Spiritual House

These past few weeks, I have been in great thought over what the LORD has given to me.   It so deep I do not know if I could ever possibly write down in words and have it be as meaningful to you as I want for you.   Some things just have to be experienced and taught by God for you to really understand them but I will give you what the LORD has given me.

I want you to let the LORD speak to you about being a spiritual house as you experience your day in Him.  I want you keep an open mind.  I don't want you to presume but give God a chance to take you deeper into understanding.  Be mindful of your spiritual house.

I believe you will find the meaning of your spiritual house insightful and you may even want to have God help you be more aware of what lives and echoes in your spiritual house.


Here are some things you might want to think on about your spiritual house.

What draws you? What kind of light in your house?  Are the windows open letting in the warm sunshine and refreshing breeze?  Are your windows closed and curtains drawn?  Are the windows hazed over where there is some light and visible shapes but everything outside is still obscured?  How might light speak of your faith?  What recordings still play on your answering machine?  What pictures do you hang up on your walls?  What spiritual junk mail ends up in your mailbox?  What things do you keep that aren't yours? What kind of neighbors do you keep?  What's playing on the radio in your house?  What is cluttering up your house?  What satisfies and sustains your spiritual house? What brings peace to your spiritual house? Where does your spiritual house sit?  Who is the builder of your house? What power supply is your spiritual house connected to? Who comes to steal and rob your spiritual house?
       
Here are some verses that might stir up your mind as God is speaking to you about your spiritual house. 

Psalm 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"

 

“Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.” Proverbs 4:23

“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7

“And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer” Psalm 78:35

Jesus said, “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. ²⁵ The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. ²⁶ But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. ²⁷ The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” Matthew 7:24-27

 "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past." Isaiah 43:18

"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding" Proverbs 3:5

 
 "But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world. Those people belong to this world, so they speak from the world’s viewpoint, and the world listens to them. But we belong to God, and those who know God listen to us. If they do not belong to God, they do not listen to us. That is how we know if someone has the Spirit of truth or the spirit of deception." 1 John 4:4-6 

 

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.  Jeremiah 31:3

  Jesus said, "I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” John 10:9-10

 ^“In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1:4-5

I myself taught Israel how to walk, leading him along by the hand.
But he doesn’t know or even care that it was I who took care of him.  I led Israel along with my ropes of kindness and love. I lifted the yoke from his neck, and I myself stooped to feed him. Hosea 11:3-4

¹⁸ And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. ¹⁹ May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. ²⁰ Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. ²¹ Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen.  Ephesians 3:18-21

 

“You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.” Romans 8:9

“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.” 1 Corinthians 6:19

"Therefore as you received Christ Jesus the LORD, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving."  Colossians 2:6-7

 

“Therefore, if you have been raised with the Messiah, keep focusing on the things that are above, where the Messiah is seated at the right hand of God.  Keep your minds on things that are above, not the things that are on the earth.  For you have died, and your life has been safely guarded by the Messiah in God.  When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed, then you too, will be revealed with him in glory.” Colossians 3:1-4  

 

 “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:21

“A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart.  For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” Luke 6:45

"The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. "But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! Matthew 6:23

 ^“Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.” Psalm 24:7 

"Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead, And Christ will shine on you." Ephesians 5:14

“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.” Matthew 5:14

“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.” 1Peter 2:9

"He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'" John 7:38

The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.  Isaiah 58:11

Love the Lord with all your heart, mind and soul…

“When the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding any, it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.' "And when it comes, it finds it swept and put in order. "Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first." Luke 11:25-26

“Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” Luke 6:36

"Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control." Proverbs 25:28

"The Lord your God is in your midst, a might one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over  you with loud singing." Zephaniah 3:17 
 

"'And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,' declares the LORD 'And I will be it's glory within.'" Zechariah 2:5

"For God has not given us the a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love and self-discipline (sound mind)" 2 Timothy 1:7

"No one, after lighting a lamp, puts it away in a cellar nor under a basket, but on the lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light. "The eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness. "Then watch out that the light in you is not darkness.…” Luke 11:33-35

 "Unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor is vain.  Unless the LORD watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain." Psalm 127:1