He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still waters.
3 He restores my soul
3 He restores my soul
Psalms 23:2-3a NKJV
Today's thought is very 'in your gut' and straight to the point. Some of you will get it, some of you won't. Some will agree with it, some will ignore it. My hope is that all of you will embrace it. So here goes...
Our soul is made up of our mind, emotions and will- our thinker, our feeler and our chooser. If our mind, emotions and will are not under control or submission of the Holy Spirit, we will never be able to make good decisions or choices. If the way we think, choose and feel is distorted then our life will reflect the same inconsistency and chaos. We will not see sustainable changes in our life until we restore our soul.
We can attend church everyday, read a book or two and know the Bible from front to back but unless we have renewed our minds and taken control of our emotions we will remain in lack, unhealthy, lonely and living without purpose. Regardless of whether we are single, married, wealthy, broke, educated or uneducated. We can no longer neglect the fact that our 'roots' are damaged.
Just because Jesus went to the Cross for our sins, deficiencies and iniquities does not allow us to disregard our responsibilities for self. What am I saying? We can not pray for the desires of our hearts and accept deliverance as we live in disobedience, unruliness, disrespect for God, self and others, lack of self-control and self-righteousness ALL WHILE expecting change and breakthrough. We will cancel ourselves out, remain stagnant and sometimes digress in life under those circumstances. Please don't misunderstand. God will continue to bless us and allow favour into our lives BUT in order for us to tap into His Greatness in us and the true desires in our hearts, we have to work on our thoughts, feelings and self-control.
Once we are able to bring our soul under submission to the Holy Spirit, depression will become joy, chaos will become peace, dysfunctional will become functional, average will become great, lack will become abundance, confusion will become creativity and frustration will become purpose. The Holy Spirit and our soul are at war. Our soul needs to be put under manners.
Submitting our mind, emotions and will to the Spirit and developing self-control is one of the most difficult things we will have to do in this life. This is why the devil attacks there first - he deceives our mind, plays with our thoughts, creates instability in our emotions and magnifies our feelings to overpower our choices. This is the same way he deceived Eve in the garden, he knows that our 'thinker, chooser and feeler' can be easily swayed, if not under the control and authority of the spirit. As long as he can get us thinking we are not good enough, that we'll never have all that we desire and that God's love and provisions for us doesn't go past Sunday, then our choices, thoughts and feelings will lead us in the same direction.
We can not have authority in the Spiritual realm if we have no authority over ourselves (our thoughts, our emotions and our will) in the physical realm. In other words... we can not expect God's Word to come to life in the physical if our physical doesn't line up with God's word (Galatians 5:16-25 NKJV).
Be Blessed in RESTORING YOUR SOUL
6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, 7 casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. - 1 Peter 5:6-7
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest - Matthew 11:28
God is Love. Love is Life. Life is in The Word.
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