Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

Total recovery is essential

After the flesh has been removed, each soldier must assume the recovery position and wait to be healed. The healing process can be a slow one. This is where a lot of soldiers lose the plot.  It is impossible to go out fighting when you are wounded and your wound has not been fully healed. Once the process starts it must be completed before the soldier returns to active duty.

Walking and operating in the ‘flesh’, is the position where we are making decisions and taking actions according to how we feel and not according to what our commanding officer is saying. The ‘flesh’ can be seen as us operating out of our ‘soulish’ persona. It is here where we are led not by the Spirit of God but by our feelings and our emotions. Our feelings and emotions are very ‘reactive’ where as our spirit is ‘proactive’. So we behave like the thermostat in our living rooms, as the temperature drops we increase the heat output and as it falls we decrease it.  On the other hand, when we are led by the Spirit of God the fluctuations in our feelings are levelled out by the fact that we know that outcome will be the best one for our situations. Since God wants the best for us, he will lead us to the place where we can prosper in all things.

Take for example, the soldiers in the camp at Gilgal. Once they were healed, trained and restored they were ready for hand to hand combat.  However, being led by the Spirit means that our warfare is not physical but is a war that is already won in the ‘spiritual realm’. So after the healing process they were called to praise and worship God, by celebrating the Passover which engages the heavenly hosts into their battle. We know the outcome from the battle that never was at Jericho! 

For this season God wants us to be delivered from our flesh, healed in our spirit and restored to our rightful positions as true worshippers!

Read Joshua 5:10-15 and Ephesians 1:1-23.