Book notes: The Spirit of Man, by Dr. Ana Mendez-Ferrell

the great “I Am,” our God the creator, determined that from Him would come forth a creation composed of His substance and nature. This being would have within himself the ability, authority, intelligence, wisdom, creativity, power and all of the attributes of the Father inherent to His divine genetics.

It is in the understanding of where we come from and in Whose Image we were created, that we will find the answer to our true identity.

In essence, that is who we are: Spirits that come from God.

our basic nature is not the natural one, but the spiritual one. Before we were humans, we were spirits known and named by God. Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations. Jeremiah 1:5

But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine. Isaiah 43:1

God created man just as He is, with a divine ability to know all things.

He was created to understand and move in two dimensions simultaneously; the natural and the spiritual.

He was full of joy because his spirit breathed the continuous love of His Father, which filled him with plenitude.

God’s idea was to create a world full of His sons, where He would be the Father and God of us all. Unfortunately, this entire plan was brought down because of the fall.

For the spiritual and the earthly to work together, it is necessary to have a third element that will allow them to communicate and make them compatible with each other. For this purpose, God created a magnificent device called the “soul.”

He also saw the soul as a combination of the mind, emotions and will.

our spirit and soul are composed of a series of systems and organs, which allow them to discern and know both the spiritual and natural worlds. As I mentioned earlier, the spirit of man does not have access to the natural world except through the soul.

The soul is the DVD player made from a spiritual substance, which decodes the things of the spirit as well as the dimensions of the invisible kingdom, and makes them visible, audible and understandable.

The soul is what makes a human being different from any other spirit, either angelic or demonic.

The soul, having the same components as the spirit, can survive on its own and be independent from the spirit.

Tripartite Man Now since this machine had the ability to interpret, reveal and manifest everything God was, it also had the ability to interpret any kind of spirits from darkness.

In Jesus, man is once again in the same condition as the first Adam, having access to everything that is in heaven and on earth.

The key here is to understand what it means to be, In Jesus, since this is a spiritual position in which someone has been covered, submerged and filled with the Spirit of Christ.

What Jesus did was to bring the spiritual reality of heaven, and made it accessible to us again.

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16

The throne of His Grace does not simply refer to receiving grace from Him, as merely a way of speaking, but it refers to entering into a real dimension and receiving from Him. To think that we have the ability to enter the heavenly dimensions is inconceivable to the natural mind because the fallen soul cannot perceive such greatness, but the redeemed spirit can.

The spirit is in a state of death or sleep because of sin and is awakened and engendered when we come to Christ.

It is like when a child is conceived in the womb. The child is already alive and exists, but has not been born into this world. The child must be submerged in amniotic fluid for nine months, before he is born. During this time, the fetus is being nourished by the waters he is immersed in. He is in the process of being formed, so that at the given time, the baby can function, see, hear, feel and move in the new world he is about to be born into.

it is our responsibility to remain in the waters of the Spirit of God, which is achieved through  - Worship and intimacy with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,  who give us the living waters to drink.

He is telling Nicodemus that being born of the Spirit gives man access to heaven and it is possible to be in heaven and on earth at the same time.

D. The Kingdom of God is invisible and can only be discerned spiritually The Kingdom of God is a Kingdom of the Spirit.

when Jesus told them that His Kingdom would not come visibly and would not be located in a particular place on earth, including Jerusalem, they were offended and disqualified Him as a potential Messiah. Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”

The awakened spirit of a Son of God is by nature a researcher. It is not passive and is not waiting for others to provide answers. He knows that he can know all things in God, and does not stop until all his questions are answered.

We do not live waiting for the moment of our death to understand how we were made, instead, He manifests and reveals this to us.

For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:16

“The Spiritual Man” by Dr. Watchman Nee which He wrote at the end of the 19th Century. I also found “My Body, His Life” by Dr. Paul Trulin, written in the 1980’s.

three simple components: communion, intuition and conscience. However, to me, this was like thinking that my body was composed of only three large masses called head, torso and extremities.

Now, the spirit and soul are composed of a spiritual substance and the body is composed of a physical substance. Given that they differ in substance, an element is needed in order to keep them united. This is the function of the silver cord. When it breaks, man dies.

In a Godly experience the first thing we need to understand is that God initiates it, not man.

The golden bowl is the container where the seed of life enters in order to awaken our spirit. It is the place life flows out of. It is our being’s Holy of Holies.

To this day, it has been taught in biblical seminaries, that our tripartite being is similar to Moses’ Tabernacle in the Old Testament. It consisted of three parts: The outer court, the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies.

