Awakening Your Prophetic Voice

Circle who it is who sanctifies us and keeps us holy who it is who sanctifies us and keeps us holy.

Understanding ourselves as a creation designed by God is an important step to embracing our identity as a new creation in Christ (see 2 Cor. 5:17). Most believers are comfortable with the idea that when we die, our natural body will go back into the dirt and the non-physical part of us will go to Heaven in a twinkling of eye, as is our promise as a believer (see 1 Cor. 15:52), but maybe not all of us exactly understand the three parts of us that Holy Spirit is renewing and sanctifying. Maybe we aren’t exactly sure what functioning whole looks like. Some may not understand that we don’t have to wait until we die and go to Heaven to walk out our new identity that can only be found in Christ!

May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.
—1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

Greek word: pneuma—the wind, also breath (Strong’s #G4151). The spirit is the invisible, non-physical part of man. It connects to God and is eternal (see Eccles. 12:7, 1 Cor. 5:3).

Greek word: psyche—breath of life (Strong’s #G5590). The soul is the invisible, non-physical part of man. It contains the will, emotions, and thoughts of a man (Matt. 10:28, Rom. 2:9).

Greek word: soma—body (Strong’s #G4983). The body is a physical, tangible vessel that contains the non-physical parts of man. What you believe and agree with will be animated through your body (see Luke 12:4, 22).

Though you are one being, each part of you is being actively brought into wholeness and purity by the Word of God, Jesus Christ, which John clearly describes all throughout his gospel and letters.

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
—Hebrews 4:12

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:14).

One of Holy Spirit’s beautiful pursuits is to reveal to you who Jesus is and what He has done for you. It’s by grace, God’s undeserved, unearned love, and by His supernatural power and truth that you are actively being transformed in your spirit and soul, which then manifests through your physical body. I have heard multiple testimonies of people receiving God’s abundant love only to find they have been healed from a sickness or depression has left them. This is the beauty of Jesus’ gift of salvation at work!

Salvation: sozo (Strong’s #G4982)—to save, heal, recover, deliver, protect, preserve, to do well, and to be made whole (your entire human being).

Jesus came not only so that we could have eternal reconciliation with Abba but so that we would walk in supernatural and natural wholeness with God on earth in our whole being! Placing our faith in Jesus’ accomplishments alone grants us Heaven’s success on earth. We become victors, as Christ is victor! God’s love is not just for one part of us; it’s for our whole being. We are new and whole in Christ and we have been given eternal life with God, as mentioned in John 3:16. Let’s take a closer look.

Eternal life: aionies zoe (Strong’s #G166) refers to the miraculous perpetual life we simply receive upon believing—we can’t earn it, we receive it.

Sozo is the whole package, and it comes by faith and trusting in the Word of God, Jesus, who is sanctifying us. Working out your salvation means your belief in the Word of God produces an action. It’s not about striving to earn something from God. Your belief animates your life! What you see is what you become! Just like the woman Jesus told in Luke 8:48 to go in peace, Jesus told the man at the pool at Bethesda to pick up his mat and go (see John 5). Those who placed their faith in Jesus and received His grace and truth were forever changed; they believed, received, got up, and went! When we receive the gift of eternal life (aionies zoe) a life of wholeness (sozo) is ours to walk out by keeping our eyes on what He has done! His love leads us into freedom from sickness, all curses, poverty, death, and the list goes on. Your Bible is full of verses about the glory we receive in the gift of salvation, which is something you can’t earn. (For further study on salvation versus eternal life I recommend Heal Them All by Cheryl Schang.)

“Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.”
—Philippians 2:12

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! (2 Corinthians 5:17)

Galatians 3:26-27 says, “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ” (NASB). Through your belief in what Jesus died to give you, take a moment and imagine all three parts of you—spirit, soul, and body—receiving the fullness of salvation! Allow yourself to see the new creation that is you in Christ. Rest in the purity that has washed over your mind and that allows you to be unified and one with Him. There is no separation between you and Christ. Put on wholeness! Put on Christ.

If you have sickness in your body, take this moment to allow Jesus’ love to touch that part and see it being made whole. Take this time and rest in wholeness. Simply be whole by receiving it by faith and not by trying to produce it or earn it.

Let’s explore our salvation and wholeness a little more!
She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins (Matthew 1:21).	And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace (Luke 8:48 KJV).
Both the word “save” in Matthew 1:21 and the word “whole” in Luke 8:48 mean the same thing.