Your Body As The Temple

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (New King James Version)

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

Friend, before I start I want to pray. Dear God My Heavenly Father, I come before you in the name of your Son Jesus Christ, and ask that you will open the heart of this person. Please dear God give me the right words to help this person in a way that will help them with seeing the importance of being well balance in their body. (Temple) The need to care and maintain What you have given them. I ask this in Jesus name. Amen!

In order to be well balance in our human body, and to have that peace of all understanding we must work on the biblical aspect of truth in our life! If you don't believe that the bible is the written word, written by men by the Holy Spirit from God Himself, that Jesus is the living word, of God, then non of this is going matter. Because it is by faith we believe and are saved. If you want that complete peace, and over all balance in life. Then you need to let Jesus Christ help you in doing that. We can not do it alone. It is this reason Jesus Christ died and then on the third day God raised him from the dead. That who so ever believed in this, and this alone, that they may have everlasting life.

Once we asked Jesus to come and be a part of our life, we gave ourselves to Him. We are at that point no longer our own, but Jesus Christ's! Although Jesus will then live in us, we still have a human spirit that we need to control. Now that you say, I want to be a believer and follow the ways of Jesus Christ and His written word the bible, YOU WILL HAVE TRIALS AND TEST! Not from God! But by Satan! This is why you need to be spiritually fit. To know and understand how you are to deal with the devil. You will learn you are to let God deal with him, however you do have a part to play in this. By reading your bible and going to a good bible teaching church, you will be able to grow in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Learning how to yield yourself to God and the Holy spirit will help your growth and spiritual battles. By doing all this you can help build your spiritual well being. However, Being balance in all these areas, Spiritually, Mentally, Physically and Financially all interlock with one another. I believe by being well balance in all these areas you are fully equipped to live the life God intended for you as a believer. To do His work through you, that others may come to know the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Here is my explanation of why we need to be well balance Spiritually, Mentally, Physically, and Financially. It is key to living a prosperous life. I believe in order to live our life to it's fullness for Jesus Christ, we must be well balanced in all these areas. Why we need to be Spiritually fit is simple. The bible tells us in Ephesians 6:10-20 of the Spiritual battle that we face. The only way we can know how to deal with this is to know the word of God. The Bible! As believers in Jesus Christ, we have the Holy Spirit living in us. (Jesus Christ). By praying and studying the bible, we will grow Spiritually stronger. We will be learning how to use the written word of God. Learning to hear from our Lord and savior and to do His will. To be well equipped in the time we have a Spiritual attack and battle. Knowing the word of God, the Holy Spirit will help bring the scriptures to remembrance, that we can use them at that time and hour. By reading the word of God, it will help us to know Jesus Christ. Even better yet, It will help us to know who Satan is. We need to truly know who our enemy is. The best and sure way to win or succeed in anything, you most know your opponent! Know who they are, how they work, what they believe, what tactics they can and will use against you . Knowing this, will help you to have success and victory over them! Even Satan!

By reading the bible, you will find that the battles usually take place in the mind. Not always, but a good part of them are in the mind. This is why we need to recognize the mental warfare that will take place. By working on your Spiritual well being, it will help your mental well being! I believe all four of these areas, Spiritually, Mentally, Physically, and Financially all interlock together. That they all work together for good for a persons overall well being. Helping them to serve Jesus Christ to their fullness. It is this balance that will help us to live a more prosperous life! Satan wouldn't want you to see or understand this. However I believe the bible teaches us all about this. If a person would only read and study the word of God, they would have a better understanding of this. You see, understanding why, Spiritual warfare that takes place in the mind can cause mental and physical issues! Although it be Spiritual, it can have a mental and physical affect.The physical body becomes weak, tired, sickly, high blood pressure, feeling fatigued, nauseated, depressed, weight gain, weight loss, lack of energy, and many other health issues! You now can see how the Spiritual can affect the mental and physical well being of a person. Satan is a liar!! He would like to hide this from you. Friend, by working on being well balance Spiritually, Mentally, and Physically, you will lean how to win your battle. This is why you need Jesus Christ and the word of God. You can't do it alone! You need Jesus Christ to help you to be fit in all these areas.

