Daily Bread 8/12/2025

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Email from Abiding Place     Daily Bread – August 12, 2025 (The Third Day – Genesis 1:9-13) Matthew 16:24 – Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone will come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. To Follow Jesus We Must Learn The Spiritual Anything taught to us by God concerning Himself is spiritual, which is in stark contrast to the things we learn of men – the natural. Everything the Holy Spirit does and ministers is spiritual. One day, we will exchange a natural body for a spiritual body, but right now we must exchange a natural mind for a spiritual one. The things of the spiritual are foolishness to the natural mind, because they are not governed by natural laws. Everything concerning the will of the Father is spiritually discerned. The spiritual is the unlimited realm of divine ability and supernatural provision in which nothing is impossible (1 Corinthians 2:9-15). We are commanded to learn this new way of thinking, but we must recognize those thoughts that would confine us to the limitations of what we can do of ourselves and deny them (Ephesians 1:3; 1 Corinthians 2:14, 14:1,12; Galatians 6:8). God is a Spirit, and we must interact with Him in the realm of the spiritual. Any interaction with the Holy Spirit, or manifestation of the Holy Spirit, is by definition spiritual. Knowing that we are to walk in the Spirit and be led by the Spirit is evidence enough that God demands us to be spiritual in the way we think and conduct ourselves. The Holy Spirit teaches us the spiritual and gives us access to the realms of the spiritual from which all the gifts of the Spirit flow. We learn to think according to the spiritual (or the manner in which God thinks) by the Word of God and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The spiritual mind is the mind of the Holy Spirit, the mind of Christ, the life governed by the Spirit of God – where every thought is brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ and the will of the Father (1 Corinthians 2:6-16; 2 Corinthians 10:3-6; Galatians 5:16,25; Romans 8:5-14). Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen