{"id":16094,"date":"2017-05-04T06:14:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T10:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/?p=16094"},"modified":"2021-10-13T13:30:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T17:30:50","slug":"living-from-the-inside-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/living-from-the-inside-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Living from the Inside Out"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our true beauty comes from what is within us.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For most of my Christian life I had it all wrong.\u00a0 I lived as though God was \u201cup there\u201d somewhere and that He and I were separated by an invisible gulf and I had to work hard to reach Him.\u00a0 Though I knew in my mind that God was in me, there was conflict between my mind and heart with that reality.\u00a0 Most Christians live in this conflict.<\/p>\n

We were trained all our lives to live in our flesh.\u00a0 What is the flesh?\u00a0 Many think it\u2019s something evil like fornication, adultery, idolatry, etc.\u2026\u00a0 These are some of the works of the flesh, but they are not the flesh itself (Galatians 5:19-21).\u00a0 The flesh is living according to our five senses.\u00a0 It\u2019s living a life dependent on what we see, hear, feel, smell, and taste.\u00a0 These five senses are related to our body and they do whatever it takes to satisfy the desires of our body.\u00a0 Everything in society caters to our flesh.\u00a0 All advertising feeds the flesh and makes it more and more powerful and demanding.<\/p>\n

Most Christian churches do not talk about the flesh.\u00a0 Frankly, I don\u2019t think most Pastors understand what the flesh really is and they are unconsciously cheating the body of Christ from being freed from its power.\u00a0 When a person is born again they are not taught about the flesh and the need to crucify the flesh in order to live from a new source, our human spirit (Galatians 5:24; Romans 8:1-10).<\/p>\n

Jesus, the man, was a perfect example of what we are to become.\u00a0 He was born of the Spirit and lived according to His spirit that mingled with God who is Spirit (Matthew 1:20).\u00a0 He lived according to what He saw and heard from the Father who was within Him (John 5:19,30; 8:26, 28-29, 38).\u00a0 This is why Jesus was able to operate in the supernatural.\u00a0 As a man, Jesus was living from the inside out.\u00a0 If we would do what Jesus did, we would have the results of Jesus.\u00a0 He was in constant contact with His Father through the Holy Spirit who was within Him, just as He is with us.<\/p>\n

We have everything Jesus had.\u00a0 We have His life, power, and authority because He and the Father live in us!\u00a0 We can tap into the supernatural by focusing on the One within and disciplining the flesh without, just as Jesus did.\u00a0 How did Jesus discipline his flesh?\u00a0 First, He was baptized to fulfill all righteousness.\u00a0 Secondly, He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness and fasted for 40 days.\u00a0 Fasting is a way to discipline our flesh.\u00a0 The flesh screams for food to satisfy the body, but the Spirit puts His foot down, so to speak, to say \u201cNo!\u00a0 You are not having your way!\u00a0 I rule, not you, old man!\u201d\u00a0 Fasting awakens our sensitivity to the Spirit within our spirit and dulls the senses within our flesh.\u00a0 Jesus prayed several times all night.\u00a0 Prayer is also a flesh tamer.\u00a0 Prayer promotes dependence on God and crucifies our fleshly longings.\u00a0 Finally, he was constantly on the move to the point of exhaustion.\u00a0 The flesh is all about comfort and Jesus gave it none.<\/p>\n

Paul was the same as Jesus.\u00a0 He labored according to God\u2019s grace and not according to the power of his flesh.\u00a0 Paul disciplined his body to bring it into strict control (1 Corinthians 9:27).\u00a0 No way was he going to let his body (flesh) take the lead.\u00a0 He was determined to live from the inside out.\u00a0 Paul promoted such a living at the end of his letters, \u201cThe grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.\u201d (Galatians 6:18)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time that the body of Christ is awakened and curtail the demands of our flesh and begin to live, move, and have our being from our spirit.\u00a0 We need to live from the inside out before the supernatural can be manifested in and through us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we were born-again, God the Spirit came into our spirit to set up a throne from which we are to rule. Our spirit is now the source from where we are to live. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,202],"tags":[476,473,472,470,478,474,469,468,477,475,427,471],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}