Part 6
The less spiritual activity or the absence of believers on fire for God creates cold regions in the spirit which necessitates the need for the few believers to have (spiritual) protective clothing otherwise they would be subjected to the cold conditions in that atmosphere (Eph 6 vs 10 -18).
If someone is exposed to cold while inadequately protected, their body will first try to generate more heat through shivering to maintain a normal body temperature.
Shivering, which can also be a sign of fear, is an indicator of spiritual weakness. When the spirit man is subjected to cold spiritual conditions, the first sign is fear and becoming weak in their prayers and in the word.
If the body can't stay warm by these means, it will start trying to reduce heat loss by decreasing blood flow to the extremities to minimize cooling. Blood is a symbol of life and if blood stops flowing normally it means less effectiveness of the body.
The more the spirit man is subjected to cold conditions, the more life becomes harder for the individual as things stop flowing well in their life.
Finally, if the loss of heat carries on despite these measures, the body will slow its metabolism to minimize its need for fresh blood flow and oxygen supply. The more heat loss the more one resents life and at most depression, or even suicidal tendences, begin to torment the person subjected to these negative conditions.
The lower the temperature gets, the more difficult performing tasks becomes. Causing even slow reaction times and impair judgment leading to poor decisions. Imagine that if cold weather conditions and loss of body temperature can cause us to make make impaired dicisions, what about cold spiritual conditions? They have affected a lot of people's decison-making abilities and even caused unfruitfulness in many.
At this stage, the body has effectively stopped trying to keep itself warm and some final steps are taken to avoid death. There is such a thing as spiritual death and at this stage, man has lost all consciousness of God and life and all their attempts at life become useless.
Death is the absence of God in any activity, which opens up a door for the devil to corrupt and influence a thing. Let's make sure the nations and cities we live in are hot for Jesus lest we cause residents of that city to die.
We have so much work to do.
God bless you!
Apostle Humphrey
The man who walks with God
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