Our being joined to the Lord can only take place in our mingled spirit

“But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.” – 1 Cor. 6:17

For many in traditional Christianity, “faith” is little more than mental assent to certain articles of belief. That is how it was for me for many, many years.

Oh, my relationship with the Lord was real enough—but it was almost entirely in my mind. I hardly knew that I had a human spirit—let alone knowing what I should do with it. I had invited Jesus into my heart and that’s pretty much where He stayed—locked away from all the rest of my being.

It is only after I learned that I had a human spirit, and how to “exercise myself unto godliness” by feeding and exercising my spirit, that I discovered with all the saints that I could be truly united and mingled with the Lord Jesus dwelling as the Spirit of reality in my regenerated human spirit. It is reality of Jesus Christ dispensed by the Father as the Spirit into my spirit that allows the joining and mingling that makes us—Him and me, me and Him—“one spirit” (1 Cor. 6:17). This is experience truly is the normal Christian life—and not the exception.