PHANEROO~DEVOTION 14th October 2015 THE CONTROLLED SPIRIT Apostle Grace Lubega

[Ecclesiastes 8:8]; There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

The spirit can have manifestations in our lives. He can increase us, bless us, multiply us but we must learn the way of the spirit.

Every man that striveth for mastery is temperate in all things. Now, they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one.

The place for temperance is being skillful. Our places of maturity are the obtaining of skill by the spirit. The spiritual world has skill. There are men who are skilled in the word and those that are not, even though they both have the word. Your spirit must be skilled in the word.

There is no man that has power over the spirit yet the skill of the spirit enables you to have power over your spirit. When the bible says that there is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit, it does not mean you cannot have power over your spirit.

The only problem with Christians is that they think they are men. You are not a man. You are begotten not of the will of flesh nor the will of man but of God. You are a spirit, the offspring of God.

Men cannot control their spirits but you have power over your spirit. It is by the skill in this wisdom that men can have power over their spirits. If you never have power over your spirit, your life will be breached. You will have a life that is not consonant with the testimony you carry as a Christian.

Many Christians are the way they are because their spirits are breached. They have a spirit that is not controlled by them because they read Ecclesiastes 8:8 saying that ‘there is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit.'

Well, no man has power over the spirit because he is speaking about a man, flesh and blood, but when you became born again, you ceased to partake of that portion. You have the power to control your spirit.

Excerpt from the sermon: WALK OUT by Apostle Grace Lubega

Our places of maturity are the obtaining of skill by the spirit.

Scripture Reference: 1 Corinthians 9:25, Proverbs 14:8

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