A word of Knowledge: Believer's Spiritual Journey

A word of Knowledge:

Believer's Spiritual Journey 

Psalm 23:1-6 KJV

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. 

[2] He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: 

he leadeth me beside the still waters. 

[3] He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 

[4] Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. 

[5] Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. 

[6] Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

Every believer has to go through at least 1 cycle of these phases of the spiritual journey depicted in Psalms 23;

Where each verse being a distinct phase/time in our spiritual journey.

John 3:30 KJV

He must increase, but I must decrease.

The cycle of journey from v1 to v6 repeats as we mature in our spiritual walk, as we walk increasingly in the Spirit and decreasingly in our flesh.

The more cycles we have gone through indicates our growing maturity in Christ.

At which point of the spiritual journey do you think you are right now?

Romans 8:2-10 KJV

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 

[3] For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 

[4] That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 

[5] For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 

[6] For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 

[7] Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 

[8] So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 

[9] But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 

[10] And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

Galatians 5:16-25 KJV

This I say then, 

Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 

[17] For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: 

and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 

[18] But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 

[19] Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 

[20] Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 

[21] Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 

[22] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 

[23] Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 

[24] And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 

[25] If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.