How to Train the Human Spirit !

How To Train the Human Spirit: "The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly." (Proverbs 20:27). Your spirit can be educated just as your mind can be. And your spirit can be built up and strength just as your body can be. Anytime you allow worldly stuff to go into your ear or eye gates on a daily basis, you or allowing and meditating and training your human spirit, as well as being conformed to this world. Here are four rules by which the human spirit can be trained and developed: (1) By meditating in the Word. (2) By practicing the Word. (3) By giving the Word first place. (4) By instantly obeying the voice of your spirit. After a while you can know the will of God the father in all the minor details of life, because it is through your spirit, and not through your mind or reasoning faculties, that He communicates with you. When God says in (Proverbs 20:27) that "The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, he means that He is going to use man's own spirit to enlighten and guide him. 1. Meditating in the Word three of these four points have to do with the Word of God. You must realize the value of God's word and the value of quiet meditation in the Word of God. The most deeply spiritual men and women I know gave time to meditation in the Word of God. You cannot develop spiritual wisdom without meditation. God made that fact known to Joshua at the very beginning of Joshua's ministry, just after the death of Moses. (Joshua 1:8) Now please understand what God had said to Joshua "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; it is because all they had in that dispensation of time was the law of Moses. But thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shall make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success." Another translation of the last phrase reads, "and then you will be able to deal wisely in the things of life." God told Joshua that if he would meditate in the Word, day and night, his way would be prosperous and he would have good success. I taught along this line at a ministerial convention, and a minister who attended gave me this report later. He said that he had been doing everything he could to make a success of his ministry. He said that if he heard of a pastor who was doing well, he visited him, watched what he did, and started the kind of program he had. Then he would try to put that man's program into action in his own ministry, but it never worked. He had flown all over the country doing this. Then he decided to follow the road God gave Joshua. He decided he would meditate in the way I had talked, taking a little time out each morning. After 30 days of praying this way, not asking much, but just waiting and meditating on the Word, one Sunday they had a landslide. More people were saved there that day Dan had been in the previous two or three years. His people were revived, and he began to have good success. That was his life and that was where he needed to have good success. Your life's calling is something else. But it is certainly true that your way can be prosperous also, and you can have good success. You can know how to deal wisely in the affairs of life. Take time to meditate in God's Word. Set yourself in along with your own spirit, with the world set out. You cannot achieve this by watching Jerry Springer every morning ! Or by watching any other telecasts ! Began by taking 10 or 15 minutes daily for meditation; that isn't much. Begin the development of your own spirit. Begin-- and then it will grow. Begin taking time.