Daily Bread – June 17, 2021 (The Fifth Day – Genesis 1:20-23) Romans 8:6 – For carnal thinking is death, but spiritual thinking is life and peace. Part 1 ~ Spiritual Thinking Anything taught to us by God concerning Himself – the realm of Heaven and the ways of the Spirit – is spiritual. All the Holy Spirit does and ministers is spiritual. The things of the spiritual are foolishness to the natural mind because they are not governed by natural laws. Instead, the spiritual is the unlimited realm of divine ability and supernatural provision in which nothing is impossible (1 Corinthians 2:13-15). Paul commanded the Church to both seek and focus on the spiritual (Ephesians 1:3; 1 Corinthians 2:14, 14:1,12; Galatians 6:6). 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 we are to walk in the Spirit and be led by the Spirit is evidence enough of how 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. The abundant life we have been given is the life of the Spirit which is life, peace, joy, and righteousness! Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
Daily Bread 6/17/2021
