Tag: Human Spirit

The Wife of Noble Character: A Chunk of My Thoughts on the Topic

by theparacleteshammer, posted in Principles Of Relationships

40 years…..

I know the arguments….

The discussion….

The debates…..

And the back-and-forth….

And enough experience on receiving end of what it should not look like in several dozen facets.

First marriage destroyed through adultery.

Second marriage lost due to interference from control, jealousy, and witchcraft because I work with survivors of Satanic Ritual Abuse.

January 14, 2005 to April 15, 2013: 3013 days.

April 19, 2014 to July 19, 2022: 3013 days.

And both marriages had many lessons to impart to me, and these treasures were not easily excavated. It was a crucible for the silver, and a furnace for the gold…

And I would like to offer the following bits, so thank you to those friends who enabled me to see some facets of a number of right ways of looking at this topic, and I would like to share things that maybe do not get enough daylight.

For those who ask if I am going to touch the egalitarian-complimentarian-headship debate, well, we will see.

But allow me to lead it with a couple of lines of thought….

Three Threads

Thread 0 offered, then set off to the side: Regardless of how I interpret Ephesians 5:21 followed by verses 22ff (I am very much of the view that in the context of the submission that all believers offer one to another, a wife still has a further place to submit in some way to a husband to loves her as Messiah loves His body), we are missing some critical ideas in this topic, because we look at roles, without looking at birthrights.

And design….

Women are not merely to play like they have hammers and swords….

Rather, they are to use them.

Thread 1:

A woman and her sword, once separated, leave her vulnerable in ways she should not be made so.

 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the L-RD G-d had made. He said to the woman, “Did G-d actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but G-d said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For G-d knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like G-d, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. 

Genesis 3:1-6 ESV

The chief clown, Lucifer (I call demons “clowns”) came to the woman with her man and spoke to the woman.

For those who say “the man should have spoken up”, I am going to stop you right there.

The attack of the clowns frequently shows us an indicator of design. Husbands and wives are made as foxhole partners. Period. Get that one into your spirit. I implore you. Wrestle with the junk that fights against both of you, and woman of G-d, pick up your sword.

Or your tent peg.

Healed Exhorter/Servant combos in action…

The Other Two Points:

At this point, the issue is not one of submission, but of dominion, and refusing the victim spirit. Also, it is not about blame-shifting, but about fighting together against the real enemy. The real question is not are you loving and submitted to one another. The real questions (and from this, submission and love will flow, as well as a whole host of other dynamics) are these:

“Are you together learning from Father how to build; and how to fight?”

“Not only that, but are you aware of the raw materials you have together with which to build in a creative fashion?”

Point 2: Building

I pose these questions to y’all, gang, because there are times when the Father is not going to give you directions to obey, but is rather going to turn the two of you warriors loose in order to make choices together about what to build creatively.

First, in the early days of your relationship, you are going to struggle because you are going to feel like there is no user manual for building. So you are might desperately struggle with working together as you slap something together because you feel like you have been thrown together with little training. And then, as you grow together, working with one another, synching with one another, you are going to get more intentional about what you are doing, and as you grow more intentional, you can begin to incorporate strategy, and timing, and understanding, and pacing, and wisdom, and you will get able to fold together intimacy with one another together with skill in building.

Slaves obey. Sons create.

Create and build together. There is something there that can be done. He wants to partner with you to enable and endue and empower you two to build.

Point 3: Fighting

Second, to fight together.

Are you also aware of the real enemy that you should both be protecting and covering one another from? Do you have your lover’s six? Can they count on you to protect them and to give the enemy an earful of the Word of G-d Himself, and a faceful of His shekinah on their behalf?

“Having done all, to stand….”
As Anne Hamilton has said, have you allowed the Bridegroom Warrior to kiss you into your armor? And that is something husband and wife were made to do in tandem with He who is Adonai T’Sevaot.

Again, as with the building part, you might find yourself clumsy as you work to direct your assaults away from your mate, whom the enemy will tempt you to attack as the source of all your problems, and against the real enemy. This is why you should exercise plenty of descretion when choosing a mate. And if you already have one, then work the best with what you have. This is not a decision to rush into, but rather to wait until the markers and evidence that this will be a redemptive relationship, one in which you can accomplish more redemptively together than apart. When you have the markers there, then a lot of the marriage prophecies and dependence on other people saying “thus saith the L-rd” can fall by the wayside.

