Tag: What the Bible says about living by the Spirit

Bible Verse of The Day – 6-13-20

2 Corinthians 10:3 (NKJV) 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.

According to God’s word, a believer does not war in and of the flesh. We learn how to battle differently; we don’t let the flesh get the best of us any longer.

How many know what I’m talking about here? We begin to do things by letting His Holy Spirit guide and direct our steps.

The old way is done with and there is a new way of doing things. We have to submit to God and let the change come.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV) 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

As a child of God, we are starting over. We are starting from scratch. We have a brand-new, clean slate. And we are just beginning to see what God can do when we confess our sins and walk in His faithfulness to forgive us!

1 John 1:9 (NKJV) 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

We are clean, my friend. Very clean.

That doesn’t mean sin no longer exists in us or never tempts us. It means that we have been cleansed from prior things that we have confessed, and we will need the Holy Spirit to help keep it out of our daily walk.

This is something that we learn to do on a daily basis. And as we follow God’s leading, it gets easier.

Will we ever be perfect at it? No.

But if we put God first in everything, heed the leading of the Holy Spirit, and let Him mold us and shape us, He will create a new person in us that we will barely recognize over time.

Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-8-20

Ephesians 5:19-20 (NKJV) 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

This kind of behavior comes with letting God’s Spirit be alive and able to freely move in us.

We cannot do this on our own. Sometimes our flesh is not in the mood to sing or make melody. It is not in the mood to thank God or praise Him.

This verse comes up in us when the Holy Spirit takes precedence in our actions. And in order for this to happen, we have to give Him priority.

We have to put our emotions aside, and anything else that is trying to keep us in the wrong mood.

Our light will not shine through mood swings. But as we let our Helper, the Holy Spirit, not only live in us, but move within us, then God will be glorified!

Matthew 5:16 (NKJV) 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

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Bible Verse of The Day – 12-4-19

John 6:26 (NKJV) 26 Jesus answered them and said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled.

Jesus never beat around the bush. When He had something to say, He would say it, regardless of who He had to say it to, or whether it might offend someone.

Prior to speaking the words above, He had miraculously fed a large crowd of people with just a few morsels of food. And after doing so, He had departed.

The following day, the people found Him in another area and began asking Him questions.

Jesus, knowing their hearts and their intentions, spoke to them directly, admonishing them because they sought Him solely because He had fed them fish and bread. Their natural hunger had been satisfied.

As He did so often, He went on to urge them not to seek the things that satisfy our bodies, but that feed our spirits.

John 6:27 (NKJV) 27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”

This is something that each of us should remember, too.

The world we live in revolves around material possessions and satisfying the flesh. But as followers of Christ, it’s important that we not let ourselves get caught up in this thinking, but learning, instead, to let God show us how to live by His Spirit.

In this we will learn to labor for the food that endures to everlasting life, which Jesus promised to give us, if we seek it.

John 10:10 (NKJV) 10 … I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-25-19

John 4:31-34 (NKJV) 31 In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.” 33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.

It can be a bit amusing sometimes to read some of the things the disciples said to Jesus. They were clearly not seeing and thinking spiritually-minded. They were often only able to see and discern things in the natural.

It was for this reason that Jesus said to them on one occasion, “Are you thus without understanding also?” (Mark 7:18). In other words, do you still not understand this, even after I have taught you and shown you so much?

This is also one of the biggest hurdles for believers to overcome in our walk with Him. Our minds are so carnal, and our thoughts seem to automatically lean on natural understanding in just about everything we encounter.

Yes, we live in a natural, tangible, carnal world. And we dwell here in human bodies that function in a fleshly way.

But God has given each of us a spirit. And He wants us to learn to live by our spirit also, not just by our flesh or our human understanding.

Romans 8:13 (NKJV) 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Living by the spirit brings life and understanding, whereby living and walking according to the flesh brings confusion and death.

Learning to live by the spirit takes time and effort, just as babies learning to walk and talk. We can’t expect to snap our fingers and have it happen overnight.

And it’s an amazing thing when we start to “get it”. It can be exciting, fun, extremely interesting and even overwhelming at times, as we start to see and understand the things of the Spirit.

