Soul Nourishment First by George Mueller

Below is an article which Pastor mentioned during bs. Truly inspiring message =)

Be blessed beloved!

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Soul Nourishment First

A Booklet by George Mueller

May 9, 1841

It has pleased the Lord to teach me a truth, the benefit of which I have not lost, for more than fourteen years. The point is this:

I saw more clearly than ever that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not how much I might serve the Lord, or how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man might be nourished. For I might seek to set the truth before the unconverted, I might seek to benefit believers, I might seek to relieve the distressed, I might in other ways seek to behave myself as it becomes a child of God in this world; and yet, not being happy in the Lord, and not being nourished and strengthened in my inner man day by day, all this might not be attended to in a right spirit.
Before this time my practice had been, at least for ten years previously, as an habitual thing, to give myself to prayer, after having dressed myself in the morning. Now, I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God, and to meditation on it, that thus my heart might be comforted, encouraged, warned, reproved, instructed; and that thus, by means of the Word of God, while meditating on it, my heart might be brought into experiential communion with the Lord.

I began therefore to meditate on the New Testament from the beginning, early in the morning. The first thing I did, after having asked in a few words the Lord’s blessing upon his precious Word, was, to begin to meditate on the Word of God, searching as it were into every verse, to get blessing out of it; not for the sake of the public ministry of the Word, not for the sake of preaching on what I had meditated upon, but for the sake of obtaining food for my own soul.

The result I have found to be almost invariably this, that after a very few minutes my soul has been led to confession, or to thanksgiving, or to intercession, or to supplication; so that, though I did not, as it were, give myself to prayer, but to meditation, yet it turned almost immediately more or less into prayer. When thus I have been for a while making confession or intercession, or supplication, or have given thanks, I go to the next words or verse, turning all, as I go on, into prayer for myself or others, as the Word may lead to it, but still continually keeping before me that food for my own soul is the object of my meditation. The result of this is, that there is always a good deal of confession, thanksgiving, supplication, or intercession mingled with my meditation, and then my inner man almost invariably is even sensibly nourished and strengthened, and that by breakfast time, with rare exceptions, I am in a peaceful if not happy state of heart. Thus also the Lord is pleased to communicate unto me that which, either very soon after or at a later time, I have found to become food for other believers, though it was not for the sake of the public ministry of the Word that I gave myself to meditation, but for the profit of my own inner man.

The difference, then, between my former practice and my present one is this:

Formerly, when I rose, I began to pray as soon as possible, and generally spent all my time till breakfast in prayer, or almost all the time. At all events I almost invariably began with prayer, except when I felt my soul to be more than usually barren, in which case I read the Word of God for food, or for refreshment, or for a revival and renewal of my inner man, before I gave myself to prayer.

But what was the result? I often spent a quarter of an hour, or half an hour, or even an hour, on my knees, before being conscious to myself of having derived comfort, encouragement, humbling of soul, etc., and often, after having suffered much from wandering of mind for the first ten minutes, or a quarter of an hour, or even half an hour, I only then began really to pray. I scarcely ever suffer now in this way. For my heart, first being nourished by the truth, being brought into experiential fellowship with God, I then speak to my Father and to my Friend, (vile though I am, and unworthy of it), about the things that He has brought before me in His precious Word.

It often now astonishes me that I did not sooner see this point. In no book did I ever read about it. No public ministry ever brought the matter before me. No private intercourse with a brother stirred me up to this matter. And yet, now, since God has taught me this point, it is as plain to me as anything, that the first thing the child of God has to do morning by morning is, to obtain food for his inner man. As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time except we take food, and as this is one of the first things we do in the morning, so it should be with the inner man. We should take food for that, as every one must allow.

Now, what is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God; and here again, not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe, but considering what we read, pondering over it, and applying it to our hearts. When we pray, we speak to God. Now, prayer, in order to be continued for any length of time in any other than a formal manner, requires, generally speaking, a measure of strength or godly desire, and the season, therefore, when this exercise of the soul can be most effectually performed is after the inner man has been nourished by meditation on the Word of God, where we find our Father speaking to us, to encourage us, to comfort us, to instruct us, to humble us, to reprove us. We may therefore profitably meditate, with God’s blessing, though we are ever so weak spiritually; nay, the weaker we are, the more we need meditation for the strengthening of our inner man.

