Pr James Kawalya
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Corinthians 15:35-44 New International Version (NIV)
The
Resurrection Body
35 But someone
will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they
come?” 36 How foolish! What you sow does not
come to life unless it dies.37 When you sow, you do not
plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something
else. 38 But God gives it a body as he has
determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. 39 Not
all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another,
birds another and fish another.40 There are also
heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly
bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another.41 The
sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars
another; and star differs from star in splendor.
42 So will it
be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is
perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43 it is
sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is
raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it
is raised a spiritual body.
If there is
a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
In spiritual warfare, it is not our
bodies that are fighting.
In spiritual warfare, it is our
souls that are involved in battle.
So it is our spirits that are in
battle.
The bible tells us that we have a
natural body and a spiritual body.
The natural body is able to fight
only if it has exercised. This means that the natural body has undergone
training, the natural muscles gained strength and it is then able to fight.
Likewise, if the spiritual body is
to fight, there is something that we need to do. The spiritual body must
exercise in order to gain the strength to be able to fight. For we do not
wrestle against flesh and blood. Our weapons are not carnal but they are mighty
in God to pull down strongholds. It is the spiritual body that is going to use
the spiritual weapons. It is your spiritual body that is going to put on the
armour of God. So we must understand how our spiritual organs operate.
How are our spiritual bodies
connected to the physical bodies? Where do they connect with each other?
You have a spiritual body that
needs care, training, nourishment.
But you have a body that is lacking
today.
You have a physical body that can
walk in the natural realm.
You also have a spiritual body that
is supposed to walk in the spirit realm.
Your physical body cannot cross
into the spirit realm. If you are to hear in the spirit realm, the ears of your
spiritual body are to be opened and be developed. If you are to see in the
spirit realm, the eyes of your spiritual body must be opened and be able to see
in the spirit realm.
Your parents gave you milk and food.
But what about your spiritual body?
Who nurtures your spirit to learn to walk, to run and even to fly? Who feeds
your spirit that you are now strong and powerful to be able to confront
spiritual giants? How old is your spirit? How tall, how wide, and how long is
your spirit?
In the body, you can be a small man
but in your spirit man, you can be a giant because you have developed spiritual
muscles for many years. The bones in your spirit are so strong that you can
kick a spiritual wall and it breaks.
Recognise the existence of your
spiritual body:
1) Your
spirit does not sleep.
God is Spirit. (John 4:24) He
neither sleeps nor slumbers. (Psalm 121:4) This includes your spirit. Your
spirit is better than your body. When your body is sleeping, your spirit is
doing war and is searching in different realms.
2) Your
spiritual body does not die.
Your spirit is eternal. It has no
beginning and no end.
3) Your
spirit records your thoughts, words, actions and dreams.
4) Your
spirit judges thoughts and actions.
The bible tells us that your
spiritual man is not judged by any man but he judges all things. (1 Corinthians
2:15)
5) Your
spirit hosts the kingdom.
The kingdom of darkness is hosted
in those that are fallen to darkness in the spirit. Jesus says the kingdom of
God does not come by saying, “Here it is.” The kingdom of God is within you.
(Luke 17:21) In you, there is a kingdom.
6) Your
spirit does not age.
Your spirit does not grow old. If
you feed it, it will release the same power to your physical body. Jesus says,
“The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” (John 6:63)
So how does your spirit connect to
your body and to your soul?
When God created Adam and He
breathed into his nostrils, he became a living soul. God deposited all that
Adam needed on earth and He put it into his body—He put in a soul. When Satan
and all the angels look at you, they envy you because you have a soul which
they do not have. The soul is that body that you are given so that you can
operate on earth. For demons to operate on earth, they need a soul. When you
lend them a soul, then they could walk on earth.
For Jesus to walk on earth, He also
needed a soul. That’s why He had to be born like other people in order to walk
on earth.
Unfortunately, Satan was not able
to be born on earth. If he had been born on earth, he would have dominion on
earth. That’s why when you say, “Leave!” he has to leave because on earth you
have the authority.
That’s why Jesus tells us to pray,
“Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” (Matthew
6:10) For heaven to work on earth, man, with a soul, has to accept the kingdom.
Nevertheless, God still wants man
to connect with Him. God also intends for man to keep going to Him and coming
down back to earth. But the soul could not go because the soul has to remain in
control and rule on the earth.
The physical body could not have
access to heaven so He gave man a spiritual body that accesses the spirit realm
as the soul accesses the natural realm. The body manifests what the soul
produces.
The spirit is intended to keep
going in the spirit and communes with God and releases what it sees in the
spiritual into the soul of man. The soul then interprets it and translates it
into the physical.
Satan is a spirit. Whatever he does
is in the spirit and then he looks for a soul to deposit that wickedness in the
heavenly places. The soul then becomes an agent of evil.
God works in the spirit. He looks
for a man who is ready to commune with Him in order for the spirit to transfer.
