Spirit vs. Mind

Day 87
If you communicate to people with your spirit, it will penetrate to their spirits. this is how the anointing works; it is released only spirit to spirit. Communication coming out of the mind may have been taught by the Spirit, but coming from the mind, it will not penetrate to another's spirit. However, a person whose spirit is open and actively seeking Me will be able to receive spiritual instruction from my Spirit no matter who the communication is coming through.

It's a very good thing for human minds to be taught and renewed by my Spirit -- I have commanded you to do this. But that is only one part of learning to be my disciple. The deeper part is learning to operate in the Spirit. Your spirit needs to be fed daily and filled with my Spirit. To the extent that you are full of my Spirit, you will be Spirit-led, versus mind-led.

When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power. We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" -- but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words [2 Corinthians 2:1-13].

Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ [Ephesians 5:18-20].

But I say, walk and live [habitually] in the [Holy] Spirit [responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit]; then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature without God) [Galatians 5:16 (AMP].