Thus there is far less to be feared from wandering of mind than if we give ourselves to prayer without having had time previously for meditation. I dwell so particularly on this point because of the immense spiritual profit and refreshment I am conscious of having derived from it myself, and I affectionately and solemnly beseech all my fellow believers to ponder this matter. By the blessing of God, I ascribe to this mode the help and strength which I have had from God to pass in peace through deeper trials, in various ways, than I had ever had before; and after having now above fourteen years tried this way, I can most fully, in the fear of God, commend it.

In addition to this I generally read, after family prayer, larger portions of the Word of God, when I still pursue my practice of reading regularly onward in the Holy Scriptures, sometimes in the New Testament, and sometimes in the Old, and for more than twenty-six years I have proved the blessedness of it. I take, also, either then or at other parts of the day, time more especially for prayer. How different, when the soul is refreshed and made happy early in the morning, from what it is when without spiritual preparation, the service, the trials, and the temptations of the day come upon one.

Voice of God

I've been pondering on this topic "Voice of God" a lil more these days...or maybe because I've been handed a book written by Jack Deere, Suprised by the Voice of God.Or maybe He wanted me to know it all this while so the book was just one of the means He uses.Whatever it is, I now have a deeper understanding of it from the bible point of view, people's experiences and of course my own as well =)
I will not be touching on the content of the book.It's relatively thick.Everything seems so good & vital. So it would be too much to write down & too little to be taken out.Interested? Grab hold of it.It's worth every penny =)
"Impression?" the dictionary defines it as a deep lasting effect on the mind or feelings.
I read this recently..."I asked for the only malay tester on the list.. and i somehow had the impression i would get him.. and i did! Not only that, i felt his hand upon me.. "...
So often we said we felt impressed that something will happen, we sometimes even feel impress to do something or even to call someone.Just the other day I'm reminded of Perryn =) Recently, she's been a lil quiet in multiply.The next thing I know, she wrote in an entry.The one on the malay tester above.
I dunno about you...but sometimes w this impression there is this still small voice. It seems like there's a another person speaking to you...just talking to you like a fren.You thought you had made it up.Maybe it was just you impersonating.
Many times this fren of mine impress verses in my heart or to look up a particular verse.And many times this verses just happen to POP up in the next paragraph/page in the book i'm reading.Coincidental??Mmm.But it's been happening a lot these days.luck?certainly not.This experiences can be quite scary at times that I would shut my book.Hee~
For mandy, in reply to my latest entry, she said all this seems so creepy/awesome.
Lydia describe it as"I almost could not catch my breath when i saw that title"
Have you ever wonder about this.Or it was just kept at the back of your mind....well, if it comes it comes...
Why I am I telling you all this?
Because I want you to know that it wasn't you impersonating or making it up.It wasn't something coincidental but God-incidental.It was the Holy Spirit in you the moment you receive Jesus as your Abba Daddy.The day when the altar call was made and you simply toke the step of faith.No turning back.But ever since then, you never regretted it.People saw the change in you.They question your salvation, "How sure do you know you've been saved". The answer would simply be you just know it because He has send the Comforter to abide in you.He's ALIVE in you today.You're both been good frens ever since and you simply trusted Him =)
I will not be sharing with you the how to in hearing His voice but just my experiences...maybe from there you could relate it to your own.
I wrote this to my fren recently =)
Why do God seems to be giving me confirmation each time after he impress something in my heart?It's nice.But why.Does that make Him look bigger.certainly not.I thought about this many times.
Now I understand the why behind it.
Imagine if He would to impress something in my heart and there was no what so ever confirmation given to me-be it His Word, or even thru you or someone else,
I would have taken it as coming from my own emotions or maybe my own thoughts.I will not be sure because I'm not naturally born to discern the things of spirit and of myself.Therefore I may be wrong sometimes.it's like training our mind to be renewed to the things of God. Now it's the spirit.