By taking care of the physical body, you will be more equipped to handle the mental and Spiritual battles. Again, it is about balance! I would believe it fair to say, most people believe the lie of Satan, and aren't taking care of their body seriously! You may now be thinking, what do you mean by that? Your not taking proper care of your body.(The Temple of God!) You may not really consider what you eat, drink, hear, look at, and what you say! What you put in your body, in all this, will have an affect on what you put out. How you will become and feel. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (New King James Version) Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's

What better way to glorify God by taking care of the body He has given us to use! We need to be caring for our body. In all areas! To live for Jesus Christ fully we need and should maintain our body. The temple of the Holy Spirit! We do this by caring about what we eat and drink. It don't stop there! Exercise! Again it is about balance. Eat right and exercise! However we still put things in our body by other means! The things we look at, the things we let ourselves hear! All this is feeding our temple some how, whether it be good or bad! How we treat ourselves physically will interlock with how we are mentally and Spiritually! You can now see how all of these can and will affect each other. Again, Satan is a liar and wouldn't want you to know or understand this!

Last but not least, financially fit! How does this interlock with the other three? Great Question! This is want I have learned! This is MY opinion only. I believe it to be true. The bible tells us in Matthew 6:32-34 ( For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.) Here we learn God wants to meet our needs! However God would want us to seek Him first. To seek Him, would mean to live for Him. Read His word the bible. Spend time with Him in prayer. Get to know Him. Learn to listen and hear from Him. This is what it means to seek Him! It is all to help us to grow Spiritually! Which is part of us being well balance! You remember the parable of the talents? (Matthew 25:14-30) Matthew 25 We need to be good stewards of our finances. The Lord has given us work to do so we can be paid. This is how He helps meet our need. We use the money from our work to help pay for our needs. Food to eat, close to ware, a place to live, plus bills that may come with having to do all these. These are needs. The things we may want is different then the things we may feel we need. By understanding the parable of the talents, and using it in our life, we can be better stewards of our money. By being good stewards the Lord can bless us with more. By being financially fit a person can then help others that may have a need. We can't give someone something that we don't have! Reading in the New Testament the Book of Matthew, the Book of Mark, the Book of Luke and the Book of John we can learn how we are to be with our finances in life, to be able to help others. Whether you want to believe this or not, the bible shows us that we are to show our love of Jesus Christ by helping other. Our finances are given to us from God to be used to further the work of His Kingdom. That others may know the loving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ! The bible tells us here in Matthew 25:40 that (The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.) You see friend, learning how God would want us to use our finances will help get us financially fit. A part of being well balance, to serve our Lord God to our fullness! This is why I feel it to be a way of life, being balance Spiritually, Mentally,Physically, and Financially. To live a better life for Jesus Christ, we need this balace!

WOW! To think that your body is carrying the Holy Spirit inside it. In other words, Jesus Christ is living in you! This is a good thing! Now we have the ability to do all things through His name. Philippians 4:13

The Lord would want you to live a healthy and prosperous life. I know we are not guaranteed this, still God would want us to live this type of life. I want you to see the importance of being well balance. Spiritually, Mentally, Physically and Financially! In doing so you will be much more healthier in your Spirit, Life, and Body.

I made this statement on my welcome page and want to break it down so you can have a better understanding of this.We need to be fit in all these areas. 1) Spiritually, because we are all Spiritual beings living in a fleshly body. 2) Mentally, Because the battle most always, (but not every time) takes place in the mind. 3) Physically, Because of the spiritual battles, that takes place in the mind, it causes the Physical body to do a lot of things to hinder it. The physical body becomes weak, tired, sickly. It makes one have a harder time fighting the spiritual battles. If one takes better care of the physical body, they are more equip to handle a spiritual battle. 4) Financially, Like it or not, financial problems does cause people to have a lot of health issues.STRESS. Stress causes a number of health related problems.

Spiritually

Again Dear God, Be with me and give me the words and the scripture to back up all that is said here,in Jesus name Amen!

What I want to explain here is, your body IS a real temple. If your a believer in Jesus Christ, then Jesus Is Living In You! It is now a dwelling place in which Jesus Lives. It is a home for the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the helper, the comforter, the counselor, that Jesus talks about. Jesus said He would send and give us after He went to be with the Father Our God. John 14:15-17 (New King James Version) Jesus said, If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever- the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.

Our body is made up of a few things. It has a human spirit. Otherwise known as a soul. The human spirit has the will to choose what it wants to do and believe. This human spirit that also lives with-in you will live forever. For eternity! So when this body, (temple), (shell) that we live with-in dies and is laid to rest, your human spirit will move on to live forever. Either in Heaven or in hell.

In this life here on earth there are two kinds of people. Those that are God's our Heavenly Father's. Or those that are satan's,the devil their father. Before I go any further I want to be clear on one thing! Satan is a liar and has from the beginning! He would not want you to believe what I'm telling you. He would just love to confuse you and believe otherwise. However, If you take the time to read the bible yourself you can find out I'm speaking the truth from the word of God. Here in John 8:43-45 Jesus says to us himself, Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.

