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BE SPIRITUAL MINDED (Part 2)

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“For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” Romans 8:6 NKJV

Every born-again believer has God’s kind of peace in their new hearts the peace that surpasses all understanding (John 14:27, 16:33, Phil. 4:7). However, some believers are often restless, stressed, fearful, or fretful because they are not spiritually minded.

In Part 1 of this piece, we began understanding what it means to be spiritually minded. First, we understood that to be spiritually minded is to be God-conscious let your mind be fixed on God (Isa. 26:3).

Second, we realized that to be spiritually minded is to mind the words of Christ to let the word or teaching of Christ saturate, dominate, control, govern, direct, and guide your thoughts, words, emotions, and actions (Col. 3:16).

Let us proceed to understand further what it means to be spiritually minded.

Third, to be spiritually minded is to be filled, influenced, controlled, guided, or led by the Holy Spirit.

You are spiritually minded when you let the Holy Spirit guide, direct, govern, rule, dominate, or control your thoughts, emotions, words, and conduct.

Being spiritually minded is simply living and walking by the Holy Spirit! Paul said, “If we are living by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us be guided.” (Gal. 5:25 BBE).

When you yield to the Holy Spirit to guide and govern your life, you will experience and manifest the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding amid your storm in life (Gal. 5:22-23).

Having the Holy Spirit does not guarantee peace amid the storm, but letting the Holy Spirit have, dominate, rule, guide, and govern you (Romans. 8:5-6). 

Fourth, to be spiritually minded is to walk by faith, not sight.

Being spiritually minded implies refusing to be controlled, dominated, influenced, ruled, or governed by your five natural senses what you can see, hear, feel, taste, or touch (2 Cor. 5:7).

Being spiritually minded is not denying physical realities but refusing to submit to them or let them dominate, rule, or control you.

You are spiritually minded when influenced, dominated, or controlled by spiritual realities (truths of God’s Word) rather than physical realities (what you can see, hear, smell, taste, feel, or touch in the natural).

The Lord Jesus could sleep well in the sinking boat despite the storm because He was not dominated by physical realities things in the physical realm (Matt. 8:23-26).

On the other hand, His disciples were restless, fearful, and fretful because the physical realities dominated them   the things they could see, hear, or feel in the natural.

Similarly, despite being surrounded by the aggressive Syrian army with horses and chariots, Elisha was not restless, fearful, or fretful like his servant because he was spiritually minded; he could see beyond the natural.

Elisha’s servants remained restless, fearful, and fretful until God opened his spiritual eyes to see beyond the natural (2 Kings 6:15-17). Until your spiritual eyes are opened to see and know who you are in Christ and what you currently have in and through Jesus Christ, you will also remain restless, fearful, and fretful in every challenge or opposition in life.

Lastly, to be spiritually minded is to be heavenly-minded.

Being spiritually minded is setting your mind on things above and not on things on the earth (Col. 3:2). On the eve of His trial and crucifixion, the Lord Jesus Christ disclosed to His disciples the secret of experiencing peace or tranquility amid any storm in life.

John 14:1-4 – NKJV

 1 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.

 2 “In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

 3 “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.

 4 “And where I go you know, and the way you know.”

Beloved, when you are heavenly minded, you will not lose your peace even in the face of death, for you know that to die is gain and to be absent from the body is to be present with your Lord (Phil. 1:21, 2 Cor. 5:8).

 

Prayer:

This New Year, I yield to the Holy Spirit to rule, dominate, govern, and control my thoughts, speech, emotions, and actions, in Jesus’ name. Amen.


Our mandates:  is to Preserving the faith of the Apostolic Generation.


Eniyekpemi Fidelis Oyinpreyebi.


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