Looking back at the numerous times he confirms His Word to me,
My spirit has been trained to know which is of the spirit & of my emotions.
It seems he's telling me this..."If I would to impress you a certain verse or situation to pray for B, you will not be afraid to speak it out bec you already know how I speak."A deep sense of knowing that it's from Him.
Thereafter, I felt impress to ask Lydia to pray for me without me having to tell her what to pray for.I told her not to follow her natural senses but by the spirit in her.It was a prayer need I had not share to anyone before.And it was my first time ever doing such thing.
Following that,e next paragraph that I read in Jack Deere book he shared his first experience he had when he ask his home group to pray and hear what God has to say for the people in the group & say it out.And e ones that spoke it out were all accurate!
Here's what he(Jack Deere) said:
"...I did something I had never done before.I told them that God is going to speak like that to us like that, now...He will give us impressions visions that will show us how to pray for people in our group.I encouraged everyone not be afraid of failing and looking foolish.The only way to find out the difference between an impression from the Lord and one coming from our own emotions would be to test our impression or vision in front of the whole group and risk looking foolish if we were wrong"
Lydia's reply :

Jac did you ask me to pray for you? I feel quite blur coz i can't find your messege at the moment. But I know I read it yesterday and prayed on the spot(last night at about 12.40am arh..!!). You told me not to go by the natural but by the spirit. And if wrong, nevermind. Heh heh. Very pressurising, you know? The one I got for *** is only like... my first of such encounter.

Anw, whether it's gonna help or not, here was what came to me:

I was like, "God this is so pressurising. How? What now?" Anw, I just went ahead and prayed in tongues. Then pray, pray, pray... still like... hm... ok... I even went to the washroom and speak in tongues continuously. Kay, yes I know that's not of your concern. So I returned to my room, set on my bed and ponder on what you said, "Dun go by the natural". Something like that and a sudden thought POPed in my head, "Where the spirit is, there is LIBERTY." I went to check up the verses with "liberty" and was pretty attracted to the first one I found(Dunno if it's purely out of curiosity or what) but was LAZY(yes lazy) to read up the chapter. Anyway the title stated for that section which contained the verse was, "The Year of Jubilee". I moved on to praying in tongues again hoping for some verse. Ever since the previous incident, I've been treating this kind of stuff like some toto session. The book of Timothy came to mind. Then it was "Timothy 4:1". Before I got off my bed(yes my bed again) I was prompted with, "1 Timothy or 2 Timothy?", by my spirit or myself(I dunno). So I felt like I was suppose to CHOOSE... Immediately I told myself, "2nd". So I looked up 2 Timothy 4:1. And I read the following verses too.

(oH MAN! Jac you won't believe what just happened. I went to www.heartlight.com and wanted to get that 2 Tim verse so as to conveniently copy-and-paste to this window for you to read. I clicked what I would always click and it brought me to a page with a passage entitled, "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, There is Freedom!" I almost could not catch my breath. Never had "a passage" displayed whenever I click what I would ALWAYS click. Right now arh, I'm trying to figure out how I ended up there. I clicked the "back" button and click the usual way. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Ok. I just realised that SOMEHOW... my finger pull the page slightly down and clicked wrongly. Clicked on a passage accidentally. I did not even know it was there! Wah... I almost could not catch my breath when i saw that title.)
I suggest that you read 2 Timothy 4:1 all the way to verse 18 yourself! NOW! On the double!
In Reply :
...you know, today is my e first time after so long that I woke up at 6 plus. so early???I like to sleep thru the nite and be up at about 8 refreshed by the morning breeze...Hee.It just feels good.
But I didnt know why, I decided to check my mailbox at this hour?!!I could have check it much later but no....God knows why.And he really knew why.Hee.
Hey?Inbox from Lydia...was pretty excited cause I was kindda "waiting" for your reply =)

Let me affirm you first that the word Liberty you received aint any coincidental thing but that was really what I needed.Nothing can be more precise than that.Tears almost welled up in my eyes =)
I was more than touched to receive this words of confirmation from Abba thru you.

