Our Soul

Few understand the difference between soul and spirit. Yet this is so important. Additionally, it is our soul that acts as a filter for everything: our ability to understand scripture, perceptions in every facet of living, and whether we listen to our body or our spirit. Any wounding in our soul is like a bucket with holes. God desires that we prosper, even as our soul prospers.

Understanding spirit, soul, and body helps us experience who we are!

Open Your Bible

These verses and any linked articles/stories are intended to help jumpstart you in your own studies. MOST VERSES ARE BEST UNDERSTOOD WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE WHOLE LETTER in which it was written. I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to have your own bible and take the time to read, study, and allow Holy Spirit to give you revelation. no one or any resource can replace one-on-one time with the king.


Bible versions used will vary and some may be paraphrased. Emphasis is mine.
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3 JOHN 2 [NASB] Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers.

PSALM 116:7-8 [NASB]Return to your rest, O my soul, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. For Thous hast rescued my soul from death.

I THESSALONIANS 5:23 [ESV] Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

JAMES 1:21 [GNV] Wherefore, lay apart all filthiness, and superfluity of maliciousness, and receive with meekness the word that is grafted in you, which is able to save your souls.

PSALM 23: 2-3 [TPT] [Adonai] offers a resting place for me in his luxurious love. His tracks take me to an oasis of peace, the quiet brook of bliss. That’s where he restores and revives my life (lit. “He causes my soul to return“.)

HEBREWS 10:38-39 [ESV] “…but my righteous one shall live by fiath, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

Did you know God has a soul? That His soul feels pleasure and displeasure? Yes, Yahweh is Spirit (and so are we) but He also has a soul. Humans happen to be wrapped in flesh around our soul and spirit. Hebrews 10 should be read fully in order to grasp the context in which this sentence is written (as with all scripture). Also to read this from the focus of the soul...to feel what God is feeling and speaking here; the warnings given for taking His Word lightly. For there is a consequence for hearing the Word of God yet ignoring it by living the same as before. At the minimum, it causes distress in our soul and His.

DEUTERONOMY 6:4 Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! And you shall love the Lord your God with your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

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