*********** You are the peace that guards my heart my help in time of need You are the hope that leads me on and brings me to my knees
For there I found You waiting And there I found release So with all of my heart I worship And unto You I sing
For You alone deserves all glory For You alone deserves all praise Father we worship and adore You Father, we long to seek Your face
For You alone deserves all glory For You alone deserves all praise Father we love You And we worship You this day.
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Before I got saved, I used to think soul & spirit are the same. Whenever people say "soul", I would think that they are referring to our spirit. But after I got saved, I began to see that they are different because the bible say so.
"Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Thess 5:23)
Here, it clearly states that they cannot be the same. It would be just as scriptural to say that the body and the soul are the same (Of Cos, we know a body is a body...it can't be soul), as it would be to say that the spirit and the soul are the same.
The truth is further elaborate in Hebrew 4:12 where the bible says the Word of God is so powerful that soul & spirit can be divided. So now it is obvious that spirit and soul are 2 different dimension.
Many people in this world are still not knowing these but the Truth is in God's Word. Only when you truly understand, it will help your spiritual growth immeasurably. Only then, you understand why the bible emphasis so much of our spirit - our inner man.
Kenneth Hagin simplify these to help us understand the three dimensions of Man.
1) With my body I contact the physical realm. 2) With my spirit I contact the spiritual realm. 3) With my soul I contact the intellectual and emotional realms.
Do you see the different?
Man is a spirit. The spirit is the part of man that knows God. Man possesses a soul - the intellect, the sensibilities, the will. And man lives in a body.
So why are our spirits important? Because the spirit is the part of man that knows God (God is Spirit ~John 4:24). With my spirit I contact my Father in the spiritual realm.