
The key to overcoming the desires of the flesh is to walk in the Spirit ,walking in the Spirit is a practical thing that requires you to keep yourself occupied with the things of the Spirit.Often we struggle with sin because the things of God are not a priority in our lives.When we get off work and school,we want to spend our time browsing, watching entertainment, and everything else.We only remember to say a 5 minute prayer when getting into bed.And the result of that is a heart that craves,longs for and succumbs to the desires of the flesh.As we feed our spirit, the flesh dies.The more time you spend with the Lord, the more your flesh dies.The Spirit and the flesh are enemies, it is impossible for them to exist together.That’s why the bible says, if any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in Him (1 John 2:15).And the bible also says those who walk in the flesh cannot please God.(Romans 8:)The food of the Spirit is poison to the flesh,and the things of the flesh is poison to the Spirit.The food of the flesh are the things of the world(sin) and the food of the Spirit is God’s word and prayer.When you feed your flesh, your are poisoning the love you have for God and eventually and you kill it as a result you will find it very difficult to obey God.And when you feed your Spirit you are poisoning the flesh and eventually you kill it and as a result you will find it extremely difficult to sin because you will have no desire for sin.So the weapon against sin is to feed the spirit with the word of God and prayer.“ Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness(immoral behavior), idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions(discord), heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.”
GALATIANS 5:19-25A person walking in the flesh is overcome by the things of the flesh.Only the Spirit of God can overcome the flesh, that is why Jesus said without Me you can do NOTHING!(John 5:5).Only those who walk in the Spirit have strength to deny their flesh.The Lord Jesus has called us to a life of self denial.He said if any man wants to come after Me, he must deny himself.As long as you cannot prioritize spending time with God in prayer and reading His word every day, you will never be able to deny yourself.You will keep on falling because you will be walking in the flesh.When you get off work prioritize spending your time in prayer and reading the bible or doing other service for God. Keep yourself busy with the Lord and the flesh will have no place in your life.Have you experienced a moment when you are so busy with something that even when someone tries to talk to you, you can’t hear them because of how consumed you are by that thing you are doing?It’s the same in the spirit; when you get so busy with Jesus, even when satan tries to whisper lustful thoughts in your ear, you won’t be able to hear him because of how consumed you are with Jesus.Satan’s attempts to tempt you will result in utter failure.In the early church, new converts would spend much time in prayer with the Lord until the desire/seed/yoke/root/craving to sin was broken in them, until the craving for sin was no longer felt.You cannot have a pure heart without spending time with God.It results in hypocrisy of appearing holy before people but living in secret sin.When you spend time with the Lord, He will change the desires of your heart and purify it to desire the things of the spirit.When you spend time with the Lord, it will become very easy to obey Him than to disobey, because you will truly love Him.Just like when you love someone, you wouldn’t want to hurt them, when you love the Lord, you will not want to hurt Him by sinning, you will want to please Him.Obedience will not be a burden, but it will become a joy because you are doing it for the One you love!