There is no in between here. Either your a child of God's or a child of the devil! You can know them by their fruits.( Their life style) Here in Matthew 7:14-16 it tells us, Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? The Lord our God would wish you where either cold or hot serving Him. There is no lukewarm. Here in Revelation 3:15 it says, I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. Revelation 3:16 it continues to say So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.
It would be safe to say that by not living for God the way He has made you to, makes God sick. That he would vomit you out of His mouth.

You see friend, God does Love you. He has made a way through Jesus Christ that you may live forever with him. God would not have it that you should go to hell. You see, God doesn't send anyone to hell! This is a choice you make, not God. He just made a separate place for those that Love Him and those who choose not to. It would be awful not to choice God and ask for his help here on earth, to help you through it. This is why God sent Jesus and the Holy Spirit of God. If your having a hard time believing this, I would ask that you spend some time in prayer asking for God's help. I can't say it enough, The devil is a liar and would not have you to know the Truth.

This is why you need to be Spiritually fit.To know the word of God. For the battle we are in is a spiritual one. The bible tells us this is real.That we need to put on a real spiritual armor to be able to withstand this type of battle. Here in Ephesiens 6:10-20 it tells us, Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saintsâand for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. Ephesians 6:12

I can't stress enough about reading the word of God,(The Bible) and going to a true Full Blown Bible Believing Church! You need to build a relationship, a true relationship with Jesus Christ and God. Friend, this is possible today still. Just as it was when Christ walked on the earth in the flesh. Without Him you are lost. The Bible tells us that God has a place prepared for the unbelievers in Christ Jesus, the devil and his angels. (demons) Matthew 25:41 âThen He will also say to those on the left hand, âDepart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:

However here is the GREAT NEWS! Our Lord God also has a place for the belivers in Jesus Christ. Here in John 14:1-3 Jesus says to us, Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions;if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.

I know there is many denominations. However! The Bible is the same Bible. The word of God is truth. The bible tells us we need to be in it learning. Not just hearing it from someone else. 2 Timothy 2:15 Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. We need to get to know Him personally. We need an individual walk and relationship with Jesus and God. It's something we need to do on our own. Here in Philippians 2:11-13 it says, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. You see friend, your held responsible for your own walk and relationship with Christ. Not your Pastor, not your Priest, not your father or mother. No one but you! This is why God would have the Holy Spirit to live with-in you. To help you have the understanding of the spiritual world around you. To help you in this battle. This is why you need to be Spiritually fit in your body. (Temple)

Mentally

We need to be Mentally fit. You may be asking yourself, What? Or you may already know this. But why, and what do you really mean by mentally fit?. Because the battle most always, (but not every time) takes place in the mind. If you was to go back to Ephesians 6:10-20 you will recall it talking about the spiritual warfare that is going on around us. Friend, I have to be clear with one thing. As you grow in the word of God you will have a much better understanding of the spiritual world around you. The Holy Spirit, which is Jesus Christ lives with-in the believer. He will help you to understand, and will fight your battles for you.However you have a roll to play in this. You need to ask Him and believe He will do this. Remember one thing! Satan Is A Liar, And The Father Of It!

He would want you to not believe any of this. He will play with your mind. The devil will have the human spirit to side with him. This is why you need to be around Devine connections. Other believers. Reading His word (The Bible). Praying! Listening to Christian music as to worship the Lord our God.

Like it or not, what you put in, is going to be what you put out! The devil would have you not understand all this. You may not want to believe this. You may think you can handle yourself well in all this. Or, you may not believe how the devil can work through all of these things. All of this is Satan's way of lying to you and having you not believe this will have an affect on you. Satan knows if he can get into your mind, through the things you see, the things you hear, even the things that you eat and drink, that he can control your human spirit through the mind! Lets see what the bible has to say about keeping yourself from this type of attack and who Satan is.

James 1:25-27 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is useless.Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Galatians 6:2-4 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

I want to share some scripture that I know will be of help you. This is for both the mind and the body. Please work with me here, you will see what God has for you in all this.

1 Corinthians 6:17-19 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

1 Corinthians 10:13-15 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it. Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to wise men; judge for yourselves what I say.

1 Timothy 6:10-12 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

Friend, what I'm trying to show you in these verses are how the devil will use the mind to have you lust after something that is good in Gods eyes. The time and place for this is after marriage. Not before. You will reap what you sow.

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Franklin McQuaid