REANIMATION - PART 4

FRIDAY 21 MARCH 2025

REANIMATION - PART 4

Reference:  2nd Corinthians 4:16 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

"Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer person is decaying, yet our inner person is being renewed day by day."

You are a living entity consisting of spirit, soul and body. Moreover, only your body is mortal, which implies that it is capable of and liable to death and, after that, decay, meaning that this decay is the condition that persists in a body without a soul and a spirit. Whenever this happens to anyone, the person's soul and spirit will still remain unkilled.

To that effect, the Lord Jesus said, "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell" (Matthew 10:28 NIV). If there is no "human body", a man's soul and spirit cannot be renewed day by day, since the body is dead. But if someone is still living in a body, their inner person can be renewed day by day, as a born again Christian. Got it?

This brief explanation brings us to today's article, which is focused on the versified segment:

"Yet our inner person is being renewed day by day."

Basically this renewal (or reanimation) has got to do with human soul and spirit; and also it influences the functions of the inner body system which helps us to comprehend a detailed nature of Pauline communication because our body is the temple of the living God (1st Corinthians 6:19 NIV). Therefore both aspects of internal workings are essentially vital for advancing our knowledge of divine reanimation which is geared towards reshaping the behavioural pattern of a new creature in Christ Jesus.

A Christian who is newly born again may still sustain carnal views and opinions, due to his mere existing worldly and external experiences ascribable to his old way of life and relations, but continual reanimation causes them to disappear in the light of God's truth. As a born again Christian, this is the reason you are often encouraged to listen to God's Word, practise and grow spiritually by it, and purely function beyond human points of view, by reason of divine nature at work in you.

On account of this truth, Petrine epistolary expression reads, "As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby" (1st Peter 2:2 NKJV). As you listen to God's Word often, the God-kind of faith rapidly increases in you, and you'll begin to embrace the spiritual priorities that are in your Saviour's heart, which are as follows:

1. Getting tranfigured into the image of God's glory (Divine transformation);

2. Gaining the inheritance of God's people among the sanctified (Kingdom Prosperity);

3. The ministry of sharing the gospel with a lost world (Great Commision).

Through divine reanimation, you become wise enough to focus on the above priorities. Henceforward, you'll begin to know and learn how to walk in Christ's constraining love, which is extremely grounded in His atoning sacrifice for us, with the aim of being rooted in Christ as a "new creature" in accordance with Spirit-led life.

Now watch this: I personally give Pauline epistolary invocation below a specified name, known as "a prayer for successful reanimation", and I will expound the petitionary-styled verity in due time:

I pray that from His glorious, unlimited resources He will empower you with inner strength through His Spirit. Then Christ will make His home in your hearts as you trust in Him. Your roots will grow down into God's love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God (Ephesians 3:16-19 NLT).

If you properly study apostle Paul's prayer on behalf the saints in Ephesus, you'll first of all, notice that all the text fragments and the phrasal units of his prayer have to do with the inward being, and secondly, you never miss the embedded order of comprehension that conveys the "prayer" details as focusing on the root system, which is the aim of divine reanimation. In other words, reanimation reprogrammes your inner being by causing your root to grow downwards into God's love, keeping you strong in faith.

The root system encompasses everything within man - from the soulish realm to the recreated human spirit, thereby providing rewarding insight into divine interactions between God's Spirit and our spirits - from the standpoint of accumulating and processing accurate divine information sourced from the Word - in the tablets of our hearts and minds, which are now governed and controlled by the activeness of remoulding activities of the Holy Spirit in our lives (see Romans 8:6 NIV). Now this is just the beginning of this wonderful topic; stay tuned for the successive parts. Shalom!

Scripture Reading - Proverbs 4:23; Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Philippians 4:8.

Guided Prayer:

Heavenly Father, I bless your name for my inward significance which is Christ-like in nature, and the ability to renew it by the instrumentality of the Word, which thereby keeps me actively alive in you, by virtue of new life of the resurrection power, in accordance with the workings of the Spirit, in Jesus' Name, Amen.