the jesus slay queens
episode 44
"you think your flesh is just your body. it's far beyond a body. it's a living thing. but more importantly it carries a nature. it's the nature of beasts.
when god created man, the natural order was spirit, soul and body. that was how it was in the beginning. so the spirit was the one controlling the soul, while the body was the slave. obeying every single command that came from the spirit who was the man in charge.
but when man fell into sin, the natural order was altered. it became body soul and spirit. that's why god told man that the day you eat of this forbidden fruit you shall die. many people thought that death he was referring to was something physical. god was speaking mystery.
when man ate that forbidden fruit, something terrible happened. the body of man was nothing but a piece of sand formed together and when gid breathed in the breath of life into the man, something dramatic happened.
the spirit of man was created. so man. please understand what i'm saying. when you're in the dream, that person you see that looks exactly like you, is your spirit. so the spirit was also created and placed inside the house which is the body. that was what gave life to the body.
i don't want to go into the soul so as not to get you confused. but the soul is not a third body. it is only the consciousness that connects the spirit to the body. the soul is made up of 3 layers. the mind, the will and the emotions. that's what the soul is. so don't think you have three bodies. i don't want to go into that. it's a topic on its own.
i want to talk about what happened to the spirit of man the day he ate the forbidden fruit.
now immediately man ate the forbidden fruit. a transfer was done in the spirit realm. life left the spirit of man. and satan was handed the authority to dominate the earth. he became the god of this world which was the position adam held. but through disobedience, adam handed it over to the devil.
now immediately power was handed over to the devil, the devil did something to ensure that he gain control over man. what did he do? he gave the human body life."
we both looked at mummy as if she was speaking greek.
"remember i told you i'm talking about the mystery of the human body. so don't worry, i'll explain everything. now! but the life of the human body is nothing but the life of animals. that's why we humans when we are extremely wicked we refer to ourselves as beasts.
you'll discover that each animal can be traced to a particular character in man. take for example fornication, you trace fornication to the dog. what about pride? you trace pride to the peacock. what about fear? you trace fear to the chicken. what about gluttony? you trace gluttony to a frog. what about talkativeness? you trace it a parrot. what about stubbornness? you trace stubbornness to the goat.
you'll discover that every form of sinful habit a man displays has an animal representing it. the beastly dna entered man and man began to gradually lose the likeness of god and became the likeness of animals. the likeness of beasts.
open to the book of romans 1:19.
my dad quickly opened it and read out.
"because that which may be known of god is manifest in them; for god hath shewed it unto them."
verse 20. for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and godhead; so that they are without excuse:
verse 21. because that, when they knew god, they glorified him not as god, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
verse 22. professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
verse 23. and changed the glory of the uncorruptible god into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
can you see it now?"
"yes!" we both chorused.
"now back to what i was saying about the flesh. the sin of man transferred this life to the body of man and made the body of man to have a will of its own and to dominate and overpower the spirit that is on man.
that is the reason why the children of israel kept seeing themselves worshipping idols. even after god dealt with them. punished them and made them suffer under the hands of wicked men. they only repented for a while, just to get god to put an end to their problems. immediately the problem was solved, they rushed back to fulfill what the bible calls the lust of their flesh.
lust is the power of the flesh. that's what keeps the flesh alive and going. lust is what gives the flesh power and absolute control over the entire structure of the man.
but before i talk about lust, let me call your attention to something. the flesh as i said earlier, received life through sin and was empowered by satan to dominate the spirit of man and keep man a slave to ungodly passions. making man perpetually subjected, defeated and enslaved by his own desires.
it's a force more stronger than man itself. it's the power of the forbidden fruit at work in man. flesh received life, but not a good life. one that was meant to kill man slowly or should i say bit by bit until he was completely ungodly and sold under captivity to sin and wickedness, perversion and immorality.
so the children of israel cannot explain why their spiritual life was not making progress. that's the reason. they always go back to sin. anything that happens to their spiritual lives was only temporal. it only lasted for a few days, weeks, months and years. after the death of the judge or the king, they return to their vomit.
that was exactly what jesus came to stop. he came to change that demonic pattern of inconsistency. he came with a dimension of god's power that the world had never seen in full manifestation. it is as called grace. yes! we had nothing like grace at the beginning.
all we had we laws and commandments. thou shalt not do this and thou shalt not do that. but when we try to keep the law, we discover that something is missing in the law. the law only told us what to do and what not to do. it didn't help us to do it. it was only there to tell us that you should not fornicate. it didn't give us what we need in order to stay away from fornication.
this is exactly what apostle paul said, he wanted to do good, yet he found himself doing the opposite. why? flesh!
that power it carries was subjecting him to bow down to his will, even when he not willing.
but this is what jesus did through grace. he gave us the power to say no to mr flesh. and not only say no to him, but to take his throne from him and sit in his throne and make him our slave.