After that I went back to bed to sleep.Hey, there must be something about beds.Hee~
Cause we seem to be receiving most of our revelation there!Haha
Or maybe is the sleep.ok ok.out of point.
Just before I got back to sleeping, He awoke me again & reminded me of 2 Timothy 4:7 several times.I didnt know what the verse was.
Then He reminded me again of the book I started reading yest by Kenneth Hagin. I could almost sense what he was already trying to show me. I flip open e first page and it was the verse I've been meditating yesterday. It was on the first page of the first paragraph! 2 Timothy 4:7.Nothing could be more exact than this.
The title for the page was Running the race...the Bible says you are not only to run the race, but you are to finish your race on course...
Exactly a month ago, I ask one of my fren to explain to me e verse Phil 1:6 God's been speaking to me. "And I am sure that God, who began a good work in you, will carry it on until it is finished on the day of Christ Jesus" He explain it together with Hebrew 12:1. This was also the main verse used on the first page I found 2 Tim 4:7. Following that, he wrote "...freedom from the past "
Bring this with you if you're lost in between...=)
God still speaks to His people today.You're not just an ordinary person but precious to Him =)You don't need to be only depended on your leaders or pastor as the only source God brings His Word to you. The Holy Spirit in them is the same in YOU.We are all sons and daughters of the Most High God.But of course be always ready to receive from your leaders and pastors as well! Pay close attention to the Word they give you. Because it's God that has annoited them to preach the good news to you.
Pray in tongues always. I realised that most often times He gives me the verses after I done so.It puts you in a position to know the things of the spirit.
Listen closely to the still small voice.If you ever hear Him speaking...Obey it. Because blessing is already ahead of you!
Grace rest on you His beloved!

The altar call

A cool entry by peer.Something not to be missed...=)love it.
The altar call
I always wondered why pple lack enthusiasm in clapping hands and cheering for pple going up to receive salvation. Even i myself was not particularly excited until the Spirit revealed this.. =) ever attended a wedding before? What happens when the door opens, the bride steps in and takes her well-rehearsed yet highly-looked-forward steps and walks towards the altar where the bridegroom and the pastor had been waiting all this while? Hahaha... this is exactly what happens when a person goes up to receive salvation! Jesus is the Bridegroom, who has been waiting since the beginning of age, and Ps Prince (or whichever pastor/speaker up there) is the officiating pastor! and doesn't the Bible say that the Church is the Bride of Christ? =)
Perhaps the steps of the pple are not as well-rehearsed or as highly-looked-forward as those of a real bride yet the experience is not that much different as one experienced in a wedding...=) Feelings of "what's life gonna be like after this", perhaps...  Feelings of  "don't know what is gonna happen to me in future", maybe... Feelings of "I feel like running away!", rarely but not impossibly... =)  etc etc etc.... =)
I've never been a bride in real life and i know i won't experience it at all in the natural... yet i know i've had a taste of the divine experience to be a divine Bride to a heavenly Bridegroom... =) i know those who are married or are getting married will be able to share more of the experience and feelings of walking down the aisle... but for me, every Sunday, i look forward to clap loudly and cheer gladly for those who are walking down the same aisle to come before the pastor and to the same Heavenly Bridegroom as i did before... and as i do tat, sometimes my thoughts bring me back to that same beautiful day that marked the beginning of my marriage-relationship with my beloved Jesus... =)
Be blessed, beloved Bride of Christ... =)

Spot MrCaterpillar!

Hey beloved,got a lil quest for you to try out =)
Is called "Spot MrCaterpillar"
Dun require much of your braincells.Hee~
All you need is a good eyesight & maybe a good color combination to match MrC and the plant. What ever it is, the winner is the one who spots MrCaterpillar on e right plant(Dun be deceived...) at e right SPOT with the least time!
No rules for this game.No age limit.Just see who spots the fastest.
A lil tale about MrC:
Recently,mum has been doing some spot check on her plants cause it's been looking bald. Finally, this morning she found the culprit behind all her leafless plants..it's big FAT MrCaterpillar.He's smart to choose the right plant that looks just exatcly like him...but the one who's smarter isMrC's creator who created him this way.If MrC was brown, he would long be DEAD!Hee~
Get back to me if you need help, I'll post up a close up version.
Remember to Time Yourself!
The winner is entitled to a Gelare Waffles with Rums & Raisins ice cream =)

Enjoy!

