Maintain a Healthy Spirit.
Have you heard of the statement "health is wealth". I believe the statement means that in the same way we work for wealth we should work for our health and just as we work hard to maintain and safeguard our wealth we need to maintain and safeguard our health. This could be physical health, mental health, or spiritual health. In this discussion let us focus on maintaining a healthy spirit that is the health of your spirit. Every human being is a composition of three entities. We are primarily spirits we have a soul and we live in a body. Maintaining a healthy spirit is paramount if we need to manage and maintain health in the other two entities. Let's take a reading from the Bible, the book of Proverbs 18:14. (MSG) It reads, a healthy spirit conquers adversity but what can you do when the spirit is crushed."
It is clear from the scripture above that when the spirit of a man is healthy that person can easily conquer adversity. We can rephrase it in many different ways like; when your spirit is healthy you can conquer sickness, or when your spirit is healthy can conquer financial crisis. Whatever adversity you can imagine, it can be conquered if the spirit is healthy. This does not mean that adversity will not come. Challenges, crises, and turbulent times will certainly encroach your way, but when your spirit is healthy you will always rise above adversity. A healthy spirit will always conquer adversity.
Remember this, we are primarily spiritual beings. We are spirit beings, you are a spirit, you have a soul and you live in a physical body. Our real life and everything that happens in us and around us flows from the spirit part of our being. It is from this spirit us, the deep reservoir of our being that life flows. Now when that reservoir, the real you is healthy it means that health will flow everywhere else. Just like in the physical and mental spheres there are sicknesses that seek to attack our spiritual well-being. We ought to be vigilant lest we be infected by these sicknesses, and I will share some of them with you. Number one is the infection of negativity; a majority of cynical people have this infection. Number two is the infection of bitterness. Yes, bitterness is a big one and it is very infectious. Then there is the infection of worry, the infection of murmuring, and above all these the infection of sin. All these diseases and many others seek to affect and paralyze our spirits. We need therefore to do our due diligence in keeping and maintaining a healthy spirit.
How do we do this? How do we maintain a healthy spirit? First and foremost, for a healthy spirit, one should watch their diet, their spiritual diet. The spirit food is word thus it is paramount to be constantly feeding our spirit with the word of God. That's the diet of the spirit man, the word of God. We have to engage in the word of God daily, this can be through reading, memorizing, or listening to it. Listening to a lot of positive and faith-building messages goes is key to a healthy spirit. Secondly, we have to engage in prayer. We have to maintain fellowship with God because the life in our spirit flows from the Spirit of God our creator. So we have to maintain those open communications and fellowship with the divine through prayer and meditations.
Lastly, we have to engage in positive talk. This is both in our conversations with others and also self-talk. Nothing dampens the spirit of a man like negative conversations. Avoiding conversations that are negative, conversations that crush your spirit down goes a long way in maintaining a healthy spirit. We have to do our very best in maintaining a healthy spirit. Because a healthy spirit will give you victory against all adversity.
