🌅 Morning MannaPastor Xutene Wanakaija · 7 min 45 s
How Do You Stay Spiritually Strong Through Trials?
“God takes particular care of our spirit. Because it is in the spirit that everything is decided.”
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The video starts in French. The English voice is an automatic AI dub, made by YouTube, of Pastor Xutene Wanakaija's original French teaching.
Original teaching in French · aired October 31, 2026 · free to watch
How can you strengthen your spirit to persevere in the faith?
Paul and Barnabas strengthened the spirit of the disciples and urged them to persevere in the faith. The message shows that everything is decided in the spirit, where the new life and the Holy Spirit dwell, like the thrice-holy part of the tabernacle. To make it strong, we must keep it impeccably clean, maintain communion and a purified conscience, and use it, while the soul simply learns to obey.
This message is for you if…
- you are going through tribulations and want to persevere in the faith
- you want to keep unbroken communion with God
- you want your spirit to be strong in the day of battle
Summary
What sustains a believer through hardship? Drawing from Acts 14:19–22, Pastor Xutene Wanakaija focuses on the strengthening of the disciples and their call to persevere in faith.
This message emphasizes care for the inner life: maintaining communion with God, keeping a clean conscience, and learning to exercise our spirit. The pastor uses the tabernacle as an illustration of his teaching on spirit, soul, and body.
Ephesians 3:16 points to the Holy Spirit as the one who strengthens the inner person. The message calls us to cooperate with His work and with the Cross as a principle of life, rather than rely on the natural life to carry us through.
Key points
Pastor Xutene Wanakaija teaches in French. Quotations below are EPLV translations; open “Original French” to read his exact words.
The new life in the spirit
“It is in the spirit that the new life we received on the day of our new birth resides.”
Translated from French ·
Original French
« C'est dans l'esprit que réside la vie nouvelle que nous avons reçu le jour de notre nouvelle naissance. »
The image of the tabernacle
“The tabernacle is also divided into three parts.”
Translated from French ·
Original French
« Le tabernacle est divisé également en trois parties. »
Impeccably clean
“That is why our spirit must be maintained. We must keep it impeccably clean,”
Translated from French ·
Original French
« C'est pourquoi notre esprit doit être entretenu. Nous devons le maintenir dans une propreté impeccable, »
Unbroken communion
“Communion with God must not be interrupted.”
Translated from French ·
Original French
« La communion avec Dieu ne doit pas être interrompue. »
The soul must obey
“What the soul must do is simply obey.”
Translated from French ·
Original French
« Ce que doit faire l'âme, c'est simplement obéir. »
Putting your spirit to work
“It is by working in our spirit that our spirit becomes stronger and stronger.”
Translated from French ·
Original French
« C'est en travaillant dans notre esprit que notre esprit devient de plus en plus fort. »
Scripture in this message
📖 Acts 14:19-22
“Strengthening the spirit of the disciples, urging them to persevere in the faith and saying that it is through many tribulations that we must enter the kingdom of God.”
Translated from the French Bible quoted in the message ·
Original French
« Fortifiant l'esprit des disciples, les exhortant à persévérer dans la foi et disant que c'est par beaucoup de tribulations qu'il faut entrer dans le royaume de Dieu. »
📖 Ephesians 6:10reference identified by EPLV
“be strong in the Lord.”
Translated from the French Bible quoted in the message ·
Original French
« fortifiez-vous dans le Seigneur. »
📖 Ephesians 3:16reference identified by EPLV
“that He may grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be mightily strengthened by His Spirit in the inner man.”
Translated from the French Bible quoted in the message ·
Original French
« afin qu'il vous donne, selon la richesse de sa gloire, d'être puissamment fortifié par son esprit dans l'homme intérieur. »
Put it into practice today
- Keep your communion with God day and night.“It must be maintained 24 hours a day”
Original French
« Il faut la maintenir 24 heures sur 24 »
- Let your spirit lead and your soul obey.“Now the soul must give way to the spirit.”
Original French
« Maintenant, l'âme doit céder la place à l'esprit. »
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