The correct order?

Just saw a comment...Working out mind, body and soul: prayer, reflection...
Please do not take this as critical or judgmental and I would never put the persons name, etc. in any of this because I see many who put it in this order. It struck me as I read the statement that years ago I would have spoken or written it much the same way, stating I need to work on body, then soul, the emotions, etc. then spirit. I had decided that I was okay in my life and that everything was pretty much up to one's own interpretation any way. Well, the Creator of the heavens, Earth and all that is contained in them says something very different, that it's His Word and it is NOT open to my interpretation! See 2 Peter 1:19-21 and Isaiah 55:6-11.

Problem with my thinking or as my Minister used to say, my stinkin thinkin, it's completely backwards! As I began studying God's Word way back there in 1986...wow, sometimes seems like eons ago and other times just like it was yesterday, I began to see what God said about these issues and where, by His Grace, we are supposed to concentrate, in other words, putting things back in the right order of how He created us to be which is Spirit first, then soul and body. To start with you can't put spirit first unless, as Jesus said to Nicodemus, you must be born again, for that which is born of flesh is flesh and that which is born of spirit is Spirit. 

There are many Scriptures that God uses to show us the Way, the Way to first get born again and the reason for this, then the Way to get ourselves in His order, the correct order, Spirit, soul and then body. It goes against our natural tendencies because we have all in one way or another put ourselves and body first. But Jesus, who is the Way, states several places that if we are to follow Him then we must deny ourselves, take up OUR cross DAILY and follow Him. As I mentioned there are a number of Scriptures that state God's order, Spirit, soul & body but one of my favorite is 1 Thessalonians 5:23,24-Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely ; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.

Jesus, the Example

Hebrews 12:1-3 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,2fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer, author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.3For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.