Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I am Lisa Kan. I'm recording this teaching on Sunday, November 3rd, 2024. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we lift you up. We bless you, honor you, and worship you. You are faithful and true. You are mighty and glorious. You are full of loving kindness and mercy and grace. Thank you. We pray and ask that your word does not return void. We pray that the listeners have been prepared by your Holy Spirit to hear your word. I pray that our minds are open to receive your word. That we believe and apply and act on your word and live by your word. That we choose spiritually the decisions ahead of us. Not the physical, not the carnal, but the spiritual decisions with you, Father God. For the spiritual reality is true and strong. This is temporary. Spiritual is permanent. And Lord, we lift you up and look forward to being in spirit with you in the name of Jesus. You are mighty and holy and we thank you in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. Welcome. Glad you can join us. I'm teaching a teaching called spiritually minded. Let's go to our opening scripture here and look in Romans 8:6. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. So, what I do when I teach, if you are new to this type of teaching, I'm going to show you the scriptures here on the screen. I'm using the King James version. The words in the bolded color are the words in the King James version. The ones in parenthesis are other words that that word means through the Hebrews and Greek Strong dictionary. So you can go look up those words if you have the Strong's concordance and you can see these words are listed in the the original language. So in other words, the authors could have translated it with those words but chose not to. They use the words in bold. So, I believe that when you see these other words um that you're you're seeing the entire meaning of that scripture and it comes to life because you're getting the full um meaning behind what the original text meant for us to believe and learn in. Amen. So, let's read it again with the extra words now. So instead of carnally, so for to be external body minded, meaning everything that's on the outside of your body is what drives you. Your physical body drives your mind. You're hungry, you go eat. Things of that nature. That's what being carnally minded is. Look at this. For to be carnally minded, external minded, by the way, is inclination or purpose. So you have a purpose. You're purpose. You're hungry. So you're purposely going to go eat because it's driving you to do that. Watch this. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. So, we're talking about being spiritually minded. For life and peace, and that word peace there, um, is prosperity, quietness, rest. You know, you can have all the money in the world, but you could be suffering big time. So I want to teach us here today how to be spiritually minded, how to overcome carnal thinking so that we are driven by the Holy Spirit and not by what our bodies want. Amen. So we're in Romans chapter 8. So if you have your Bibles, we're going to be focusing in that whole most of that whole chapter there. So Romans 8, let's read verses 1 and two. There is therefore now no condemnation. That word condemnation is adverse sentence. You don't have uh the sentence is against you. Uh you have a verdict. The verdict is found guilty. However, no condemnation means the verdict has been reversed. There is therefore now no condemnation to th them which are in Christ Jesus. I'm going to pause here. If you are listening to this teaching and you want to be spiritually minded, you have to believe in Jesus Christ. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it. That's the reality of it. There is no other way. You know, there are many people who believe and teach that there all these ways get to God. Well, I asked them this question. And if I give you the address to my house and you go in the opposite direction, will you get to my house? No. So always don't get to heaven. So you do need to believe in Jesus Christ. Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. So understand that you need to believe in Jesus Christ first. Very important. And he's telling you this here. There is therefore now no condemnation to the to them which are in Christ Jesus. Because see, when you believe in Christ Jesus, you've been pardoned. Redeemed. That's what the word redeemed means, pardon from your sins. The guilty verdict. You've been pardoned. It's like the governor pardon pardoning a sinner in prison and he lets him go at the end of his term. He decides to let these guys go. Presidents do that when they're leaving their terms. They pardon all these people. Well, Jesus did it for anyone who wants to believe. Amen. So, that's straight up right there. As plain as you can get it. There is now no verdict, no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. So now, as a believer in Christ, you're required to walk by the spirit and not by the flesh. Yet, many will go back by the flesh. It's what we know. It's what we've been taught. That's what we do. But he's telling us you need to be spiritually minded. You need to be walking by the spirit, not by the flesh. How do we do that? And he's telling you first, you need to be a believer in Christ. And then if you are walking with Christ, then you should not be walking with the flesh. You should be walking after the spirit. Look at verse two. