Pulling up your anchor and Setting your Sails

Gal 5:16 So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.

Did you notice that the Apostle Paul's verse in Gal 5:16 does not say that you must FIRST not gratify the sinful nature before you can be filled with the spirit. This is an extremely significant principal in living a SPIRIT RENOVATED life. You see it is utterly impossible for the flesh to overthrow the flesh. (Romans 8:7-8) The flesh can learn coping skills, can create certain disciplines that can try to harness and train the flesh in the very same way a circus performer trains a bear to dance. That type of disaplined performance will always remain contrary to the bears inner programed character, and given the right sense of circumstances the bear will reveal its true character. Thus for the believer the FIRST step to find VICTORY over the destructive behaviors of the flesh is to be filled with the spirit. Being Filled with the spirit is first admitting your weakness  (Romans 7:15-25 and your need and then yielding of ones mind,will and emotion in complete submission to God. It is like a Sailboat offering the tattered cloth of its sail to the wind in order that it might receive a fresh billow of fresh wind and fresh power that propels the life into those amazing ports of destiny God has designed. (Joshua 3:5,Rom 8:2) The word for wind in Hebrew is Ruach and the Greek word is Pneuma both of these words are also used to translate the word for the Spirit of God. So how much have you sails have you set towards god today ? Are you aimlessly drifting by your weak fleshly strength ?  Cast off the Anchors of doubt and self reliance today and offer the members of you body to God today as instruments of His rightousness.