You Can Be Free From Your SELF: The Grace of Soul Transformation

by David Alsobrook

Stillness originates in the born again spirit and sweetly influences the mind to be fixed on the divine.

“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee because he trusteth in Thee” (Isa. 26:3 KJV).

Chapter 3 The Joy of Being De...

But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 1 Corinthians 6:17 RV But the person who is united to the Lord becomes one...

It was the joy of intimately knowing God, which is not done with the mind but with the spirit: “for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God”

It made no sense, but was pure delight.

This is the “yada” type of knowing in the Hebrew language or the “ginosko” type of knowing in the Greek language (Hos. 6:1-3; Phil. 3:10).

Both these words are also used for intimacy between husband and wife, as well as between the believer and his Lord (Gen. 4:1; Matt. 2:25).

Our Heavenly Lover, in vital, living union within us, makes us whole within and without.

As far as my experience is concerned, it is a far deeper union than is possible between husband and wife. But the bliss of pure marital love is the closest earthly comparison I know.

When a believer is “joined” to the Lord, there is a great sense of oneness, no sense of the subject/object relationship as there is in human relationships.

It is truly a beautiful thing that the Creator of this entire universe would grant such intimacy with one of His crea...

It is what old Pentecostals called “becoming lost in God”

there is no sense of the human present during the joining yet you are there.

language is limited in conveyance of spiritual reality.

When joined to the Lord in deep union with Him there is no mind activity at all. The word “joined” as stated in Chapter 1 means “glued together”. Your mind is not involved in t...

Instead of petitioning Him as to what we need, as is done in regular prayer, one becomes completely passive before Him, not wanting or desiring any thing but wanting and desiring Him. That is not quite true, either. There is no wanting of any kind once close joining is occurring. You actually do not want God at that...

“In Your light we see light” (Psa. 36:9 NASB).

“He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him” (1 Cor. 6:17 NKJV).

Do You Know God or Do You Know About God?

carnal-minds--the enemy of God--and this mind is what they think they are.

a lot of Scriptures which they mistakenly equate with knowing God.

They thought they knew God because they knew all the Scriptures, but when God in human form came to them, they rejected Him.

you either know God or you only know about Him.

Jesus called this kind of knowing “the Life of the Ages”:

in this consists the Life of the Ages--in knowing Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.

Religion helps people feel temporarily ...

And still you are not willing [but refuse] to come to Me, so that you might have life.” John 5:39, 40 TAB

“ever learning but never coming” into an intimate knowing of the truth “as the truth is in Jesus”,

The Scriptures, Jesus said, do not save. They only point the way to salvation.

The church at Corinth “came behind in no gift” (charisma), but as Paul correctly commented from his observations, their true spiritual state was “yet carnal” (1 Cor. 3:3).

In order to connect with God deeply He requires truth in the innermost part of a believer (Psa. 51:6).

They are not honest with themselves, so how can they be honest with God? As long as we live in denial of the misery under the surface of our smiling faces, we cannot experience true freedom from the chatterbox of our carnal-minds. Nor can we be freed from the negative feelings our bodies produce in response to our tortured thoughts. And we certainly cannot be “joined to the Lord and one spirit with Him”.

This is why I am thankful for 12-Step groups being set within the Church again. People eventually become completely honest when huddled in small groups confessing their faults to each other (James 5:16).

Why Does God Allow Pain?

When you finally cease hiding from your pain, you can begin to see your soul’s true state through moments of clarity given to you from the Holy Spirit.

Your spirit is full of eternal life and countless treasures.

You move from the mind to your spirit.

Your eternal treasures are not only laid up in the Kingdom of Heaven for your hereafter, they are in the Kingdom of God within you now.

God wants to expand His Kingdom rule into the soul and body.

In the believer the Kingdom begins in the spirit, expands through the soul and eventually fills the whole body.

“of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end” (Isa. 9:6 KJV).

“This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest, and this is the refreshing” the Lord promises us,

For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me. Jeremiah 31:25, 26 KJV

When our Great Shepherd restores our souls He causes us to lie down in green pastures, beside still waters (Psa. 23).

As we yield to His rest, we discover a glorious inheritance that we d...

“His rest shall be glorious” (Isa. 11:10 KJV).

This glorious rest is part of our inheritance in the Kingdom of God.

“The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him” (Isa. 11:2 KJV).

The enemy of God’s peaceful reign over us is our old self nature.