When the heart leans toward the Father to be engendered by Him, the seed of life enters the golden bowl and begins to produce the waters of the Spirit. The waters begin to flow to awaken and fill our entire being; spirit, soul and body with life, so that we may be born into the Kingdom of God and its eternal dimensions. The river is full of life and wherever these waters reach and touch, they begin to awaken and heal our inner being.

And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes. Ezekiel 47:9

In the same way a man and a woman come together and become one flesh in the marriage bed, the Spirit of God must come together with man’s spirit.

Then we stop being ourselves, and become one Spirit with God.

The understanding and the life that flows from this golden bowl, from this marriage bed, connects us in true unity with other Sons of God whose golden bowls are also full of God. We fellowship with them in a genuine way and our unity is not based on theologies, organizations or common projects, but on the Spirit of God that flows from one to another.

The Golden Bowl is the fountain of love that unites and connects everyone who is His.

The pitcher is the container, or the vessel that shapes the soul of man. The fountain is God Himself, and the well is the heart.

The Spirit - The Fountain - must break the pitcher to cause the birth of a new creature. Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”

The Spirit of God (Jesus) comes to the heart of man (well) and the thirsty soul (Samaritan woman) also comes to this place, from where she always extracts what encourages her, and where she seeks to be satisfied.

God would make Himself known through the Spirit, not through works, but through grace and through faith.

The entire universe is held together by circles of energy. These exert a centripetal pressure or a gravitational force that maintains everything in place and in the form God intended. From the elemental structure of the atom, to all solar systems and galaxies in space everything is contained by these gravitational rings.

The word of God also shows how creation is contained within a wheel, and within it, there are millions upon millions of wheels within wheels.

Jesus told Nicodemus, those born of God were like the wind. The wind represents the spirit, and as mentioned before, is the only element out of the four others, that is not connected to the earth. That is why those born of the spirit have entered a “glorious freedom.” Their spirits are free and can enter into all the dimensions God has granted them, as their inheritance. They are guided by the Spirit of God like a leaf blown by the wind.

having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth. Revelation 5:6

What the second Adam has is what we children of God have, being born from His genetics and His Spirit.

These seven spirits come to us when Jesus comes to dwell in our lives. However, they are not activated immediately. They begin to ignite as we develop our spirit, allowing Christ to be formed in us.

Figure 14 - Ignited Lamps within a completely vivified Spirit

Communion, conscience, mind and heart are the four main components, or organs inside of our spirit. Aside from these, we have systems that help its functioning. Among these we find the intuition, the seat of power, the inheritance, the spiritual senses, the motion system or wheels of the spirit, and the spiritual garments or dwelling of the spirit.

A. Central Organs of our Spirit

1.Communion

Communion is the central part of our spirit and is located inside the golden bowl. Previously, as we studied it, we saw some of its various functions. This is the part where the Spirit of God is united with the spirit of man. The fountain of life that nourishes the spirit flows from this place.

In the case of a recently converted person, God begins the process of awakening the different parts of the spirit that have been dormant because of sin. He will begin to illuminate and awaken every part from this place of communion.

2. The Conscience

Although sin turned off this candlestick from the time of Adam, our conscience remains mostly activated so we can know right from wrong.

When man continuously sins, a hardening of the conscience takes place and causes him to be more and more desensitized to the will of God, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 2 Corinthians 3:15-18

This has become a sensitive, flexible and teachable heart that the Father can train and counsel in order to form us as His true children. I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel; my heart also instructs me in the night seasons. Psalms 16:7

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! Matthew 6:22-23

Knowledge without love leads to vanity and that is why God reserves His most precious jewels for those that truly love.

Love is filled with justice, sacrifice, generosity, and denial of ourselves. Love is the holiness of God manifested, and without love, there is no holiness.

1. Understanding, Science, Intelligence and Wisdom The understanding is the organ that receives light and revelation from the area of communion. It decodes it so that our natural mind can express it in the form of knowledge. Understanding relies on spiritual science, wisdom and intelligence to lead us into “all revealed truth".

The prophetic gifts of the Spirit of God operate in these areas: word of knowledge, word of wisdom and prophecy.

Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 2 Corinthians 3:14-16

The imagination is extremely powerful, and because it is linked to the heart and to memory, it exerts a great deal of influence on our will. There are times when God asks something difficult of us, intending to break a certain thought structure or behavior. At that point, the imagination will send images of pain and fear to keep us from taking that step.

