The Triumphant ChurchThat's God way to keep the door closed to the devil.
That means you will have to keep your body—your
flesh with its appetites—under subjection to the
recreated spirit man on the inside.
Keeping your body subject to your spirit is one of the
primary ways you protect yourself against the enemy,
and actually it is one of your greatest defenses against
Satan.
Then what is man to do about his spirit? How is the
believer going to keep his spirit strong against the
attacks of the enemy? He has to feed his recreated spirit
on God's Word. God's Word is spirit food" for a spirit
being.
LUKE 4:4
4....man shall not live by bread alone, but by
EVERY WORD OF GOD.
JOHN 6:63
63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh
profiteth nothing: the WORDS that I speak
unto you, THEY ARE SPIRIT, and THEY
ARE LIFE.
Jesus is using a human term—bread—to convey a
spiritual thought. He's saying that what bread or food is
to the body or to the natural man, the Word of God is to
the spirit man on the inside. The believer is to feed his
spirit on the Word to keep it strong.
Then you need to charge your recreated spirit by
getting built up in the Holy Ghost: "But ye, beloved,
building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying
in the Holy Ghost" (Jude 1:20). Praying in tongues
charges your spirit like a battery charger charges a
battery. It provides a rest and refreshing even in the