Are you a safe place for your mate, and a terror to the enemy that assaults them?

Are you a confidant?

Do you hold secrets back one from another?

Can you share the little things together?

Do you have the common interests on some level?

Is there a cause?

The biblical text that gets overlooked, and I think the King Jimmy puts this best.
Matthew 19:5

For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

It’s not about the love and submission (shorthand for the Ephesians 5 text) at this point….

Go beyond the elementary principles to the roots of those things which give life to a marriage.

And at the root of every marriage, let me CAPS out three words in Matthew 19:5.

FOR THIS CAUSE….a man will leave his parents and be joined to his wife….

You have to have a cause….there has to be a reason….a purpose….for the connection….

What’s your cause…..

What’s your reason for wanting to wake up with this man, this woman…

As David said before he fought Goliath….”Is there not a cause?”

Do you have a reason? Is there something you do incredibly well redemptively with this woman that you do not do with another? Or this man?

The cause will show you what to build and what your fight is.

And are there connection points between you and she….or you and he…..?

And is there enough diversity and difference between the two of you to make things interesting.

And is there enough of a draw beyond the superficial that you will last?

I cannot believe I am sharing this cut…..

Oy,

Thanks Tiffany….

Before You “I Do”

Though, a man should be confident enough in his own identity and authority on some level BEFORE HE STEPS INTO A RELATIONSHIP BEFORE IT TURNS INTO MARRIAGE that he will not have married a harpy or yielded his authority and is asking a woman to lead him or make decisions for him OR TO OTHERWISE GIVE HIM HIS LEGITIMACY…

Conversely, a woman should be confident enough in her own identity and authority on some level BEFORE RELATIONSHIPS AND MARRIAGE HAPPEN that she does not marry either an abusive or controlling jerk or a passive, milquetoast man, or an immature manchild who will not listen to her voice when she speaks to him in fullness, honesty, and rawness.

There has to be not merely the biblical text triteism of mutual submission, but also some level of mutual vulnerability, and both parties walking in partnership with Messiah, and willing to work through the tough issues, especially of growth, healing, deliverance, and love with one another.

And G-d did not say we had to be completely healed before we step into relationships or marriage. Nobody in Scripture, including Messiah who was fully human was fully whole without emotional issues as a human before stepping into relationship.

What G-d looks for is willingness and vulnerability, not absence of wounds or scars. The three together of y’all, working through things and journeying on this adventure…G-d looks for people who will just walk with Him and put Him at the center and forefront of their lives.

And couples who will walk together with Him, protecting one another.

It really means something when we war together against the enemy of our souls. And instead of the usual dynamics, we look at life between two battle buddies, two partners in crime, two companions in this eternal adventure.

And we engage with one another without passive/agression.

Some couples choose the way of sarcasm, and that works for them.

The real clincher here though is, are you together on close to a similar page about the L-rd, and the enemy?

And the next question that I would ask is, is there a spirit-to-spirit connection between you and your beloved, because so much happens in that space, when the portions of your spirit, and the portions of your beloved’s spirit actually interact and mingle.

It’s not just about being one flesh. It’s about the joining of spirits and the connection of journeys so that things flow in alignment.

More about that in another post…..

Concerning the Father’s Faithfulness From Everlasting To Everlasting: WOR Blessing #4: Enduring in a Place

by theparacleteshammer, posted in June WOR Blessings: Reconciliation to Land

Enduring Where You are

When the Father shows you where He is taking you, He also might show you chunks of the process involved in sustaining you there.

It takes a process, and not just a movement to get to a place.

G-d may actually take you a place, due to His faithfulness to keep His word, where you had adequate time to develop the skill, but did not allocate that time to develop that skill necessary to sustain you in that place.

If you will not only ask the Father for your destination in this season, but also the willingness to embrace the character necessary to flourish in fulfillment in this season, He will gladly coach you.

But if you do not, then you may get there, but because the process was bypassed, you may not last there.

