Spiritual Life 101

To live a godly peaceable life in this World a Believer must be filled with the Holy Ghost and have the Fruit of the Spirit in his personality. However before he can possess these emotional qualities and grow spiritually the field of his mind and emotions have to be cleansed by the Word of God and he must understand the spiritual principles that govern and support the Word that he is standing on. Unfortunately Satan is not just going to sit back and let this happen without putting up a fight so he uses all kinds of sly deceitful manuevers to slow down or stop this process in our life. He systematically uses sin unrestrained emotions and false teaching to dig holes in our health character and personality. If we intend to reach the more and much fruit-bearing stage that Jesus spoke about in John 15:25 we must strive to catch the foxes we see in our life go through our wilderness experience and take advantage of every opportunity to grow in grace and gain more spiritual knowledge and understanding. The woman who was healed from the Issue of Blood understood what the hem of a priest's garment represented so as a result her knowledge + her need + her determination energized her faith and pushed it to a level that drew so much virtue out of Jesus that He had to ask who touched me? When we understand the fundmental prinicples that support what we believe and what we are commanded to do it will energize our faith and maximize the level of what we receive from the Lord! Understanding is a key to spiritual success!