THE SOUL AND SPIRIT ARE CLOSELY RELATED AND SINCE THEY WERE CREATED BY GOD THEY CAN ONLY BE DIVIDED BY GOD....YOU MIGHT SAY... WHY DOES THIS NEED TO TAKE PLACE?.. WELL.. LETS LOOK AT A FEW SCRIPTURES..
EZEKIEL 18:4 BEHOLD ALL SOULS ARE MINE, FOR THE SOULS OF THE FATHER AS WELL AS THE SOULS OF THE SON IS MINE, THE SOUL WHO SINS WILL DIE.
IF YOU BUY A CAR YOU HAVE OWNERSHIP OF THAT AUTOMOBILE LIKEWISE WITH US, WE WERE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE... EPHESIANS 1:7 STATES THAT IN HIM WE HAVE REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD, THE FORGIVENESS OF OUR TRESSPASS, ACCORDING TO THE RICHES OF HIS GRACE.
1 PETER 1:18-19 SAYS KNOW THAT YOU WERE NOT REDEMMED WITH PERISHABLE THINGS LIKE SILVER AND GOLD FROM YOUR FORFATHERS BUT WITH PRECIOUS BLOOD, AS OF A LAMB UNBLEMISHED AND SPOTLESS , THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.. BELOVED WE WERE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE.. THE BLOOD OF OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, AND WE OWE OURSELVES TO HIM.. HE (JESUS) PURCHASED US.
IN ORDER TO GET TO A DEEPER AND HIGHER LEVEL OF LOVING AND SERVING GOD THE SEPERATION OF SOUL AND SPIRIT MUST TAKE PLACE. IN OUR SOUL IS OUR WILL, OUR EMOTIONS, AND OUR LOGIC. ROMANS 12:2 AND DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD,BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND THAT YOU MAY PROVE WHAT THE WILL OF GOD IS, THAT WHICH IS GOOD ACCEPTABLE AND PERFECT. PROVERBS 3:5-6 SAYS TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL THINE HEART LEAN NOT TO THINE OWN UNDERSTANDING , IN ALL THY WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM AND HE WILL DIRECT THY PATHS.
WE CANNOT TRUST OUR WILL TO DO WHAT THE FATHER WANTS, WE CANT TRUST OUR OWN LIMITED LOGIC TO FIGURE OUT WHY WE NEED TO TRUST HIM AND WE SURELY CANT TRUST OUR WILL TO DO HIS WILL BECAUSE WE WERE BORN WITH THE ADAMIC NATURE AND OUR EMOTIONS WILL TRICK US EVERY TIME.
THE SPIRIT OF GOD( HOLY SPIRIT) DESIRES TO LEAD GUIDE AND DIRECT US INTO ALL TRUTH BUT WILL NOT OVERIDE OUR WILL... THERE HAS TO BE AN INVITATION FOR THIS PROCESS TO BEGIN..THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A GENTLEMAN.
THE PROCESS OF THE DIVISION OF THE SOUL AND THE SPIRIT IS SIMILAR TO SEPARATION THE WHEAT FROM THE TARES... THEY LOOK ALIKE AND HAVE GROWN UP FROM THE GROUND TOGETHER BUT THERE IS ONE DISTINTIVE DIFFERENCE IN THE TWO... ONE HAS A SEED AND ONE DOES NOT AND IF THEY ARE NOT SEPERATED THE WEED(TARE) WILL CHOKE THE SEED.. LIKE WISE WITH OUR SOUL AND SPIRIT IF THE SOUL IS NOT DIVIDED IT WILL CHOKE THE VERY SEED THAT THE FATHER HAS PLACED WITHIN US... AND IF WE LET OUR EMOTIONS RULE WE WONT EVEN RELIZE THAT IS HAPPENING TO US BECAUSE OR LOGICAL THINKING AND OUR UNDERSTANDING WILL SAY ... YOU ARE FINE YOU KNOW THE WORD AND THERE IS NOTHING WRONG AFTER ALL WHEN YOU SPEAK THE PEOPLE RESPOND.... ARE THEY REPONDING TO THE SPIRIT OF GOD WITHIN YOU OR ARE THEY RESPONDING TO THE SOULISHNESS AND CHARISMA THAT IS SO EASY TO OPERATE IN......

BY ALLISON J. CROSS

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