Indwelling Life

by Bryan Kessler

Class Overview

How do you experience more of Christ? Ask many Christians this question, and you’ll likely hear something like “You need to pray more, read the Bible more, worship more, or fast more.” Though these spiritual disciplines are vital to experiencing more of Christ, something deeper is required. As the Indwelling Life class explains, you were created spirit, heart, soul, and body. When you understand how these four parts of you work together to live by Christ’s indwelling life, everything will change.

In this class, you will learn that your spirit is the most important part of your being. You will discover that your spirit has been joined to the same Spirit who raised Jesus Christ from the dead. As you learn to live from this resident power within you, you will: experience a deep, internal relationship with the Lord; bear lasting fruit in abundance; live in victory over sin and self; begin maturing into Christ’s image and likeness; and be equipped to stand strong during trials and tribulations in these end times.

As you will discover in this class, you already have a treasure residing in you because Christ dwells within you. When your spiritual eyes are opened to see this truth, your mind will be renewed and your life transformed. You will be empowered to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil. And most important of all, you will become the person God created you to be.

Introduction to Indwelling Life

Class: Indwelling LifeSunday, September 11, 2022

This session introduces the Indwelling Life class and explains six reasons why learning how to live by Christ’s indwelling life is important. This session also explains how you can get the most from this class and how you can turn what you learn into an ongoing experience with Christ.

1 – Created to Abide

Class: Indwelling LifeSunday, September 18, 2022

The Lord created you to abide in Him. Understanding how He designed you enables you to abide in Him. As this session explains, when God designed us, He had the abiding life in mind. The Lord created us spirit, soul, and body for the express purpose of living by Christ’s indwelling life.

2 – The Indwelling Spirit

Class: Indwelling LifeSunday, September 25, 2022

Christ in you is the difference maker in your life. But if you don’t know He dwells in you, it won’t make any difference in your life. Based upon this statement, this session looks at the wonder of Christ in you and the need for a true revelation of Christ in you.

3 – One Spirit with Christ

Class: Indwelling LifeSunday, October 2, 2022

This session looks at your spirit-to-Spirit union with the indwelling Spirit, encouraging you to meditate often upon your spiritual union with Christ when you pray. This session also details how your spirit is now a partaker of the divine nature, for the tree of life, Jesus Christ, has been grafted to your spirit.

4 – Hinderances to Abiding

Class: Indwelling LifeSunday, October 9, 2022

If you have been born-again for a while, you know living by Christ’s divine life is not always easy. Reading about it in a book and living it in the face of temptation, pressure, and adversity are two very different things. That's why this session and the next several sessions focus on hinderances to the abiding life.

4 – Hinderances to Abiding, Part 2

Class: Indwelling LifeSunday, October 16, 2022

This session examines five hinderances to abiding. If you don’t overcome these hinderances, Christ’s life can’t flow freely like sap from your spirit to organically produce Christlike fruit. The goal of this session is to help you become influenced, led, and governed by the indwelling Spirit alone.

5 – Glory in You

Class: Indwelling LifeSunday, November 6, 2022

Focusing on what’s wrong paralyzes you but focusing on what’s right propels you. When you discover that Christ in you is God’s glory and rivers of living water, it helps you make spiritual progress.

6 – Guidance in You

Class: Indwelling LifeSunday, November 13, 2022

You have the Helper in you, so you don’t have to wonder what to do or wander without direction. You also have the anointing in you, empowering you with God’s inward presence, to accomplish whatever the Lord has called you to do.

7 – Power in You

Class: Indwelling LifeSunday, November 20, 2022

Because of the indwelling Spirit, you have resurrection power in you, which raises dead things to life. You have creative power in you, enabling you to create like the Creator. You have power for ability in you, empowering you to be who God calls you to be and do what God calls you to do.

8 – Your New Spirit

Class: Indwelling LifeSunday, December 4, 2022

You are a new creation in Jesus Christ. This means, when you were born again, your spirit was transformed. More specifically, the indwelling Spirit regenerated your spirit, making your spirit new.

9 – Your Transformed Spirit

Class: Indwelling LifeSunday, December 11, 2022

Because you are a new creation in Jesus Christ, your new spirit has been created righteous, holy, Christlike, and complete. One-third of your being is already just as righteous and holy as Jesus Christ.

10 – Your Sixth Sense

Class: Indwelling LifeSunday, February 5, 2023

You have access to the mind of Christ through your spirit-to-Spirit union with the indwelling Spirit. As you develop intimacy with the indwelling Spirit, He graciously reveals God’s deepest thoughts and desires to you.

11 – Communion with Christ

Class: Indwelling LifeSunday, February 19, 2023

This session is the second of ten sessions that looks at a vital principle that fosters Spirit-led living. The second principle that we will examine is this: Spirit-to-spirit communion with Christ is the food that strengthens, nourishes, and energizes your spiritual life.

12 – A Strong Spirit

Class: Indwelling LifeSunday, March 12, 2023

This session is the third of ten sessions that looks at a vital principle that fosters Spirit-led living. The third principle that we will examine is this: The strongest part of your being—whether spirit, soul, or body—will be the part that influences, leads, and governs you.

13 – Living from Victory

Class: Indwelling LifeSunday, March 19, 2023

This session is the fourth of ten sessions that looks at a vital principle that fosters Spirit-led living. The fourth principle that we will examine is this: To live in victory, you must live from victory—the victory Christ won for you through His crucifixion and resurrection.

14 – Living for God or Living from God? – Part 1

Class: Indwelling LifeSunday, April 16, 2023

This session is the fifth of ten sessions that looks at a vital principle that fosters Spirit-led living. The fifth principle that we will examine is this: Living by the Spirit begins when living for God ends.

14 – Living for God or Living from God? – Part 2

Class: Indwelling LifeSunday, April 23, 2023

This session is the fifth of ten sessions that looks at a vital principle that fosters Spirit-led living. The fifth principle that we will examine is this: Living by the Spirit begins when living for God ends.
Bryan Kessler

Bryan Kessler

Vice President

Bryan Kessler is the senior pastor of Restoration Life Church in Marietta, Georgia and the Vice President of Lifeschool International. He spends much of his time writing and teaching about topics related to God’s eternal purpose, the bride of Christ, the overcomers, the way of the cross, and the fullness of Christ.