I pray for you to grow in reliance on the Holy Spirit upon you, if you indeed have that Spirit in you.
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Romans 12:1,2
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Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
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Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
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Either your mind is on that which you were born to survive in, or your mind has been renewed; seeking instead that in which you put your faith in. Either your mind is set on what is placed in front of you, or your mind puts confidence in what is the unseen qualities of holiness.
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Romans 8:20-22
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For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope
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that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
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We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
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Life itself is not defined by this existence. This existence, this cyclical process of death, is a challenge set forth with a purpose. That purpose is to bring life beyond this existence, and do so by a reliance on the unseen qualities of the Spirit of God. That same Spirit that raised Christ Jesus from the dead, is the same Spirit that will free creation from the bonds of decay. Life is of this Holy Spirit.
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Mark 4:26-29
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He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground.
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Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.
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All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.
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As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.”
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Life manifests through the physical, the physical does not manifest life. Through a reliance on the Holy Spirit, faith gives purpose that is beyond what our minds have knowledge of. This is what is means to renew our minds. Our reliance on our own understanding of what is placed in front of us to react to, is what we are here to overcome. We are raised to think our actions are what manifest in the physical. But what the truth is, we are to act on a reliance of the unseen qualities of God. We are the vessels in which these unseen qualities enter creation.
How do we know if we are acting by the Spirit of God? We know we act on God's will if what we are doing is selfless, and that what we do is done either for our love of God or our love for one another. It is foreign to worldly ways. Those around us who remain of themselves will not understand our actions. They will see it as weakness, or they will mistrust us, or they will persecute and hate us for it. This is because selflessness goes against their fundamental understanding of survival and gain.
It is a progress for us. We must unlearn what we grew up to be. We replace our need to react with our knowledge we gained as worldly beings, and separate ourselves from it. Our decisions become simple, we no longer make strategies to prosper. Instead, we strive to remain reliant on the guidance that comes in the moment, as life is in the present moment.
This is a sacrifice worthy of God. It is a sacrifice to deny ourselves, in order to conform to the Father's will. This goes beyond the commandments of Law, it is how we should walk in our day. Not just aware of sin, and refraining from it. But denial of our reactions, in reliance on the Spirit, that through our faithfulness, holiness manifests.
The Kingdom is the conscience of holiness. The power of creation and all the unseen qualities of God are near us, ready to manifest through us. The Kingdom is what the children of God were made to rejoice. It is the Love of God, the heart of God which we celebrate. The Holy Spirit is our eternal companion, it is the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of Life, it is the Spirit of the Holy Authority.
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Colossians 3:1-4
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Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
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Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
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For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
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When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
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I pray for you to grow in reliance on the Holy Spirit upon you, if you indeed have that Spirit in you.
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