Four Keys to Power by Buddy Harrison

Author:Buddy Harrison
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-01-24T19:29:54+00:00

Key 4

Manage the Whole You

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

The three main keys to power that I have given you so far are vision, communication and positioning. The fourth key is simple. It is called self-management.

In 1 Thessalonians 5:23, Paul talks about the self as having three parts — spirit, soul and body. As a matter of fact, he prays that the church be sanctified wholly and preserved until Christ returns. The word, wholly, speaks of fullness and completeness.7 In other words, you cannot just emphasize the body and expect to be whole and complete. No! You must feed and nurture the whole man in order to rise to the full potential God created you to fulfill.

Some people may wonder why they are not spiritually strong. Maybe it is because they feed their body three hot meals a day and their spirit only one cold snack a week. We must put something into our spirit before we can expect anything to come out. If we are not putting anything in, no matter how smart we think we are, nothing is going to come out. There have been a lot of people on a spiritual fast and, as a result, are getting no where. To get where we need to be and to do what God wants us to do, we must learn to manage ourselves wholly—spirit, soul and body.

Managing Your Spirit

Since God works from the inside out, He starts with your spirit man. When you stop and think about managing the inward man, you find out that it is a lot like managing the outward man. To have a healthy outward man or body, there are three fundamental things involved: good food, exercise and rest. To have a healthy inward man or spirit, the same three fundamentals are involved: good food, exercise and rest.

Feed Your Spirit

The Word of God is good food for your spirit man, and the good food of the Word is what you need. You could take the Word and just eat what you enjoyed. You could make it by on a junk food diet. But to be healthy, you have to eat the right foods. You have to eat a balanced diet. So the way you manage your spirit is by feeding on the good Word of God. That is why you get books and tapes. That is why you go to church. That is why you forsake not the assembling of yourselves together. In other words, it is a part of selfmanagement.

If you don't go to church and you don't stay built up in God's Word, you will lose sight of the image of the vision that God gave to you. It won't be long until you will start blaming God because the vision isn't coming to pass the way He said. But it isn't God's fault! You just didn't manage yourself, and the power was cut down.

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