AM I SPIRIT LED OR IN THE SPIRIT?

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me - John 14:1

Many Christians are agitated, they want to know if they are really in the spirit or led by the Spirit of God. They are torn in between and wondering if being in the spirit or led by the Spirit means giving up the human body while still (alive) on earth. They believe since the Holy Spirit is a spirit and not physically seen or touched; to be one with Him, one ought to be invincible like him to really overcome the flesh and all the challenges a Christian undergoes while living on earth. To carry out such impressions or thoughts will entail dying physically or giving up the ghost and that is inimical and uncalled for. The human spirit while on earth needs the body for its housing and survival.
This notion has brought so much confusion amongst passionate believers and lovers of God and Jesus Christ. The impression is wrong and deceptive and I wouldn’t blame some Christians. I would rather blame some preachers and teachers of the word of God who quote the word of God out of context without really knowing the meaning and the true circumstances in which it was said (or written) or as prevailed then or now as the case may be, because the word of God is a living word.

Strong but Unfounded
If you are agitated by wanting to know if you are led by the spirit of God, and therefore a son or daughter of God according to Romans 8:14. The answer is found in Romans 8:9: “But you are not in the flesh, you are 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”. (Please read 1Corinthians 3:16, 6:19).
And also if you have been enriched with the words of Christ in you and you keep them, you are truly in the spirit and being led by the Spirit. The Spirit of God dwells in you as the words of God stored up in you – John 6:63-64, John 1:12.

Any More Agitation?
But if you are still agitated by fear of or perhaps falling into sin (1John 1:8, 10); your mind should be calmed by the provision of an answer through this confirmation in Romans 8:15-16: “For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear (In this regard, sin or torment, e.t.c), But you have received the spirit of son ship, when you cry “Abba! Father!” (In this regard, remorse, repentance, cries of deliverance, thankfulness, worship, e.t.c.). It is the spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God’’. (That is, being in the spirit or led by the Spirit). Please read 1Jn 4:15; 5:1, 3; 4:2, 6; 3:24, 1 Corinthians 12:3.

Outright Mistakes
In any likelihood you fall into sin or old ways, we know the spirit of son ship in us impels us to walk in light and in fellowship with one another by confessing our sins or acknowledging our erring to Jesus Christ for his forgiveness and cleansing by his blood – 1Jn 1:7, 9.

Abba! Father!
In the Hebrew language “Abba! Father!’’ means my daddy, my father; signifying intimacy between a father and a son when uttered. Crying Abba! Father! By he or she who utters it, indicates a continuous unquenchable deep yearning or desire for God and His love. This is the hallmark of a true Christian. God himself said he will make it to be so by the reason of His intervention when He spoke through His prophet Jeremiah, “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying ‘know the Lord’, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more’’.
Again Apostle Paul in the new testament succinctly expresses the mind of God, “...and you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but an tablets of human hearts”. Please read Ezekiel 11:19-20; 18:31.
Finally, brethren, being in the spirit or being led by the Spirit of God are a function of the word of God in you and upon you (Galatians 5:25, Romans 8:5); that is,

1.      Has your human spirit been regenerated by the Spirit of God – in other words, are you a born again Christian.

2.      Has the word of God dwelt richly in you – in other words, is your faith growing by the hearing of the word of God.

If you can truly attest to the above, then you are truly in the spirit and led by the Spirit of God.
Maran’atha.