Apostle Tracey Robinson
Distinguishing (differentiate, discern, and perceive the differences) between the soul, spirit, and body.
• The soul and spirit are alike in their nature and in their activities.
• The spirit Man is recognized as the life principle bestowed on man by God. God breathed into the nostrils of Man to give life.
• The soul as the resulting life constituted from God’s breath made us an individual soul.
• The body is a material organism that is animated by the soul and spirit. (Genesis 2:7).
• The body is the physical structure of the soul and spirit Man, including the bones, flesh, and organs.
• The flesh has the nature of Satan, the devil because of the rebellion of Adam and Eve toward God and His command (Genesis 2:16-17), which made us all born in sin with the sinful nature of the flesh.
• When Man was originally created, he was created in the image, which is the nature of God after their likeness, meaning we function just like God; and was given dominion. (Genesis 1:26-27).
• Man is a spirit being. Man is not a gender; man is a spirit. Spirits have no gender! We are a spirit living in a dirt suit.
Who is the enemy of the soul of Man? What is it that hinders your soul from fully awakening and staying woken in your spirituality? What is it that hinders your soul from being fully reconciled back to God? What is that thing? Who is that person? Where is that place?
• Satan is the enemy of the soul of Man, your soul. Satan is the enemy of God.
• Satan is not everywhere at the same time and does not know everything as God. He is not all-wise and all-knowing as God is.
• God is omniscient (knows all things and everything); God is omnipotent (all power); God is omnipresent (everywhere at the same time). The prefix “omni” means all.
• For those of us who are in a personal relationship with God, there is nothing hidden from Him about us so we can be always completely open and honest with Him. This makes it so easy for the scripture to be applied and accepted as in 1 Peter 5:7 casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.
• Satan uses every tactic, wiles, and devices that are known and common to the physical man’s state without God, along with his past to keep him in bondage and captivity to what man has purposely learned, know, and do so that he will remain in the flesh depending on his 5-senses in the knowledge of good and evil.
• Satan oversees and delegates his power and authority to the fallen angels (demons) while he influences the governments of countries and their leadership; active religious leaders; and well-known influential people like TV evangelist, preachers, teachers, and prophets that we so dearly love and follow faithfully.
• Satan himself deals with the principalities, powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world, and their spiritual wickedness in high places to trap, deceive, and influence the whole being of mankind. Everything else is his “light work” and that is given to the demons to take care of.
• Man without the influence of God is Satan’s light work.
• Man being transformed by the power of God in and over his whole life is a threat to Satan and his kingdom of darkness in the earth, especially when man accepts and applies God’s way in the knowledge of good and truth. You have now become a threat to the devil and all he does.
• Spiritual warfare is awarded to those that have been spiritually trained by the Spirit of God through and in His instructions, guidance, and His total influence; trained as a host or an army that can come to together spiritually to be used by the Spirit of God in the earth to warfare in spiritual conflicts by praying that the Will of God be done on earth so as it is in Heaven against the enemy’s power of influence, temptations, deceptions, trickery, false accusations, etc., through the flesh’s nature against the soul of Man.
• All power has been given to Jesus in Heaven and in earth, St Matthew 28:18.
What is it that hinders your soul to keep it from fully awakening to return to the Father through His Son Jesus? What is your hinderance? Who is your hindrance?
• Job is a perfect example of a spiritual conflict that manifested in physical form. The Word teaches us and gives us a clear look and understanding of what happened to Job concerning his life in the spirit realm.
• Spiritual struggles consist of having spiritual conflicts between God, within oneself, and with others. This is all in relations to accepting God and His Will as your Father (Divine), becoming a Son (internal), and learning how to be with others and deal with others spiritually (interpersonal relations).
• God looked upon Job as being a righteous man. God said that Job was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil, (Job 1:1). Eschewed here means that Job deliberately avoided using evil; he abstained from evil.
• Satan wanted to prove to God that Job would only serve him for stuff, his possessions, and wealth. Satan is an accuser of the brother day and night.
Revelation 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before God day and night.
• So, God permitted Satan to prove Him wrong about Job. Job’s spiritual conflict began. All that Job had was destroyed, his health and friends turned against him.
• A long story short Job became the victor because of his faithfulness to God in word, deed, action, and thoughts throughout his whole test, trial, and tribulation.
• Job’s victory was spiritual, physical, and materialistic. God returned to him all that he had lost.
• Through the knowledge of good and truth salvation makes believers aware of the world, the flesh, and the devils influence and how they are an enemy to God’s Will and Way.
• Spiritual growth in Christ guides, leads, instruct, aid, and assist the new creature in you as a believer on how to operate in the world, mortify to crucify your flesh, and to submit your whole self to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you.
• For some believers their spiritual conflicts and spiritual warfare are fought within themselves by understanding the circumstances and situations that the enemy uses to destroy their Will and desire to turn to Jesus, but whole-heartedly they won’t surrender all to Jesus to allow Him to possess and control the enemy’s tactics against your soul.
• For some believers they can accept some truth, but not the whole truth of how the world, their flesh, and the devil lures them and tempts them to entrap them which will cause their soul not to hear or no longer hear the Word nor apply the Word to their heart.
• We make it hard for the Word, not that the Word cannot do it, but we make it hard for the Word to fight for our soul when we won’t truthfully grasp the spiritual reality of what is going on in our own hearts and mind. This makes the believer exhausted and weary in doing what they believe is of Christ when they won’t allow the Word to work in its spirituality for their soul.
