Spiritual Life

Spiritual life is not the same as spiritual existence.  As mentioned earlier, all spirits have external existence but only those connected to God have life.  Life is not existence, life is being connected to God (us in Him and Him in us) (john 14:21 & 23, John 17:3).  Life is God himself who flows through us, restores us, heals us and blesses us.

Satan has already been judged and sentenced; he cannot repent.  He does not have and cannot attain life.  He is dead spirit in eternal deterioration.  Everything of his kingdoms is technically dead and produces death because they are not connected, and cannot connect, with God.  All religions and witchcraft in their various forms open access to the spirit dimension, but are not life.  Conscious access to the spirit dimension is nothing more that conscious access.  Seeing, hearing, and talking to spirits comes either through seeking access, because of the lack of covering, or generational indwelling spirits.

Our God is a God of Action

God's love for you is not distant or passive; it is close and active inside you.  Working from within, it transforms you so you can receive His blessings.  Through what He sis on the cross, what He speaks to you from the Bible, and what He does, you have His authority and power to have a good life and be well.  God does not take over and rule your life; instead, He enters you, lifts you u, and shows you what you can do to become well, to have the promised abundant life.

The devil subjects humans to the slavery of depression, fear, loss, rejection etc.  God does not make you a slave to Him;  he does not overwhelm you.  He comes alongside and teaches you what to do, strengthens and heals you and makes you you through Himself.  He gives you reign of your life with him.  In order to be you (a person with free will), you act with Him of your own free will.  God sets you free.  It is God who empowers you to take what He has for you.

God is Compassionate

The psalmist declared in Psalm 145: 8 & 9, 'The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and great in mercy.  The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all his works."

I have seen and lived the compassion, love, acceptance and faithfulness of God.  He has stayed with me in awful stuff and huge errors and sin.  There is NO ONE like Him.

Even in judgement, He repeatedly warns and coaxes us to leave the sin and wrong ways of our lives.  When He pronounces judgement, He is open to changing His mind if we (and even nations) repent (see the book of Jonah).  When God does judge and punish - bringing the justice required by our sin - He doesn't enjoy it.  Regarding his judgement and punishment upon Judah, God states in Micah 1:8: "Therefore I will wail and howl.  I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals and a mourning like the ostriches..."

After Judgement, is a person repents, God is quick to redeem the consequences for good.  He sets the repentant person on a new foundation.  God will always use your own hard-won lessons to minister to others and make them useful for many.

God is not some mean old codger looking to destroy.  He is love and compassion looking to redeem a fallen world, a world He once called "very, very good."

Weavings

As mentioned int he first section of this book, there is a "spiritual fabric" to our lives.  We literally are woven into a spiritual fabric.  This fabric exists prior to our birth.  We are born into the fabric of our families, our ancestors, and their spiritual lives.  What happens to us, and out own actions, further sew us into that fabric and creates new fabric (good or bad).  Once we accept Jesus and understand good and evil and how the spirit dimension works, we can start consciously affecting the weave and begin weaving a new life, freeing ourselves from the undesirable parts of the old.

To expedite this process, it is useful to undo the old fabric with our words.  I do it this way; I say "In the name of Christ Jesus (or Jesus Christ) I rip apart the ungodly and un-useful fabric of my life and I speak and create a new fabric through and in Jesus Christ"

The greatness of God's creation

The greatness of God's creation regarding man is choice.  Unlike animals, humans have the ability to choose their courses.  You are no like the ant (pre programmed) or like a bear operation on instinct.  You are not like a dog that reacts to its environment and becomes the sum of it's input.  No matter what has happened to you, no matter how oppressed, you were given the power of transforming choice.  Our species alone can understand, reason, and make choices, the most important being to choose to forgive, to truly love.  In this regard, you were created to be God's image-bearer, to mirror love, forgiveness, grace and to choose that which is necessary for you to be just, true, pure, and holy. (Phil 6:4)

Faith

Faith is a force.  The Bible says that your faith, even faith the size of an almost invisible mustard seed (Matthew 17:20), is sufficient to move mountains.  As we can push and move things in the physical dimension, so faith pushes and moves things in the spirit world (dimension).  Great faith operates like a bulldozer or crane does in the physical dimension.  If it is big enough, obstacles are removed.

Faith is a conduit.  Faith is a passageway between the spirit and physical worlds.  The things (and works) of God that exist in the spirit world manifest in the physical by your faith in them.  Your faith is the channel that allows spirit things to manifest in your physical world.  Faith also is the interface where God moves on your behalf.

Faith, authority and actions.  Earlier I wrote that you have authority over Satan and his power.  Luke 10:17 and 19, respectively, say: "Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, 'Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name'" and "Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you."  Matthew 18:18 says:  "Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed (let loose) in heaven."  Faith is your enabler; through faith you believe what He says; with it you exercise the authority that God has given you through Christ.  Through faith you take actions.  By faith you continue doing whatever "it" is until the results manifest, until they become solid and secure for you (i.e. you believe that your existence in God is as He says it is).  See Hebrews, chapter 11 regarding faith as an enabler.

Forgive

You and I are commanded to forgive.  When we receive God's forgiveness we lose the "right" not to forgive (anyone - even ourselves!).  If you don't forgive, God will allow you to remain in bondage until you do; the provision of freedom through the cross will be withheld until you forgive.  Matthew 18:32-35 discusses this.

As a parenthetical comment:  in order to forgive you may have to come to the understanding that God will replace what was taken, and also that forgiveness does not serve as an enabler.  Somehow God will free you even is you forgive!

God, through immense cost to Himself (the death on the cross of His only begotten Son), forgives you;  He expects you to do the same for others.  If you do not or seemingly cannot, you'll remain on the outskirts of God's Kingdom and blessings.  Oh you'll be looked in on constantly, but the decision to forgive remains yours.  T His is one "thing" God cannot do for you.  No matter how difficult it may be to let go and let God handle the justice part of the equation, you can do it through Jesus.  Forgiveness is a work inside your heart and spirit-and yes, it can be hard work!