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BEING SPIRITUALLY MINDED
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As a baby, everything you saw went to your
mouth. Everything that you touched was for
eating, good or bad you had to eat. That’s the
way spiritual babes are, they eat every
doctrine. And the Bible says that if you are
carnal, you are a baby.
A carnal man is the man who only relates with
issues form the natural standpoint. He is
sensuous, he is ordinary, he is worldly. We are
talking about the man who is born again but
reasons like anybody else in the world. He is
carnally minded.
A spiritually minded can say ”I have
headaches”. But the carnal says ”what’s wrongwith you, if you got headaches you have them”.
No, I do not have headaches, I couldn’t have
them. Why?
Because every good gift and every perfect gift is
from above, and cometh down from the Father
of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither
shadow of turning.(James1:17)
And we can’t accept nothing except we get it
from above and since headaches don’t come
from heaven, I can’t have them.
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What is then if I feel them? It’s a feeling, I don’t
have them. I feel headaches alright but I surely
don’t have headaches.
Let’s me ask you a question: If a bird landed
on your head, would you say”I have a bird?”
Now “I have a stomach pain” and “I feel
stomach pain” they are not the same. If you
have it, it’s yours, you possess it. And now you
want God to take way something you declared
belongs to you.
You are only supposed to say what you have
which God gave to you. Don’t accept
something that is from the devil.
But the carnal man doesn’t understand it, he
speaks according his feelings. When he feels it
he says he’s got it. When he doesn’t feel he
says it’s okay now.
He says the same thing about his finances: “I
don’t have money, I don’t have money for that, I
have money for that ”. If you don’t, you don’t
and then you wonder why you are broke.
I will never be broke in my life. And when we
say that, the carnal man says ”these people,
they say they will never be broke and yet they
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are all broke ” He is looking at the wrong
things.
No we are not broke, we couldn’t be broke. Say
this with me” I will never be broke in my life”.
Somebody says ”But I am already broke” You
said you were broke and when you said it you
lost everything. You didn’t lose what you have
until you said you lost it. When you said you
were broke that’s when you became broke.
We are talking about “Being spiritually
minded”, either you are spiritual or carnal. The
carnal man is sense-ruled. He talks according
to his senses.
Learn to control life from the
realm of the Spirit
You’ve got to control life from the realm of the
Spirit. Otherwise you will be a victim in life.
But you can make up your mind not to be a
victim but a victor. To be a victim is very easy, just talk naturally and the world will control
you.
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be
spiritually minded is life and
peace(Romans8.6).
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To be carnally minded to your money is death
to your money. To be carnally minded to your
future is death to your future, to be carnally
minded to your home is death to your home.
You know how some carnal people think, they
say: “Well , what about some non-born again
who don’t have to think being spiritual and
being carnal but everything goes for them,
everything goes alright for them? ” Didn’t you
read what the book of Job says:
He says the wicked don’t have no troubles.
Their children are doing alright, everything
is alright for them, they have no stress but
they are reserved for God’s wrath (Job5:3-4)
Everything they are doing now, everything they
have will end suddenly. The Bible says when
they shall say peace and safety, then sudden
destruction comes upon them.
Admonition
Don’t compare yourself to the non-Christian;
don’t envy the wicked when they seem to be in
their glory. That’s what they have, they don’t
know what life is. Not to be born again is
lifeless.
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For God giveth …to the sinner he giveth
travail, to gather and to heap up, that he
may give to him that is good before God.
(Eccl2 :26)
Don’ t look at the shadow!
Jesus said that the peace that I give to you is
different. The peace many of you are enjoying,
if they could buy it with money, there arethose (the wicked) who could give the world
for it. But if you don’t know you will trouble
yourself and reject the peace that God has
given to you, you are unhappy, all because of
your next or your neighbor or a friend you
used to know or working together with you andnow he’s got ten businesses and you still
struggling with one. Stop struggling, start
resting, yes there is a rest for the child of God.
Your understanding of the doctrine of
righteousness is what makes you a master
over satanic forces. Your supply from heavenis the result of your righteousness. Your lack
in life is based on your lack of understanding
of righteousness.
Righteousness gives us the world. The Bible
says Abraham believed God and it was
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accounted to him to righteousness. With that
understanding that God had accounted
righteousness to him, he got the world.
Every one of us is connected to God by the
virtue of new birth but it hasn’t changed our
situation in life. It hasn’t stopped us from
experiencing certain things that the devil put
on us, some pain or some lack, experiencing
certain things that the world does.
