If you are born-again, there is a place inside of you where you can learn new things about yourself that you never knew before. I am talking about your Christ spirit. Your spirit man is not a dead spirit that was given life when you were saved. Some people think that it is something that died when Adam sinned and is resurrected in us, but that would only make you a saved soul man. The Bible is clear. You are a new creation, not a remade old one. Your spirit is a spirit from God (actually part of Him) that is now part of you. It acts as a communication conduit between you and God, but it is also your spiritual nature.

When your Father placed His spirit inside of you, you became a new creature, spirit and soul living in a physical body and that gives you rights, privileges, gifts and abilities that unsaved people don’t have.

• Your nature has changed because of the spirit of God residing in you. That’s why the Bible says you are a partaker of the Divine Nature. (2Peter 1:4)
• Your spirit is made in the image of Christ (Romans 8:9,29) That is why we call it a Christ spirit.
• Your spirit is also the part of you that is sinless, spotless (in right standing) before God. You received it after your sins were removed by the atoning blood of the cross, so it was never subject to the curse as your soul was.

Until you were saved, your concept of the world around you was centered in your soul. You received input mostly by your five senses and were conditioned to understand the world around you according to the things you were taught as a child. The Bible says that all of Adam’s children were created soul men as he was. (In Genesis 1, everything was created after its kind and after that it reproduced the same kind. Also according to Genesis 2:7 Adam was created as a living soul.) As a soul man, you were an isolated individual at the mercy of a man of sin (sin nature) who hated you. Not knowing how much he influenced you, you thought you were in control of your life, but the truth is that he pushed your emotional button a lot more than you think he did. A soul on his own is a very needy creature that is seldom satisfied for long.

In contrast, as a spirit man, you have the mind of Christ and you occupy a very important place in your Father’s creation. You are never alone because God lives in you. You can be sure of your Father’s love because He created you to be His child. Your spirit has a mandate from God to lead your soul into God’s Truth so that you can grow into the image of Christ. As you begin to learn what he teaches you, you become aware of the Father’s Structured Plan of Design. You can perceive that plan and process all around you and cooperate with it. The more you grow in spiritual truths, the more you can understand the things of God and see them manifest in your life.

When you were born again, you had to learn what that meant. Most people can’t explain what changed in them, only that something did. As a new Christian, most of your thinking was still soulish, based on the limitations of the world we live in. God is spirit and He thinks in spiritual terms that are multi-dimensional and free of the space/time constraints that we are used to. We don’t naturally think like God thinks. Because of that, your spirit is able to receive spiritual impartations of truth from the Holy Spirit that your soul has trouble understanding. That is why our soul has to grow in our ability to walk with our spirit.

Your spirit receives input from your soul’s mind, will, emotions and bodily input (senses). He also receives spiritual things from God and the spiritual realm. (This is a whole new level of input for your soul.) Together they form a complete New Creation of your Father, but it is really only the finished work He started when He formed Adam from that lump of clay. It is a very natural, step-by-step, order of creation, thousands of years in the making, to produce children who will reflect their Father’s desires as they join Him to complete His plan in the earth. Then they will find that end is another step of creation into the future they will find in Him. Man has no idea what lies beyond the Kingdom of God on Earth, but our Father is eternal and we are eternally one with Him. Whatever is ahead, your wildest imaginations will fall short of the Truth that your Father has prepared for those who love Him.

All of this explains why we must undergo a maturing process as we learn to recognize who we now are in Christ. At first we don’t even realize that we interpret spiritual insights through soulish mindsets, which limits our ability to walk in spiritual things. God has to begin replacing those mindsets with spiritual truths, or we will keep fighting to increase our faith, not realizing that it’s what we really need to grow in our understanding of who God is and what He is capable of doing through us.

Everyone’s learning curve will be as individual as they are. In my life God showed me that everything in the physical realm is subject to the spiritual one by order of creation and that He is in control of everything, everywhere, all the time. Everything is subject to His Word so that when He tells me I can do something, I can do it, even if I don’t understand how. The more I can rely on my spirit leading me, the less I need the concrete proofs my soul relies on and the more I am able to see spiritual manifestations in my life. God starts where we are. He teaches us through the intimate details of our lives and even small victories are crucial to our personal growth.

There have been times when it seems like my spirit takes over and I step into a place where I find myself doing spiritual things without strife or questions or doubt. It’s amazing what you can accomplish when that happens. That is my goal; to live where my soul submits to my spirit so that they can walk together as one. That is a place where revelation becomes practical because we begin to understand the things of God and cooperate with His plan. This is where those rights, privileges, gifts and abilities I mentioned earlier, begin to become evident in your life. The more you learn of spiritual things, the more God can trust you with His secrets. Only as soul and spirit walk as one are we able to enter God’s fullness where His Grace overshadows everything we think, say and do so that our walk begins to reflect our status as children of The Most High God.