“Spirit Prosperity –vs- Soul Prosperity”

                        Teachers how do we get the job done?

                                 
                                   By the Late Elder Fred McCoy

Base Scriptures: And the very God of peace sanctity you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit, and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ( I Thess. 5:23)

When God created us, He did so in a certain order. The Spirit first, then the Soul and lastly the body. This is how He intended for us to live. When man fell in Genesis 3 that order was reversed. We now live soul, spirit, body. When we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior, that order should’ve been straighten out, but it hasn’t for many of us.

When we got saved, it was not our soul that got saved, it was our spirit. Contrary to popular belief, God is not interested as much in your soul as He is your spirit. Why? He wants the part of you that best resembles Him. That is your spirit!!! (Gen 1:26-27)

 
 If you lived all your life governed by your soul, it is extremely difficult to change your lifestyle and now live your life governed by your spirit. But, despite that difficulty, it is necessary.

There is a clear difference between your soul prospering and your spirit prospering. I’m willing to bet that most people have never thought about the difference between the two.

The soul represents the natural life: the seat of personality, sentient elements of man, the seat of the will, the part of man that perceives, reflects, feels desires; the emotional part of man.

The spirit represents that which most resembles God: the eternal part of man, the element of man that gives him the ability to communicate with God, the seat of character, the first order of man.

Again, we are spirits, who posses a soul, and live in a body. Even before were born again we have a spirit-human spirit. (Job 32:8/Prov. 20:27/Eccl. 12:7/Acts 7:59 I Cor. 2:11)

One of the Holy Spirits functions is to lead and guide us. He does so by communicating to us through our spirit. The reason why a lot of us can’t be lead by the Holy Spirit is because the Holy Spirit speaks one language and we haven’t taken the time to learn that language. This is why 80% of the church has LED poisoning-they’re being lead by the wrong spirit-their own.

The Bible uses the word “flesh” as a synonym for soul.

 “For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting. (Gal 6:8)

What is soul prosperity?

Soul prosperity is the increase of actions that prosper your emotions, desires, will, and feelings, to the point that you heed them and govern your life by them. In other words, the order that God established for your life is reversed. The disability of soul prosperity over spirit prosperity is that you use your soulish nature to try to discern God and the things of God, which leads to inaccuracies in both perception and daily living.

Soul prosperity is easy to do. The neglect of one will lead to the prosperity of the other. Prospering in your soul is never challenging or difficult. It takes very little effort. Simply give in to the desires of the flesh and you’ll prosper your soul.

A problem with prospering your soul instead of your spirit is you develop in your personality. Never mistake a person of strong personality with a person of strong spirit. Charisma doesn’t equal character. Never be impressed with a person who says the right things, does the right things or appear to have the right look. Be impressed with a person with a developed and mature spirit. (Eph 4:7)  Personality isn’t a bad thing. However, personality without the Holy Spirit is futile. Keep in mind that your soulish nature is that which is emotional and sensual. It’s through the soul (emotions and senses) that enable individuals to inspire you. But, inspiration doesn’t equal CHANGE!!!! People who are strong in spirit will not only inspire you, but also inspire you to change.

To grow or prosper in spirit is to develop in character. A person of character is a person who portrays and displays Jesus Christ. Someone, who is literally becoming a walking, and talking Jesus. (Rom 8:9-11/Gal 2:20/I John 3:24 amp)

Christ us in us by the presence of His spirit. We have the responsibility of growing in the spirit. In other words, we have to decrease while the Spirit of Christ increases. There are many different ways to prosper spiritually, but there is only one thing that will effect us spiritually-God’s Word. (John 6:63)

Whether it is done through reading, singing, meditating, studying, praying, listening, teaching or preaching. You as a teacher have a responsibility to prosper spiritually. You can not afford to allow your soul to be stronger in you than the Spirit of God. We often quote 1 john 4:4, “grater is He that is in me than he that is in the world”. What if he that’s in the world is greater in you? The spirit of God being great in you is your responsibility. You have to allow Him to be the great ONE.                                

                              

                                  
This blog is in memory of one of my instructors at Teacher's Training Course at Valley Kingdom International. This was a great lesson that he taught so much so that I saved it. But by it being so powerful I wanted to share it with one and all. I added the video and the pictures but the lesson is so great I could have left it as is. I want to thank in memory Elder McCoy so much for the knowledge that you have given me to teach. We all miss you much. And I want  to thank Rhema Word 2.0 Superintendent Liz Hope for letting me be part of Rhema Word 2.0 through social media and photography. Look forward to another teaching blog from a Rhema Word 2.0 teacher next week. May God bless all those who read this blog and we give God all the glory and the honor. Amen. Have a great week.