💥 Controlling your flesh by the Spirit of God.

 Barbara Preston, Member of the body of Christ

“Do all things without murmurings and disputings:” Phil 2:14

In other words, do everything without complaining and without strife and quarreling.

A while back this scripture stood out to me and I have been paying extra attention to it … thinking about what it is telling me, asking God to help me with this, and putting it into practice in my personal life when the need is there to do this.

I see this so much with my husband because I mostly talk to and with him. But now, when something is said to me that causes a sudden spark of anger to rise up inside me, this scripture will rise up on the heels of the fleshly anger and I find myself being able to overcome my flesh by obeying this scripture.

Earlier today I said something to my husband and he answered me in an irritated way. I didn’t say anything to him (because of this scripture) even though my flesh wanted to respond in kind.

Then I was reminded that, at the time this happened, he was trying to do something on his laptop and it wasn’t going well so he was annoyed and responded the way he did.

So I then prayed that God would help him and it helped me so much to do this. Joan Boney sent an exhortation the other day about how we, as Christians, don’t have to respond in a fleshly way to someone who may say something to us in an unexpected way because they are upset about something.

And most of all, I am so grateful to belong to God, to believe His Word and to have His Holy Spirit.

Comments by Joan Boney ... when possible learn to sense the problem  the other person is having and pray then for the other person without saying anything to add to his problem.

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