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. It liberates you from the law of sin and death. See, when you're a sinner, they're consequences. Consequence to sin is death. Romans 6:23 says, "The wages of sin is death, but the gift of life is God." So, every time you're sinning, you're supposed to be dying. But look what it says here in verse two. It says you're free from the law of sin and death. Wait a minute. I don't have to die. And what death is, I love how Paul says it. He says, "Oh death, oh death, where is your sting?" He knows that absent from the body is present with the Lord. That is awesome. So, we're free from the law of sin and death because we are following the law of Christ. And and Christ is supernatural. He walked through walls. He walked on water. He rose from the grave. They touched the holes in his hands and in his feet. He is alive. Which means when we face death and death tries to take us like it did Jesus. And it it may well it may well do that unless the rapture happens in our lifetime. death takes us. But guess what? We rise from that and we're no longer subject to permanent death. And that's what that is. So Jesus died. He was in the grave for three days, but three days later he was up out of that grave, including a whole bunch of graves around him. You can go read Matthew on that and it'll show you that. Let's go to verse five. For they that are after the flesh. So we're still talking about carnally minded uh instead of uh spiritually minded. So there's a decision that we have to make. He says, "For they that are after the flesh," you're deciding on the flesh. "Do mind the things of the flesh." Just pause there. "Do mind the things of the flesh." Your flesh gets hungry, what do you do? You go and eat. So why do we have to fast? Now remember, when Jesus was casting out demons and his disciples couldn't cast out a particular kind, the disciples asked, "Why couldn't we cast them out?" Cuz see, they knew they were supposed to. They knew they should have, but they couldn't. So Jesus says, "Well, this kind takes fasting and prayer." Meaning their disciples hadn't been fasting. So if you're struggling with casting out a demon, you need to fast. Why? Because you're choosing spiritual realm. You're forcing the hunger in your body to come down. You're telling your body, you're not in control. I choose to believe in the spiritual realm. That's what being carnally minded is. There's also other applications. For example, you get a doctor's report. The doctor tells you uh you have cancer. You can say, "No, I don't." No matter what the doctor's report is, you say, "No, I'm going to go to the Lord and he's going to take care of that because the Lord Jesus is over that cancer." Romans 10:9 again, that if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord. You say, "Lord Jesus, you are over this cancer. I'm not going to die of cancer. In fact, I don't even have to worry about it." You want to know why I don't have to worry about it? Because God won't take me home till he wants me to get home. So, if I need to live with that all the way till the days he takes me, then that's the way it is. But I promise you, you will have peace and quietness in your soul, in your body. You won't be suffering. You won't be in pain because you declare Jesus over it. You're choosing to be spiritually minded versus carnally minded. Let's continue on in verse five here. But they that are after the spirit, the things of the spirit. So that's what I just explained. If you're going to choose to believe the doctor's report, then you are believing in the flesh. And yet you're a believer in Christ. And if you believe that Jesus rose from the grave, then you believe you're going to rise from the grave. That means you're not filled with sickness and it will not hold you down. Yes, it could be that that sickness goes away after you die. But I promise you, if you are calling on the name of Jesus now, you are planting the seed and you are preparing your body to no longer have that in it. And some people it will be uh an instantaneous miraculous healing. Some people it may take a few days, some people may take a few months, but you will get healed the moment you declare Jesus Lord over it. And how? Because you believe that Jesus has rose from the grave. How do you do that? I'm calling on Jesus and I can't see him, but his name is so powerful and he may be in heaven preparing a place for me and you, but guess what? He gave us his name. He gave us the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is required to move when you declare the name of Jesus because it is scriptural and it is truth and it has to move. You have to understand the law of spiritual spiritual reality. You see, that's more real than this. So, when you get spiritually minded, you're saying, I'm going to apply Jesus, his name, and the Holy Spirit is required to go move forward in the name of Jesus. This is scriptural. So, to be spiritually minded is to be in the scriptures. I hope you're catching this. Let's continue on. Verse six. To