so he didn't just give us the power to say no to the desires of our body. he gave us the power to make our bodies our slave. tell him what to do and watch him do it.
but you know one thing about satan and how he operates. he doesn't accept defeat. so even when jesus has said that it is finished on the cross, satan is still acting as if all was not finished.
so in order to defeat him we apply this scripture in matthew 11:12. and from the days of john the baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
so you stand up and give your flesh a fight. a serious fight. you discipline it. you take away his comfort and stop giving him the what he wants. your flesh is going to fight back. he loves to always be in charge. so he's not going to watch you collect his magnificent throne.
so it's going to be a war. but make sure in that battle you're not the one giving up. make sure the flesh is the one that is losing the battle. make sure that pain doesn't stop you. be resilient.
see let me tell you something about your flesh that you don't know. the flesh doesn't have eternal life. the flesh knows very well that he will not last forever. he also knows that he has limited time to enjoy himself. so he's decided to have fun to the fullest.
it wants to enjoy masturbation very well. it wants to commit immorality with as many girls as possible. it wants to enjoy sin to the fullest. because he knows he has only this one life.
but in the other hand, he's enjoying the pleasures of sin at the expense of your destiny here on earth and at the expense of your eternity in heaven.
that means if you allow flesh to have his way there are two things involved. number one is , you won't be able to fulfill your destiny. i mean, you were sent to earth to fulfill a purpose for god . some people need to pray every night to fulfill the mission god sent them to fulfill in earth. if they allow the flesh through sleep to have it's way, they will end up not fulfilling what god had sent them to do.
the second thing involved is that you won't be able to make heaven. because paul said that 'i must discipline my flesh so that i can make heaven.' so one of the things that will make a lot of believers to miss heaven is lack of discipline."
"jesus is lord!" i exclaimed.
"if paul said, 'i discipline my body and make it my slave, forcing it to do all my bidding so that after preaching to others i myself will not be a castaway.'
then the opposite of that scripture will be, 'i allow my body to control me, i do it's bidding and do not force it to obey me so that after preaching to others, i'll end up in hell.'
and let me tell you the number one reason why you need to fight your flesh. i have a pet name for my flesh. would you love to know that name?"
"yes!" we both answered.
"i call my flesh my delilah!"
i was shocked by what mummy had just said. if all the names you can call your flesh, why chose a name so terrible?
"the reason what i call my flesh delilah is this. your flesh is the enemy to your spiritual life, yet you both had to stay together.
i mean, we have no choice than to stay together. live together and i'm living with someone who i know very well that this person will destroy me if i'm not careful with the way i'm dealing with her.
your flesh is like fire. you cannot do without fire. you need fire in order to cook. but at the same time, that fire can destroy you. so the key is to control it. you need your body in order to fulfill the assignment gid sent you here on earth. but if you don't control your body, it can destroy that destiny you came to fulfill and send you to hell.
all delilah was doing was to destroy samson and all samson was doing to was keep himself from being destroyed. and the bible made us to understand that delilah was crying that samson hates her. she kept telling him that he doesn't love her.
that's what your flesh does to you sometimes. it tell you that you are wicked. it tells you that you would kill yourself with prayers. this prayer is too much. rest! everyday prayers! it's too much! let's sleep just for today.
he won't let you know that this one sleep you want to sleep might lead to you sleeping for two months. no he won't. and when you give in and go to bed. that sleep that day would be like heaven on earth. so when you say 'okay i've had enough, i want to pray now.'
the flesh doesn't argue. all he does is to bring back the memory. the flesh works with memory. that's why porn addicts find it very difficult to break out of the habit easily. when kneel down to pray, they start seeing pictures of naked people in their mind.
the flesh would keep reminding them of how they enjoyed themselves surfing the internet for porn videos. and there they go! they go back to have that feeling of ecstasy again, even if it would only last for 5 minutes and they end up spending one week in depression. i mean one week of depression for 5 minutes pleasure.
satan is a wicked spirit. how can you give someone 5 minutes pleasure and exchange it for a depression that would last for one week?
what the porn addict failed to do is what the bible says, guard your heart with all diligence. discipline the flesh and give him no in capital letters.
you'll discover he'll end up with time, your flesh will start aligning with spiritual activities."
"so what should we tell god to do?" my dad asked.
"tell him to give you the a courageous heart. a heart that is not afraid of pain. tell him to do a work in your spirit that will make you rise up to say no to your flesh!"
immediately i heard the prayer point, i started praying.
to be continued.....
that's why the bible says that the flesh and the spirit are always fighting against each other. this one wants to be in control and the other doesn't want it so.
your first and number one enemy in your spiritual growth is not demons. is your body.
stop the pamper. samson pampered his delilah and today he's regretting it.
the flesh is on a destruction mission. how can it satisfy itself with masturbation and sent your spirit man to hell?
arise and fight for your destiny here on earth and eternity with god in heaven.