[Mephibosheth2]

Originally Posted by zeek

That's a list of every verse using of the word exercise in the KJV New Testament. "Exercise of the spirit" is not among them. Thus, exercise of the spirit is an extra-Biblical expression of uncertain meaning apparently coined by Watchman Nee. Before one could know what it means to exercise the spirit one would have to know what the spirit is and that is never defined by Nee or Lee as far as I have heard or read. I have given my definition on another thread and you dismissed it. What, if anything, you mean by spirit, OBW, I haven't seen you define either.

According to WL, the spirit is an organ for apprehending spiritual things just as the body is an organ for contacting the material world. He adds on and goes further to say that the spirit is actually a 'vessel' purposely created for containing God.