What I believe is projected in my imagination. Everyone is, has, and receives what they decide to believe.

I believe it is very important that we understand that our imagination must be completely consecrated to God. We must close all connections to the fallen heart and the corrupted memory. Later, when we study the doors of the spirit, we will learn how to protect this organ so that it will be used only by the Spirit of God.

b. Creativity This is one of the parts that are mostly activated when the spirit has awakened, since God is essentially a creator.

the majority of what man has accomplished has been through people that did not have God as their Lord; now imagine what we could accomplish with a spirit united with the Creator. Creativity is an unending river of wisdom, intelligence and understanding.

This is the place where God sends His designs,

Creativity must be revealed by God, and it is intimately related to the condition of the heart. The more freedom and purity in the person’s soul, the more the torrents of revelation to create will abound.

c. Language

d. Spiritual Senses The soul perceives the natural world and its reality through physical senses. In the same way, the spirit perceives the invisible and eternal reality through spiritual senses.

The eyes are opened when people seek God with a sincere, contrite and humble heart. Many people, who apparently follow Christ, still have their eyes closed because their heart has never truly been converted, but rather they just follow a religion. This is what Jesus referred to when He said: seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear18. Eyes to see into the invisible Dimension Our spirit was created with eyes capable of seeing in the dimensions of God’s Kingdom. These eyes are opened with “the new birth”, and are perfected as we exercise them prophetically.

When the ear is awake, it leads to The Fear of The Lord, as well as seeking of His unfathomable riches and revelation. Faith, which is found within the area of communion, is activated and strengthened when we hear with an open heart. So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17

3. Spiritual Taste

4. Spiritual Smell

Foul spirits stink just like sin, which carries death. God trains us so that we can identify the spirits.

5. Spiritual Touch

Our spirit, just like our body is covered with a sort of a spiritual skin, which we will refer to as garments, or spiritual habitation.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts. Romans 13:14

“For the Lord God of Israel says that He hates divorce, for it covers one’s garment with violence (Iniquity),” says the Lord of hosts. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.” Malachi 2:16

Christ is formed in us as an invincible armor. In order for this to take place we must forge within us the righteousness of God through faith, which is our breastplate and shield. We must also exchange our mind for the Mind of Christ, which is our helmet of salvation.

God communicates with man through the area of communion, but the devil infiltrates through intuition.

When God wants to communicate a certain judgment through a prophet, He ALWAYS gives a way out, if the people repent.

Inheritance

There is an area that records all spiritual information that is transmitted to our children and subsequent generations and is known as “iniquity”. It is very important to put our attention in cleansing of this area of our spirit, and purge our iniquities to receive God’s DNA22. Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 2 Corinthians 7:1

g. The Seat of God´s Power

There is an area of our spirit where the power of God dwells, which is one of the seven Spirits of God.

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. Acts 1:8

the Holy Spirit can come upon different areas of the spirit and activate them one by one, until we reach His fullness. That is why we see believers with certain parts of their spirit much more developed than others. There are believers who have great intuition or move prophetically, but in the areas of power, they are not very effective. The truth is the gifts of the Spirit come upon different parts of our spirit to develop it in each area.23

The heart is a spiritual bridge, which links our spirit and soul, and is directly connected to the body’s cardiac organ.

In the same way our physical heart has two sides. The spiritual heart is divided in two. One part is connected to the spirit and the other is connected to the soul.

This same design is found within our intangible being. We have a carnal ventricle that deals with the issues of the soul, and a spiritual ventricle that receives everything that comes from God and from our spirit.

God writes His laws in the area of the ventricle of the spirit. This part is surrounded by the conscience, which comes from God and was placed within us since birth. Besides it is connected to communion through a conduit that releases the flow of life flows into our entire being.

the heart pumps either iniquity or the power of God and life to our entire being.

Surrounding the carnal ventricle we find the foreskin of the heart, which is seen as a dark substance. This is a part of our conscience that thickens and become insensitive due to sin, evil and unbelief; all characteristics of the Adamic nature.

As long as our hearts have not been circumcised, the valve will remain shut most of the time, allowing a minimum amount of the flow of life necessary to keep the body from dying. One of the most important functions of this valve is that it is the door through which we can see the invisible Kingdom of God.

The Will

This part of our heart is also connected to the two ventricles, and it is what determines whether we live guided by the Spirit or by the flesh.

Many times God will use a difficult circumstance where the heart breaks, and the person cries out to Him, to begin to soften the heart and prepare it to have an encounter with Jesus. Once the heart is sensitized, the conscience will begin to speak and bring the person to repentance. This is the moment the Lord had been waiting for, to knock on the door of the heart and bring the person to His feet.

