This morning’s devotional message centered around our need to praise God even in our times of torment. It goes on to talk about the impact or praise has on the “spiritual realm”. I was stricken by this message bringing out the significance of the spiritual realm. I’ve written in several blog entries about my desire to learn and believe a good deal more about the spirit world. The fact that God is Spirit, He gives us the Holy Spirit and Christ lives in this spiritual realm upon His resurrection as Spirit, makes this realm critically important for us. The other critical component to this is that Satan and all his minions are spirit.

Our earthly realm is occupied with this spiritual realm, but heaven is only occupied with the purity of this realm–sin doesn’t exist there as it does here on earth. It is in this spiritual realm that our battles are fought and won. The devotional message said we barely see this realm while on earth, so believing it is so important. I Corinthians 13:12 says, “we see darkly” while here on earth. We are so dominated by our flesh. FAITH enters this realm for us as a critical component.

The last piece of this for me is found in the word “realm”. The first four letters spell REAL. I struggled for most of my life wanting to believe all of this was real for me. These past 10+ years of my life have proven over and over for me the REAL in spiritual realm and how God through Jesus has fought these battles for me and WON! How much I love Him for all of this and His patience in helping me come to this point of believing in my life today.