Does anybody know the difference between your soul and spirit? As a believer, I didn't for years. There is a difference. When you look up in the dictionary the word 'soul', you find this...
The animating and vital principle in humans, credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity
Your 'thought' is your mind, action would be your 'will', and 'emotion' is just what it says, your 'emotions'. Your soul is your "mind, will, and emotions".
We are made up of three parts. Our physical body, our soul (mind,will, and emotions) and our spirit. Our spirit is that part which is our true life (that force or principle of life that animates the body of living things). This is the life that God breathed into each of us and when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, He deposits His 'Holy Spirit' into our 'spirit'.
Knowing the difference between 'soul' and 'spirit' helps a bunch in understanding the Bible and how they work.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Here's to your Health!
Proverbs 17:22 A cheerful heart is good medicine but a broken spirit dries up the bones. NIV
GWT says, " A joyful heart is good medicine, but depression drains one's strength".
Basic says, "A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry".
Darly says, "A joyful heart promoteth healing, but a broken spirit drieth up the bones".
Douay-Rheims says, "A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones".
AKJV says, "A merry heart...".
What kind of heart? A cheerful, joyful, glad, merry heart. Wait a minute....back up here! Douay-Rheims says 'joyful mind'. Could the mind and heart be so closely connected? One and the same?
Proverbs 23:7 says they are. "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he." You think in your heart?
What does that kind of heart-mind do? It makes good medicine (it heals), makes a healthy body, promotes healing, makes age flourishing (flourish- prosperity, vigor, a flourishing condition, hmm....you prosper health wise, even when you age, I like that!).
What kind of spirit? A broken spirit, a crushed spirit, a sorrowful spirit, just plain ole' depression (a depressed spirit).
Depression is 'loss of hope, inactivity, dullness, despondency'. Just plain ole' heaviness of the heart.
What does this kind of spirit do? Dries up the bones, makes bones dry, drieth up the bones, drains one's strength.
It's clear here that a broken, crushed, sorrowful, depressed spirit is (negative thinking, dwelling on the negative}, depression in action and we know depression drains you of your strength.
Positive thinking in your mind-heart heals your body, makes it flourish. Negative thinking in your mind-heart causes depression which drains you of your strength.
You are what you think!
For health's sake, THINK POSITIVE!
GWT says, " A joyful heart is good medicine, but depression drains one's strength".
Basic says, "A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry".
Darly says, "A joyful heart promoteth healing, but a broken spirit drieth up the bones".
Douay-Rheims says, "A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones".
AKJV says, "A merry heart...".
What kind of heart? A cheerful, joyful, glad, merry heart. Wait a minute....back up here! Douay-Rheims says 'joyful mind'. Could the mind and heart be so closely connected? One and the same?
Proverbs 23:7 says they are. "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he." You think in your heart?
What does that kind of heart-mind do? It makes good medicine (it heals), makes a healthy body, promotes healing, makes age flourishing (flourish- prosperity, vigor, a flourishing condition, hmm....you prosper health wise, even when you age, I like that!).
What kind of spirit? A broken spirit, a crushed spirit, a sorrowful spirit, just plain ole' depression (a depressed spirit).
Depression is 'loss of hope, inactivity, dullness, despondency'. Just plain ole' heaviness of the heart.
What does this kind of spirit do? Dries up the bones, makes bones dry, drieth up the bones, drains one's strength.
It's clear here that a broken, crushed, sorrowful, depressed spirit is (negative thinking, dwelling on the negative}, depression in action and we know depression drains you of your strength.
Positive thinking in your mind-heart heals your body, makes it flourish. Negative thinking in your mind-heart causes depression which drains you of your strength.
You are what you think!
For health's sake, THINK POSITIVE!
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