An Exercise
William Cooper 2020
I would like for you to make a journey into your soul to converse with your Inner Spirit about spiritual power. Spiritual power is the ability to ignite or activate spiritual consequences in one’s self or others principally through the energy of attraction, charm, and delight. We need not, and should not, seek spiritual power. It will arise of its own accord when you make yourself into a loving, caring, compassionate and serving person. It is good if you recognize these powers for what they are and cooperate with them.
Spiritual fruits arise naturally as one of the consequences of our communion with the Spirit of God residing in our souls. They have a power from the Spirit to lure and attract other people into trust, cooperation, kindness, respect, and helpfulness.
Some spiritual fruits are:
Loving service | Unselfish devotion | Courageous loyalty
Sincere fairness | Enlightened honesty | Undying hope
Confiding trust | Merciful ministry | Unfailing goodness
Forgiving tolerance | Enduring peace
Spiritual weapons are gifts of the spirit of Jesus which also inhabits our souls. These are the weapons Jesus wants his followers to use to establish the kingdom of God’s love and mercy in the hearts of men. The spiritual weapons are:
Unfailing forgiveness | Matchless goodwill | Abounding love
These weapons are to be applied to overcome evil with good, to vanquish hate and anger by love and to destroy fear with a courageous and living faith in truth. Always are Jesus’ followers to be active and positive in their ministry of mercy and in their manifestations of love. The enemies to be banished with these weapons are evil, hate, anger, suspicion, and fear. The warriors are to display consistent goodness, love, and courageous trust in the truth that God’s love and kindness will transform all creation into God’s ideal of loving connectedness and cooperation.
Faith is trust in God to do God’s part in making truth, beauty, and goodness victorious over evil.
Righteous living is living loyal to the meanings and values God stands for. It is goodness.
Try this: I want you to visit with your Inner Spirit about developing your skill at manifesting spiritual power through spiritual fruits, spiritual weapons, faith, and righteous living. Think, ask, dialog, and/or hot pen (spiritual stream of consciousness writing). Your objective is to develop graciousness and charm in exercising these powers.