How to Be Led by the Holy Spirit Into Healing and Victory

In many of my messages, I’ve taught that we must fill our hearts with God’s Word and then act like it is true in our lives. However, for many people, sickness and disease seem to linger for far longer than it should. What do we do in a case like this? We must seek the Lord and listen for His direction regarding our individual situation.

This is why it is critical that we learn how to be led by the Holy Spirit.

If you are a born again Christian, you have a tremendous weapon at your disposal. You have a Helper living in you – One who leads and guides you and shows you things to come.

He is the great and mighty Holy Spirit, and His job is to lead us into a victorious life that glorifies God. He will especially lead us into healing and health!

A very important foundational truth to understand is that man is a three-fold being.

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness”…

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.  Gen 1:26-27 NKJV

Because we have been made in the image and likeness of God, we are a spirit being. Jesus said in John 4:24 that God is a Spirit. God is not a mind and He is not a body.

When God deals with us or heals us, it is always through our spirit. Too many people look to their bodies to see if they are healed. That is looking in the wrong place. We need to look to our spirits.

Paul said this about man:

…may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 NKJV

Let’s look at this three-fold nature of man.

1.     We are a spirit –this is the real man, the inward man, who lives eternally.

Peter calls the spirit “the hidden man”.

But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. 1 Peter 3:4 KJV

In many places when the Bible speaks of the heart, it is speaking of the spirit. It is the spirit of man that is born again, not the mind or body.

2 Corinthians 5:17 tells us:

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

We know that old things passing away could not be referring to the body because we look the same right after we’re saved as we did before. And it could not be referring to the mind, because we still have the same old way of thinking until we renew our minds.

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This is talking about the spirit of man. The spirit of a born again man is where the Holy Spirit abides. This is where all direction from God comes from. It is important that we look to the inward man for direction and revelation, not the mind or the body.

This is how so many believers miss it. They are looking to their emotions or thoughts to gain direction. However, your emotions and unrenewed mind will mislead you every time.

            2. We have a soul – this is the mind, will and emotions.

The spirit and the soul are NOT the same. Many Bible scholars have not seen this truth, and thought that they were one and the same. The soul and the spirit are so closely joined together that it can be difficult to discern the difference.

Hebrews 4:12 says:

For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit,

This verse reveals that the spirit and soul are separate aspects of man. It also shows us that only God’s Word can divide what is of the soul and what is of the spirit. Many times we can think we are hearing from God, but after extended time reading the Word of God and praying, it becomes clear what was God and what was our emotions or our own thoughts.

3.     We live in a body – this is the house where our soul and spirit dwell and gives us access to the natural realm.

Again, I want to emphasize that when God leads us, He leads through our spirit.

The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord,

Searching all the inner depths of his heart.  Proverbs 20:27 NKJV

Every child of God can expect to be led by the Spirit of God. This is really just an introduction into a very important subject. The truths that I’ve shared today, as well as what I will be sharing in upcoming weeks are so important for us to understand if we want to live in health and victory. So you won’t want to miss any of these future blogs.

I highly encourage you to get a copy of my new daily devotional, Healing Nuggets: 31 Days of God's Word for Health, Wholeness, and Peace, to help you meditate day and night. I believe it will be a blessing to your life.

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