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.::Walk in the Spirit (2)::.

By Revd 'Remi Tejumola

I closed my last post with these words: When you don't walk in the Spirit your prayers will not work at all. (I believe that arrested your attention). Good!

If you really want to know what works automatically in life, get this: if you are not walking in the Spirit, you are walking after/in the flesh. Let's get more practical.

The Apostle Paul gave us a list of fleshly conducts that our human body is prone to manifest in his letter/epistle to the Galatians church:

Galatians 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

I cannot define all these fleshly attributes for you. Help yourself with a dictionary to define each of these words. But let me give you two other scriptures with the things I have to say now, then close for the day. The Bible here tells us that when we walk in the flesh we SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD! 

Romans 8:1
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

This means that as long as you walk in the Spirit you will not experience any condemnation from God, and in the light of another scripture, your heart will not condemn you (1 John 3:21-22).

The Lord Jesus said, "If ye abide in me, AND MY WORDS ABIDE IN YOU, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you" (John 15:7 KJV).

The walk in the Spirit is not an automatic thing at all. We have been living and walking in the flesh before we met Christ and got born-again, but after getting saved most of us are yet to learn to walk in the Spirit.

By the virtue of getting born-again we abide in Christ, but it is only by the renewal of our minds with God's Word and living by it that we will begin to walk in the Spirit and have His Word abiding in us. Then we will pray and our prayers WILL BE ANSWERED! (Romans 12:1-2).

More to come. The Bible says, "When we walk in the flesh we SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD!" Watch out for the explanation in the next post. God bless.

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