“THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN YOU!”

 Romans 8:9-11                      (ESV)

“[9] You, however, are NOT IN THE FLESH but in the SPIRIT, if in fact “THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN YOU”. Anyone who does not have the SPIRIT OF CHRIST does not belong to HIM. [10] But if CHRIST is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the SPIRIT is life because of righteousness. [11] If the SPIRIT OF HIM WHO raised JESUS from the dead dwells in you, HE WHO raised CHRIST JESUS from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through HIS SPIRIT WHO dwells in you.”

Recently hearing someone else be told “You are not special” reminded me of “the Brain Hemorrhage” in 2007 and how miraculous and eye-opening the experience was for me.  How many people living today are able to say they have survived a “massive brain hemorrhage” with very few deficits?  But then I cannot help but wonder if I would have survived had “THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN YOU” not have been the case???  

Am I “special” because “THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN YOU”?  Probably a better word to use is BLESSED, for outside of HIM, I AM NOTHING!  There are times when “thoughts” enter my mind and Scripture tells me that they are NOT OF GOD!  Why does ALMIGHTY GOD CHOOSE to LOVE me when I am so weak and easily swayed by evil?  

Earlier in the letter to the Roman church the Apostle Paul writes in Romans 7:15 “For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.”  And then in Romans 7:20 “Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but SIN THAT DWELLS WITHIN ME.”  A very few verses later Paul writes in “THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN YOU”.  Now how does Paul explain SIN DWELLS WITHIN ME and then in the next chapter say “THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN YOU”???

Romans 8:9 says it better than this humble servant ever could, “You, however, are NOT IN THE FLESH but in the SPIRIT, if in fact “THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN YOU”. Anyone who does not have the SPIRIT OF CHRIST does not belong to HIM.”  The SPIRIT OF GOD displaced the spirit of the devil upon salvation, but the enemy will continue to gain back his old dwelling until GOD calls us to Heaven!  

Indeed, GOD did deliver me from the “valley of the shadow of death” in 2007.  But HE wasn’t ready for me to enter HIS ETERNAL ABODE!  GOD left me on earth FOR A PURPOSE, and I Believe it is to let as many people as possible know that “THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN YOU”!!!