Each One!  Bless One!

Spirit Soul/Flesh Soul Series: Book One


GROWING
OUR
SPIRIT SOUL




James Anthony Allen

and

Marcus Anthony Allen




Holy Spirit Given
Eye Opening Insight for Daily Living


Keys to Enhancing Our Spiritual Growth


Answered Ancestor’s Prayers


Christian Soul Food that will Stick to Your Heart!



Copyright © 2004
 

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Growing My Spirit Soul ………….....…. 10
Love
L – Let it go!
O – Obedience
V – Volunteer
E – Evolve

2 Know God is Real .………………..…… 14
There is a God
God is living
Know God

3 Desire to Know God .…………….….…. 17
Desire a Relationship with God
Put God in the Details
Why Know God?
Is God One of Your Experiences?

4 Speak to God ……………………....….... 21
Talk to God
Speak to Jesus Out Loud

5 God Will Speak to You …...….....…...… 24
Make a Space for God
Three Different “Voices”
“Voice” of Self
“Voice” of the enemies of God
“Voice” of God

6 The devil is a Lier …………………...…... 29

7 Obey God ………………………..…....…. 31
Obedience Saves One
Obey the Small Commands
Your Puzzle Piece

8 The Enemy Attacks..…….………..…….. 34
Look out!
Other gods

9 You Are on Track …..…..………..…..… 38
God Will Bear Witness
Dual Witness Principle
A Spiritual Word

10 Talk About Jesus ………………..…..… 42
Put Jesus on Your Lips!
“Truly Blessed! And Highly Favored!

11 Spiritual Connections ..……………….. 45
Working Our Connections
God Sends People Our Way
Children as Spiritual Connections
We Affect and Effect People

12 Be Like Jesus …….....…….….…..….... 50
Desire to Be Like Jesus
Do Like Jesus

13 Spiritual Evolution …..……...……...… 53
Our Issues Grow Us Spiritually
Crucify Self
Not Trying
Trying
Doing

14 Holding On ……….…….….…..…....… 57
Spiritual Hindrance
In My Hand!
Hold The Phone!
Chi Chi

15 Spiritual Warfare Prayer ……..…...… 60

16 Dwell On This……………..………...… 63

17 Epilogue ……………………..…..…..... 65

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


Jesus Christ receives all the glory and thanksgiving for the Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding which follows in this first volume of a ten pamphlet series.

This work is dedicated to God and consecrated for His Divine Purposes through His Divine Will. We are His employees and He is our employer.

To Him be all glory and power and majesty. Above Him there is no other.

Thanks to our family, friends, church family, men’s prayer family, Overcomers family, Kaleidoscope family and countless others who have helped to make this writing possible, wherein there is Grace; grace for grace.

Thanks to all those who have gone on before us. Your prayers are being answered!

Hallelujah thanks, love and blessings to Yahweh-Yireh, God our Provider!

INTRODUCTION


Love, LOVE.

This book contains wisdom, knowledge, and understanding given by the Holy Spirit and written for modern, urban society.

When reading this work, the Holy Bible and any spiritual information, ask God, Jesus and/or the Holy Spirit to give you ancient, present and future--wisdom, knowledge, and understanding and the mysteries with remembrance.

God’s virtues and attributes are in His creation. In His infinite Emanation, He has embedded His virtues and attributes in us. In this series, we will refer to them as Sovereignties. This book will help us to activate and embody His Sovereignties in us. The series also refers to the “flesh soul” which is our carnal or earthly nature and the “spirit soul” is our spiritual or heavenly nature.

We are the embodiment of God, made in His image, not only physically, but also mentally and spiritually. But we are limited in our capacity to be like Jesus because we limit ourselves.

This book will show how to provide for the human body while allowing the spirit of God within us to grow. It will allow us to grow our spirit as we redirect our focus away from the desires of the flesh. This book does not aspire to get us to turn our backs on the desires of our fleshly bodies, but to reassess the perceptions with which they have been directed for so many years.

