05/22/2026
Obedience to God cannot be sustained without experiencing His presence regularly.
*My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, Lord, I will seek.
~Psalm 27:8
If you're wrestling with sin and struggling to obey His Word, seek His presence.
If you've not experienced His presence, you're relying on yourself and that is not sustainable.
*Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’"
~Matthew 22:37
To walk up rightly with God is more than avoiding wickedness, it's a deep love for Him. A love that keeps us more focused on Jesus, the Divine Presence of Him and reverence of all that God is; more than behavior modification of what used to be our sinful ways.
*So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. *For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. *But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
*The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; *idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions *and envy; drunkenness, or**es, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
~Galatians 5:16-21
If we have truly made Jesus Christ LORD of our life, not just our Savior, our love for Him will make us want to NOT sin vs. refraining from sin to keep us out of Hell.
*But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, *gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. *Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. *Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
~Galatians 5:22-25
We can't live by the Spirit if we aren't encountering the Holy Spirit.
When we gave our life to Jesus, we became a new creature IN HIM! That should be evident in how we live our life! ..