EPISODE 761 – DON’T BE DULL IN SPIRIT
Apostle Benjamin Nana Amissah AnsahCHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY
The Love-Life Agency
It is a wonder to be sorrowful in our Kingdom. Our strength is the JOY OF THE LORD. Beloved, do not be sorrowful no matter the situation or challenge, PRACTICE JOY!
Apostle Bennie
Author
Saturday, 22nd February, 2025
DON’T BE DULL IN SPIRIT
“so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.”
2 Corinthians 2:11 (ESV)
The adversary doesn’t stop until he is resisted. Your resistance to the devil is not what brings you victory.
To resist the devil is to enforce the victory that Christ has obtained for you.
Victory is your inheritance in Christ. Your responsibility is to enjoy that victory and not permit any force of darkness to derail you.
The goal of the devil is to disrupt your enjoyment of Christ’s victory for you, by using all his schemes to shipwreck your faith.
Most believers don’t think it’s possible they can find themselves in this state. Which is understandable, considering what Christ has achieved for the new creation.
The reality of the Born Again is this:
“that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!)” Ephesians 2:5 (NLT)
The life which the born again received is the New creation life or the Newness of Life. But until the saving grace of Jesus, the man who got saved was dead in sin.
This was also your state. Until you were saved in Christ, you were dead in sin. It was by the grace of God that you have been quickened or made alive in Christ. This was not the quickening of your mind. It was the quickening of your spirit.
When you got born again, the life of God was transfused into your spirit. And by the continuous culturing and nurturing of your mind through the Word of God and the intimacy of the Holy Spirit, you experience transformation through the renewal of your mind.
“Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think. This will empower you to discern God’s will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes.” Romans 12:2 (TPT)
The more you experience the renewal of mind the more you experience transformation and inwardly become effective in the things of Christ.
When you are not experiencing a renewal of mind, you will start becoming dull in the things pertaining to Christ.
Instead of growing in the knowledge of Christ and becoming more fervent in spirit, your mind rather imitates the ideals and opinions of the culture around you.
This leads to the deadness of your mind.
The deadness of your mind is to lose interest in the things of Christ. To be dead in the mind is to be saved but think like an unbeliever. These are people who behave like unsaved.
There are some Christians who are not just dull in spirit but dead in their minds. Yes, they are born again; baptised in the Holy Spirit but are carnal.
“For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” Romans 8:6 (KJV)
Dullness in spirit will always lead to carnality or deadness of mind when not corrected immediately.
When the adversary succeeds at luring you into this phase or state of mind, he doesn’t have to suggest thoughts any more to you. You will oppose the things of God by your own imagination and pride.
At this stage, you will esteem your thoughts above the truth of the scriptures.
The way out of such a state is to decide to humble yourself before the Lord.
If you are in this state where you are governed by your flesh and pride, you must turn to Jesus and submit to the authority of the Word.
Are you beginning to act contrary to the word of God?
Are you losing interest in the things of Christ?
You don’t even see the usefulness of Church meetings?
Are you esteeming the activities of this world above the study of the Word and staying patiently to be taught in Church?
It’s time to make a decision to be yielded and submissive to the instructions of Christ.
Shalom!
DIG DEEPER
(Colossians 3:2; Galatians 6:8; Galatians 5:16-17; Proverbs 14:12; John 6:63; 1 Corinthians 2:14)
WE PRAY
Heavenly Father,
Thank you for the opportunity to grow in your word and be renewed in my mind unto total transformation. I pray that through the training of your word, I will always live in accordance with the revelation of the Newness of life in the name of Jesus.
BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2024
1 YEAR PLAN
Deuteronomy 3 – 5
Deuteronomy 3 – 5
2 YEARS PLAN
Exodus 3
DECLARE THESE WORDS:
– I am fervent in Spirit.
– My heart is always alive and sensitive to the wisdom of God.
– I refuse to be dominated by the flesh.
– I remain humble at all times to be trained and nurtured by the word.
– My confidence is in the glorious plan of God for my life.
– I live daily above disappointment, discouragement, despair, doubt and unbelief, distraction and double-mindedness, deception, dullness and deadliness.
Thank you Lord Jesus!
Thank God for knowledge. The adversary won’t have his way any longer. We enforce our victory
Thank you Jesus
It is actually possible to be born again, carry the divine life and live like an unbeliever…yes, it is possible to find such people…who are born again but no longer value the things of God and oppose Christian truths.
They are the dull believers…the systems of the world have found a way into their hearts and have chocked the reality of Christ…in such state after sometime they become dead in their minds..they become agents of the devil..though not commission and sent by the devil, they resist God’s word and make mockery of it especially when they confound the wisdom of this world.
We must stay alert, satan knows we have the victory but can outwit us by creating pictures and scenarios that makes us doubt what Christ Jesus has done for us. We must remain humble and esteem God’s word above all these worldly ideas and thinking.
Gloreeyyy
Galatians 6:8
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
8 If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh; but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
Colossians 3:2
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth,
These verses are amazing.
We are directed and instructed to invest our resources in the Spiritual things and also think on the Word and the Kingdom.
These are sure realities we need.