In dreams, when a sister appears she is a picture of wisdom personified. Often a sister in a dream is showing you the Holy Spirit within yourself – your newly created being as compared to your soul. This is because the Holy Spirit brings the wisdom / meaning of God’s Word to you; whereas, our soul is usually trying to bring the old nature thinking back. This is why we need to renew our mind, bringing it into line with the new creation within – as in the second scripture below. When we renew our minds, we find mental / mind healing follows because the disconnect has been eroded. Science now teaches us that this biblical truth has a physical effect on our brain neurons, eroding old harmful proteins and therefore thoughts, and replacing them with healthy ones.
Proverbs 7 ESV
My son, keep my words
and treasure up my commandments with you;
2 keep my commandments and live;
keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;
3 bind them on your fingers;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
and call insight your intimate friend,
5 to keep you from the forbidden[a] woman,
from the adulteress[b] with her smooth words.
Romans 12:2 ESV
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
To leave our old religious Old Covenant thinking and allow the Holy Spirit to renew our minds is the spiritual worship He desires. He doesn’t require us to be in a building and follow a “service”. That is not seen as worship in the New Testament.
We ought not try to follow Paul’s directions to the Corinthians’ meetings as an idea of worship. They are seen as the most carnal ekklēsial group in the New Testament. Worship is not mentioned for their meetings. Learning certainly was mentioned as they were very much baby Christians, needing spiritual gifts to manifest because of their soulish behaviours. They weren’t living in the new creation, even though they were saved. They did not yet have “the fullness of Christ” that we are meant to have. We note that no other groups were given instructions like those given to the selfish and self-aggrandising Corinthians.
