That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

John 3:6

When you have nothing else to lose, because you have given Him everything, you are free.  The poor man hears no threats (Proverbs 13:8).

Life in the Spirit is a life of singularity.  Only one thing matters.  From multiple scriptures, the key to unlimited potential in the anointing, whether you have a little or a lot, is just focus.

When your life is no longer about you, God can use you.  When you live for an audience of one, pleasing no man but God, you are made His servant, His slave.

This is the condition of the minister; this is the condition of the disciple.

Just as you cannot be His disciple without hating your life and forsaking all that you own, possess, and know, you must live a life of one thing.  You can find a multitude of ministers who do not, claim they do not, and seemingly demonstrate otherwise, but if you look at Eternity, only what was rightfully paid for, built in the Spirit, and lived out in the Him, is what is kept.  Every self-motive, every self-effort, and every soul-ish Kingdom will burn before the judgement seat of the righteous, and only what survives the fire lasts.

When your life is laid down, that is truly over, then and only then can the Spirit of God fully live through you.  Salvation comes into you when you receive Him; salvation comes through you when you submit to Him.

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.

Mark 8:35

These are not grievous words when fully accepted.  As the famous intercessor Rees Howells put it, each time the Lord called him into a deeper place of intercession, his soul always fretted and warred with him to say yes, but every time he did, he always marveled that he had resisted so long, because the communion in the deeper place was so sweet and delightful.

There is no loss in the Kingdom.  The word Gospel literally means “Good News”.  A man found a treasure in a field, and when he found it, hid it again, and for joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.  As Psalm 37:4 says, when we delight ourselves in Him, He gives us the desires of our heart.

Think about this for a moment.  The world runs after riches, food, pleasure, and finds an ever diminishing supply, and what they do find, becomes less and less delightful as time goes on.  In the Kingdom, however, as we enjoy God, He is our food. Our treasure never runs out, the delights do not degrade or fade, and it is ever increasing as we see Him more and more.

To live by the Spirit, we must live by nothing else.  In the Old Covenant, there was no mixture of crops, fabrics, or many other things.  This is a picture to us today that we must live by one or the other.  Even Jesus indicated this.  We will either love the Spirit and living in His Kingdom, and hate the world, or we will love the world, and hate God.

This is the contrast: God is there to supply our needs as we serve Him.  He calls us to a place of complete dependence upon Him, and demands that we come to place of complete surrender to Himself, no longer trying to save our own lives.  This forces every wall on the inside to fall to Him, so that He can have complete mastery of us.  And, yet, because it is God, it is everything we want.

Our every desire is met squarely in Him.  Our every need is satisfied in Him.  He merely tells us not to look back.  Remember Lot’s wife!  (Luke 17:32).

His ability is big enough to keep us.  His wisdom is broad enough to foresee every possibility.  All we need is faith.  All we need is to keep in Him, in His anointing, in His presence.  All we need is to live in His Spirit.

His life is enough.  His is the light that keeps shining in the darkness (John 1:5).

What distracts you and why is important.  What pulls your focus out of that place matters.

But, life in the Spirit is singular, and is a conversation with one.

Every other pull, every other pressure dwells outside of simple obedience.

Death is never a pleasant thought, and it does come to that at times (Revelation 12:11), but even in that, as Jesus walked through it Himself.   He was strengthened by the Father to walk it through.  And for us, we must never do what He did.  What He did, He did alone.  For us, He is always with us.

Better to face the wrath of every man on Earth than to disobey that voice, and in the end face a rebuke.  He gives us Grace and mercy to learn, but learn we must, and we must come to the place of simple obedience.  Better to face the anger of men than the anger of God.  Better to be bereft of every friend in this life, than do do without one iota of the Holy Ghost’s operation in our life.

That is, if you believe Matthew 13:44, that the Kingdom is a treasure worth selling all for.  It isn’t so much something you have to convince yourself of, it’s something you just need to see a little clearer.  Let His love touch you, that life touch you, and you’re ruined.  You can never be happy in this life any more, because you’ve seen Him.  And, then, take courage from the Words of our Teacher.

Hate your life.  Sell it all.  Buy that field–that disgraceful, worthless looking lot.  Walk through the humiliation, and the painful process of paying with your “past life”, and buy it.  Look with single eyes at the one thing that matters, His heart, and lose your life.

Don’t ever look back.