CULTIVATION &
ENHANCEMENT
Cultivating the Spirit Because the spirit is
from God, it takes the things of God to cultivate and enhance it to optimal
performance. The first way to cultivate the spirit of man is by the infusion of
the Holy Spirit with the spirit of man. And this can only be made possible if
one accepts Jesus Christ into one’s life. There is no other way to having the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit with one’s spirit than by aligning oneself with
Jesus. This is because the essence of the Holy Spirit is to confirm the
Messiahship of Jesus, as well as to enlighten man further about His ways.
Toward the end of His ministry on earth, Jesus began to prepare His disciples
for His departure by telling them some profound things about what would happen
afterward, but all these they found difficult to understand then because the
Person (the Holy Spirit) that would ‘guide them into all truth’ had not yet
come. Let us consider some of them that pertain to the Holy Spirit below: But
when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the
Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: John
15:26 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all
truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that
shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. John 16:13 And I fell at
his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy
fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship
God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Rev 19:10 These
are indications to the utmost importance of the Holy Spirit in the scheme of
things as well as in the cultivation of the spirit of man. He is the very
Spirit of God Himself, and He can only align with the spirit of a man if that
man is ‘reconciled’ with God through Jesus Christ, the final Mediator between
God and man, and ‘the way, the truth, and the life’, without Whom NO ONE can
come to God. So a man who wants his spirit to function at a supernatural level
has but to get it into partnership with the Spirit of God. and the Spirit of
God can only come into one who has accepted Jesus as Lord and Master. Another
important way the spirit can be cultivated is by feeding it on the word of God.
In fact, the word of God is the food of the spirit. A man’s spirit is as mature
and alert to the extent that it is fed with and exercised on the word of God. A
person who does not read the Holy Bible, the codification of the Word of God,
will have a malnourished spirit. A spirit that is not regularly fed will not be
active, though the person in whom it is may be a bundle of activities
physically, his spiritual content – which is really his life capacity – will be
very low. It is such people that usually give up or give in easily when the
vicissitudes of life come calling. Cultivating the Soul As the spirit feeds on
the word of God, so does the soul feeds on knowledge. In other words, the food
of the soul is information or knowledge. The activeness, enrichment and
vibrancy of the soul are determined by the level of qualitative knowledge which
the owner of that soul has availed himself, be it in learning or in life
experiences. And this in turn, to a large extent, influences the colouration of
his beliefs, his ideals, his ideology, as well as his actions and reactions.
Meanwhile, as the saying goes, ‘garbage in, garbage out’, a man who chooses to
feed his mind with junks will have his soul smudged with same. And let not that
man blame anybody for his woes when the abundance of his rotten inputs start to
overflow in his action and the results he gets back from life. Therefore, to
nourish and enrich the soul, you need to feed it with good and quality
information. This will not only make the person to come out healthy, but will
also help him to adjust very well in his own world and the outer environment.
And the better adjusted a person is within and without, the better his
performance shall be. Cultivating the Body The body needs a balanced diet to be
healthy and functional. It also requires regular physical exercises to be
active. The better it is fed with the right food at the right time, the more
healthy and radiant it will come out. In addition, the more it is exercised,
the livelier and more attractive it will be in form; and the better it will
adjust to garments and other forms of physical adornment. Information also
plays a vital role in the nourishment of the body, as one needs to know what to
eat at what time, and what not to eat in order to keep the body in a sound
state. The same applies to physical exercises as well, knowing the appropriate
exercise to do to attune certain parts of the body and going ahead to do them
will prove beneficial to the person who takes the pain. THEIR FINAL DESTINATION
AT DEATH To be continued…
