Sunday, November 16, 2025
Apostle Billey.
Psalm 27
8 When You said, “Seek My face,” My heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.”
To be able to walk with the Lord we use the spirit and the soul. Both are in a single body called the spiritual body.
But in the case of marriage, for example, it’s the soul that marries. The husband’s and wife’s hearts become one, so they have to manage everything together.
When we were pagans, roped into the world, we managed our souls the wrong way. In relationships, sometimes we developed anger against the other, resentment, rejection, jealousy… All this was in our hearts.
Then the heart filled with evil things and was unable to seek God. For the heart was burdened, weighed down by evil.
Psalm 27
8 My heart says on your behalf: Seek my face! I seek your face, O Lord!
The spirit and soul must seek God’s face.
So as a Christian, our soul must manage material and relationships according to God’s principles.
For example, if someone has hurt you, you forgive them. The soul has no right to develop anger or resentment. But the soul must walk according to God.
So when the Lord says “seek my face,” then the soul must respond, “yes, I will seek your face.”
The spirit and soul must seek God. They are spiritual, they come from God.
When joy is in the soul, you’ll have joy in the spirit. If there is no joy in the soul, you will have no joy.
As Christians, everything we do must be for the Lord. (Colossians 3.17)
For example, if I decide to give something to someone, I must give in Jesus’ name. My intention in my heart must be for the Lord, and this will be transformed by love.
And in giving, I will feel that joy in the spirit, if I give by doing so for the Lord.
But if I give based on selfishness or pride, wanting to prove or show something to others, that’s not good. It won’t produce joy in my spirit.
So what should I do as a born-again Christian?
I don’t have to tell the person that I’m giving in the name of the Lord, but it has to be my intention in my heart.
So in all our relationships we must do everything in the name of the Lord: husband/wife, brother or sister, parents, colleagues…
God looks at the heart, He looks at the intentions of our hearts.
So we must seek the face of the Lord with spirit and soul.
Ps 42.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
David knew his soul.
Our soul must thirst for God and not for material things. Whenever we are in the presence of God, worshipping the Lord…we need to pay attention to what our soul is saying.
If the heart is not saying good things, we must bring the soul back to order with the spirit.
As long as we are here on earth, we must look after our souls.
Ps 42.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him. For the help of His countenance.
David’s spirit spoke to his soul. The spirit knew that the soul was down.
The mind is always ready.
It is the spirit that must pray for the soul. And when the spirit speaks, the soul listens.
For example, sometimes even to go to church, the soul may want to object (it’s cold, you’re coughing, rest, you were there last week, …).
But you must overcome this opposition with the spirit by remembering your identity in Christ. And say to your soul ‘we’ve got to go’.
The soul is a part of God. She must be united with God continually.
Being one with God = when we see you, we no longer see you, but we see God. And we see God through you.
IN THE NAME OF JESUS, Let Us Pray… →
Lord, I bless You for my life,
I thank You for what You have done for us
My soul, you belong to God,
You belong to Jesus
Listen to Jesus,
Listen to God’s word,
You submit to God,
Lord, You are great.
Be exalted!
In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.