• So, we suffer in our flesh by trying to deny the pleasures of it and not feed its desires. This makes us constantly in battle between what we want to do versus what we know to do as a new creature in Christ. This is that form of godliness that denies the power of God!
• Salvation has come through Jesus Christ to give us the power to overcome our sins and its grasps and captivity over our soul.
• When we accept Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior the spiritual battle over your soul gets intense. Satan will try to attack you from every angle of your past that is not dead, hoping to persuade you from giving your whole heart to the Lord Jesus by causing you to doubt and have unbelief.
• Satan will use the “weakest link” and the “closest ones” to you in circumstances, people, stuff, money, marriage, relationships, etc., to undo what God has done in your heart for Himself and to cause you to doubt God and His Will for you knowing that it takes faith to please God.
Soul Ties
• Soul tie is a strong spiritual and emotional connection you have with someone you are intimate with, especially sexual intimacy.
• You can develop deep soul ties with people in your life and it doesn’t always have to be engaged in through sexual intimacy.
• Soul ties can be ungodly and unhealthy.
• A parent can have a soul tied to their child or children whereas their life is bound to the life of that child or children.
Genesis 44:30-31 KJV Amplified 30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad’s life and his soul knit with the lad’s soul, 31 When he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die; and your servants will be responsible for his death and will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
• This is Jacob and Benjamin. A parent with a soul tie to his son.
• Jacob’s life was bound up with his son’s life. This is far more than a healthy relations or affection for a child.
• It’s an obsession that is ungodly and unhealthy.
• Jacob was bound by the life (soul) of his son Benjamin.
• When your child does something like disrespects you or something that you don’t like or they won’t do what you want them to do you as the parent you feel like you are going to die because of their actions and reactions of coming against you. This is a soul tie!
• As parents we are not the soul source for our children.
• A soul tie will bind you to your child or children or to whoever you have been sexually intimate with to the point that you will die, you don’t have a sense of purpose without them, you don’t know how to make it through the moment of a day without them.
• Your child or children with your affections and excuses toward them has become your bondage.
• An unhealthy soul tie when you have a close connection to your best friend.
1 Samuel 18:1 When David had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own life.
• Here the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David.
• The word knit here means to merge or combine with the soul, not with the spirit or body, but his soul’s Will, emotions, and mind. This is also a spirit of control!
• Jonathan loved David as his own soul.
• This can be a unhealthy soul tie between best friend’s souls.
• People make vows and commitments to each other in the place of making a vow and commitment to God through His Son Jesus.
Exodus 20:3 Thou shall have no other gods before or besides Me.
• Jonathan died and David grieved.
• A soul tie that causes you to lose your joy, peace, and life is unhealthy with anyone.
• Anytime a soul tie comes out of a place that you don’t have with God it means that you are trying to replace God in your life with other persons. This becomes a spirit of idolatry!
• Believers that have soul ties have no soul connection to God through Jesus.
• Examine your heart.
• Is it connected, knitted, united, or cleaving to the presence of God or others to replace the presence of God?
• Is this soul tie bringing you closer to God? Or closer to the person that you are emotionally and spiritually attached to?
• When people use you to become all they need in the earth that’s a soul tie.
• An unhealthy or ungodly soul tie will pull you away from God, His love, and His Will for you.
• A soul tie is a relational attachment to someone or something that affects the immaterial part of you, which is your soul.
• Soul is the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal.
• Immaterial means spiritual, rather than physical.
• At the end of the day, who do you ascribe to?
• Unhealthy soul ties can start out by making you feel supported, loved, and connected, but the hidden agenda is the spirit of control that is lurking with the motive of a healthy soul ties.
Symptoms of negative soul ties
• Feeling trapped in a relationship.
• Feeling like you can’t live without the other person.
• Feeling codependent on the other person.
• Feeling controlled by the other person.
• Making excuses for the other person’s bad behavior.
• Always putting the other person’s needs first.
• Keeping you from having a healthy relationship with other people.
• A hindrance to your spiritual growth that prevents you from having a close relationship with God.
How to break a soul tie?
• Recognize that you have a soul tie by examining your current and past relations and acknowledge it.
• Pray. Pray asking the Father for help to renounce this bond from you and the other person. Leave it on the altar and allow God to take it. Give thanks to the Lord for hearing you and healing you.
• Fast. Fast for strength and direction as you surrender and renounce this emotional and spiritual bondage.
• Study the Word. Ask the Spirit of God to give you His Word to study that will keep you in His patience while you wait on Him.
• Wean yourself by detaching from the person; spend less time with the person that you have the negative soul tie to.
• Renounce commitments or vows made that only include you and that person only.
• Forgive the person and forgive yourself. When we forgive someone this releases the grips of their pain from you and your pain also that brought you together.
• Breaking soul ties is not something that you can do alone on your own, so seek the Lord God. Allow Him to fill the void that you allowed this other person to fill.
• The soul is the part of us that longs for connection and intimacy.
• When we experience soul ties, it is sometimes because we have been hurt or disappointed by someone that is/was close to us.
• The pain from these hurts (wounds) can cause us to build up walls of hardness in our hearts, which will prevent us from fully experiencing the love and intimacy that our soul longs for from our Father God.
• People will use one another to fill a void that is reserved for the Spirit of God to avoid submitting, committing, and surrendering their all to Christ.
• And if they don’t want to grow in Christ you can rest assure that you’re not going to grow either because of an attachment called a soul tie.
Amen
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Personal Touch Int Ministries Inc 