(Second part)
Memory verse: (Gal5: 16,22,23,25) " I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such there is no law.If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit ".
The new creation is basically a spiritual living being. God is Spirit (Jn4: 24) and he has created us in his image as spirit beings. Living in the Spirit and walking in the Spirit is the life God created us to live. Walking in the spirit is the life that pleases God. God testified about Caleb and Joshua, that they had a different spirit and they followed God wholeheartedly (Numbers 14:26). God promised they would inherit the land of promise. What was unique about Caleb and Joshua, was not their color, tribe, education. It was not their appearance. It was their spirits. It was about their hearts. These men did not follow their natural senses but their spirits. They did not walk by sight but by faith. Being spiritual is when our spirits are in union with God’s Sprit. Waking in the Spirit is following the voice of the Spirit of God. Walking in the Spirit is having your spirit one with the Spirit of GOD (1Cor6: 17). God expects us to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit (Rom8: 14). Those who walk in the flesh can never please God (Rom8: 6-8). And also worldly believers cannot please the Lord (Jam4: 1-4). Only spiritual believers please God. That’s why one of the first promises God wants to fulfill in the life of every believer is filling us with the Holy Spirit (Acts2: 33). The lives of the disciples were radically changed after they had been filled with the Holy Spirit. When your life is full of the Holy Spirit, you can never be the same.
God is ready to fill you with his Spirit and desire you to be filled everyday and walk and live in that fullness of the Spirit. Paul admonished the Ephesians' believers, ever to be filled with the Spirit and the result would be: their communication with each other would change, psalms would fill their hearts, spiritual songs would flow out their mouth etc (Eph5: 18). It’s your turn to walk and live in the power from on high. It’s your turn to drink from GOD’S river of life and let that river flow out of you to touch other people. Your talk will change, your faith will rise and fear will fall, your life will shine and impact others. And God will be pleased and your life will touch God’s heart.
Tomorrow’s subject: “ Touching God’s heart through praise”