We have to direct our focus primarily to the purposes of God in our lives and in the lives of those we touch.

The information in this book is not purposed to get you to stop wearing lipstick, or to stop coordinating your corporate colors, or to stop purchasing designer suits, but is a helpmeet to get us to recognize what road our perceptions have lead us onto.

Recognizing where we are is crucial to knowing how to act in the place in which we exist. Recognizing who we are is crucial to knowing how to act in the space of our existence and those who come into our space. Recognizing the times in which we live, is crucial to allowing the Christ to direct our paths into the perfect path of His purposes for our lives and for the lives which we touch.

As Christians, we must share the revealing knowledge, which the Lord Jesus Christ is sharing with us!

 

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“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”
Romans 12:1 (KJV)

I was once asked, “Allen, how do I get my spirit to grow?” That is a very good question. That question prompted me to write this book. Here is the answer.

LOVE. Put simply, our spirits grow based on the love we have in our hearts and the lack of self in our being. Love for GOD, love for humankind, love for God’s creation; life and living is about love.

“And he (Jesus) answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.”
Luke 10:27 (KJV)

It is all about love; the application of love in all areas of our lives—the emanation of love.

L-O-V-E

L – Let it go! Let go and let love conquer all. Let go of your inhibitions. Let go of your resentments of yourself and of others. Let go of your shortcomings; you are who you are. Let go of your bitterness, envy, hate, jealousy, shame, etc. Let go of petty differences. Turn it all over to Christ Jesus! Let Him have it. He can handle it. Release yourself, in releasing others. Forgive us of our trespasses, as we forgive... Grace for grace.

“And of His fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.”
John 1:16 (KJV)

The battle is not ours, it is the Lord’s. Confess your sins to the Lord, forgive others, have grace upon them and make an attempt to live a life of holiness.

O – Obedience. Obedience to the Commands of God (His Voice), Jesus’ Commandments, and the urgings of the Holy Spirit are paramount to Holy Christian living.

“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.”
John 13:34 (KJV)

The Hebrews were making an attempt to follow approximately 613 laws, governing everything from sacrificial offerings to permissible foods to social constraints. Jesus is the fulfillment of the law; all 613 laws. Jesus did not do away with the Ten Commandments, He added to them, enhanced them and walked as the fulfillment of the law.

“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.”
Romans 13:8 (KJV)

It is important to be in covenant with God (relationship), to have the Word of God in our hearts (read/study the Bible), to fellowship with those called to be saints of God (go to church), and to obey God (obedience), as being directed by church leadership, the Messengers of God (Angels), the Holy Spirit, Jesus, or God as bearing witness to God’s spirit in you.

V – Volunteer. Help others. Visit the sick. Visit a retirement home. Get involved in a prison ministry. Volunteer in a soup kitchen. Volunteer at the local hospital. Volunteer at the elementary school.

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
John 15:13 (KJV)

Get involved in the community. Volunteering is guaranteed to help you feel better about you and to empower God’s Sovereignty of Love in us.

“For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.”
Matthew 25:42-45 (KJV)

E – Evolve. Evolve and grow. Grow in Christ. Excel and evolve to the next level. Read and study your Bible daily. Pick one chapter and read it for thirty days in a row; then pick another one. Fast—there is power in fasting!

Pray daily. Have “instant prayer”. When you see someone with a need—stop and pray for and with them. When you see a need in you or your family—stop and pray right then!

Go finish your diploma, that next degree, work towards that promotion; better yourself. Take a course you have wanted to take. Speak it in and walk in that thing—God will provide!

Make a plan to read a specific number of books each year. Make some attainable goals. Set career goals. Set spiritual goals. Set physical goals. Exercise, play an instrument, or climb a mountain!

Life is positive momentum, when we live it. Live life to its fullest. Growing “stronger” spiritually involves obedience, discipline, patience, sacrifice, and above all love. Be like Jesus!


LOVE.