Blessing

So, beloved, I invite your spirit to be present. Spirit, if you will, the following is not issued as a command or an order, but as an imploration and an exhortation to listen. I plead with you to hear the word of El Shaddai for today:

 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let ENDURANCE have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Jas 1:2-4 NAS95

Beloved spirit, you were made to occupy a place of leadership in the partnership with the soul. And in that place, you were made to receive from the Trinity the resources necessary to not merely survive, but also to thrive in a place, whereever ______ goes. They have gifts, a design, callings, and aspirations, but those aspirations that flow from their design will not be sustainable without the process that galvanizes _______ and enables them to stick it out in a place when circumstances get difficult.

Testing…trials…these are part of our portion that lead us to a place of endurance in faith. They build the hardiness of sinewy, life-strong muscle that does not buckle. And spirit, I know life can be rough. But it is even more rough when that fruit of endurance has not been cultivated.

So, spirit, I bless you with a revelation of El Olam, the Everlasting G-d, who outlasts every other god in the field and in the realms of eternity and time. He is built to Everlast, so that he might provide you with Ever-Rest.

Spirit, I bless you with a deep love and longevity that will outstrip every adversary, outdo ever accuser, and outwit every serpent.

I bless you to fight for those you love. I bless you to be encouraged against those who would doubt you.

I bless you to travel the many leagues and have strength yet to fight.

I bless you to have the endurance that leads you to overcome and conquer the ancient enemy that would seek destructions.

I bless not just the product of victory, but also the process that is difficult that is a Bessemer furnace that leads you to have and possess the strength to move toward victory.

I bless you with the skill to see what is ahead and what is in you, and I bless you to lean deeply into the heart of your Bridegroom and Father who “trains your hands to war and your fingers to battle” (from Psalm 144:1). I bless you to know what strongholds are present in a place, and what authority you need to cultivate in order to come in the opposite spirit in a place that needs freeing. I bless you also to see what issues you need to deal with personally so you can cultivate and earn the authority necessary.

And I bless you to see the land freed as a result of the endurance you will cultivate for _______.

Be blessed deeply, spirit, in the name of Yeshua.

Amein.

Blessing Your Spirit: Tiny Human Blessing, Part 3

by theparacleteshammer, posted in Blessings

Beloved,

I invite your spirit forward in the name of Yeshua.

Spirit, listen to the word of El Shaddai for you for today

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside quiet waters.

Psalm 23:2

Spirit,

There is a place in the letter to the Laodiceans that gets overlooked as a blessing.

“I wish that you were hot OR COLD.”

Cold refers to a cup of cold water given to the little ones, and it signifies usefulness. A resource that can still be used and used well.

Cold water is refreshing on a plush lawn on a hot summer day, and even in the cool north, hot summer days happen.

And the balance necessary for green pastures is not just the sunshine, but also the coolness of evening and night, the rhythm of days that creates the right circumstances to help the grasses and plants grow.

And Father wishes to set you in a meadow of verdance. That was watered by cool water and saw the cool of the night.

There are going to be times when you need a plush lawn to set your bare feet upon, and it takes the right calibration of atmosphere and climate to bring that grass to reality.

Likewise, with well-calibrated human relationships that come from the Shepherd’s own hand, it take the right circumstances.

I don’t imagine much research has been done covering the effects of night time rhythms on foliage, but those breaks between sunshines I feel are needed.

And the grass is needed to create cushion, and food for the sheep. It’s a marker of provision, even though grasses are fleeting.

And the Greek Old Testament, the Septuagint, says G-d called into existence, specifically, “pastures of grass”.

So, spirit, because I want no nuance of the biblical text overlooked, I want to bless you accordingly.

I, Penelope, bless you deeply not just with green pasture from the Shepherd’s own hand, but also the conditions necessary that will bring those pastures into being.

I bless you with love and Mercy, and the sense of being hugged even in your mother’s womb. I bless you with the feel of my homeland, the Giver land known as Florida, with its plush carpets of St. Augustine Grass that underfoot are thick and hardy and broad with ample cushioning for bare feet, so that as you run, you can feel the grass blades between your toes. I bless you to know the sounds of Katydids and grasshoppers that use those grasses for homes. And I bless you with seasons. Many warm summers, breezy springs, cooling and colorful autumns, and the crisping winters that produce not only the snowdrifts of New England, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, but also the cold snaps that force the citrus of Florida into a place of discomfort, without which, no orange would move from sourness to sweetness.

