Live by the Spirit, walk by the Spirit

We were asking ourselves today what it means to live by the Spirit. The Apostle Paul said if you live by the Spirit let us also walk by the Spirit in chapter 8 of Romans.

To live by the Spirit is to life live a life that is fully dependent on and regulated by the Spirit, not by  law. Many people including ourselves live many times according to our culture, different laws according to the culture and religion we are raised in. Any culture and any religion is constituted with law or regulation and once we learn them and practice them  it is easy to live by them  according to what we think or conceive to be right in our own eyes. Most human beings are like that all over the earth and they do not know any other way except what their parents taught them according to the laws and regulations of the culture and religion they lived in. The issue is that many religions, traditions, and cultural differences causing much hardship, suffering, struggling and pain.

Therefore we must come to the Spirit and heed the anointing Spirit every day. When we call “Oh Lord Jesus” we touch the Spirit, we touch life and peace in our spirit. This peace of Christ or the anointing is the Spirit that regulates us in all things. Those who are born of the Spirit, have the Spirit or the anointing of Christ. Second we should allow the peace of Christ to arbitrate in our hearts regardless of the regulations and laws that are ingrained in our being according to the culture and traditions we are raised up in. When we set the mind on the Spirit and put to death all these practices we live in the Spirit. This week I was going to write something regarding the Gospel which is a good thing, but the Spirit gave me the feeling not to. A deadening feeling came in; As soon as I set or turned my mind to follow the Spirit and depended on the regulation by the Spirit I sensed life again and continued to live by the Spirit. Romans 8:13 says if you live according to the flesh, we must die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the practices of the body, you will live.  Day by day the Spirit is regulating our inner being and if we are willing to mind the Spirit and become dependent on the Spirit for all aspects in our daily living we shall live by the Spirit and continue to abide in the presence of the Lord all day. Praise the Lord!