But, no matter what, we should never let it intimidate us or scare us.

Yes, we want to handle it responsibly. We don’t want to make mistakes or wrong choices because we didn’t discern or understand something correctly. But God shows us grace as we are learning, knowing that we are like babes learning to walk.

We will fall down. Sometimes we will get bruised or scraped up a little. But He is always there to pick us back up, brush off the dirt and put a band-aid on our wounds, sending us on our way again with His love and encouragement.

Draw near to Him. Spend time in His word. Learn of Him. These are all part of the equation when it comes to getting understanding and walking by the Spirit, not by the flesh.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-9-19

Colossians 3:2 (NKJV) 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.

Life here on earth can surely consume us if we’re not careful.

As humans, our emotions can run the show if we let them. They tell us how to feel, how to interact with others, what to do and when to do it.

This can cause all kinds of things to happen in our lives that don’t need to happen. This might even cause us to go through unnecessary trials.

God wants us to set our minds on the things above, not on things here on earth. This might seem like a pretty tall order at first. After all, we do live here on earth, so how are we supposed to keep our minds on things above?

We learn to live and walk by the Spirit!

Galatians 5:16 (NKJV) 16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

This doesn’t mean that we simply abandon everything and everyone here on earth. It means that we put God first in everything, learning to listen for His spirit to guide us and show us what’s truly important and what’s not.

It means that we learn to discern things by His spirit. We learn to see things through His eyes.

And it means that we don’t let the things of this world capture our hearts, pulling us away from God.

Remember, we don’t live only by what we see!

2 Corinthians 5:7 (NKJV) 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-25-19

Romans 8:6 (NKJV) 6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Our goal as believers is to walk with God and live our lives in a way that’s pleasing to Him.

We can’t do that very well if we think and live carnally. We have to be spiritually minded.

Being spiritually minded changes us. It changes the way we think. And it changes the way we act.

Because of these changes, our lives take an entirely different path than if we simply lived them doing whatever we felt like doing.

But the biggest thing to take note of in these verses is the last part; to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

That short little piece of scripture holds the key that unlocks the answers to so many of the questions we have about life. It tells us plainly that to live spiritually minded is life, and it is peace.

If we truly want life, and we truly want peace, it is necessary that we set aside our carnal ways and let God teach us His ways, learning to live spiritually minded.

It’s worth every bit of time and effort it requires to learn to live this way. And God is faithful to help us get there, if we are just willing to make the effort.

Trust us when we tell you that there is nothing like it.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 7-22-19

Romans 8:5 (NKJV) 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Our minds can be funny things. We think, we ponder, we rationalize and we try our best to figure everything out.

Our spirits, on the other hand, learn to look to God to help us sort things out.

Our spirits develop an understanding that sometimes things don’t have to make sense to our minds in order for everything to be alright.

Intellect is God-given. So it’s not a case of God not wanting us to think or reason. He does want us to do both of those.

But, as we learn and grow as a believer, and our spirit grows, we will develop a new understanding of things that goes beyond what our minds can comprehend. This will allow us to move in ways that transcend natural understanding and logic.

Proverbs 3:5 (NKJV) 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;

We will begin to understand God better, spending less time questioning Him and His ways, and more time looking forward to what He will do in our lives, on His terms.

Then we will truly begin to comprehend that peace that surpasses all understanding.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-12-19

1 Corinthians 2:12 (NKJV) 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.

There may be many things that we can’t understand about God with our natural minds. This is perfectly normal, since we are carnal and God is spiritual.

As believers, God wants to change that. He wants us to learn to see beyond what our natural eyes can see and understand beyond what our natural minds can comprehend.

Now, that may sound a bit strange to some. After all, we live in a natural world, inside of a natural body of flesh and bone, with a brain made of natural, tangible matter. How can we possibly expect to understand beyond our natural abilities?

Easy. We need to let God teach us to look beyond the natural, into the world behind the scenes; the spiritual world.

God has given us the Holy Spirit, whom He sent to be our Helper.

The Holy Spirit helps us to see and understand the things that our natural mind can’t even begin to fathom. With the help and guidance of the Holy Spirit, we can learn to live by the Spirit 24/7.

