Greetings. Luke 21:19 In your patience possess ye your souls. Strange verse, as all scriptures are in the Bible and to even begin to Spiritually understand any of them, one must realize we are all born with a carnal fleshly mind. John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Patience: The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble or suffering without getting angry or dross. This being born again of the Spirit is a very painful process. It's painful because we love what we think about the character of God and we see Him as man. As always, we ask the Holy Ghost to reveal God’s word to us. In patience, I must be taught how to possess my soul; the soul is the only thing God can take back to Heaven with him. Psalms 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Now King David wrote the above verse while he was alive on this physical earth. Furthermore, he wrote: Psalm 86:13For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. Now in this letter we are dealing with the soul and the Spirit. What is the Spirit? Now I must have read this next verse hundreds of times and never SPIRITUALLY saw it. John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. God’s words are Spirit, but they need a body to dwell in. 2 Corinthians 4:10Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. Manifest: Clear or obvious to the eye or mind. John 17:6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.When God is manifesting his words unto us, this grieves us because we realize our fleshly interpretation of his word had profited nothing. My carnal image of Christ in my mind is being put to death, I am starting to lose my mind! Psalm 31:12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. Ever go into a department store and noticed those mannequins, the ones without a head? The body is dead without the Spiritual head Jesus. Colossians 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.Matthew 8:20 And Jesus saith unto him, the foxes have holes, and the birds of the air haves nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. Jesus needs some where to lay His head and we make up the spiritual body needed. John 15:7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Noticed the word if, in the above verse. Everything in this physical world concerning man’s thinking about the Bible abides in death and darkness. 1 John 5:19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. All our worldly wisdom about the Bible is death. John 15:7 Ye ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. This is not suggesting you ask for that expensive new car and you will struggle for the next four years to pay for it. Ask for the Spirit that’s hidden in His word, it comes with a celestial body! 1 Corinthians 11:15 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is a another. I ask God to show me His will or His reveal word to obtain the celestial. I must learn to hate our terrestrial earthly thoughts we put on it. Proverbs 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.Want to get rid of sickness? Find God’s reveal word and not men vain thoughts about them; because if He is the head of our bodies than we are the Spiritually Church. THERE IS NOT SICKNESS IN THE TRUE CHURCH! Proverbs 4:22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Luke 21:19 In your patience possess ye your souls. We live in a physical world were the patience of people are driven to have no patience with you or anything else. A soul is nothing physical it is merely a Spiritual understanding of God's word. A person comes to Church at 11:00 and by 12: 30 pm they have already prayed the sinner’s prayer and was baptized. Now you have spoken in tongues and by 12:45 and are saved. Better hurry the football game starts in 15 minutes. All the above is hour half is a show in the flesh to deceive by. Job 33:18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. What’s a pit in the above verse? Will Spiritually fast on: Part 2 of the letter. 2/26/2018 amended 5/21/ 2021 Michael Rudolph Hodges
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