My Body - God's Abiding Place
My body was created to be the abiding place, the resting place, the temple of God, the container of His glory, of Love Himself. And my body is the carrier of God’s glory to the world, a visible expression of God Himself and His glory.
In 1 Corinthians 6:19,20 we read:
What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holly Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
In the Amplified Bible we read that our body is the very sanctuary of the Holy Spirit. He lives in us. We have received Him as a gift from God. We are not our own. We have been bought with a price, purchased with a preciousness, paid for, made His own. So then, we are to honor God and bring glory to Him in our bodies.
Jesus Christ paid the ultimate price of His life and shed His blood for us. His life is precious life; His blood is precious blood. And His life and blood was the price He paid to purchase us from the slavery of satan. Only one price would do, and it was the highest price that could possibly be paid. Jesus had to take our place and take our punishment so that we could go free. We are free today because of what Jesus did for us. Therefore, we are no longer our own. We are His. And it is not a bondage of not being our own. It is a freedom indescribable. It is freedom like we have never experienced before.
And then in 2 Corinthians 6:16 we read that we are the temple of the living God. God said that He would dwell in us and walk in us and be our God and we are His people.
God chose to make Himself available to live in us and guide us, to direct us in everything we do, by the power of His Spirit dwelling in us. His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, is dwelling in our bodies. In fact, remember Romans 8:11. The same Spirit that raised Christ Jesus from the dead dwells in us and quickens, gives life to our mortal bodies. We are talking here about power. The Holy Spirit is dwelling in us with the power, the glory of God. In fact, we are His Holy of Holies here on the earth now. We are His temple and He dwells in us in the Holy of Holies on the inside of our spirits. He considers our spirits a sacred place. We also must consider our spirits a sacred place. We must consider our bodies a sacred place. We must consider our souls a sacred place. Wherever God comes to abide, to dwell, to live is a sacred place because He is there.
I want you to think about this today and every day you live for the rest of your life. God Almighty, God Himself, Love Himself, the very power of the universe, the very glory of heaven is inside you if you have accepted Jesus as your Savior, if you have asked Him to take over your life. He is in there. The Spirit of God is dwelling in your mortal body.
We must go to Ephesians 3:16-21. I know it is a very familiar passage, but let’s look at it in terms of the Spirit of God dwelling in our mortal bodies, directing our minds, helping us to make the right choices with our wills, orchestrating our emotions to stay in tune with the fruit of His Spirit. Look what it says in verse 16. May He grant you out of the riches of His glory, the treasure house, the preciousness of His glory to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in our inner man (our spirits). Think about this: God is granting us out of the riches of His glory in heaven to be strengthened with His power by the Spirit of God Himself abiding in our spirits, living and dwelling in us forever.
Then verse 17 states it again in a different way. May Christ, the Anointed One with His anointing, dwell in your hearts (spirits) by faith. He is in there. The anointing to do whatever you are called to do is in there. He has already fixed the circuitry of your spirit to respond to Him and to do what you are supposed to do to fulfill what He has called you to do. Isn’t that wonderful! You are already wired to do what you are supposed to do, what you were born to do. Let Him do the directing and the orchestrating of your life to complete the job. He is good at what He does. He has been doing it for eternity. Selah, Pause and think on that forever.
In 1 Corinthians 6:19,20 we read:
What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holly Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
In the Amplified Bible we read that our body is the very sanctuary of the Holy Spirit. He lives in us. We have received Him as a gift from God. We are not our own. We have been bought with a price, purchased with a preciousness, paid for, made His own. So then, we are to honor God and bring glory to Him in our bodies.
Jesus Christ paid the ultimate price of His life and shed His blood for us. His life is precious life; His blood is precious blood. And His life and blood was the price He paid to purchase us from the slavery of satan. Only one price would do, and it was the highest price that could possibly be paid. Jesus had to take our place and take our punishment so that we could go free. We are free today because of what Jesus did for us. Therefore, we are no longer our own. We are His. And it is not a bondage of not being our own. It is a freedom indescribable. It is freedom like we have never experienced before.
And then in 2 Corinthians 6:16 we read that we are the temple of the living God. God said that He would dwell in us and walk in us and be our God and we are His people.
God chose to make Himself available to live in us and guide us, to direct us in everything we do, by the power of His Spirit dwelling in us. His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, is dwelling in our bodies. In fact, remember Romans 8:11. The same Spirit that raised Christ Jesus from the dead dwells in us and quickens, gives life to our mortal bodies. We are talking here about power. The Holy Spirit is dwelling in us with the power, the glory of God. In fact, we are His Holy of Holies here on the earth now. We are His temple and He dwells in us in the Holy of Holies on the inside of our spirits. He considers our spirits a sacred place. We also must consider our spirits a sacred place. We must consider our bodies a sacred place. We must consider our souls a sacred place. Wherever God comes to abide, to dwell, to live is a sacred place because He is there.
I want you to think about this today and every day you live for the rest of your life. God Almighty, God Himself, Love Himself, the very power of the universe, the very glory of heaven is inside you if you have accepted Jesus as your Savior, if you have asked Him to take over your life. He is in there. The Spirit of God is dwelling in your mortal body.
We must go to Ephesians 3:16-21. I know it is a very familiar passage, but let’s look at it in terms of the Spirit of God dwelling in our mortal bodies, directing our minds, helping us to make the right choices with our wills, orchestrating our emotions to stay in tune with the fruit of His Spirit. Look what it says in verse 16. May He grant you out of the riches of His glory, the treasure house, the preciousness of His glory to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in our inner man (our spirits). Think about this: God is granting us out of the riches of His glory in heaven to be strengthened with His power by the Spirit of God Himself abiding in our spirits, living and dwelling in us forever.
Then verse 17 states it again in a different way. May Christ, the Anointed One with His anointing, dwell in your hearts (spirits) by faith. He is in there. The anointing to do whatever you are called to do is in there. He has already fixed the circuitry of your spirit to respond to Him and to do what you are supposed to do to fulfill what He has called you to do. Isn’t that wonderful! You are already wired to do what you are supposed to do, what you were born to do. Let Him do the directing and the orchestrating of your life to complete the job. He is good at what He does. He has been doing it for eternity. Selah, Pause and think on that forever.
posted by Rev. Kialeen Potterton @ 6:14 PM
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