Becoming More Effective in Prayerنموونە

SUBDUE YOUR FLESH

From the passage in the text above, to be temperate means to be self-controlled. That’s what athletes do to win a corruptible crown. He’s saying that as Christians, we must be temperate to win an incorruptible crown because there’s a crown at the end of this race.

It is the flesh that causes people to backslide. If Apostle Paul, as mighty as he was in the Holy Ghost, needed to keep his body under the control of the Holy Spirit continuously in order not to be a castaway, and if the Lord Jesus Christ needed to subdue His flesh to fulfil His own destiny, don’t you think you and I have to do much more?

Anybody can wish, but the man who will win in life must have more than a wishbone. It takes a backbone to conquer your flesh. It takes more than a wish to have a prayer life. When you wake up in the morning, get up from the bed, go somewhere and begin to pray. You don’t know how to pray until you start praying, and you won’t pray until you start praying and continue praying until you know how to pray and it becomes a habit.

The Lord said, ‘The flesh is weak.’ Don’t use that as an excuse—conquer your flesh! It is often said that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link; the weak link in the make-up of a man is the flesh. Your spirit man, if you’re born again, is like Jesus. Your mind, if renewed, is going to think after the Word of God, but your flesh is still your flesh. Put it under continuously until we meet Jesus face to face, and you will not be defeated in Jesus’ name.

PRAYER: Lord, your grace is sufficient for me. I decide to add work to the grace you have released upon my life and move my prayer life to the next level in Jesus’ name. Amen!