God's favour is upon His Beloved

I had $40 in my wallet. My ezlink card is reading negative.Before I decided to top up my card, I was kept on hold by a still small voice in me saying,
"You willl need it for tommorow"
He repeated it again.
I dun see the reason why.I only need $25 for my trip back.$5 would be sufficient for my cab fare from lavender to goldenmile which would only cause $3/4plus...But I've learnt from experience to obey this voice.Alright, I told my self I will use e coins instead to buy my train & bus ticket tommorow even if it was more troublesome with my luggage.
As soon as I got home, I called up the bus company and he told me the price for the 25seater which is at 9am was not $25 but $30 and the other one with the new 18seater one was $49.I asked him several times to confirm the bus and time.And of course the 18 seater was not even in my list with the amount I'm left with.Hee~
This morning, when I got to the bus counter to get my tickets, the lady told me that it was e 18seater that was leaving at 9am.How could this be??But I remember asking him several times to confirm?She suggested to me to go by another bus company.When I look at the other bus company, I just didnt feel the peace.I told her if it was possible that I pay her when I get home.She agreed but later when on to say she'll not charge me for e extra.But I've to promise her that I'll tell no one.Hehe.So I cant tell you the company name.The funny things is...she converse everything with me in mandarin & I only know how to "discern" a few words.Hee.If I would have top up my ezlink card, I would have left with maybe $25plus with my coins & that would not even be enough for a 25seater. But now I get to seat on a 18seater for the price of a 25seater.
God can turn every mistake into a blessing for you too...For me, I was there at the wrong time =)...if you're wondering whether you're in the right place or you're in a right time for something..worry not.He is big enough to turn any mistake you make into a blessing because your Abba Daddy truly cares for you.But along the way, He may lead us by His still small voice. So, if you hear him the next time...obey e voice because blessings is already ahead of you!
Grace be with you all, beloved!

Home

Home sweet home...=)
Just decided last saturday that I should make a trip back.
It was different this time.I wasnt in a hurry to get home as soon as I had an opportunity to...
All because goin to church was the highlight of my life there meeting with Abba and my beloved cg & frens. Love you guys =)
Coming home each time feels as if I had walked into another house.Hee~ The pots of plants are either place in a different manner or added to it's quantity if not in variety.Many times it seems so foreign to me.My mum would occasionally go up to cameroon highlands & bring some new "spesies" back. Some last...to the ones that cant take the humidity down here, they pass on. She is smart enough not to buy those now.Hee.This time it wasn't only additional ones beside the jackfruit tree but the pots were hanging everywhere.Hee~wonder what it would be like my next trip home =)
Well that was the plants...the things that suprises me most was the color in my house had changed! The furnitures are no longer in the same manner(nothing new =)) but wat happen to the color?!! I was silence first for a moment before I make any comment..but I cannot but say it looks like an indian house now(nothing new she's been hearing)!hehe.or even a playhouse.ok ok. wat I mean is...it used to be painted with soothing milky colors but now is darker with many many colors in it.gosh it's even in my room?!!
But of course I din say it all out how I really felt cause I knew beforehand she painted it but not the colors.No one in their wildest imagination would have imagine that she actually painted the whole house all by herself!unbelievable?yup. I dunno how.ask her.maybe I will know if I was there to observe. I asked her just now how long she took to do it....she said a few days...???
i think i'm getting use to the colors now...=)
Just came to my thought.Will I be able to meet up to her standard?From someone who also sew her own curtains & cushion...cooks & bakes well too.But it relieves me to know that she didnt even have any slightest skill of it before she was married.Haha.sigh of relieve to us gals...there's still hope for us all who are still figuring out how our mum manage all this...time will come when things will pick up by itself!just serve your best in every season you're in now.When it comes it comes..Dun fret about it now.Hee~
Thank God for grace!=)

The Mind of Christ

Alrites, I really dunno how I should go about sharing this.I think it's going to be long...but this is what God has impress upon my heart, and slowly leading me into it...making it all seems like an assignment I had to complete.yea.So it may look like patches of work...haha...but I hope it'll blessed you as it has blessed me. It may be truth you've heard before, but nothing is more blessed then having a revelation knowledge of it.Amen=) If you have no time just concentrate on the ones after the line or the bolded and coloured ones.

