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    Is it Soup yet?: A Parable View of the Refining Process of the Holy Spirit
    Is it Soup yet?: A Parable View of the Refining Process of the Holy Spirit
    Is it Soup yet?: A Parable View of the Refining Process of the Holy Spirit
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    Is it Soup yet?: A Parable View of the Refining Process of the Holy Spirit

    By Nina Sausman

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    Following my Grandmother’s old recipe for homemade Chicken soup one day, I began to see similarities in each step to those of the refining process the Holy Spirit was doing in my own life. We, as Christians have been predestined to be transformed into the image of Jesus Christ. It’s a daily work of the Holy Spirit in us that brings it about. The process of dying to self and opening the way for Jesus to live life through us.

    I have written this book for the Body of Christ, both those who are new in their faith walk and mature Christians, to encourage, teach and challenge them to open themselves up to the amazing work the Holy Spirit desires to do in our lives.

    I have held this revelation in my heart for many years now. But as I look at our world and see the faces of so many who are desperately searching for something to fill the emptiness and loneliness in their hearts, I realize we have what they need in us, Jesus Christ. I believe that in such a time as this, it’s time for the Church, us, to show Jesus to the world as never before.

    I have lived, and experienced the events of each page and hope and pray that as you read and study it, you will learn to look at your life’s experiences no longer as just coincidence and evil circumstances of this world but as Spiritual events in the Transformation process.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateFeb 11, 2020
    ISBN9781400329458
    Is it Soup yet?: A Parable View of the Refining Process of the Holy Spirit
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    Nina Sausman

    Nina was born and grew up in the Youngstown, Ohio area. She now resides in Medina, Ohio with her husband Gary.  She has served her Savior and Lord, Jesus for many years and believes each day is a gift from God and lives it with joy and expectation. God has put His anointing on her to teach His word and mentor women which she does with the joy of the Lord. Her heart’s desire is to see the Body of Christ mature, measuring up to the fullness of Christ.

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      Is it Soup yet? - Nina Sausman

      CHAPTER ONE

      Born of the Spirit

      Let’s

      lay our foundation as we are going to be following a recipe for making spiritual soup (the refining process in our lives).

      Jesus said, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God (John 3:3). Wow, two trulies, which tell us this is a very important event he’s talking about. In fact, so important that he repeats it in verses five and six, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit (John 3:5, 6).

      The foundation is that in Scripture, water is a symbol of God’s Holy Spirit. When Jesus talked with the woman at the well, she began to question him: Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone who drinks of this water (the well) will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life (John 4:13, 14 ).

      Jesus is not speaking of literal water but a spiritual event. John expands on this: On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying ‘If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive (John 7:37–39).

      I think we can be confident that the water He refers to quenches a person’s spiritual thirst, cleanses one from sins, and brings about spiritual birth. We can see by these Scriptures that Jesus’ reference to water is closely connected to the Holy Spirit. It is God’s Holy Spirit who washes us clean and shapes His divine nature in us. The Holy Spirit in us is the purifier of silver we will see in further chapters.

      When we were born of our natural parents, we were totally dependent on them for all our needs: they fed us, clothed us, cleaned us up when we messed, and taught us everything we needed for life until we grew up and went out on our own. Looking back, it reminds me of a poem I wrote after giving birth to my daughter; it went something like this:

      Now I have been given a precious child, a child to love and teach of life. What to accept and what to fight, for there’s a lot to win, and a lot to lose, depending on which path they choose. For we can only teach them right from wrong, and hope they remember it when we’re gone.

      When we are born of the Spirit, we must become totally dependent on the Holy Spirit. He’ll feed us with the Word of God and cloth us with the new spiritual man the Bible speaks of. He’ll cleanse us by the water of the Word, teaching us everything we need to live a life that will glorify God. He’ll council us and discipline us as we grow in the knowledge of God and become Christlike.

      Some people may ask, Why must we be born again? I think Nicodemus asked the better question in John 3: How can we be born again?

      Allow me some liberty here to share something that put the born-again experience in perspective for me. Maybe you won’t see it the same way and that’s fine, but it has truly helped me.

      In Genesis 1:26a it says, Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.’ God is Spirit, and we were created as spiritual beings. He is one God, existing in three distinct persons—the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a triune being. We are also a triune being. We are a spiritual being (in God’s image) we have a soul (our mind including our conscience, our emotions, and our free will) and we live in a body.

      Let’s look at some Scriptures that explain what I just said:

      Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Notice the order of the wording, spirit, soul and body, not body, soul and spirit and the fact that we are a triune being.

      (I Thess. 5:23)

      For the Word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword and piecing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

      (Hebrews 4:12)

      The Bible says, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might (Deut. 6:5 ), with our spirits, our souls, and our body.

      Adam and Eve before the fall lived a spiritual life. Their spirits ruled them; they were spiritual beings who had a soul and they moved about in the garden by their bodies. They had this amazing spiritual relationship with God, communicating with Him spirit to Spirit. They gave no thought to their flesh, unaware of their nakedness, but when they sinned, everything changed in an instant.

      What changed? In the garden the Lord God commanded the man saying, from any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die (Gen.2:16, 17). We know from the Bible that they did not die, not physically, but there was a process that was put in motion toward a physical death. But their spirit was separated from God, a kind of death. From that moment on, their flesh took dominion over their souls. Suddenly they were aware of their nakedness and hid from God. They were no longer spirit, soul, and body, but they were now body, soul, and spirit.

      We on the other hand were all born of the flesh (born in sin), and our bodies ruled over us. When the Holy Spirit came in, our spirit came to life, thus the phase born again.

      We can now be ruled by our Spirit instead of the flesh. We started out as body, soul, and spirit, but we can finish as spirit, soul, and body. Through our spiritual birth, we

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