Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters,

where we devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

It is just me today.

I'm so happy to be back. I have missed being on the podcast so much, but I feel like it's like either Chad or I, I promise at some point we will be back doing these devotional together.

But Chad said that this plan has been incredible.

So I'm excited to jump into day six.

So let's just do it.

It is titled, Flea From The Flesh.

And the scripture is Romans 8-2 that says,

and because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death.

The devotional says this.

When the Holy Spirit is ignored or rejected, religious people are forced to either

do their own creating or to fossilize completely. If you churches accept fossilization as the will of God and settle down to the work of preserving their past as if it needed preserving.

Others seek to appear modern and imitate the current activities of the world with the mistaken idea that they are being creative.

And after a fashion they are, but the creatures of the creative skill are sure to be toys and trifles, mere imitations of the world and altogether lacking in the qualities of eternity, holiness and spiritual dignity. The hallmark of the Holy Spirit is not there. It is hard to

imagine a more painful disillusionment than to come to the judgment seat of

Christ and find that all our earthly lives

we have been striving after the flesh and never permitting the creative Holy

Spirit to work in us that which was pleasing in his sight.

I love this idea of when we are not in tune with the Holy Spirit, like when we are not in tune with the Holy Spirit like when we are not like Holy Spirit

please work through me guide me teach me all of these things and we're working in

our own strength and power we're either focused on the past or we're striving out of a sense of flesh.

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