cry when we’ve been misunderstood or hurt. Well, you get the idea.
All of this is really elementary. To explain about how our body and soul work might seem silly since we all know what it means to have signals from our body and our soul. But what about our spirit? We are told to live by the spirit, but in order to do this we must take cues from our spirit which means we have to train our body and our soul to be subject to our spirit.
[FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED HERE]
Part 2 of the article , as noted in the blog at the bottom of the page, if you follow that link to the full article, doesn't appear to be available under the title, Part 2 How we can live completely free in every area.
Rather, what I found instead is this: HOW TO OVERCOME FEAR LINK It is an article a few years older than the Soul Sickness piece. However, I think many of us can relate to the sisters experiences shared in this blog.
[Excerpted] "Anxiety, panic and depression are all related to fear.
All fear comes from the fear of death.
The fear of death means that somewhere ‘death is ruling.’
So how can we overcome fear? Since fear comes from the fear of death, how death entered the world needs to be defined.
Death came through sin. When man first sinned death not only came on the scene but Scripture says thatdeath reigned. The whole earth lived under the dark canopy of death until Jesus came. Jesus brought light and life and ripped the canopy of death forever. Light streamed in and overcame darkness. Righteousness came and crushed sin forever. When sin was crushed, death was defeated. Life had won.
So why do Believers still struggle with fear?
If we battle fear or any of its cousins (anxiety, depression, panic and many more) it’s because somewhere in our understanding death is ruling. It’s a symptom that our perspective needs to change. Our minds can be retrained.
Living with fear means we haven’t understood our true identity. We have been taught by the world (death) and not Jesus (life, righteousness) what is ‘normal’ and we’ve accepted it. But Scripture says to renew our minds; to put off the old and put on the new. When we renew our minds we are trained by the Kingdom of God and not the kingdom of the world.
But aren’t we born-again?
Yes! When we are born-again our spirits are made completely new, but our minds need to be retrained (renewed) by the Spirit.
How do we retrain our minds?
The Scripture says,
“Don’t become like the people of this world. Instead, change the way you think.” Romans 12:2 [MORE READING]
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