I bless you with the bees of orange blossom honey, and the wafting sweet scents of the Northern Lilacs and the Confederate Jasmine.

I bless you in the spirit with a deep place of peace, a meadow full of His wildflowers and protective woolen fences as needed, when you need a refuge from the Egyptian fires of this age that would seek to destroy all you hold dear.

I bless you with the Shepherd King’s protective and prevailing pillar of affection by night and by day.

I bless you to know true intimacy with Him, and the continual reality of being being filled from your mother’s womb.

I bless you to be filled with the Holy Spirit, who is the manifestation of all that is Truest about the Three-In-One.

I bless you with deep and prevailing reminders of the King’s shalom to quiet you when much around you may become disquieting. So that your anchor may hold within the veil.

Blessing Your Spirit: Tiny Human Blessing, Part 2

by theparacleteshammer, posted in Blessings

Beloved,

I invite your spirit forward in the name of Yeshua.

Spirit, Listen to the word of El Shaddai for you.

“I shall not want.”

From Psalm 23:1

Spirit,

I am not going into some diatribe of wants vs. needs.

That’s been incredibly overdone to the point of no longer being useful.

Rather, I want to approach this from a bit of a different angle.

There is a place of lack that is not the portion of the follower of Yeshua.

And there is a place of abundance, of resources and raw materials provided by the Shepherd for the skillful reapplication of principles in order to transform well-managed-and-engineered raw materials into useful products to accomplish the King’s agenda.

Psalms is the boom of Sound.

It is the book for hacking the Fifth Head of Leviathan, so that hearts are heard.

Hearts get heard when resources are well stewarded. 

The skillful allocation of stewardship ensures the sound flowing from us is put in the right amplifier and sound intensification equipment so that nothing of the original sound.

Refusing to whine over the raw materials you got instead of the finished product ensures Leviathan is a defender rather than a devourer in this flow of life.

So, spirit, I bless you with John 10:10:

“The thief does not come except to steal, to kill, and to destroy. I AM come that they might have life, and that life abundantly.”

I bless you with the reality of life abundance, resource for the task at hand abundance, mental and emotional abundance, and abundance of love and tenderness.

I bless you with an anchored stability and security in wanting nothing because of the L-rd’s shepherding tenderness.

I bless you to know His voice and to experience Him in fullness.

I bless you to receive the joy that is unstoppable that comes from managing your resources well.

I bless you to learn to steward your sound exceptionally well.

I bless you to know the King’s living touch on all you put your hand to.

I bless you to deeply know your design and to unpack that truth of love. 

I bless you to feel the fullness of His grace awash in your life. 

I bless you to not want.

I bless your mind to be nimble, spirit, as well as the rest of you, to feel out what to do with each set of resources give to you.

I bless you to unpack resources that may jot look to others like resources.

And I also bless you to enjoy your joy as your parents enjoy you enjoying your joy and waking in your deep design.

Be at peace, spirit, in the name of Yeshua.

Amein…

Blessing 9: WOR September Blessings: Reconciled to G-d: Names of G-d: The G-d Whom Moves Us From Season To Season

by theparacleteshammer, posted in Principles, September Window of Reconcilaiton Blessings: Reconciliation to G-d

Beloved, I would like to speak to your spirit,

Spirit, listen to the word of G-d for you for today

It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea. The L-rd our G-d said to us in Horeb, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain.”

Deuteronomy 1:2, 6 ESV

“And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.”

Hebrews 11:6 ESV

Spirit, there are season where we move, and seasons where G-d moves.

There are also seasons where, as Smith Wigglesworth once said, “If G-d doesn’t move me, I move Him.” So, seasons of a push/pull with G-d.

And then there are seasons where G-d instructs us to move. And it may come to if we don’t move, He will move us.

In one such situation, I have a friend who did not want to take a new job with his company in a different city. His boss presented the opportunity and asked “who is moving from this place to the new branch office? He did not want to move. But his spirit, who knew it was a better opportunity and, as my friend retells the situation, he heard a voice inside himself say “sign me up.”

At which point, the transition began.

Now, spirit, faith expresses itself in a number of ways. In some cases, G-d looks for us to allow Him to move. And at other times, He looks for us to move, and still other times, He looks to partner with us as we move together. But the bottom line is that faith, to be living, necessitates some kind of movement that increases the Kingdom on at least some level.

