During the cause of the week, I had a dream where a “doctor” said he wanted to test me for the covid 19 virus. He brought out a syringe trying to inject my nose with some yellowish substance. I started to scream the name of Jesus in the dream, it was such an intense struggle that I woke up all heated up. I thank God for the name of Jesus which is a strong tower, and is mighty to save!
I knew within my spirit that if I had allowed that doctor to inject me, there would have been grave consequences, I just really thank Jesus. I prayed about it as soon as I woke up, prayed until I felt peace within my spirit.
But I pondered about this matter long enough, asking myself questions like,what if my spirit man was dead? What if my spirit man had not been fed with the word- Jesus? It could be a different story I’d be telling now. Then I started to think about young people in my generation who are clueless about the vices and devices of the devil to kill, steal and destroy and hence this blogpost.
Our sleep time is such a peculiar time when our bodies are put in a state of rest and perhaps semi-unconsciousness. God uses this avenue to speak to us through our spirits many times and so does the devil use this as an avenue to scare and other times plants evil seeds. But one with a dead spirit may not be able to hear or see God but may be subjected to numerous oppression from the devil.
*note that every human being is a spirit living in a body with a soul. And it is possible for one’s spirit to be dead – this happens when one fails to feed the spirit as much as one feeds the physical body.
I am writing to tell you that our spirit lives are as important as our physical bodies. Feeding and ensuring the nourishment of our spirit man is like building the immune and defense mechanism of our spirits.
I have read and heard of many people who shouted from their sleep and died in the cause, others did not shout but were attacked like that but could not live to tell the story. I wrote about such an incident, where the house-help of woman of God was attacked and died but thank God for the faith and determination of the woman of God, read about it here.
It is such a sad thing and noteworthy that this definitely isn’t God’s plan, Jesus tells us the parable of the Kingdom of God; describes and compares it to a field filled with good seeds planted by a man but the enemy comes in the middle of the night to sow the bad seed and goes away.
A strong defense and immune system against the vices of the enemy is one of the great benefits amongst many others that comes from grooming, nurturing and ensuring the growth of our spirit man.
So How can we groom, nurture and see to the growth of our spirit man?
Accept and Invite the life giving spirit into your life:
Romans 8:2 tells us that once you belong to Jesus, accept Him as your Lord and saviour, the life-giving spirit which He gives frees you from the power of sin that leads to death and gives your spirit life. When sin has a stronghold in a life, it chokes the spirit of such a life and possibly leads it to death.
Therefore, Jesus Christ is the CPR to such a life to resuscitate a spirit in its dying state. You can say the prayers here, to accept Jesus as your friend to give your spirit, body and soul life.
Repent & turn away from spiritual Junk food: You know how junk food isn’t any good for your physical health, the same goes for spiritual junk food- it does your spirit no good. These spiritual junk food may include fornication, a lying life, stealing, killing, jealousy, greed, to sum it up – sin.
Sin does our spirit man no good but to starve and deprive it necessary nutrients it deserves and sometimes may lead to death.
Let us make up our minds to turn away from all forms of spiritual junk food. May God help us in Jesus name.
Maintain a balanced diet to nourish your spirit man: As we turn away from spiritual junks, it is important to feed our spirit man with health balanced diets. This include the word of God, praying, wrshipping and spending quality time with God. As your spirit man grows, it will start to tell you what it needs at different times.
May God help us to groom and nurture our spirit man in Jesus name.
Exercise your spirit man just as you exercise your physical man: This includes fasting and praying as well as praying in the spirit. Exercising regularly helps to subdue the flesh while spurring the spirit to life, giving it the firmness, vigour,stamina and fitness needed to thrive.
Cultivate the fruits of the spirit: The fruits of the spirit include: love, joy, peace, forbearance,kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness, long-suffering. Galatians 5:22-23. Once we accept the life-giving spirit into our lives, we would begin to notice changes in our lives such as exhibiting some of the above fruits.
But then, there will be times, when we need to determine for ourselves to continue to bear these fruits. We could keep asking the Holy spirit to keep helping us.
Cultivating the fruits of the spirit gives our spirit man a great atmosphere to breathe and grow.
Guard the gates that give access to your spirit: Once we are on cause for a healthy, thriving spirit man, it is important to be careful not to go back to bad habits. We should be careful the things we watch, listen to, conversations we have that may cause us to slip back to old horrible habits that cause spiritual death and eventual physical death.
May the good Lord help us and cause our physical bodies as well as our spiritual bodies to prosper and thrive in good health in Jesus name.
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