Excerts from "Sprit, Soul, and Body" by Andrew Wommack

"The Christian life isn't a process of "getting from God". Instead it's a process of renewing your mind, and learning to release what you've already received. It's much easier to release something you've already got than to go and get something you don't have.

The truth is--your spirit has totally changed. It changed at salvation. Upon making Jesus Christ your Lord, your spirit underwent an instant and complete transformation. People don't understand that the change took place in their spirit and has to work it's way out into their souls and bodies.

You aren't in the process of trying to get anything from God. Everything you'll ever need in the Christian life is already present in it's entirety in your spirit. At this very moment, your born-again spirit is as perfect and complete as it'll ever be throughout eternity. You won't get a new spirit when you arrive in heaven, and neither will it need to be matured, or cleaned up from any defilement down here on earth. Your spirit is--right now--as perfect, mature, and complete as Jesus Himself.

After being born again, the rest of the Christian life consists of simply renewing and releasing. As you renew your mind and believe God's Word, your soul will agree with what's already transpired in your spirit. When your soul comes into alignment with what it sees in God's spiritual mirror, what's already in your spirit releases into your soul and body. That's how you experience the benefits of salvation, such as healing.

Most people don't recognize the fact that their spirit is the core of their being. They function primarily out of their soulish realm, believing what they think and feel is reality.

Your spirit is the real you. "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead." (James 2:26). After God formed Adam, He breathed into him the breath of life (Genesis 2:7). The Hebrew word for "breath" is rendered "spirit" not only here but also in Job 26:4 and Proverbs 20:27. Adam's soul (his physical, mental, and emotional parts) had no life in them until the "spirit" was imparted. Your spirit is your life-giving part!

Your spirit has no direct access to your physical body. Everything that comes out of your spirit must go through your mental and emotional part. Your soul acts like a valve between your spirit and your body. When you open the valve, what's in your spirit can flow into your body.

Remember in your spirit you've got the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead (Ephesians 1:18-20). Yet it's possible to have the power and never manifest it. If your soul, like a valve, stays closed to the truth, you won't experience it. Without opening the valve by renewing your mind to God's Word, the eternal reality in your spirit won't be able to impact the temporal "reality" of your physical realm. All that resurrection life and power just stays locked up inside you until you look into the spiritual mirror long enough to see the real you and release it.

You could actually die with all the power that raised Jesus from the dead sitting untapped within you. It would be like dying of thirst while leaning against a well full of life-giving water. If you are dominated by what you feel, your soul is agreeing with the natural realm. "I feel sick and my body hurts. The doctor said I'm dying. Here's my medical report to prove it." Even though you have the resurrection life of God in your spirit, your soul can keep it shut off so that not one drop of life-giving power ever touches your physical body.

You can experience depression, anger, and bitterness all while possessing God's love, joy, and peace in your spirit. (Galatians 5:22). Since this applies to every area of your life, can see how pivotal your soul is?

Your body doesn't really control anything. It just goes with the flow of what it sees, tastes, hears, smells, and feels unless otherwise influenced by the soul. Left to itself, your body just reacts to and goes along with what's happening in the physical realm.

When your soul agrees with your spirit, the life of God in you will manifest itself in your physical body. You'll experience healing, deliverance, anointing, victory, power, joy, prosperity--on and on it goes.