The Kingdom is populated by sons who build.. and that building isn’t done in one simple way in one simple process. It is creative and unique and not always initiated by the same catalyst.

And for those who got hung up on the “sons” populating the kingdom and not daughters, I will say this. If I as a man can handle being called a Bride of Messiah, you as a woman can handle being called a Som of G-d.

Congratulations, life is uncomfortable for everyone.

Now, back to blessing your spirit.

Spirit, there are coming times when you will hear the voice of the L-rd tell you: it’s time to make the transition.

And not all transitions will look the same. Some transitions will be initiated by you (as in the very initiative-taking behavior of the Daughters of in Numbers 36), and some by the King (who said, “separate for me Saul and Barnabas”), and yet again, some by a partnership.

There are no sausage factories in the Kingdom.

We will have a series of situations where different types of movement in the spiritual realm will happen.

And we need to observe the sorts of movements necessary.

“You have spent too much time in this place.”

“Ten generations is long enough for your family in this county and states and nation.”

“That town has been a boat anchor around your legs for long enough. Leave.”

“You need to leave to put some geographic distance between yourself and that toxic family member.”

“Time for you to move.”

“Why don’t you take that new job?” (not a command, but a playful remark aimed at upping your curiosity at a situation).

Fill in the blank.

Spirit, there are going to be new seasons where you need to change your location at the prompting of the L-rd because His grace for a location has lifted.

And it’s not something you can explain to anyone. And if you tried explaining, they’d call you crazy.

So, spirit, I bless you to hear the L-rd when he speaks about transitions. When He speaks and says, “enough time dwelling here. Turn northward.”, I bless you with not only the skill to hear, but also the strength of will to follow through.

Moving can be incredibly destabilizing. But it is sometimes necessary to refresh a life.

I bless your move to be smooth-flowing and as you arrive at the new place made for you, I bless you to put down deep roots. I encourage you to not remain in a constant state of transition. Between transitions, each season is best marked by deepening roots.

I bless the transition to be nimble.

I also bless your desire to be in the new place to grow and increase so that you do not get comfortable with either Egyptian slavery or the arid wilderness.

I bless the home you are selling to look to the King for its life, and to not latch onto you or anyone or something anything else as its hope or promise of hope.

I bless you to know where G-d designed for you and to move in the direction of a place that will feel like HOME to you.

I bless your desires, spirit, for you to be able to articulate those desires, and for G-d to partner with you to give you a home that aligns with your desires and His desires.

I bless you that when you are transitioning to your new homestead, that you will see the land for what it is. Not merely a physician set of resources and assets to be looted and pillaged or used, but as a valuable place that exists in the spirit and impacts and is impacted by, the spiritual realm.

I bless you to see and perceive what the L-rd wants you to know about the place where you live.

And I bless you to steward that place effectively with an eye in the spirit to what is happening to your land beyond just what you see.

I bless you to make the transitions out of the desert and to move when the King tells you to move.

I bless that communication to be open and free, and I bless you to arrive at your desired haven and safe place.

I bless that series of transitions under the hand of the G-d Who Moves Your From Season To Season.

I bless you with those realities, in the name of Yeshua.

Amein

Windows of Reconciliation, What Are They?

by theparacleteshammer, posted in Principles, Window of Reconciliation

The Autumnal Equinox….

I used to dread this time of year since graduating high school because, and especially in the last decade, the attacks of spirits of witchcraft were exceptionally high.

I am connected with some family members that were married to practicing witches who engaged in blood sacrifices around this time of year.

I work with former victims of SRA (Satanic Ritual Abuse), and those victims have regularly reported parts of their spirit and soul—

SIDEBAR: WHAT IS A PART VERSUS A PORTION

I should back up for a moment and explain the difference between “a part” versus “a portion”, given those of us in the DID/SRA community work with a common framework and language.

In the arena of Dissociative Identity Disorder, “parts” are distinct from “portions of the human spirit”.