And as we grow and mature in living by the Spirit, we will begin to instinctively see past the things right in front of us and see what’s happening behind them.

God has ordained it to be so. It’s part of walking with Him!

Romans 8:14 (NKJV) 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

It may seem strange and foreign to us at first. But, over time, and with effort on our part, we can learn to live by the Spirit, see past the flesh, and get understanding that’s only available to sons and daughters of God.

Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 4-18-19

Colossians 3:1-3 (NKJV) 1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

We live in a carnal world. All of the things around us can sometimes make it difficult to “set our minds on things above” if we don’t make a conscious, deliberate effort to do so.

But there are a few things we can do that make it much easier!

First, we need to guard our hearts and minds and protect ourselves from the many onslaughts that we come up against on a daily basis. These come through many different channels, such as TV, movies, music, places we go, various websites we may visit, etc.

They can also come by way of people we interact with, since not everyone has the desire to know God or live a righteous life. And if we tend to hang around some of these people regularly, their actions and attitudes can rub off onto us if we’re not careful.

In light of these many kinds of influences, we can see that we are constantly being hit with lots of not-so-good stuff!

So, how do we combat it, and keep our minds on things above?

Here it is, in a nutshell. We stay alert and be watching and listening for God’s Spirit to prompt us and warn us of things or people that are not good influences. And when He prompts us or warns us, we heed what He says!

Our discernment, and our ability to “hear” God may not be very sharp. But we can let Him fix that by spending time in His word and letting it permeate our very being. When His word is in us, we will be able to hear Him more readily.

Limit what we see and hear. Be careful of who we spend too much time with. Spend time in His word. Heed the Holy Spirit.

Those 4 things, if we’re faithful and diligent to do them, will impact our lives in a huge way and help us to set our minds on things above.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-15-19

Galatians 5:25 (NKJV) 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

The things we do outwardly are an expression of our inward faith.

Everything we do in the natural is driven by what’s inside us. Our spiritual condition is displayed by our actions.

Sometimes we don’t like to think about this, but we get reminded every once in a while, when we catch ourselves doing or saying something that we know isn’t pleasing to God.

This can be a huge wakeup call for us.

As believers, there are many things that we can do to show our faith outwardly. Some of this involves the faith that we have in God. This is displayed by our level of trust in Him.

Our trust in Him will be displayed, or not displayed, by how we react to the situations and circumstances we encounter in our lives. The flesh will react by being fearful and anxious, whereas faith will react by looking to God and seeking answers from Him, patiently waiting, even when it may feel like the world is falling down around us.

When we act in faith, we may still have some fears, but we won’t let them rule us or cause us to run in fear from the things we face.

Our walk with God is also displayed outwardly by our character, our personal integrity, and our morals.

Do we stand strong in our morals, even when it means facing ridicule from others? Do we behave with integrity when nobody is watching us? These are great tests for us!

We can also display our faith in how we treat others. Do we love those around us, or do we treat them miserably? Do we help when we see a need, or do we pretend we didn’t see anything and keep on with what we were already doing?

None of us is perfect in any of these, and none of us ever will be. But as members of the body of Christ, it’s very important that we let God lead us by His Spirit each and every day, so the things we do will represent Him in a way that He finds pleasing.

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Bible Verse of The Day – 2-1-19

Galatians 5:16 (NKJV) 16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Walking in the Spirit means taking what God says, such as, to be kind, be forgiving, be loving, be patient, etc., and put them into practice.

When a problem arises, or something doesn’t go just the way we thought it would, remember what God’s word teaches us to do, how to respond and what to say.

It’s not easy, we know. But when we let His Spirit teach us, we push down the ugly fleshly desires.

Walking in the Spirit takes practice, discipline and strength. Our Spirit man needs to be sharp and built up through the word of God, that we may be able to resist the wiles of the enemy.

Ephesians 6:11 (NKJV) 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

What is the whole armor of God? Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, God’s word. As we move in these, no weapon formed against us shall prosper. God’s Spirit will be right there fighting for us.

Isaiah 54:17 (NKJV) 17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me,” Says the Lord.

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