How to walk in the Spirit (Your Soul)

Text:

Romans 8:1–17

Memory Verse:

Galatians 5:25

We have seen from our previous studies that man is a spirit who has a soul and lives in a body. We have also established how and why man must give highest priority to his spirit. To walk in the Spirit, it is also crucial to know what we must do with our souls. The newness that happens to our spirit at new birth has no immediate effect on the soul. Read James 1:21; the word save is sozo, which means to heal, deliver, preserve, protect, make whole. This is a process. The soul of man is more than just the mind; the soul comprises mind, will, and emotion. All these must be saved, secured by the engrafted (implanted) Word of God.

Truly the devil has no access to the spirit of a believer (1 John 5:18) but he can take over the soul of a believer that will allow him. Remember, Jesus stripped the devil of all the powers he had and handed it over to His body (1 John 3:8b; Colossians 1:13; 2:15), so Satan has no power over you as a believer except the one you hand over to him. This takes place in the soul region. Satan’s greatest weapon is the power of suggestion. That is why we must, by the Word of God, consistently pull down strongholds in our thoughts—cast down reasonings, mindsets, and imaginations that are not aligned to the knowledge of God and His thoughts concerning us (2 Corinthians 10:3–5). This is where the real spiritual warfare is, not “fighting” demons and evil spirits. An unrenewed mind is a den for devils.

This does not negate productive thinking or common sense. As a matter of truth, God wants us to have strong minds renewed in the Word; remember the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7). God’s Word enhances man’s personality, increases intelligence, strengthens our will to win (Philippians 2:13); winning is very godly and spiritual (2 Corinthians 2:14; Psalm 35:27). Bringing the reality of the newness, life, and victory that has taken place in our spirits upon our souls is how we walk in the Spirit.

Scripture References

– James 1:21 TPT
So this is why we abandon everything morally impure and all forms of wicked conduct. Instead, with a sensitive spirit we absorb God’s Word, which has been implanted within our nature, for the Word of Life has power to continually deliver us.

– 1John.5.18 NKJV
We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.

– 1John.3.8NKJV For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

– Col.1.13NKJV
He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love

– Col.2.15NKJV
Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

– 2Cor.10.3-5NKJV – For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.
vs 4 – For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,
vs 5 – casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ

– 2Tim.1.7NKJV
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

– Phil.2.13NKJV
for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

– 2Cor.2.14 NJKV
Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.

– Psalm 35.27 NJKV
Let them shout for joy and be glad, Who favor my righteous cause; And let them say continually, “Let the LORD be magnified, Who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.”