Satan
and his demons are in mortal combat with God. They fight in opposition to
everything God is, and that for which He stands. The devil even attempts to enlist
our help in discouraging people from leaving his kingdom of darkness and
devastation in order to enter God's Kingdom of eternal light.
Once
we come to Christ in repentance, asking for forgiveness, He exchanges our sin
for His righteousness. We enter a union with Christ in God (Colossians 3:3).
The triune life of the Trinity permeates our spirit and soul, and heals many
issues in our body.
We
unite our life with the Spirit, and He carries out God's plans in and through
us. We do not make a half-hearted contract with God, but we enter into an
intimate relationship with Him, which includes a union with His presence in us
(Galatians 2:20).
God's
Spirit purges us in increments, going deeper with each penetration of His holy
purifying fire, until we radiate Christ’s nature from within us (2 Corinthians
3:18). He replaces our carnal nature with the fruit of His Spirit, which is
actually the very nature of God (Galatians 5:22-23).
The
less we function out of our humanity, and the more we wait on God, the more He
expresses His character in us and through us. As we embrace His divine nature,
we are filled to overflowing with His character, and His very life flows out of
us (Ephesians 3:16-19 Amplified Bible).
We
cling to God's presence within us, and our thoughts, choices and emotions are
His rather than our carnal ones. Our unity with Christ invades every cell in
our body and we live as the temple of His Holy Spirit.
We
are constantly aware of this holy relationship and our ever-increasing intimacy
with Christ. There is less and less of an inner contest between our flesh and
God's Spirit. Our human way of thinking and feeling passes away, and we are now
an entirely new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17).
We
freely choose the leading of God’s Spirit in each moment of the day (Romans
8:14). We walk in unity, fellowship and accord with Christ within us (2
Corinthians 6:14-15). We belong to God’s household now as His co-heirs, priests
and saints.
Prayer:
Father
God, our union with You is based on our faith in Your faithfulness. When our
trust fuses with Jesus' faith, Your Son who loves us and gave Himself for us,
we have perfect unity with the Trinity (Ephesians 5:2; Galatians 1:4). By
faith, Your divinity freely flows through our body, soul and spirit (2 Peter 1:4).
Unbelief
separates human beings from You for eternity (John 3:18). As authentic
Believers, our intimate bond with You is broken only by our propensity to sin.
However, if we walk in accord with the direction, wisdom and love of Your
Spirit, we learn not to fulfill the lusts of our flesh (Galatians 5:15-25). We
eventually walk by Your Spirit as a matter of course for every moment of our
day.
Thought
for the Day:
God
did not create us and leave us stranded on this temporal globe in our solar
system; He loves us foremost and we are the apple of His eye; the degree to
which we enjoy an intimate relationship with Him corresponds with the depth of
our love for Him and our obedience to Christ within us.
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Psalm 17:8; John 14:15
