Daily Devotional

The Tree of Life or as Jesus put it the truth is the only way. Jesus is the Tree of Life. He is the truth. He is the way! He assists us with seeing and hearing the truth which is needed for us to fulfill God's purpose for us. The Tree of Life is more than the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil because it gives God's truth. The Tree of Life carries with it more than just information. It is the information with His character and knowledge added to it. It is God's way of loo

Our soul must gaze inwardly for strength and truth, not outwardly to other sources. Worldly information cannot be our source of strength and security. We need something deeper to anchor us. We need a translator that is better than our own mind. We have the ability to tap into the Creator of the universe for this translation. If we do not have the Holy Spirit in us speaking and empowering us, we are left to ourselves. We are left to analyze, to decide and to act on our own. Th

When Jesus met Nicodemus (John 3), it was not a matter of dealing with sin (in fact, it is not mentioned) but of being born again. To be born again is to be made alive and sensitive to the Spirit of God for the first time through a rebirth inside. We receive a new nature, His nature. When the Holy Spirit comes in, He joins our spirit and subsequently influences our hearing. He brings the voice of God with Him, for He is God. We can not enter the unseen world, the kingdom of G

Our soul (mind, emotion, and will) is the place where salvation is often blocked and fought for. It is the battleground. It is where we fight for how our life is lived, whether by the spirit or soul. If there is a problem in the soul gathering information from outside, then we will have a problem analyzing and processing these pieces of information. Our soul acts as a filter for our spirit. Our soul can color information with its beliefs. If it is dirty, it will give us flawe

Day 26 Self-control is when our soul (mind, emotion and will) is dominated by our spirit. Some do it naturally and do well; others haven't any strength to live this way until God strengthens them. It is a process and we must learn to come into it. It is the way of peace. At first it takes slowing down, but eventually, it moves faster. The next step toward perfection is when our spirit is joined with the Holy Spirit, and information is processed, not only by our spirit but by

We were created to operate from our spirit. Before salvation, without the Holy Spirit to help us, our spirit remains dead to any areas pertaining to the Spirit of God. It is literally alienated from God. We can believe in our mind information concerning God and believe in Him, but we can not come in contact with Him. It is like a receiver that just hasn't turned on yet. We lack the experiential knowledge of God. We have superficial knowledge without relationship. We are liter

Day 24 The word of God comes to us to divide our soul from our spirit. It shows us the difference between the soul's and the spirit's actions. It is an awesome awakening when we find our spirit or in other words "find ourselves". We have to understand the center of our being before we can learn its' laws and observe them. As we read, the Bible the word of God begins to separate what is coming from our soul and what is coming from our spirit. The soul was always meant to just

Day 23 Often because we are in a hurry, we only process information from our soul. It takes a little longer to respond from the spirit. When we are born of God and He comes into our spirit, we gain the ability to sense the difference between our soul and our spirit. Until then, we live by reacting to life from the soul. That is mainly because we are bankrupt on the knowledge of how the human being truly operates. God created us and He is the only one we should consult regardi

Day 22 There is knowledge we have from the information we gather in our mind and knowledge we have in our spirit from the Holy Spirit. The knowledge in our mind is merely information we've learned from outside of us. The knowledge we've gained in our spirit is Godly wisdom and understanding. Our spirit is where the Holy Spirit desires to influence us. This is where complete, successful living is obtained. Is your time with God spent petitioning, asking for blessings? Stop tal

Day 21 Our natural life, called the soul, dwells between our spirit and body. It is the space between our spirit and body where we develop responses. The soul acts as a processor of outside information to our spirit and then from our spirit back out from our soul to our body. The soul includes our minds, our emotions, and our will. Each has a place in processing the information we receive, both from our five senses from the outside in and from our spirit inside out. This oute

Day 20 Our inner senses come alive to the reality and presence of God when we are born again. He, the Holy Spirit of God, becomes our source in our spirit in every area for perception and discernment. This is called being led by the spirit. The result is that we receive the wisdom and knowledge of God in this process. Not just knowledge of who He is, but His knowledge is available to us because He is now in us and willing to give us that knowledge. Remember, we are talking ab