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Life in the Spirit

It’s good to be back on Tumblr! I haven’t written anything in awhile - but I hope that these next posts will bless you! Over the past few weeks I’ve been preparing to go to Thailand with my church, New Philadelphia (you can support me here —> Support Thailand), and each day I’ve been sharing reflections from the book of John. God has been revealing some deep revelations, and I want to share them here. Be blessed!

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John 2:19-20 - ¹⁹ Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” ²⁰ The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple,and will you raise it up in three days?”

It’s amazing how Jesus operates. The Jews had no idea what he was talking about when Jesus said that he was going to destroy the temple, and to raise it back up - they couldn’t comprehend that what had took them 46 years could only take Jesus 3 days. But Jesus wasn’t talking about in the natural - he was talking purely in the Spirit. He was pointing to a spiritual reality that was going to come to pass - the physical temple wasn’t going to be destroyed, it was just going to be spiritualized and redefined - Jesus was talking about his body (v21). He was talking about what was going to be done in the Spirit! It is in the Spirit where we see acceleration in the purposes of God.

What takes man 46 years to build by his own hands, it only takes God an instant to do in the Spirit. Many times it can be so easy to get focused on what we see in the natural - whether it a person who is unbelievably broken, disillusioned, and hurt; or maybe a nation that has been ravaged by idolatry and sin - but what may take centuries and generations to revive in the natural can happen almost instantly in the Spirit. We have to learn to walk in the Spirit, to be led by the Spirit. Zechariah 4:6 says clearly, “‘not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts.”

It is by the Spirit that Jesus takes our sinful flesh, destroys it and makes us a new creation - a new temple that is filled with his presence. A new temple by which rivers of living water flow, as he spoke to the Samaritan woman, and as Ezekiel saw in his vision - one that would reach the multitudes. But it is all by the Spirit - not by the flesh! When you or I begin to fall into trying to rebuild the things of God with our own hands I promise you we will just fall into fatigue, frustration, and failure. But when we are set on the Spirit, there is life and peace (Rom 8)!

When we walk in the Spirit, obstacles that seem to take a thousand years (in the natural) are removed in a day, and blessings that seem to only last for a day (in the natural) instead last a thousand years! We’re called to release and do thousand-year work in the nations!

I challenge you not to see things in the natural - but to allow your mind and your heart to be renewed, and to believe God for what he can do through you in the Spirit! Walk in the Spirit! Live in the Spirit!