Mike Parsons
with Jeremy Westcott –
God wants us to come into that place of relationship and responsibility into which Adam would have matured if he had not chosen to follow the DIY pathway of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
For that to happen, we have to build our spirit. If we are not strong in spirit, we will not be able to overcome and dethrone the soul.
We were created to be spirit, soul and body, with the spirit taking the lead. But because our spirit was dead to God, our soul has become accustomed to having its own way. When we are born again and our spirit comes alive, that has to change. The soul must submit to the spirit, but it will not do so willingly.
How to build our spirit
There are a number of things we can do to build our spirit. We will look at them in more detail later on in this series, but I will just list some of them for now:
1. Make sure we give God first place, first love, first priority.
2. Pray and sing in tongues.
3. Wait on the Lord and be still.
4. Meditate on Bible verses and passages.
5. Praise and adoration, soaking in the presence of God.
6. Come to God and ask Him to build our spirit. Often we do not have because we do not ask (James 4:2).
7. Confess and call things into being. Call forth our spirit. Speak it out.
8. Persevere. You don’t build your spirit in a day.
If you want to get fit and have rippling muscles in the natural, you have to go to the gym and train, session by session, week after week, until you build muscles. It is the same with your spirit. Your spirit grows stronger through exercise; spiritual exercises train and equip your spirit to connect with God, to flow in revelation, and to rule in your life. You have to persevere.
Desire, discipline, delight
If we give up on exercise, it is usually because we don’t enjoy the discipline. Discipline itself is not very pleasant. I would love to have a real six-pack, and the body of Mr Universe, but I have not got the discipline to go in and train myself to do it. It would take a lot of training, and I do not want it enough to submit to the discipline.
But what I do want enough is a strong spirit, and therefore I am willing to do whatever it takes to train it. I spend a lot of time training my spirit. Hours, every day, training my spirit to discern the words of God, to flow, and to build up my spiritual senses. You can do the same. We will look at each of them in more detail in coming posts, but there is nothing in the list of 8 things above that you cannot do. It just takes practice and perseverance.
It starts with a desire, it takes discipline, and then it becomes a delight.
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Sons of Issachar 
I’m really enjoying this series, it truly the best money I’ve ever spent. It a continual growth, and what makes it best for me is I can set the pace, if life gets to busy I can deal with it and then get right back to the study. Only wish somehow I could set under the collected anointing to help with some breakthrough, but my desire is pulling the kingdom to me and me to the Kingdom. I’m Just really beginning though in human years I’ve been seek a long time into a deeper place. These lessons are building on the foundations laid, clearing space for even understanding and encounters . Thank you for making this reasonably priced, I look forward to being able to bring others along too. Brother Charles
He has done so much more for us than that of restoring us to Adamic state . According to the Word we are complete in Him already . I believe it is the ‘letting ‘ what God has already accomplished on our behalf have its own way and manifest the fruit in us. If Christ is in you , the only hinderence to contend with is the flesh that has been weakened by the sin . Since the flesh /our old man was crucified together with Him , we have according to Gods model , a workable solution . He is out of the way that we may be joined unto Another , even Him who is raised from the dead – it is in this place where there are no restrictions except according to our faith – the place where we are always consciously in the presence of God because of what HE wrought on our behalf and how we are joined to that . But again it is not enough to have revealation – one must allow the Holy Spirit to apply thru disciplined time together with Him as Jesus Himself modeled.
Thanks to Jeremy Westcott for posting this and all other material to Believing Believers ~ Sons Of God facebook group. 🙂