Ruling Your Spirit!

The episode emphasizes the importance of ruling one's spirit, a discipline involving control over thoughts, emotions, reactions, and impulses. The podcast explains that true leadership starts from within, highlighting how self-governance leads to wisdom, emotional stability, and better relationships. It outlines practices like self-awareness, thought management, emotional regulation, forgiveness, and consistency as crucial for spiritual maturity and internal peace. Ruling one's spirit is depicted as foundational for living with intentional purpose and authentic authority.

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 Welcome to the Ministering Angel Podcast, where you'll deepen your connection with Jesus Christ. Whether new or returning this podcast is your guide to unlocking potential and overcoming challenges. Ronald, along with various hosts, shares divine messages that inspire strength, wisdom, and resilience.

More than a podcast, it's a sanctuary of faith and miracles. Get ready to be inspired and empowered.

Introduction to Ruling Your Spirit

Ruling your spirit is one of the most essential disciplines of a mature life, yet it is one of the least taught and most misunderstood. 

The Importance of Self-Governance

Many people desire authority over circumstances, influence over others, and victory over external opposition, but neglect the most important domain of all the inner life. A person who cannot govern their own spirit will always struggle to govern anything else. 

Defining Ruling Your Spirit

To rule your spirit means to exercise control over thoughts, emotions, reactions, and impulses, rather than being driven by them. It is not suppression, denial, or emotional numbness. It is leadership. The spirit was designed to lead the soul, and the soul was designed to guide the body when this order is reversed.

Emotions dominate decisions. Impulses override wisdom and peace becomes unstable. 

Consequences of an Unruled Spirit

An unru spirit is reactive. It speaks before thinking, acts before discerning and responds based on feeling rather than truth. This kind of instability creates unnecessary conflict, broken relationships and regret ruling your spirit introduces restraint.

Benefits of Ruling Your Spirit

It slows reactions. It brings clarity. It allows wisdom to speak before emotion takes control. 

Spiritual Maturity and the Power of Pause

One of the first signs of spiritual maturity is the ability to pause. The pause between stimulus and response is where authority is exercised. Anyone can react, few can respond with discipline. 

Choosing Alignment Over Impulse

When a person rules their spirit, they do not allow offense to dictate behavior, fear to shape decisions or pressure to force compromise.

They choose Alignment over impulse. Ruling. 

Awareness and Self-Recognition

Your spirit also requires awareness. You cannot govern what you do not recognize. Many people are controlled by emotions. They refuse to name. Anger disguised as passion. Fear masked as caution. Pride hidden behind confidence. Self-awareness exposes what is truly driving behavior.

Once exposed, it can be addressed, corrected and disciplined. 

Managing Thoughts and Emotions

Another critical aspect of ruling your spirit is thought management, thought shape, emotions and emotions. Influence actions. If thoughts remain unchecked, they will eventually produce behavior that contradicts values and convictions. Ruling your spirit involves rejecting thoughts that do not align with truth even when they feel justified.

Not every thought deserves agreement. Not every internal narrative is accurate. 

Emotional Regulation

Emotional regulation is also central to ruling your spirit. Emotions are real, but they are not authoritative. They provide information, not direction. A ruled spirit allows emotions to be felt without allowing them to lead.

This prevents emotional manipulation, overreaction and destructive communication. It allows firmness without harshness and compassion without compromise. Ruling your spirit does not mean being unaffected by hardship. 

Stability Under Pressure

It means remaining stable within it. Pressure reveals whether a spirit is ruled or reactive.

When stress increases, whatever is dominant internally will surface externally. Discipline shows itself under pressure, stability, and difficulty is not accidental. It is trained. 

The Role of Words and Communication

Words reveal whether a spirit is ruled. Speech is often the first place where self-control is lost. Ruling. Your spirit teaches restraint and communication.

Silence becomes intentional. Words become measured. Not everything that is felt needs to be spoken. Not every issue requires immediate response. Discernment, governs speech when the spirit is in control. 

The Power of Forgiveness

Forgiveness is another essential component of ruling your spirit. Unforgiveness keeps the spirit tethered to past offense.

It reactivates emotions repeatedly and erodes peace. Forgiveness releases control back to the one who was wounded. It is not approval of harm. It is freedom from constant emotional influence. A ruled spirit cannot remain bound to old pain. 

Consistency and Daily Discipline

Ruling your spirit also requires consistency. Authority is not built in moments of inspiration, but through daily discipline, prayer, reflection, stillness, and intentional obedience strengthen internal governance.

Each disciplined choice reinforces alignment. Each restrained reaction builds endurance. 

The Evident Benefits of Ruling Your Spirit

The benefits of ruling your spirit are evident. Peace becomes stable, decisions become clearer. Relationships improve, influence increases. Others feel safe around those who are internally governed. Their presence is calm, their responses are steady, their leadership carries weight.

Stewardship and Intentional Purpose

Ultimately, ruling your spirit is about stewardship. The inner life is a responsibility. Stability is cultivated. Maturity is developed. Authority flows from alignment. When a person rules their spirit, they stop being driven by circumstances and begin walking. 

Conclusion: Strength Under Control

An intentional purpose ruling your spirit is not weakness.

It is strength under control. It is the foundation of wisdom, maturity, and true authority. A.

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