Mind vs. Spirit and Victory At The Cross

Leviathan vs. Minds 2-A Mind vs. Spirit and Victory At The Cross

Two worlds? Most believers need to understand what it means to be seated in heavenly places in Christ. Then, they will learn to live in the “real world.”

Let me challenge you: What is your “real world”? Is it what we see or what we don’t see?

Where am I leading? We are going to higher places.

We are spiritual beings who reside temporarily on this planet somewhere. We are two in one: soul and spirit. Or some people would say, three in one, when they add the body into the equation. Our soul is the practical side of our being, including our mind, will, and emotions. Our decisions, by our will, affect our emotional and physical well-being.

We consider things in our minds and decide by our will. Branding companies assume purchasers will emotionally make purchases up to 90%. This eliminates rational thought and God’s input.

Our adversary knows that emotions affect our decision-making. If he can plant fear in our souls, satan has the upper hand. He can rob our peace, joy, and our God-given destiny.

Our emotions are not to control us. Instead, we must learn how to control emotions seated in heavenly places.

What if you could learn to make decisions from the spiritual realm, seated in Christ at the right hand of our Heavenly Father? In this case, Holy Spirit would speak to your mind. You would then spiritually listen and make life’s decisions under the guidance and counsel of Holy Spirit.

In Christ, we are seated in heavenly places where we receive His revelations and see from His eyes (Ephesians 2.1-6). As a result, there is joy and peace.

Do you lie down in peace and wake up with joy? We are our Father’s Kingdom children. His joy and peace are our inheritance in Christ.

If peace and joy have slipped through your fingers, the adversary probably has been messing with your mind.

God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. We know we abide in Him, and He in us, because God has given us His own Spirit. Therefore, whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he is in God. A love transaction has been made (I John 4.7-17).

Love resides within us. God is Love. When His love has been perfected, we have become His vessels of love to be poured out to others. Supernatural love resides within us because God is Love. He has given each believer His Holy Spirit when they believe in Jesus.

We can learn how to stay in peace and joy. We can also choose not to embrace fear. We can walk in victory in Jesus. Fear opposes the love of God because love casts our fear (I John 3.18). Fear is a lousy spirit expressed in worries, anxiety, and confusion. Sometimes, paralyzing fear can be within us in areas we have not yet learned to surrender to God. Fear can rob us of our spiritual inheritance in Christ as we cannot trust God in that area.

The Battle of Mind vs. Spirit.

Let’s look at the spiritual realm.

Perhaps you will be surprised how simple it is to kick fear out the door, grab hold of right thinking and get back into Peace; who is a Person, the Prince of Peace. Simple, but only sometimes easy. Fear is an evil spirit that does not come from God (II Timothy 1.7). Instead, we have God’s power and authority on our side. We have God’s love within, and we have the mind of Christ.

When we are in Peace, there is Joy. Not being afraid and dwelling in God’s place of rest, your soul is bathed in the richness of Him. The enemy of your soul cannot come near our spirits sealed in Christ.

Yet, Leviathan (the Adversary), the spirit of the ancient world, and his troops besiege our minds with negative thoughts that do not align with the Truth of God’s Word. He is the father of all lies (John 8.44). His children want to carry out his desires.

Whose thought life will you embrace? What is most familiar? Do your familiar thoughts line up with God’s thoughts and ways? Does what you think and say line up with the Word, which is Truth? God’s truth sets us free.

Do you feel condemned and unloved by God? Look at the Cross, and you will see love. Read Romans 8 and 1 John, and you will see your victory in Christ.

When you feel unloved, please remember that God’s Covenant Love is over and above any love. To think that God does not love you or you are not good enough, you have embraced an overall strategy used by the devil. He desires to keep you out of action and miss your destiny.

One of the biggest helps is consistently reading the Truth, the Word of God, with Holy Spirit as your teacher. This helps us be overcomers to discern the world’s ways vs. God’s ways. Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Godhead, is the Spirit of Truth Who can sort things out for us whenever we have a question or are confused. Then we know what to accept and what to refute or disallow when we have conflicting thoughts.

Let's look at the larger picture to understand how our mind battles in different areas. Every enemy attack centers on fear, which messes with our minds.

The Battle Victory at the Cross

There is God, Our Father, and Jesus, Lord, over all the Earth. Our Father, through Christ, has given us both power and authority: the same power that raised Christ from the dead and the same authority God had initially given to Adam (mankind).

God mandates us to co-manage the earth with Him, like Adam and Eve. This process takes practice. Holy Spirit is our help, teacher, and guide.

Satan has power and authority, but God has more. God is the ultimate authority. Satan is the ruler of this world, as identified by Jesus (John 14.30). He is over anyone who opposes Jesus.

The whole world lies in the power of the evil one (1 John 5.19). For whatever reason, satan’s sway in this world is vast and terrible. He is the prince of the power of the air at work in the sons of disobedience (Ephesians 2.1-2). With his lies, the devil blinds the minds of believers and non-believers alike (2 Corinthians 4.4).

Our adversary tries to put divisions between people, get us to fear, and mess with our minds. The ancients talked about the adversary, the one who opposes. This title is transposed to read satan, who leads those in opposition to God. Judas opposed Jesus.

Satan had permission to work through Judas to betray Jesus. Satan entered Judas (John 13.27). Judas proactively met with the chief priests. He then disclosed where Jesus gathered with his disciples. Even in betrayal, Jesus called Judas friend (Matthew 26.50). The rest is history.

The ruler of the world is already judged. His fate is sealed (Luke 22.53; John 12.31; 16.11).

Satan’s ultimate defeat at the Cross is found in Colossians 2.13-15. The entire record of our regrets was nailed to the Cross. We repent and receive forgiveness, keeping ourselves in the right standing with God.

Nothing can condemn us. There is no condemnation in Christ Jesus. Therefore, do not receive condemnation, an ugly gift from Satan, who is constantly playing with our minds.

In a dwelling relationship with Jesus, we win every battle with the devil. We are given confidence in victory.

Romans 8.38-39: “For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers (satanic power), nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

“He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world” (1 John 4.4).

We find our reality in Jesus. We do not discover Him the midst of our fearful emotions. Jesus went low in His death in order to take us high into heavenly places to be seated in Him.