Posts Tagged ‘overcome’

The spirit indeed is willing, but how weak the body is!

O Lord, we love to do your will!  Our hearts’ desire is to glorify your name.  All night long I search for you; earnestly I seek for God.

I know I am rotten through and through so far as my old sinful nature is concerned.  No matter which way I turn, I can’t make myself do right.  I want to but I can’t.  I love to do God’s will so far as my new nature is concerned; but there is something else deep within me, in my lower nature, that is at war with my mind and wins the fight and makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.  For we naturally love to do evil things that  are just the opposite from the things that the Holy Spirit tells us to do; and the good things we want to do when the Spirit has his way with us are jsut the opposite of our natural desires.  These two forces within us are constantly fighting each other to win control over us, and our wishes are never free from their pressures.

I can do everything God asks me to with the help of Christ who gives me the strength and power.  Our only power and success comes from God.  I am with you; that is all you need.

Mt 26:41. Is 26:8,9. Rom 7:18,22-23, Gal 5:17. Phil 4:13. 2 Cor 3:5, 2 Cor 12:9.

Taken from Living Light

From Gail:

Struggling to overcome evil is nothing to be ashamed of, rather something to be proud of.  God sees that you want to do what is right.  Just be careful that you are not trying to overcome on your own power.  Only God can change your heart.