DUALITY: Flesh vs Spirit

When success looks shiny but your soul feels thin, something deeper is off. We open a raw, pastoral conversation about spiritual duality—how the pull of the flesh promises momentum and applause while the life of the spirit calls us back to truth, courage, and a steady yes. Using the image of facing your Goliath, we explore why pretending “all is well” keeps you stuck, and how naming the real battle breaks the spell of delusion.

We walk through the subtle way deception works: a grand image of self, constant busyness, and the illusion of control that eventually spreads you thin and leaves you waxed cold. Thin wax breaks. That picture reframes burnout, scattered focus, and moral drift as a spiritual problem first, not a productivity glitch. We name the opposition plainly—manipulation, fear, counterfeit affirmation—and explain why clarity beats complexity when your heart is on the line.

From there, we offer a grounded path back. Let your yes be yes. Return to practices that thicken your soul: honest prayer, Scripture that searches you, fellowship that speaks truth, and repentance that changes how you actually live. We affirm the core confession—Christ crucified and risen, blood that redeems—and invite you to resist empty ritual by choosing righteousness with intention. Peace and blessing are not an exit from the fight; they are equipment for it. If you’ve felt spread thin, this is your invitation to face the giant up close, reclaim authority, and rise deeper in God.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01): Just making a quick audio note here. It is about a friend that's going through a very terrible crisis. However, I was breaking down the scenario of good and evil, right, wrong, righteous, unrighteous, and spirit versus flesh. And in this situation, I'm indicating to them in counseling that, if you are operating in the flesh, you will fulfill the desires of the flesh. And if you're operating in spirit, man, then you will fulfill the desires of that spirit man. And that's the duality that's always about us. And if you are operating in the place of spirit, man, you are walking righteous. You are doing godly deeds, you are operating as God is at a pleased place in your life, or you are not. It's that simple. (00:24):
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(01:20)And you have a choice to make. What am I going to do? Keep going in the direction that I'm going pretending that all is well. Or you have to face, you have to face your Goliath, head on, up close and personal. There's a Warlock spirit; there's a Jezebel spirit. There are all kinds of demonic energies and essences and emissaries and auras in the atmosphere of encapsulated time that bombard our lives as Christians. And sometimes we're operating in Lala land and then boom, and then you shattered. It's like, no. And that was what I was saying to my friend is that Satan gives you this grandiose, aggrandized aura of yourself and then gives you the delusion of grandeur and that you are doing this and you're doing that and you're making money, but you're at a place of false pretense because you're operating at fluff, you're operating at flesh.

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(02:44)And then here's the thing about the enemy, he gets you to this place wherein he just spreads you thin. And once he spreads thin over here, over there, over yonder doing this, doing that, then he wax you cold. Come on, Saints of God. Be careful in your thoughts; it is that, spread thin and waxed cold, is all at Thus saith the Lord, "crackle" and spread thin and waxed cold, by the enemy; thin wax breaks easily. Careful your stay at Satan's promptings and deeds and auras and essences and flesh at superficial engagement and auras in your life. Careful there, saints of God. Rise up deeper in God! Grab ahold of that, that you know should be gripped with, the intestinal fortitude to sustain you "…to stand against the wiles of the devil."

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(04:21)We are at duality at all times. Good, evil Christ, anti-Christ. You are either doing the will of God, the Father, in and of, and through Christ Jesus of Nazareth, bloodshed, crucified, redeemed of that place, or you are not. It is absolutely that simple. Let your yes be yes and pay attention to the snare of the fowler; what thus saith the truth, present as evil on every end. Peace and blessings unto you. In the name of Jesus, the Christ of Nazareth. And so it is; Dr. Leona aka S.T.A.M.P. [Speaker, Teacher, Author, Minister, Preacher], your narrator, host. for R.O.A.R. of the Lioness Podcast. R.O.A.R. is an acronym for Righteous Opposition Against Ritualism, not your same ole, same ole, peace and blessings. Amen and amen. Love you in The Name of Jesus! SCRIPTURES: Galatians 5:16; Ephesians 6:11