| while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. |
| (2 Corinthians 4:18) |
The Lord Jesus Christ said, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63). All the power and promises of God are created in the realm of the Spirit of God and then manifested in this world. Heaven itself is in the realm of the Spirit. For you to see and live in the power and promises of the Word of God, you must first see and operate in the same realm of the Spirit of God. Hebrews 11:1 states, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Whenever the Bible states the words carnal or flesh, it is talking about a person who lives in their five senses–seeing, smelling, hearing, taste, touch (the sense ruled world). If you are led by the sense realm, then you will not be led by the Spirit of God. Romans 8:5 states, “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.” A life of prayer and praise in the Spirit continually will draw you closer into a greater power, walk and life in the realm of the Spirit of God.
| If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. |
| (Colossians 3:1-2) |
| For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. |
| (Romans 8:6-8) |
| There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. |
| (Romans 8:1) |
| looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. |
| (Hebrews 12:2) |