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He led me to an area that had a group of stone bench-
The mind is a valuable piece of real estate in the spiritual
world. It is a womb that can be full of God’s creative
power or the enemy’s destructive power. The kingdom of
light or darkness can form and legislate through the
mind. Our thoughts determine which authority owns the
spiritual real estate.
In real estate, a property is ripe for
development. Developers, real es-
tate agents and home owners sur-
vey properties to assess the appreci-
ation or depreciation as a gauge for
potential of value and growth. What
a property can become depends on what it is built on
and what is placed inside of it.
With the mind, there are different spiritual agents who
have their own motives. The enemy’s agents assess the
condition of our soul to see an entry point where they
can plant seeds of destruction. The Lord seeks to develop
the mind through His Word and Spirit to plant seeds of
salvation. Both use a common tool for development: ex-
perience.
Last March I attended a silent medi-
tation retreat at my church. We
spend one night and two days in a
beautiful place called Epworth by
the Sea in St. Simon’s Island, GA.
The goal was to connect with the Holy Spirit, but there
was one rule: you could not talk to anyone the whole
time. As the Holy Spirit and I walked through the
grounds, He began to show me greater revelations of
Him and His word through nature.
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es. They were arranged like arena style seating: a set of
concentric circles with a stone bench in its center. I saw
a vision where Jesus was in the center and there were
scribes, Pharisees, and disciples listening to Him teach.
The Pharisees brought in a woman and placed her in
the center. I realized this was the story of the woman
caught in adultery in John Chapter 8.
As the story unfolded, the woman changed into me and
what I had done was being judged by the law. Then it
changed to a person who betrayed me the most, and I
saw every experience that happened in the past several
years. I became the Pharisee condemning that person.
With each of us, Jesus exercised grace and forgiveness
and called for repentance. The Holy Spirit convicted
me. I had allowed hurt, bitterness, and unforgiveness
to seduce me into not following God’s word: forgive
others as I have forgiven you. Those spirits had set up
residence and depreciated my mental real estate into
one that turned away from God. The Holy Spirit em-
powered me to call grace to the mountain of unfor-
giveness as it says in Zechariah 4:7. Now my mental
and spiritual real estate are no longer covered in dark-
ness and deception. The entrance of God’s word
brought in light. Our mind is a battlefield that we be-
lievers must guard consistently for the right spiritual
development.