A Heart Untroubled

I've been really focussed on my identity as a believer a lot this year  already.  And this week I was reading the following passage in Romans: ... a nd those who are in the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him   Romans 8:8-9 (MEV) Paul is telling believer that they are no longer IN the flesh. I don't know about you, but sometimes that's a hard thing to get my head around.   How many of you find that hard to deal with the idea that if you are a Christian, YOU ARE NOT IN THE FLESH any more?  I can already see what you're thinking  "Abi you have no idea what I've done today!" But the problem is w e look at ourselves in the mirror and relate to the world around us by what we see,  but the scripture tells us that we are to walk by faith and not by sight!    The truth is, if God lives...

Have you ever been confronted with a new situation?  Of course you have.  On a regular basis we encounter things that we've never seen or done before.  That is also true in the Spiritual realm.  Someone asks for prayer for something, and our first reaction is "I've never prayed for that before...". The good news is, that the bible says that there is nothing new under the sun and the Holy Spirit has been around since the beginning of time.  He has seen every kind of miracle imaginable.  Even in the Old Testament we see accounts of raising the dead (1 Kings 17:17-24), God's supernatural protection (Daniel 3:19-27- Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego) and healings (Numbers 21:5-9 - The poisonous snake bites healed) and these are just a few examples.  The Holy Spirit was the one who was hovering before the very creation of the World. He was the one that came and went and facilitated these miraculous events.  Now we are blessed that he lives within us!...