One day one of my fren came sharing to me about e problem she’s facing at home, regarding one of her family members. On Sunday night when I came home, I just felt this very strong prompting of the Holy Spirit to pray for a breakthrough for her dad. I was so certain then that I msg her to pray along with me.

Thereafter, I continue reading one of Kenneth Hagin’s book and the next phrase was on prayer. He asked the congregation to come to pray together for the salvation of their love ones. By the end of the year, it was a 100% result.

The next day, after she msg me in the morning,He gave me this verse from 1 Corinthians 2:14:

¹⁴But 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. ¹⁵But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. ¹⁶For "who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?" ^F8 But we have the mind of Christ.

I didn’t quite fully know what he was trying to show me but never mind…so I continue reading on the rest of the verses. When I came to the verse mind of Christ, I hear him telling me …..go and look up the verses on mind.A reference on the word mind.Then it just dawn on me to go back to the book I was reading by Kenneth Hagin, and e first page that I flip to that caught my eye was…they prayed in the same purpose in mind…mind again?hehe.ok.

Then I skip back to reading another book by E.W.Kenyon.Hee.The following chapter,the first main verse quoted was from 1 Cor 2:14 too!and the rest of the few chapters…

The next thing He told me was to pray for His salvation rather than to pray against the sin that is in his life.Ok…I thought, I should start praying for His salvation then.

Yea…so the three things that I gotten was the verse, the word mind & His salvation…and from there I went about studying it…which I’ll share later =)

The next confirmation after all that God has shown me was during bs, when Pastor Joshua quoted the last verse from Ephesians 4:23

²³and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

This morning He “shock” me again.Hehe.Out of the blue, I just decided to grab a book from my shelf and I toke out Reinhard Bonnke-Mighty Manifestation that I’ve not touch for some time. Hoping to find something on mind. I randomly open it and e first verse that stare into my eyes was 1 Cor 2:14! I almost fainted.Hee.

After reading e passage, I decided to go for something “lighter”.Toke out Michelle Mckinney Hammond book.Love her books…she writes mainly to gals =)so gals…get a hold of it. It’ll bless you so much that you will began seeing yourself as a princess =)As usual, if I’ve read the book, I would randomly open it. Low and behold, the title was renewing of your mind!I didn’t even expect to find it there.God’s just so real. When He wants you to know something, He’ll do anything to make sure you have it!So rest in His love for us beloved. He knows the desires of your heart!

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Ok lets go back to 1 Cor 2:14…

¹⁴But 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.

So who are these natural men? Different translation says it differently…

The man without the spirit/the man govern by the senses/spritually dead

Why cant we in human nature without God unable to receive the things of the spirit and know them? And it goes on to say that this are only for those who are spiritually discern.

But in the natural, why cant we understand the things of the spirit?

This brings us back to the time of Adam. Remember, when Adam first live in the Garden of Eden, he had perfect fellowhip with God. He had contact with God through the spirit. They were friends =) But after he sin by eating the forbidden fruit, which God has told them not to, He lost contact of God and His presence.He became spiritually dead and his senses now has dominion over his spirit. He no longer is able to discern the things of God. This points us back to what 1 Cor 2:14 was saying.

What about the mind?It’s out thoughts.It is what we think and process from our senses. Remember, now we are govern by our 5senses(hearing, seeing, tasting…)so watever we feed on is process in our mind and sometimes we dun even have control over it.

Lets see what a person in the natural thinks:

Romans 8:7 says:

⁷Why is this true? Because if a person’s thinking is controlled by his sinful self, then that person is against God. That person refuses to obey God’s law. And really that person is not able to obey God’s law. ⁸Those people that are ruled by their sinful selves cannot please God.

Colossians 1:21:

²¹At one time you were separated from God. You were God’s enemies in your minds(not in His mind), because the evil things you did were against God.