Life transfers from God to man
through the spirit of the man. The spirit of the man communes with the
spiritual and picks up spiritual substance (eg. faith, wisdom, joy, peace,
righteousness) and transfers it to the heart of man which then transforms it
and sends it to the soul of man. The soul of man then translates it (eg.
healing, wealth, marriage) and sends it to the mind of man. The mind of man
interprets it and gives it words and actions. Whatever that comes in the spirit
is in the form of substance, the heart transfers it into the soul, the soul
gives it a body that receives it in the mind, the mind is then able to give it
a word or an action.
The body has many systems but three
important systems (the nervous system, the lymphatic system and the endocrine
system) connect with the soul and the spirit.
How do you know when something
happens in the spirit? Your nerves will tell you. Sometimes you do not know
what’s happening but the moment you become overwhelmed, tears begin to flow.
Your endocrine glands begin to produce positive amino acids and positively
charged amino acids called positive peptides start to locate where the faith is
being directed to. Positive peptides begin to charge the lymphatic system that
functions to transport energy throughout the body.
In the occult, there is this term
called the solar plexus of the body. It is not an occultic term, it is
scientific.
In the body, we have the cardiac
plexuses where a cluster of nerves connect to the heart.
What you find as organs and systems
in the body are the same spiritual systems that you find in the human spirit.
When you know how they work and how
they connect, you are able to heal your body and to heal other bodies because
you know where to direct the energy or the power to.
Your body reacts to what is
happening in your spirit.
For example, people with
psychosomatic disorders, a disease without pathological diagnosis that is not
caused by an agent like bacteria or viruses or even by the fault of an organ.
The sickness cannot be explained. All physical sicknesses that start like that,
i.e. without an explanation, means that it comes from another realm. In other
words, your spirit is drawing bad information and is sending that information
to the soul and the soul is affecting your organ negatively. It is affecting
your reasoning, your memory, your emotion, and even your imagination.
With such an affected system, you
cannot war.
In spiritual warfare, you need the
right mood and be charged with the right emotion to have the fighting spirit. A
crushed spirit dries up the bone but a cheerful heart is good medicine.
(Proverbs 17:22) A man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who
can bear? (Proverbs 18:14)
The kingdom of God is described
with emotions. The kingdom of God is joy, peace and righteousness in the Holy
Spirit. (Romans 14:17)
If you are drawing power or life
from the spiritual kingdom of darkness, it will bring darkness. If you are
drawing it from the kingdom of light, it will bring light.
You can measure the amount of light
but there is no way to measure darkness. Darkness means lack of energy or
power. That means there is no life.
If your spirit accesses a realm
where there is no energy, where there is a void or a vacuum, you will say that
you are feeling empty.
Jesus says He comes into the world
as light, so that whoever believes in Him may not remain in darkness. (John
12:46)
If power comes from the spirit and
it finds the generator sick, what happens then? Power is not transformed into
the way that it should be used. So it is wasted energy.
For example, you receive the
miracle. But when it comes to your heart, there is no circuit. You get the dreams
and visions and God speaks and in the spirit you have the spiritual anointing,
but the heart is unable to transform it because it is faulty.
Have you ever tried to charge a
battery and it is not charging? The problem is not with the charger. The problem
is with the battery.
Stop telling God that He is the
problem. God says He sends power but when it reaches the battery, the battery
does not convert it.
One day God looks at the battery
and says, “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will take
the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.” (Ezekiel
36:26)
As the battery has walls, the heart
has walls too. If one of the battery’s walls is damaged and broken, the whole
thing is faulty. Do you have a faulty heart? When the heart is faulty, the
spiritual body is not connecting with the soul. The spiritual body picks power
from the spirit and wants to transfer power to the soul but the power cannot be
converted.
In conclusion, for your spirit body
to help you in your pursuit of your destiny, you need to change the state of
your heart. The condition of your heart may be damaging your spirit. That’s why
your spirit is not able to function as it should.
For us, the body is willing but the
spirit is unwilling.
But for Jesus, the spirit is
willing but the body is just weak. (Matthew 26:41)
O Lord, resurrect and reconnect my
systems—my spirit, my soul, my body. I pray for healing and reconnection. Check
my heart and all parts of my heart. Lord, I give you my heart for the healing
of my soul and the deliverance of my spirit that I may stand as a complete man.
Come Lord Jesus with the power of resurrection to resurrect my systems. All my
systems—every system of my spirit, my communion, my conscience, my
emotions—reject witchcraft, sorcery, disease, fear, pain, poverty and shame,
and refuse every spiritual substance of darkness. I command them to leave in
the name of Jesus. Today I am rising in my spiritual man in power, in strength,
in understanding, in wisdom, in knowledge and in the fear of God. I have power,
joy and peace in me. In the name of Jesus, rekindle every lump in my spirit to
give life and light as power to heal my heart, soul and body. I rejoice in the
Lord for my healing, deliverance and I rise in victory. I pick, receive and
hear victory in my spirit. O Lord, let me convert faith into victory, love,
power. O Lord, let me convert from just faith into boldness and confidence.
Thank you, Jesus. We give you glory. Rise within me, life and all spirits of
God. Rise within me, the kingdom of God. Rise within me, the joy of the Lord. I
will rejoice with the Lord all the days of my life. I will not die but will
live and proclaim the goodness of the Lord to the next generation. I rejoice in
the goodness of the Lord. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the
days of my life. Thank you, Jesus. Amen.
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