But for you to live in victory, you have to
understand your righteousness. He says…their
righteousness is from me, says the Lord;
meaning that the righteousness which we have
is God’s righteousness. He set His ownrighteousness to Abraham’s account, meaning
that Abraham becomes righteous legally from
God’s point of view. And when the man
understood that he is righteous, it made him a
master.
Righteousness is the rightness of God. Therightness of God means that God cannot be
wrong. It means that He can only be right.
That’s not a state of mind or a correctness of
things but it is a power: If God looks at this
(amplifier) and says it is a tree; He cannot be
wrong because He tongues into a tree. What he
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calls it is what it becomes. God doesn’t lie; He
cannot lie because when He tells a lie, it
becomes a truth.
He says to ”Abram”(assumed father): your
name shall be Abraham ”father of many”.
That’s a lie in the human mind. How can he be
the father of many when he doesn’t have child?
What did he become? Father of many.
When righteousness is imparted to your spirit,
there is a power, a divine power, a divine
working that has been imparted to your spirit.
It’s called the rightness of God.
When David said to Goliath,…I will smitethee, and take thine head from thee; and Iwill give the carcases of the host of thePhilistines this day unto the fowls of theair, and to the wild beasts of the earth;
The Bible says that…there was no sword inthe hand of David(1Samuel17:46,50) and
everything he said came to pass.
So when you are born again, you are a child of God, not a child of God in making. When yourwife gives birth to a child, he is not a humanperson in making. He is a complete humanbeing.
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A Christian that is prayerless is not powerless.He is just not using what he got.
If you put your car in a garage does it cease tobe a car because you are not using it? No. It isstill a car.
The Bible says that Jesus was driven in thewilderness by the Holy Ghost. And the Bible
says that Jesus was with the wild beast. Letme tell you something:
When the Holy Ghost is working in your life,all the things around you will be tamed by Hispresence. You have nothing to fear. They aretamed. Around you, their strength is gone fromthem.
Heb 5:14
But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use havetheir senses exercised to discern both good andevil.
Let me give you the characteristics of thosewho are of the full ages:
It’s said that the choices of life, reveal our
character. That means that when we are not
on our guard, what we say or what we do is
what really describes our character. When we
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don’t have to prepare for it, how do we
respond, what do we say when we are not
prepared, that’s how we know who we really
are.
The more you grow in Christ the more
submissive you become and then the more it is
easier for you to recognize Him in people.
And that you are a leader in the house of Goddoesn’t mean that you are mature. Your
speech may be harsh.
The Bibles says to treat old people as fathers
…young people as brothers. Sometimes you
are even leading a song and you say:
everybody must stand up, everybody,
everybody …and maybe the pastor or other
brethren maybe sitting. What in the world do
you think you are? That’s a manifestation of
childish. If you are an usher, you say”I’ve
warned you, don’t sit there!”
God’s children can be instructed in wisdom
and in love. When you grow up, you walk in
love, your language will change. We have to
deal with people as though they are something
because they are. And only when you mature
in Christ, do you see that God is in one of
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them. As they came to church, God came to
church in them. But when you don’t know it,
you think they came to look for God. No, God’s
children came with God; they don’t come to
look for God. And the moment you begin to
treat people like that, you will be amazed of
what the Holy Ghost will begin to do in your
life, in your businesses, in your home in your
marriage, things will begin to change.
How does this have connection? I will tell you:
When you please God in a single act of
righteousness, He is challenged to boast to
demons of darkness about you. Once you
begin to do something as He wants you to, Hebegins to talk about you, He is excited about
you.
Walking in love is one of the whole marks of
Christian maturity. And you will see it, and
hear it in your language, in your daily walk.
The way you respect others, it means you haveseen God.
David asked Eliab:”What shall be given to the
man…” and Eliab said ”what are you doing
here” and then he turned to another, the same
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thing. If they could see that he was anointed, if
they could see his future…
There is Simeon, when they brought Jesus into
the temple and he recognize in that little baby
the Messiah that Israel was waiting for but he
says ”Lord, let me die, I have seen the savior”
but the woman Hanna went forth and spread
the news.
Can you see a little child and knew his future?
It takes the anointing. So you are not prayerful
because you are a baby so you can’t recognize
their future. But if you are praying and
rejoicing in Christ, the Holy Ghost shows their
furure. You pray for the brother and the sisterand God shows you gain their future.
Say this with me:
I will see God in me; I will see God in people.
My eyes are open by God to see Him in people.
When I look, I can see God in human being.
Father, I thank You for helping me to see their
real value as You saw them when you sent
Jesus to die in their place. I am your partner
in helping them to see who they really are.