The Holy Spirit: Your Guide Into Healing and Victory

Even before the foundation of the world, God’s plan was for us to live the best life! It was His will and He made all the arrangements! What is the best life? One that includes health, peace, and financial provision.

However, many believers don’t know this basic truth about the good life God desires for His people. And for those of us who do know these truths, we still sometimes don’t walk in them as we should. If you are serious about living a life that includes all God has for you, read on.

One of the first truths to understand is that God is not withholding any good thing from us. On the contrary, He helps us receive those good things. His help shows how much He wants us to receive His goodness!

How does He help us receive? By giving us His Holy Spirit. His Spirit lives in born again believers and guides us into all that God has provided for us. The help that we need to receive—our Helper—is always with us!

However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. John 16:13 NKJV

Sometimes we face situations that stubbornly linger. What are we to do then? It’s simple. We just learn to be led by the Holy Spirit, because He always guides us into victory if we will listen and follow His promptings. Even if a situation lingers, our help from the Holy Spirit doesn’t stop. We simply keep following Him, and the situation will ultimately change.

Sometimes a situation looks complicated. But again, all we need is the Holy Spirit’s simple instructions. For example, following a simple instruction from Him aids us in receiving healing even if it looks like a complicated situation.

Now, although the Holy Spirit lives in us, we still must learn to be led by Him if we are to benefit from the Greater One’s help. I encourage you to read last week’s blog if you haven’t already, because in it I laid a foundation for how to be led by the Holy Spirit.

Here is a quick recap:

God is a spirit. He is not a mind or a body. Therefore, anything we receive from Him, we receive first in our spirits. For example, healing is always received first in your spirit, and then it permeates your body. This is why we shouldn’t ever check our bodies to determine if we are healed. We check our spirits, because God leads us through our spirits.

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

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

I believe one of the reasons many Christians aren’t led by the Spirit is that they are more conscious of their souls and bodies than they are of their spirit man. Being too body conscious means our spirits aren’t receiving as well as they could. We’re thinking about our bodies instead of the Word of God. It’s His Word alone that strengthens our spirits—the place where we receive! We can’t focus on the disease in our body or on the doctor’s report and simultaneously focus on God’s Word. One focus will hinder us from receiving healing, the other helps us receive it!

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Another hindrance to receiving is by letting the mental realm dominate. We become more mental conscious when we live out of the mental realm. Those who are more intellectual especially tend to lean on their understanding instead of on God’s Word. Their minds dominate their spirits. God said clearly that we shouldn’t lean on our understanding.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart,

And lean not on your own understanding;

In all your ways acknowledge Him,

And He shall direct your paths. Prov 3:5-6 NKJV

As we have seen, man is a spirit being. That’s why we need to be more spirit conscious. The more spirit conscious we are the more real God’s truths become to us. Here’s something that helps us understand this:

·      With my body, I contact the physical realm.

·      With my soul, I contact the emotional and intellectual realm.

·      With my spirit, I contact the spirit realm.

Let’s look further at the difference between our soul and our spirit man.

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, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Heb 4:12 NKJV

If our spirit and soul can be divided, they cannot be one and the same. It’s also important to note that only the Word of God can divide what is of our soul and what is of our spirit.

The reason why many believers make poor decisions is because they are basing those decisions on the reasoning of the soul and mind, instead of on the subtle guidance of the Holy Spirit in them. To receive guidance that leads us into victory—including healing—we must be sensitive to what the Spirit is saying to us or directing us to do.  

How do we become more spirit conscious? It’s simple: put spiritual things first! We do this by spending much time meditating on the Word of God and praying in the Spirit. When I need an answer, I have found that spending extra time in the Word and prayer helps me to become more spirit conscious and therefore to receive my answer in my spirit.

I want to look a little here at the value of speaking in other tongues. Paul said something that brings clarity to this subject:

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. 1 Cor 14:14 NKJV

When you pray in tongues, it comes from your spirit. The Holy Spirit resides in your spirit and gives your spirit the utterance, and then you speak it out. This is why the understanding is unfruitful. The mind doesn’t receive anything from praying in tongues. But your spirit receives! When you pray in tongues your spirit bypasses your mind.

Any leading you receive from God will always come through your spirit. The more active your spirit is, the more you will pick up what the Holy Spirit is saying to you. So, the more time you give to praying in other tongues, the more direction you receive from the Holy Spirit. You will sense something rising up from down in your spirit. You will begin to know what you should do—not because your mind figured it out, but because your spirit is enlightening you!

It’s impossible to receive all God has for you without the Helper that He provided. And the more conscious you are of that Helper in you the more help you can have. Have you received the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues? If not, I encourage you to visit our website and click on “resources.” There you’ll find clear instructions for receiving this Divine gift that will help you enjoy all God planned for your life!

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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