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"HOW TO CARE FOR YOUR SPIRITUAL HEALTH"
CRYSTAL WADE, HICO, TX
The Holy Spirit prompted me to share practical tips on how to care for the whole person: spirit, soul, and body. Without proper care of ourselves (which is based on receiving from o...
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"HOW TO CARE FOR YOUR SPIRITUAL HEALTH"
CRYSTAL WADE, HICO, TX
The Holy Spirit prompted me to share practical tips on how to care for the whole person: spirit, soul, and body. Without proper care of ourselves (which is based on receiving from our heavenly Father), then we have absolutely nothing to give to our family or others, and we have little strength to stand.
Our heavenly Father created us in His image—spirit, soul, and body—as a three-part being. He redeemed us in Christ Jesus our Lord also as a three-part being. It has been my experience and observation that we humans often attempt to meet needs or address matters from a physical stance first. Whether or not we realize it, we are spirit beings first. Jesus told us to "seek first the Kingdom and His righteousness" (Matthew 6:33).
For our own needs it works best (as per our Father's design) to meet our spiritual needs first. Our spirits need connection; our spirits need cleansing; our spirits need nutrition; our spirits need exercise; our spirits need rest.
SPIRITUAL CONNECTION
For connection, a starting place is to give thanks to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit upon waking and falling asleep. Find at least three things and thank Him for them, morning and evening. New or different thanks can be added!
Thanksgiving and prayer are connection times with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Pausing throughout the day, where you stop to "just be" in the Lord's presence, meditating or conversing, are connection times. There is a huge flow of life (which translates to spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical energy) that comes from simply stopping and being intentional about connecting first with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. No amount of vitamins, supplements, or caffeine can produce this life flow (which is spiritual energy).
SPIRITUAL CLEANSING
We have spiritual dirtiness from living in a spiritually dirty world and we need cleansing. Every single one of our spiritual needs were met at the Lord's Supper. Personal communion with the bread (His body) and wine (His blood), with reflection, prepares our hearts for the union we are invited into with Christ Jesus our Lord. Reflecting on and saying that you are taking "off the old self" (sin nature in the first Adam), which is corrupt, and putting on the "new self" (new creation in the last Adam) is part of the cleansing.
SPIRITUAL NUTRITION
For spiritual nutrition, listen to Scripture in some consistent way. Listening overnight is an easy and powerfully effective way to provide nutrition to your spirit. Listening to Scripture as you're working or exercising is another way. Reading and reflecting on (journaling) Scripture gets nutrition into your spirit, also, listening to spirit-led blessings.
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
For exercise, there is strength training. In this exercise, you minister to other people. It may be listening to them, praying for them, taking advantage of the moment to speak life to them; taking the time to pray consistently for a person, place, generation, nation, etc. Fasting is a spiritual exercise as well.
There is also "cardio" exercise. That's when you exercise upward instead of outward. Thanksgiving, praise, and worship are cardio exercises of the spirit to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. From this place of being in His presence, connected with Him, and nourished, He gives specific assignments.
SPIRITUAL REST
The world is a tumultuous state. Our lives are full; our families are in various states of need. (That's not to mention social media and entertainment which bombards us with too much information.) To say the least, we are overprocessed. It is not healthy.
In Christ is everything we need. He has already provided it. However, we have to come and receive. Even though you may not feel like you can benevolently detach from the pressing needs of the world, the cosmos, the nations, the people, and your family. If you do not, there may not be much left of you.
Shabbat shows us that our Father will take care of the world, and us, and that we can trust and rest. In the Old Testament, He said that "even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest" (Exodus 34:21 NIV). In the New Testament, Jesus made it clear that it wasn't about rules and regulations, but that the Shabbat was made for man (Mark 2:27). It is because our Father is good and kind to us that He made Shabbat—a regular time of rest and refreshment per week for His people. However, we need rest stops daily.
Some people get rest from motion, others get rest from stillness; all rest is found in Christ. Find out what works for you and do it. Be observant of yourself when your nerves are thin, or you are about to explode from overprocessing and working; stop at the earliest time. Your spirit needs rest. This is a need, not a want.
It is essential to take times of rest, and to move in a place of peace and rest. It is in that place that we hear from the Lord. Hearing from Him in these days is really a matter of life or death.
Intercessors and empaths (people who "feel" and/or discern the states of others) need to experience rest by releasing the burdens they are carrying, in whatever place of their being they carrying them, to the Lord. Here is a helpful prayer: "Lord, I release all these burdens to Your care, and where I cannot let go of them, I ask Your Holy Spirit to gently remove them from me. I place them in Your hands, in Jesus Christ's name, amen. Please replenish me."
It is essential to meet the needs of your spirit.
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