Living and Walking in the Spirit

“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”  Galatians 5:25

To “live in the Spirit” is a state of being in which we have died to our self-life and have yielded the totality of all that we are and have to Jesus, so He can live His life through us as a present day witness.

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me….”  Galatians 2:20

“I live; yet not I.”  This requires us to live on a high plain of integrity and commitment in order to maintain the necessary spiritual sensitivity that will make this possible.

“If we are living by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us be guided” Galatians 5:25 BBE

To “walk in the Spirit” is to live one step at a time, with every aspect of our life experience being lived in total "yieldedness" and "willing obedience" to the will and purpose of our Lord.

As we walk with the poise of our spirit upward toward the Lord, His abiding presence and peace will confirm that we are walking in the center of His will.

Now, we are both living and walking in the Spirit.

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Open The Door

 

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock....”  Revelation 3:20

This “door” is the entrance into our spirit.  We must quickly respond to the manifestation of His presence (knocking), and invite Him to come within the “room” of our spiritual being. As our desire for The Lord grows we learn how to open the “door of entrance” into our spirit. The Lord will come to visit with us,  waiting for us to respond to His knock upon the door of our spirit.  We must, in an attitude of expectant anticipation and worship, invite Jesus to come within. The “door of entrance” to our spiritual chamber is always within our control, and can only be opened by us. 

“…If any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him….”  Revelation 3:20

We must open the door. This principle is established in Scripture. He will knock (testing our awareness) waiting for us to open the door.  But, He will leave if we do not invite Him to come within. Beyond His abiding presence (gifts and blessings) we begin to long for His “manifest presence.” As we seek to have a “personal relationship” with Jesus we will become intensely aware of the longing of “The Bridegroom” for “The Bride” and we will abandon all that would hinder us from “sensing” and “quickly responding” to the “manifest presence” of Our Lord.

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The Eyes of Our Understanding

Our own thoughts and ways must be set aside in order to follow Him.  He is the Christ, the Anointed of the Lord God.  Therefore, the natural man cannot come this way, for he cannot discern the presence, nor receive the anointing to bring us into this higher realm.  This is a function of the Spirit, not of the mind.

The Lord greatly desires to introduce us to “His kingdom” through a Spirit-led life.  He cannot allow us to have a part in this higher governmental realm of His kingdom until we have totally submitted our lives to be governed by Him and have in some measure, learned how to “walk in the Spirit.”

“The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, and what is the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.”  Ephesians 1:18

There is much that is available to us - which we have yet to appropriate, as we have a tendency to settle for less than His adequate provision.  Our Lord is challenging us to move upward and onward.  The present feeling of spiritual dissatisfaction by many within the Body of Christ is His prodding.  These “stirrings” within us are His means to bring us “higher.”

“Brethren, I do not imagine that I have yet laid hold of it.  But this one thing I do – forgetting everything which is past, and stretching forward to what lies in front of me, with my eyes fixed on the goal I push on to secure the prize of God’s heavenward call in Christ Jesus.”  Philippians 3:13-14 Weymouth

“I push on to secure the prize.”  The kingdom of God is the goal.

“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up here, and I will show you things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the Spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.”  Revelation 4:1-2

For us to “live in the Spirit” is to become subject to the guidance that comes from the “throne” in His kingdom.

During this time of transition from the Church into the Kingdom, a remnant is being called to “come up” into a higher realm of identification with our Lord, in His throne.