be carnally minded is death. So, he's very clearly telling you you're going to die if you're going to continue to believe whatever the doctor's telling you or whatever you're feeling. You know, oh yeah, I'm feeling like I got something in my stomach and it ain't going away. And you've been dealing with it for months, maybe even years. This is when you say because you keep believing that. You're being carnally minded. You're thinking in the back of your head, you got something there and you know it's bad. You don't even want to go to the doctor because you know it's bad. You don't even have to think that way. Choose to change the thinking pattern of your mind. Choose your mind and shift it to say, you know what? So what? I do feel this, Lord. But I'm declaring you, Lord Jesus, over it, and I'm asking that you take care of it because it's not mine anymore. This body belongs to you. It's your holy temple. You see, you start applying the scriptures to it. You start applying the spirituality, being spiritually minded to it. things start happening. So for to be carnally minded is death. To be spiritually minded is life and peace. This is our opening scripture. I want you to notice something here. Um we are talking about deliverance. To be spiritually, look at this. It means current of air, the rational soul, the vital principle, your mental disposition or the superhuman minded part of your life. There's a guy back in many years ago and I haven't looked him up so I I don't know who I can't remember his name but he's a guy that swam in the Arctic Ocean for 30 minutes and they got him out and he was fine. His internal temperature never dropped. Mind over matter. And a lot of people believe in this. Now many are weak minded. But here's the key. The moment you say the name of Jesus, no matter how weak-minded you are, whether you have zero faith or even just amount smaller than a mustard seed, which is very small, that little amount is all you need for the spirit, the Holy Spirit to move. Now, what does this also mean? When you're doing this, you declare the Lord Jesus, you are talking, you are moving the air around you. Let's talk about the air for a minute. Let's talk about being spiritual. Spirit is air. It's something you can't see. You know it's there. You know when people say, "Well, like scientists, if I can't see it, I ain't going to believe it." Yet, you know that if you go in a room and you remove all the oxygen from the room, what happens to the any life in there? It dies. Anything that needs oxygen, it dies. Fire hydrogen systems in buildings, that's what they do. they deprive the room of oxygen and the fire goes out. So when to be spiritually minded is to let that air current of air flow through us. So when you're dealing with deliverance and you're delivering somebody, you're you're trying to get them to think differently. You're trying to get them to think not on the physical manifestation of anger, hate, depression, whatever it may be. You're saying, "Let's shift your change of thinking. Let's let's change your thinking. Let's shift it over." You're going from talking about the flesh because it's physically there. You know it. You see it. I'm always angry. I'm always hateful. I'm always bitter. I'm always jealous. Uh I'm I'm feeling depressed. You have all of those spiritual attributes. So you want to shift that thinking to say Lord Jesus I declare you over my anger. I declare you Lord Jesus over my whatever you name it. You declare it over cancer. You declare it over depression. You declare it over a hate, anger, jealousy, bitterness because you do not want to be like that. You want to be spiritually minded. And what happens is because there's a physical thing holding on to you, even though it's spiritual, it leaves your body. When you do deliverance and you're in the deliverance ministry, you are aware of exorcisms. Well, there's different variations of exorcisms. Sometimes if you just started dealing with depression and you've only been dealing with it for like a week or two or three weeks, you're you might just sneeze it out. That's a burst of air leaving your body. You might cough it out, flatulate it out. That is a spirit of ver of air leaving your body. That is the manifestation of these things. Now sometimes if like you were uh born um and your parents dedicated you to Satan when you decide you know the Lord works in you and gets you changed and you start getting rid of that stuff you're manifesting and it is just you're just trying to burst it out. Well, you are going through a heavy manifestation. Those demons don't want to leave you. They've got claws in you and you got to rip them out and it will be a burst of air that is so strong. Uh it you have dry heaves. You you won't see actual vomit per se. I mean some people are sensitive so maybe they will but those that aren't it's just a burst of air coming out of you and it's you're getting rid of it. You're purging it. That's good. Let it out and then stand up and let the Holy Spirit in. You got to ask the Holy Spirit to replace that hate and anger. Say, "I ask you, Holy Spirit, to fill me with your love and joy, your peace, because I'm declaring you, Lord Jesus, over my body, and I choose to walk in peace." You choose to be spiritually minded. You