Do you see it how corrupted our minds are…it was said that even if we want to obey, we are unable to. So if you have been trying to be good and resisting every temptation that comes but still fail, dun ever you fell condemn or feel guilty & shameful…it not your fault. It’s because we are born sinners and our senses have dominion over us.

Eph 6:12 For our struggles are not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against e power of darkness and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

So dun blame yourself….your dad…your mum…your love ones for missing the mark..we are not fighting against human flesh but the power of darkness.

It’s satan that has blinded their minds.This is clearly stated here:

 ⁴The ruler ^F17 of this world (the devil) has blinded the minds of people who don’t believe. They cannot see the light (truth) of the Good News—the Good News about the glory of Christ.

So how then can we get back into the presence of God. How can we be made friends with God again =) How can we live and discern the things of the spirit and not let our natural man/senses has dominion over us?

Colossians 1:21-23

²¹At one time you were separated from God. You were God’s enemies in your minds, because the evil things you did were against God. ²²But now Christ has made you God’s friends again. Christ did this by his death while he was in his body. Christ did this so that he could bring you before God. He brings you before God as people who are holy, ^F6 with no wrong in you, and with nothing that God can judge you guilty of. ²³Christ will do this if you continue to believe in the Good News ^F7 you heard.

It’s only by His death on the cross.He has bear it all on the cross for us! Our sin became His and  now he sees us righteous- no wrong in you and nothing God can judge you guilty of!

Your spirit man is being Recreated. You are now New Creation IN Christ 2 Cor 5:17

You're not just renewed for once/week/month, but He renews you everyday.It's a continuous process!(2 Corinthians 4:16)

You are NOW no longer govern by you senses but BY THE SPIRIT THAT DWELLS IN YOU.

 I also realised that after every the scriptures mention about living in sin…the following verses shows us the solution.That is to believe on his death for us.For example…

1)Ephesians 2:3-6

We did all the things our bodies and minds wanted. We were {evil} people. We should have suffered God’s anger because of the way we were. We were the same as all other people.

⁴But God’s mercy is very great, and God loved us very much. ⁵We were {spiritually} dead. We were dead because of the things we did wrong against God. But God gave us new life with Christ. You have been saved by God’s grace (kindness). ⁶And God raised us up with Christ and gave us a seat with him in the heavenly places. God did this for us who are in Christ Jesus

2) Ephesians 4:22

²²You were taught to leave your old self. This means that you must stop living the evil way you lived before. That old self becomes worse and worse, because people are fooled by the evil things they want to do. ²³You must be made new in your hearts and in your thinking. ²⁴You must become a new person, made to be like God—made to be truly good and holy. ^F35

3) Colossians 1:21-22

²¹At one time you were separated from God. You were God’s enemies in your minds, because the evil things you did were against God. ²²But now Christ has made you God’s friends again. Christ did this by his death while he was in his body.

We get a new life from the spirit Gal 5:25 after we have been raised IN Christ.

Now we know that our spirit is being recreated, how about the mind? The mind that has held your spirit in captivity is still the same old mind.Your mind can be brought under subjection and control but cannot be renewed but only through the WORD!

This renewal of the mind is only held possible through the Holy Spirit which lives in us the moment we receive Christ.

Look at this beautiful truth by john piper…

Which brings us finally to the remedy and how we obey Romans 12:2, “Be transformed in the renewal of your mind.” First, before we can do anything, a double action of the Holy Spirit is required. And then we join him in these two actions. The reason I say the Holy Spirit is required is because this word “renewal” in Romans 12:2 is only used one other place in all the Greek Bible, namely, Titus 3:5 where Paul says this: “[God] saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and  renewal of the Holy Spirit.” There’s the word “renewal” which we’ve seen is so necessary. And it is renewal “of the Holy Spirit.” The Spirit renews the mind. It is first and decisively his work. We are radically dependent on him. Our efforts follow his initiatives and enablings.

Ok…i think I better stop here =)

If you’ve losss somewhere…hehe…grab this:

Pray for the salvation of your love ones, so that their spirit will be renewed IN Christ.If you are already saved, continue to renew your mind by feeding on His Word, so that we may have the mind of Christ to do not only the acceptable and good but the perfect will of God !

Grace be with you, beloved!