Lately I’ve been very disappointed when people of God get together and His presence is “confirmed” through emotions of the flesh. I understand that this is a very heavy statement. Please understand that the weight of this statement is created by the pressure of the spiritual misconceptions that are flowing in so many churches where the presence of God should be real, instead, the flesh takes control and at the same time it “reveals” an unrealistic presence of the Spirit of God. Why does this happen? Why do Christians misinterpret God’s presence through their own emotions?
Ever since I was a teenager I’ve been able to recognize God’s presence and decipher the camouflaged astuteness of the flesh powered by emotions. Sometimes it happens that a superficial parallel is shaped and it creates a spiritual fog. In other words, it looks like it… but it’s not. Here, the threshold of consciousness activates reason to the enigmatic interpretation, and what “should be” is suffocated by, what “took place” .
What I mean with this, is the fact that we cannot rely on assumptions of the flesh. We need to have a true experience of God’s presence and not stay at the threshold of that presence. At this point, if a believer doesn’t have a true experience of God’s presence in his life, if he’s never been in God’s presence, the desire and the need (of His presence) can be mislead by the flesh. The reason many believers fall in this area has to do with the simple reason of not knowing what the presence of God is. In other words, if a believer has never been in God’s presence, if a believer never experienced the presence of the Spirit of God in its essence, any emotional moment above its normal, above the average emotional feelings of joy, happiness, love and fullness, can trigger a similarity of God’s presence that many don’t have the possibility to decipher.
The fact is that, this happens to be a good feeling, acceptable, and many Christians, many churches, don’t have the power to tear the veil of ignorance and enter into His presence. The unreal suffocates the real. The natural puts on the mask of the super-natural. It looks so real that there’s no reason to seek more. The acme of His glory has been apparently reached.
This is why we see so many stagnant churches where believers are beggars of God’s favor instead of heirs of His richness. They let the Devil categorize them as “poor little Christians”, subject to his manipulations. They become dominated when in reality they should be, dominators. Christians need to be conscious that they are a spirit, that has a soul and lives (temporarily) inside a body. God Is a spirit. This is way Jesus (John 4:24) said that we must worship God in spirit and in truth. There’s no flesh mentioned here. Then in Romans 8:9 the apostle Paul states that, “you are not in the flesh but in the spirit”. Bottom line is that God doesn’t do anything with our bodies (we do), He doesn’t do anything with our soul (we do), God only communicates with our spirit. (This is a small thread of the seminar “The Threefold Nature of Men”)
Ever since I was a teenager I’ve been able to recognize God’s presence and decipher the camouflaged astuteness of the flesh powered by emotions. Sometimes it happens that a superficial parallel is shaped and it creates a spiritual fog. In other words, it looks like it… but it’s not. Here, the threshold of consciousness activates reason to the enigmatic interpretation, and what “should be” is suffocated by, what “took place” .
What I mean with this, is the fact that we cannot rely on assumptions of the flesh. We need to have a true experience of God’s presence and not stay at the threshold of that presence. At this point, if a believer doesn’t have a true experience of God’s presence in his life, if he’s never been in God’s presence, the desire and the need (of His presence) can be mislead by the flesh. The reason many believers fall in this area has to do with the simple reason of not knowing what the presence of God is. In other words, if a believer has never been in God’s presence, if a believer never experienced the presence of the Spirit of God in its essence, any emotional moment above its normal, above the average emotional feelings of joy, happiness, love and fullness, can trigger a similarity of God’s presence that many don’t have the possibility to decipher.
The fact is that, this happens to be a good feeling, acceptable, and many Christians, many churches, don’t have the power to tear the veil of ignorance and enter into His presence. The unreal suffocates the real. The natural puts on the mask of the super-natural. It looks so real that there’s no reason to seek more. The acme of His glory has been apparently reached.
This is why we see so many stagnant churches where believers are beggars of God’s favor instead of heirs of His richness. They let the Devil categorize them as “poor little Christians”, subject to his manipulations. They become dominated when in reality they should be, dominators. Christians need to be conscious that they are a spirit, that has a soul and lives (temporarily) inside a body. God Is a spirit. This is way Jesus (John 4:24) said that we must worship God in spirit and in truth. There’s no flesh mentioned here. Then in Romans 8:9 the apostle Paul states that, “you are not in the flesh but in the spirit”. Bottom line is that God doesn’t do anything with our bodies (we do), He doesn’t do anything with our soul (we do), God only communicates with our spirit. (This is a small thread of the seminar “The Threefold Nature of Men”)
