1 Cor 2:9-3:1
9 But as it is written:
"Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him."
10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For "who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
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The natural man does not recieve the things of God. Paul goes on to say that the things of God are foolishness to the natural man. The word fooilishness in the greek is nonsense. The natural man only knows how to recieve things by the senses, what it can see, feel, smell... That is how the natural man gets his information, that's how he makes his decisions, and determines future possibilities. The natural man rejects the things of God because what the spirit has does not come from the senses.
Paul says it is written, eye has not seen nor ear heard... But God has revealed them by the spirit. What I see can not tell me what I am. That's why you can't let what you see determine your identity. Why? Because your eye can not see what the spirt has for you. As long as you go to people, surroundings to find out whats in you, you will always be limited and frustrated. Why?
God has hidden your life in your annointing (Col. 3). And it can only be released by the spirit. That's why it is imprtant to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Why? Because when a wrong relationship, decision, action comes, the Holy Spirit says no that does not line up with who you are on the inside. And unless you have that guidance on the inside of you, you won't know who to invite or reject in your life.
Your battel is not with the devil. Your battle is between your old man and your new man. Paul says in Romans 12 that when you are not conformed to what's around you but you are transformed by the renwing of your mind, you are abkle to prove the good, perfect and acceptable will of God. The word prove is to allow.
Your spirit knows it is destined for greatness, but your mind will never allow it. Why? Because your spirit is created in your new image and your mind can only remember your old image. Your spirit is futuristic but you mind can only remember past experinces... When I tell you that you are not going to struggle anymore and that you are the head and not the tail, you have a hard time recieving it. Why? Because your mind is not renewed in anew image, and it still has a vivid picture of your past. This is why you are frustarted. Your spirit know something great is coming but your mind is trying to talk you out of it.
Watch this! That's why when satan came and told Jesus to turn these stones into bread, Jesus wouldn't why? Why would Jesus turn these stones into bread when he is bread! Jesus said, I am the bread of life, he that belives in me shall live. Later he said, man does not live by bread alone but by what comes out of the mouth of God.
Jesus knew that everything he needed to be evrything the Father willed Him to be was already inside of Him. He didn't need exterbal things to tell Him who he was. Why? Because what was on the inside of him told him who He was.
In closing, you need to stop asking people who you are, you need to stop trying to get people to make you feel better about yourself. Everything you need to walk out walk out your future is already hidden in your annointing. Your annointing knows all things, has all the answers, solutions, you don't need bread, you already got bread in you! I don't care what the world thinks, why? i got bread in me. I don't need you to feed me on the outside, I'll just go ahead and start eating the bread on the inside. I am a divine partaker of the nature of God. I have the nature of God on the inside of me, meaning I have the ability to create the world I want to live in, and I'm not limited by what I see, smell, feel, or hear. My God can do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond what I can think (outside) or imagine (inside)according or in working with the power that is on the inside. You don't need their approval, acceptance, you got bread on the inside of you!
Blessings,
Craig
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Amazing word, Craig. Right now with this cold I feel like all I've got inside of me is snot (lol) but I'm looking forward to getting rid of it and only having the bread. :-)
Thanks for feeding me so many times from the Word like you do.
Love you guys and hope you are having the time of your life in Wisconsin. Wish I could be there to share a hot chocolate with you and Tara.
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