Perspective
( Col. 1:13 ; 2 Tim. 4:17-18 ; 1 Cor. 6:16-20 ; Phil. 3:17-20 ) Our spirits have been translated into the highest of Light but our bodies still exists with the creatures. Spiritually, we walk with God knowing in our minds we are redeemed from the earth - separated from the creatures, to live the life of God.
We can will in our mind that we are separated from creatures and go forth from them. Therefore, in my mind's eye, I am with God and He directs and guides me on how I should respond in my body on the earth in my relations with creatures. If we are the Temple Of God, the Spirit of God dwells within me. Thus, the Holy Spirit Who dwells within, dwells in the 'will' of the mind.
Hope
( John 15:5-7 ; Matt. 16:24-25 ; Eph. 4:22-24 ) To make this a reality, let your 'will' abide in the words of Christ, then His word and Spirit will abide in you. If your will goes into creatures, then you will be separated from God because creatures still live in you, that is, in your bodily appetites. Daily we must be aware that we can descend quickly into the shadow of things. Thus, we must daily die to creatures, and exercise a daily ascending into Heaven in our wills
( Gal. 6:14 ; Matt. 10:34-39 ; John 16:3 ; 1 John 2:2 ) To remain in a state of repentance and humility, you must leave that which loves you, and love that which hates you. All things that please and feed you, your will feeds on it and cherishes it. All visibles and sensuals by which the imagination or sensual appetites are delighted or refreshed, the will of your mind must leave and forsake, even count it as enemies. At the same time, you are to love that which hates you and even to embrace the reproach of the world. To do this, you must learn to love the Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, and for His sake to be pleased with the reproach of the world which hates and derides you. Being crucified to the world and the world to you, you shall have continual cause to hate yourself in the creature and to seek eternal rest which is Christ. In Him you may have rest and peace but in the world you will have anxiety: for the world gives only tribulation.
( Col. 3:1-3 ; 1 John 2:15-16 ; 2 Cor. 5:19-20 ; 1 Pet. 4:19 ; 2 Tim. 1:12 ; Matt. 26:8-9 ; 1 John 1:7 ; Phil. 3:10 ) To accomplish what God desires requires meditation on the word of God for, at least, half-hour to an hour a day. By faith, you will throw yourself beyond all creatures, above sensual perceptions and apprehensions and move into the sufferings of Our Lord, into the fellowship of His interceding. From this you will receive power from above to rule over death and the devil, and to subdue hell and the world when you endure in all temptations.
By the practice thereof of being in the Presence of God, we allow ourselves to be penetrated and clothed upon with the supreme Splendor of the Divine Glory. By this, we would taste in itself the most sweet love of Jesus. Then our spirit would feel in itself the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, to be very pleasing to it - and thereupon, love the cross more than the honors and goods of the world.
Change
( Rom. 12:1-2 ; Phil. 2:5 ; Phil. 3:10 ) You must be willing to offer your body, the right of yourself, and to renew the mind in order that the mind can have dominion over the body according to the will of God. The body is to die without to the customs and fashions of the world, and within to the lusts and appetites of the flesh. Now there is a new mind being subject to the Spirit continually and directed to God. The body becomes the Temple of God and of His Spirit in imitation of the Lord's body.
( 1 Pet. 2:23 ; 1 Pet. 3:13-18 ) By offering our souls and spirits up to God when bombarded from within and without, the body would penetrate into itself and would sink into the great love of God. Thus it would be sustained by God and refreshed by the sweet name of Jesus. The body would find within itself a new world springing forth as through the anger of God into love and joy eternal which will clothe the body as with a garment.
Therefore, the world and the creatures can't touch him while he remains in this love because this love makes him invulnerable both from within and without. Whether he is in heaven or hell all is alike to him because his mind resides in the greatest love of God. Now he has God for his friend. Angels are his friends. God is his helper which is sufficient for anything in this world - under it or over it.
Work Out Your Salvation (Phil. 2:12-13)
BSAF on selected verses from above.
Read Hebrews chapters 3 and 4. List areas in which you seek approval, acceptance, sense of value and purpose, that is, trying to find the meaning of life through creatures, things or possessions (the world, the flesh, and the devil). Check for emotional dependency (co-dependency) on others for acceptance and approval rather than focusing on God and His word. Review Section 5.10, “Perfectionism” .
Note: All things and creatures bound to the world compete with God and are enemies of God, see James 4:4-5 ; Col. 2:9-19 and Matt. 10:37-39 .