 you and I are a spirit we have a soul and we live in the body when God created us he went into the dirt and he put his hands created our body and then when our body was created God breathed into our body a breath word spirit in Hebrew is raw or wind or breath so God breathes his spirit into our body and the Bible says man became a living soul your soul and your spirit are so mysteriously intertwined that there's they're actually kind of together though they're separate the Bible says the word of God separates the soul and the spirit but in reality they're together and many times the Bible refers to your soul and your spirit as a heart that's why when you see in the Bible many times a heart is refers to your soul and your spirit because they're almost like together when you die your spirit and your soul they depart from your body and that's what death is where death is separation death is not a funeral death is separation when we are separated so you and I have a spirit from God when we are not following Jesus Christ because a spirit is given to connect to God our soul is given to connect to humanity and our body is given to connect to the world the physical world when your spirit is not connected to God it's dead but when you come to Jesus Christ your spirit becomes alive your spirit becomes new there was a gentleman who came just recently to our church and he went through some very rough things and he was a religious person he read the Bible a few times and last Wednesday he gave his life to Jesus Christ and he was crying and weeping and after about 10 o'clock he calls his mom and says mom I have to tell you something God did something to me I'm alive I'm new and because she was kind of freaked out because he called it 10 o'clock and if you call your parents at 10 o'clock you know it's usually not because you are saved it's usually because you're in trouble so I talked to him and he said Vlad I'm alive I was like well it's obvious you are alive he says no not body alive spirit alive that's what happens when you get saved you become alive the part of you sometimes you don't even realize is dead becomes alive your spirit amen how many of you experienced that you know what I'm talking about so that is your spirit so your spirit came from God your spirit the Bible says is a lamp of the Lord means this is the place where God communicates to you this is your spirit is like your mailbox for God God doesn't dump or throw his messages in your backyard he doesn't throw it into your physical ears he throws it into your spirit your spirit is the connection point between you and God can somebody say amen your spirit can be developed the Bible says about John the Baptist is that John grew strong in the spirit so your spirit is it must be growing it must develop it shouldn't stay in the same place and one more truth I want you to write down is your spirit can endure sickness your spirit the Bible says it can sustain men in the sickness that means when your spirit is strong your spirit affects how your physical body operates many people can endure through enormous pain and can overcome and actually cancel pain by the strength of their spirit there's there are stories and I remember one story about um about Roger Benningster and he was diagnosed with a terminal illness in England and he couldn't walk because of that illness and something happened is that not only he chose and said I will be able to walk he made a declaration to his doctor he said I will run he can't walk he's in a wheelchair but because a man's spirit is focused is strong it's unbeatable that mine is sharp he began to take those steps at first he fought he fell so many times he was so disappointed emotionally but mentally he was still strong until he managed to stand on his feet and barely walk he said I will run he started to push himself and run he started to run and this man was the first man in the history of the world to break a record of running a mile under four minutes you have to understand this record of running a mile under four minutes was declared by medical doctors impossible to break in some olympic games they even had or some games they've had people painted bread and they've sent bulls after them to make him finish a mile under four minutes and they couldn't and this man who was diagnosed with a terminal illness overcame that barrier why because every barrier in life first must be broken in your spirit every barrier in your health must first be broken in your spirit many people their barrier is not in the ring it's not in life it's not in the family it's not in the finances it's not in the business it's not your poor upbringing it's not your education it's right here