B. Heart after God

As we can see in the illustration (see Figure 25 above), the will begins to lean towards God, and the spiritual ventricle subdues the carnal one. The life of Christ flows freely through the heart that is surrendered to Him, putting to death the deeds of the flesh.

The opened valve transmits resurrection life to the physical heart and to the blood stream, healing and awaking the mortal body.

a. Dwellings of Glory

The Doors and the Library of Wisdom In the doors of the Spirit, right in front of the valve, God establishes two powerful doormen, called Wisdom and The Fear of The Lord. Once the doors have been secured, Wisdom establishes its chambers within the spiritual heart. This is the place where designs, creative inventions, and wisdom, which God gives to those who love Him, are established. Here we have a very interesting process to observe. The spirit receives all things from God and then transmits them to the heart, which in unison with the renewed mind, execute the will of God. But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9

Dwellings of Encouragement This is where happiness, courage and generosity are developed. This area is greatly attacked by darkness since these attributes of the heart produce victorious Sons of God in all things.

Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you. Deuteronomy 31:6

These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. John 16:33

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Hebrews 10:22

CHAPTER 10 : THE SOUL

the soul is the decoder between the spirit and the body.

In the previous illustration, as well as in the following one, we see the soul that has not been regenerated. Thoughts are completely deformed and the memory is full of traumas. The imagination has been filled with lust and twisted images of its identity and the purposes it wants to achieve.

The soul has a belly that craves for all kinds of harmful desires to be satisfied. Sexuality has turned into a powerful controller of emotions and reasoning. Intellect and reasoning have become the rulers, along with the emotions and will, as a byproduct of a hardened and seared heart.

The religious man thinks he can apply some “holiness polish” to that inner monster he has created. He wants to adapt his deformed soul to God, as he fills himself with man-made formulas and commandments.

When the soul is in control and governs someone’s life, death is its shepherd. It is sunken in caverns and labyrinths where the enemy traps it and enslaves it.

Whether we take a very powerful step or enter into a quick process, we must genuinely and radically take our soul to death, nailing it to the cross of Christ.

Jesus paid the ultimate price to give us an overabundant life, and the true madness and folly is to not dip into these riches.

B. The Renewed Soul

Faith is the power that makes all things possible. The first thing the Spirit of God will do is uniting the mind and the heart so that faith can manifest the wonders of God.

All things in the universe whether visible or invisible, are formed from energy; both spiritual and physical. Energy forms an electromagnetic field around all things in both realms.

The spiritual world becomes perceivable and then visible as the frequency increases. The entire Kingdom of God, its angels and its dimensions are vibrating at very high frequencies, which our natural eyes are unable to perceive.

When we feel the presence of God, our spirit tends to feel light. It is often felt as if we are ascending or floating on the air. The reason is, the spirit is accelerating its vibration to tune in with heaven. We also feel this when we love intensely and we feel as if we are floating on a cloud of happiness.

People remain sick because they seek answers in the low frequencies of this world. They then grow eager and are filled with fear, so the healing that awaits them in the higher frequencies never reaches them.

Peace attracts The Kingdom of Heaven, its angels and its answers. Worry and fear attract the kingdom of darkness and its tormenting spirits.

Arise, shine; for your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; but the Lord will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you. Then you shall see and become radiant, and your heart shall swell with joy; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you. Isaiah 60:1-2; 5

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

CHAPTER 12 : INTERRELATION OF THE TRIPARTITE BEING

Our entire being: spirit, soul and body are intimately related in all its parts.

vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God. Colossians 2:18b; 19 Each one of the components of the spirit has its equivalent in the soul. These two connect with the body through joints and ligaments, which either transfer the life of the spirit, or death through the unregenerate soul.

When our spirit, united with God, has the supremacy to govern over our being, the soul is flooded with the life of God, the same as the body.

All sickness begins with the condition of the spirit.

When a spirit receives salvation and has been partially awakened by the Seed of Life, it still has a great amount of death and iniquity which has to be purged.

The body reflects the condition of the spirit!

I became a very happy woman when God taught me how to separate my endocrine system from my emotions by simply making a declaration: “In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I voluntarily separate my emotions and my heart from my endocrine system. It will never again control my mood.” Since then, my emotions have never been affected by hormonal change.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11

There are no neutral zones in the spiritual world. You either belong to the kingdom of Light or to the kingdom of darkness.