choose to walk with the Holy Spirit walking through your body. That's what this is all about. That's what being filled or being spiritually minded is about is letting go of the flesh and choosing to walk in the spirit. That doesn't make any sense. How could you just simply say Jesus is Lord over this? Because Romans 10:9 tells us which the Bible is truth and Jesus went to the cross as the son of God and he took sin on and he dealt with it then. So since sin has already been dealt with, you declare him Lord Jesus over your life. Then you declare him Lord Jesus over your insides and you choose to be spiritually minded. You're declaring his redemption over you. And then the fruits of the spirit begin to manifest in you. You start to have that love, joy, peace, gentleness, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and self-control because you're walking in a spiritually minded, firmed, foundational type of word in the word of God, the name of Jesus. He's our foundation. He's our strength. He's our glory. And we breathe and live through him. Because every time we choose that, we choose to be more spiritual because this world, this life is temporary, but there's a life after. Oh, and when we get there, that's where heaven is and we're going to be there. So, we're already practicing it here and now. We're putting our flesh down and we're letting our spirit stand. Amen. Being spiritually minded. Let's go to verse seven. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God. Let's stop. So our physical body is constantly fighting with God. Enmity. Let's look at that word. It means hostility. We're hostile with God. Our flesh tells us, "I'm in pain. I'm suffering. I'm hungry. I need this." But the moment you take control spiritually, you tell your hungry body, listen, you're fasting right now. You will deal with it. You will get food later on. And your body has to submit to it. You have a headache. Your body has to submit to the name of Jesus. The name of Jesus is what rules your body. So you're not in that enmity, the hostility. Remember Genesis when the fall of man occurred, the curse of enmity was there between the woman and God. So that it's hostility. We're constantly fighting with God. And it's we don't want to be that. We don't want to fight against God. See, to fight against God, you're not in the word of God. You're doing things your own way. You're being disobedient. It makes sense in here. But that's not what we're to do. We're to make sense in the word. Let the word be our foundation and our strength. Amen. Let's continue on. For it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. See the body cannot reflexively be obedient to God. It it eventually you will have to feed your body. You can subject subject it to hunger 1 day, 3 days, 17 days, whatever number of days you can fast 40 days eventually and I think the 40 days is the limit. you have to feed it food and water and you are very weak at that point but in the flesh but spiritually if you've ever gone on a fast let me tell you my longest was 17 days and um let me just simply say you become extremely aware and I use that very passively but extremely aware of things on the other side that's going on around You truly do. It's incredible, too. So, you're becoming spiritually minded, spiritually aware. You're becoming aware that sicknesses doesn't have to rule your body. You're becoming aware that you don't have to be subject to sin because you've been set free and redeemed and pardoned by our mighty savior Jesus. You become aware and your mind walks in that manner. It walks in the name of Jesus. It's no longer subject to the flesh and what the flesh is telling it to do. Somebody cuts you off. What's the first thing your body wants to do? Whether you're in a line at an amusement park or whether you're driving in a car, somebody cuts you off. You think that's not fair. I'm right here. your flesh rises up. But to be spiritually minded, back off. Let them in. Big difference. How do you get that? That's through self-control. That's walking with the fruits of the Holy Spirit. You're letting the fruit of the Holy Spirit begin to manifest in you. Amen. Verse eight. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. And there's the simple truth of it. To be obedient and to please God is to walk spiritually. Faith without works is dead. You cannot take a leap of faith if you cannot believe that there is a Jesus and he rose from the grave. It is a very simple matter of fact. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the father except through him. So to be obedient, you have to get rid of flesh thinking, stinking thinking. And what you have to do is allow the Holy Spirit to manifest and let the fruits of the spirit uh build up in you. Verse nine, but you're not in the flesh, but in the spirit. If so, be that the spirit of God dwell in you. Now, if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Dwell in you. You're allowing Jesus to be a part of your life. You spend time. Here we go. Dwelling this now. We're allowing Jesus to dwell within us. It's a two-way street here. I've been preaching about dwelling in the secret place with the Lord for years now. Psalm 91, you take the time where you set up a private moment between you and God. Whether it's your desk, in your bed, in your closet, in your car, you open up the Bible, you read, you pray, you have a two-way dialogue. Well, look at here. To be spiritually minded is to allow God into the chambers of your being. You have four chambers in your heart. You have your mind. You're allowing God to be every part of your body spiritually. And because he is light, what happens is the light shines on the inside. Darkness has to flee, which means all boils, cancerous things. They're exposed. They're exposed to light. And the light kills them, dissolves them, destroys those things. And you live because you're pleasing God. So God turns everything around that is death to life. Death put Jesus in the grave, but his life came right back up. We had that same promise. So we're facing death in the future, whether it is through the rapture or whether it is something else. All we know though is that three days later or whenever it may be, Paul says, absent from the body, present with the Lord, instantaneously you're in the presence of God spiritually and you get a new body out of it. Oh, this is awesome. Verse 10. And if Christ being you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. The body is dead already. And because the body is dead, you're died to this life. This is why you can go up in the rapture. If the rapture happens in our lifetime, we're entitled because Hebrews 9:27 says, "Everyone's appointed to die once." Well, guess what? We don't have to because we are already dying to our flesh because we choose to be spiritually minded, not carnally minded. Hallelujah. And then but the spirit is life because of righteousness because God has declared us righteous because we're being obedient. We're walking with him. We are walking in that right standing with God. We become righteous. And we're obedient. We're thinking righteous. We're thinking God first. We're putting God first. for applying his word. No weapon formed against me shall prosper. He has good thoughts for me. My future is established because he's made it for me. He knows me. He has a book written of me. He is my God, my shepherd. By his stripes, I was healed. All of these scriptures are appliable to your life. You get to keep quoting them because now you stand in the promises that he has given you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Verse 13. For ye if for if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die. But if you but if ye through the spirit do mortify or put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live. In other words, put the spirit ahead of the body and you're going to live. The body is decaying. It's going to eventually die anyways. We don't want this body. We want the new one that's coming. This one is messed up. But you know what? You can declare the Lord Jesus over it. And what happens is he restores it and it is all redeemed. And that means that sin, sickness, disease, whatever, bye. You tell it bye. Goodbye. I don't want to see you ever again. Because you have the authority and the right to name the name of Jesus over whatever is within you. Amen. Verse 14. For as many are as are led by the spirit. They're driven by the spirit of God. They are the sons of God. And what does that mean? That means you're a joint heir with God. Oh, verse 15. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, aba, father. The spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. And if children, than heirs, heirs of God and joint hes with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. Jesus says, "We will do greater things than even he did." When he stopped to speak to Mary Magdalene on the way up to heaven with all that billions of souls behind him, he said, "I go to my father, your father. I go to my God, your God." Oh, that's incredible. He elevated us to be joint hes with him. Which means that if the demons had to be subject to his name, they are still subject to his name. And we get to use his name in whatever situation we can declare the name of Jesus. And the demons have to have to listen. And the better part of it all is he Jesus says, don't just rejoice in the fact that the demons do what you say. Rejoice in the fact that your name is written in the Lamb's book of life. That you get to choose to live when you're spiritually minded versus carnally minded. Put the body down, but declare the name of Jesus over the body. You're choosing spiritual mindedness. Think, move your thinking from, "Oh, this hurts to," okay, Lord Jesus, I know this hurts, but I'm declaring the name of Jesus because I'm done dealing with it. You shift the way you think. That is what deliverance is all about my friend. Move your spiritual thinking. Move it or from carnally thinking to spiritual thinking. Let the spiritual thinking be your rock and your foundation so that you may live in prosperity, quiet, peaceful life. Oh hallelujah. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. Help us to walk in your word. Help us to apply the name of Jesus to whatever situation we're facing. Help us to choose spiritually mindedness versus carnally minded us mindedness. Help us to walk in the spirit and not in the flesh. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I will see you in the next message. Bye-bye.