Romans 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. AMPC
Here is our answer, this is how we train our flesh. To be more concerned with the things of the Spirit than the things of the flesh. How do we come to that place? Just like with anything else. Whatever you give your attention to you will crave. Therefore if you give God your attention, you will crave Him. You will be addicted to God when you set your mind on Him.
Even though it is a similar thing, it won't be like when you set your mind on your flesh. Like when your flesh wants a cup of coffee, it will keep wanting more coffee, and if you don't give it coffee you will have a headache. The coffee as well can affect your blood pressure and that is not a good thing.
Your flesh can never be satisfied. Give it coffee and it wants more coffee and then something sugary to go with that coffee. Give it sugar and it wants more sugar. Kind of the same as Having God and then wanting more of God, but the difference is when you feed your flesh it will always get you in trouble.
Like if you feed your flesh whatever it wants you can go into debt, you can get sick, and you can become depressed. If you let your flesh run wild you will be offended at every turn, and you will need constant affirmation. Ultimately you will be ruled by chaos, hate, evil running rampant in your life. Not a good outcome for being fleshy.
Opposed to your flesh —if you tend to the Spirit by feeding on God, if you give yourself doses of God everyday you will be rich in every way. You will have revelation knowledge, peace, joy and contentment, you will have His presence, health, and all of your needs met according to His riches and glory in Christ Jesus.
In God’s Kingdom, you will have all you need pressed down shaken together and running over (Luke 6:38). What you need and more will be added to you as you seek Him and His way of doing. As you seek Jesus you will be completed and cared for.
You will be healed and whole because you have a personal knowledge of Him and His love for you. You will know what you were created to do and have the pleasure of God’s provision in that knowing. Sowing to the Spirit and not the flesh is a Kingdom principle that will enable you to have all that God promises to you.
Sowing to the flesh will keep you bound and imprisoned by the enemy. It seems like giving into your flesh is the best thing, but really it is a ploy to kill, steal, and destroy. It is a trick to keep you from God's best. Your flesh in agreement with the enemy is a dangerous thing, and will compromise your relationship with Jesus—your eternity with Him.
Thus you want to ditch the flesh and hold tight to Jesus, then you will win, then you will be assured of heaven. Then you will be healed and whole and walking in your gift, doing the greater thing on the earth. All because you will be in agreement with Jesus!
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