Knowing People By The Spirit – Robert Liardon

Knowing someone by the Spirit will enable you to have a great time with them, even though you may have nothing in common with them in the natural. That doesn’t mean you abort your association with them, it means you hold onto your connection with them in the Spirit. You will have many opportunities to lose your divine connections and appointments, but it is these very relationships that will help you develop the kind of character you need to succeed in life and ministry.

Great ministers don’t fall because of their anointings; they fall because they did not allow God to build strong character in them. Part of building strong character is having people around you who can see your blind spots and speak into them. We all have areas we can’t see, and those are usually where the devil gains his entrance and infects other aspects of life, leading to a downfall.

There are people who believed in my ministry when I had no ministry. They prayed for something that no one else saw. You must hold fast to relationships like that. They are your spiritual founders. Don’t lose them because they are the ones who believed in you when you were nothing. They are the kinds of people that will look beyond your prestige and success and say things that will help you as a person. A Divine Relationship Aborted Let me give you an illustration of this from history.

When John Alexander Dowie came from Australia to California, Maria Woodworth- Etter was traveling as a pioneer Pentecostal preacher. “Mother Etter,” as they called her, spoke in tongues and had the nine gifts of the Spirit even before the great Azusa Street outpouring. When Dowie came to California, he began to hold meetings in a hotel room, and people started to get healed. His fame grew quickly here in America.

1 Life In The Spirit 2 Knowing People By The Spirit 3 Holding On To Divine Relationships 4 Developing Spiritual Accountability 5 A Call To Walk In The Spirit OceanofPDF.com 1 Life In The Spirit There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Romans 8:1 (NKJ) You can be born again and still live under condemnation. Many Christians do. But notice the rest of our text says, “to them which walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” We often quote the first part of the verse—”There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,” and end it there, but the verse does continue.

We need to examine this last portion, because Christians will continually suffer from a sense of condemnation if they don’t learn to live in the realm of the Spirit. Living in the Spirit realm is really very simple. Like Kathryn Kuhlman would say, it’s so easy, most people miss it. The Gospel is so simple, it takes man to mess it up. Walking In The Spirit Is A Decision Life in the Spirit is a decision. It’s not just a feeling or a vision that comes, or something dramatic that happens to you, even though supernatural experiences may happen in your life and ministry.

It’s a decision about where and how you’re going to live your life. There are times when you are making decisions, or you’re being hit by the enemy, that you may fluctuate a little in the realm of the Spirit, but you never have to come out of that arena. We cannot engage in spiritual warfare unless we live in the Spirit. If we attempt warfare in the strength of our flesh, we’ll get worn out.

Spiritual warfare should not wear you out; it should make you stronger and more alive. We’ve got to learn how to pray through the leading and unction of the Holy Spirit, and not by the flesh. It’s got to be by the Spirit, in the Spirit and for the purposes of the Holy Spirit. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled” (Matthew 5:6).

If there is no hunger in you, there will be no filling inside of you. Becoming Addicted To Heaven You have to become addicted to heaven and to the things of God! Alcoholics drink and drink until their bodies acquire a taste, and eventually a craving, for alcohol.

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