by Pastor Simon
If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
Romans 8:11 - NKJV
God wants you to have, by the Holy Spirit, a taste of what's ahead when your body has been redeemed. By the Holy Spirit you have a downpayment - a pledge and first instalment - on immortality. By the Holy Spirit God wants you to know a swallowing up of mortality in your body by the life of God that the Holy Spirit gives. See 2 Corinthians 5:5.
I have a daily maintenance program. I begin each day in the presence of the Lord. I spend time worshipping Him, hearing from Him and interceding for others. He corrects me. He sets me straight on things. I give Him my cares and burdens. I also ask Him to revitalise and renew my mortal body by His Spirit that resides in me. He gives me a taste of immortality. My taste of immortality is His health, the health Christ made a way to be present in us by allowing His body to be broken for us. See Isaiah 53:5.
The scripture above promises both something current for you and something future. There is with it both an interim and an ultimate fulfilment, a work in available by the Holy Spirit for your body now and work of full redemption of your mortal body that is to come. Look forward to the day of full redemption when mortality is swallowed up by immortality and seek the Lord for a foretaste of that glorious work today. 1Cor.15:52-53.
May Holy Spirit impart divine health to you
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