When God (who is spirit) says "my spirit" do Binitarians think He is just referring to Himself?
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For trinitarians, references to "Holy Spirit", "The Spirit", "My Spirit", etc. all refer to a single entity, so when scripture mentions "spirit" it is easy to think of it as talking specifically about the person known as the Holy Spirit.
This can create confusion in some cases where that isn't the intended meaning.
For those that don't believe in a trinity, scripture is much easier to understand.
Everything exists in one of two forms: as physical matter or as supernatural spirit.
This difference is contrasted in Matthew 16:17, when Jesus says "flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven".
And in 1 Corinthians 15:50,52–53, when Paul says "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; …
in the twinkling of an eye … the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.".
At baptism, it is not something physical, but spiritual, that is specially given by God to unite with human spirit to form the embryo of a new spirit being that can eventually be born as an immortal and immaterial child of God.
(John 3,7–8 "… Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.")
Angels, and God himself, are normally composed of pure spirit.
The force that animates physical life is composed of spirit.
The force that gives humans their self-awareness and free choice is composed of spirit.
(Job 32:8 "… there is a spirit in man …")
All these, and others, are examples of things that exist in spirit form.
The word "spirit" simply indicates that it is an immaterial supernatural substance, with no implication that everything that is composed of spirit is the same thing, no more than everything that is made of wood or steel is part of some greater whole.
So when we look at Luke 1:35's "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee", translated without the trinitarian bias, it says:
Holy spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee …
whose meaning is much clearer and simpler. God will, using the medium of holy spirit (supernatural immaterial substance), effect a change within you.
More profanely, compare with having a shower, where the water will appear and the power of the spray will clean you.
In fact this analogy might help in understanding other uses of "spirit", which, like water, is simply a medium through which things can be done.
There is no need to think of a greater whole "Water", of which this instance is a part.
Similarly, in Zechariah 4:6's "… Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit …",
the word translated as "might" can mean "army", "strength", "substance", etc.,
and the word translates as "power" can mean "animal strength", "human strength", "substance", etc.
These are all references to acting through physical force.
as opposed to through an immaterial supernatural spirit.
Again, this is all so much easier to understand when one doesn't have the baggage of thinking that the word "spirit" refers to a specific supernatural being.
Catholics, for instance, know that the Holy Spirit is part of the Trinity (as revealed through the traditions of the Church), and this belief hinders their ability to understand things from a non-trinitarian point of view.
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