SOME PRACTICAL THOUGHTS ON WALKING IN THE SPIRIT 1

Do you believe it’s possible to maintain a consistent, intimate walk with God throughout your day? In a word, victoriously walk in the power of the Holy Spirit as the norm in your daily experience? By walking in the Spirit I mean, “habitually [ordering] your lifestyle through the Spirit’s guidance [so that you] will not be deflected by the desires of the flesh, from a walk in fellowship with God.”2

 

 

Within us rages a battle between the two conflicting principles of our sinful and spiritual natures. The focus of the battle between these two forces is our will as we choose which principle we will allow to have dominion. Contrary to common perception, it is not ours to crucify the flesh – our life of self. That was accomplished at Calvary. Our responsibility is to consider Christ’s victory at the cross on our behalf to be true: “Count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 11:6b). Thus, as we by faith appropriate Christ’s victory on our behalf, emancipation from the dominion of our fleshly desires becomes our new reality and norm.

 

 

Consider Galatians 5:16 and 25:” …Live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature…Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.” That is, we are to continually acknowledge and respond to the Holy Spirit’s promptings and guidance as we depend upon his power for victory.

 

 

“Walking in the Spirit does not mean that we will be immune from the pull of fleshly desires.