Spirit---Ruled Body !

SPIRIT--RULED BODY: Begin Now to stop the enemy and the world from using your vocabulary to hold you in bondage. I suggest that you study the life of Christ, and you will find that He refused to confess or admit death in any form. You remember when He went to raise Lazarus from the dead, He wouldn't confess he was dead. He said, He sleepeth. Finally, He said to His disciples, He is dead (John 11:14). But the Greek says, "died." That is a great difference between a man that died and one that is dead. If you do not believe that, look at Jesus. He died; but, thank God, He is like dead ! Learn to control your vocabulary and never speak anything that you don't want to come to pass. Someone says, "I could never do that." If the Word says you can [and it does], then you can; but it will take some time to get all that old unbelief out so you can speak faith--filled words. TRAINING THE BODY: your body is like a child; you can train it to obey your words. You have trained that old dog at your house to do certain things, or maybe your cat or bird. James says that you can train every beast, bird, serpent, and thing in the sea. Mankind by his natural ability can train a dog, a bird, or any beast. Animals don't understand the power words, it is the repeating over and over the same words until the dog comes when you say that dogs name. You train animals with word. Now what makes you think that your body is less intelligent than a dog ? What makes you think that you can't train the human body to obey the voice of your spirit by the words of your mouth ? It can be done, for the body was designed to be obedient to words. Isn't it obvious that your children can repeat some entertainer but cannot repeat what the Word of God says. You have to train your body to pray. Although it may not be accurate prayer. It had to be obedient to the spirit man. The words we speak in prayer do have a definite effect on our bodies. When we pray or continue to say the problem, the body reacts in line with our speaking or praying. Learn to use the Word of God to control your tongue and body. Paul said, "Mortify the deeds of the body." How do you do that ? You can't take a knife to mortify the deeds of the body; you will hurt your self. But you can use words to put to death its deeds by training the body to react to God's Word. Many of you have trained your body to react to the world and the devil. You can cause your body to come into subjection to your spirit. The apostle Paul said, "I keep my body and bring it under lest while I preach the gospel I become a castaway." In the literal Greek, Paul actually said, "I buffet my body." Buffet means "to slap with an open hand or clenched fist." Train your spirit man to believe what you say will come to pass by practicing tongue control. I know what you're thinking ! "But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison." The King James Bible. The amplified Bible says "But the human tongue can be tamed by no man. It is a restless (undisciplined, irreconcilable) evil, full of deadly poison." Now the Word of God is Spirit and truth ! And it is the only thing that can tame the human spirit and the tongue. (James 3:8).