So, instead of a G-d-orchestrated COMMUNITY that was brought into existence through the will of G-d, which is what the seven portions of the human spirit are (they are 7, and yet 1, but still 7, yet still some how 1, because we were created in the likeness and image of G-d, who has seven spirits Himself), think of a mirror shattering and entities that came into existence through serious trauma. The soul breaking into parts and in some cases of serious trauma, the spirit shattering happens. And a lot of ritual abuse within the witchcraft and satanic communities happens around this time of year, where brokenness and defilement are routinely celebrated.

Contrast that with G-d who made us in His image and after His likeness (Genesis 1:26-27) and part of that image-bearing is our triune nature (spirit, soul, and body: 1 Thess 5:23), and our spirit, while whole is separated into seven portions like the Spirit of G-d (Isaiah 11:2, Revelation 4:5 and 5:6).

BACK TO THE MAIN TOPIC

This time of year, around the Autumnal Equinox, the change of season from Spring to Fall, holds a boatload of defilement that has accrued through years of agreeing what this season should mean and stand for.

Lesson here: Time can become defiled.

So as we have learned, there is a principle here, per Numbers 13. The times of the enemy’s greatest assault were originally designed to be the times and seasons of the L-rd’s greatest blessing. G-d wanted to send the children of Jacob into the Promised Land on the 9th of Av, and they refused to do so, and so that season became the time of greatest destruction for Israel.

Seasonally, we have discovered through repeated patterns that the seasonal changes have also come with heavy enemy attacks and also when we have leaned into the dynamics of reconciliation around these seasonal changes, they have been routinely blessed. That’s a measure of coming int the opposite spirit.

So, each of the seasons run as follows:

March 10-30ish: Reconciliation to Community

June 10-30ish: Reconciliation to Land

September 10-30ish Reconciliation to G-d

December 10-30ish Reconciliation to Destiny/Birthright

As you lean in that direction and utilize the various tools G-d has given you for reconciling, not kowtowing and not subjecting yourself to abuse, but genuine reconciliation, there have been massive payoffs in the arena of reconciliation in these four seasons.

So, bottom line, while things get easier in terms of breakthroughs and the quicker movement toward goals, a closer look at if describing what is available is as follows:

We have greater or stronger or disproportionate access to tools that enable our reconciliation with available these for arenas during these respective Windows, and if you think of what reconciliation is (the improvement of relationship between, and the healing/restoration of breaches or broken elements or places), some picture comes into sharper focus.

And that is part of the reason I facilitate blessings for those four season for the tribe, because the main reason Jesus came is not salvation, but rather RECONCILIATION. That that which is broken would be made whole.

Be at peace, as in shalom, as in wholeness, gang.

The Works of the Flesh Vs. The Fruit of the Spirit and the Third Head of Leviathan

by theparacleteshammer, posted in Human Spirit, Leviathan

Speed Bump Ahead

For the record, I am about to ruin some bad theology.

Along with the fivefold ministry, or more accurately, the way the fivefold ministry is usually portrayed very badly, I tend to be skeptical of political prophecies and an overquick reading of the Scripture, unless there is a bit of fresh manna being discussed, as with a single point of a new truth.

So, with that out of the way, let’s consider the following.

Paul enters a discussion of the flesh vs. the spirit in Galatians 5, starting with verse 16.

There is an interesting aspect that I want to cover.

Giver we have a spirit and a body made of flesh, what if what Paul is discussing in the fruit of the spirit is not the fruit of the Holy Spirit but the fruit that comes by the work of the reasonably healthy human spirit in partnership with the leadership of the Holy Spirit.

So, Paul talks about walking by the spirit in vv. 16 and 17 and he doesn’t capitalize “spirit”. Ignore the ESV capitalization for the moment.

And Arthur talked about the desirable outcome of us becoming factories and he illustrated factories in Joy Unstoppable, Disc 5, Third Head: Life, Cut 3 “Becoming a Factory” by using the example of a fruit tree.

What if the fruits are factories of creativity from orchard supplies of those qualities listed in Galatians 5:22-23, and the more we cultivate those, the more of a factory we will become?

Only in a functional human spirit can those fruit continue to grow in a sustainable way.

But they are meant to be storehouses of resources so we can bring forth the new things connected to the work of partnership between our human spirits and Holy Spirit, for the our working of Competence (Belongingness, Worth, and Competence are the qualities the Trinity ministers to our souls).

And voila! A factory that is self-sustaining.

Something to ponder, gang.