LYRICS & COMMENTARY
LYRICS
Bathe my mind with your truth
And fill my temple with the incense of praise.
Cause my life to glorify Jesus.
Spirit, teach me Your ways.
Cause my life to glorify Jesus
Spirit, gentle Spirit, Holy Spirit,
Teach my Your ways
© Copyright 2020 by Leonard J. Ransil CCLI # 7089212
COMMENTARY
While a Catholic, I was reborn and baptized in the Holy Spirit in 1972 but slowly – unknowingly – went back under Law by staying in the Catholic church. This is the prayer-song that rose up in me in 1989, inspired by the Holy Spirit, to invite and authorize Him to lead me into Jesus’ Gospel of lavish Grace a few years later. It resulted in a major, mental overhaul out of legalism and into discovering who I now am In Him – a saint who sometimes still sins – and the freedom of experiencing Jesus’ Finished Work of His Divine Exchange in my new, reborn spirit-self.
Being reborn is enough to “get you to heaven” but that is not the same as experiencing a victorious, Spirit-led life in this Seen Realm. Trust the Holy Spirit to do what He wants to do – in you and through you – to experience more than what you can ask or imagine!
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21 NIV
We know from scripture that Jesus was crucified, died and was buried, then He arose from the grave and later, ascended to heaven to sit at the right hand of Father-God.
We now also know, through the Fifth Gospel that Jesus revealed directly to Paul, that the same process happens spiritually, by grace through faith, to every in Adam person who becomes ”saved” by being reborn of God through agreeing with Romans 10:9-13.
By doing so, one’s core being – the spirit-self that is dead to God in Adam – is made alive as a New creation, who never existed before, and is now spiritually compatible –“one spirit” with God in Christ. Paul referred to this transformation happening in one’s “inner man.”