“For you were sometimes darkness, but now are you light in the Lord: walk as children of light” – Eph. 5:8. But our knowledge/walk with God can never outweigh our desire to please Him. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness: they shall be filled (Matt. 5:6). Filled with what?

“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spoke about the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Spirit was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)”, Jn. 7:37-39. The Holy Spirit—the Spirit of Holiness and the seal of righteousness in the believer (2 Tim. 2:19-21); “And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead” – Rom. 1:4. Little wonder Rev. Isaac Omolehin remarked at the just concluded WOFBEC 2025, “Holiness is 75% power”.

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh (Gal. 5:16). Walking by the Spirit is essentially submission to the will of God, “Submit yourselves to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you” – Jas. 4:7. We have the advantage, let’s put them to work.

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