You have to walk in concert with the spirit that is a spiritual way of thinking, which is God's way of thinking.

Dr. Tony Evans says being led by God's spirit is an ongoing daily decision.

It is a mindset, a lifestyle, not anything.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliffe Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas.

And president of the Urban Alternative.

Any pilot will tell you that successfully landing a plane requires choosing and following the correct approach to the desired runway.

Likewise, Dr. Evans says we need to take a spiritual approach to our lives if we're going to safely arrive at the destination God's prepared for us.

Let's join him as he talks about how the Holy Spirit can successfully guide us to the Lord.

In Galatians chapter 5, we read these words, verse 16, but I say walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh for these are in opposition to one another.

This battle between the Spirit and the flesh is a battle for control.

Both want to win and both want to rule.

They want to control the agenda of your existence.

The spirit's job is to take a believer to the place of pleasing God.

The flesh's goal is to take the believer to the place of satisfying self independently of God.

The flesh can be defined as satisfying yourself independently of the will of God.

Put it in one way.

The flesh wants to do one thing.

You want to do something else, and they don't agree.

So the flesh wants you to skip, ignore, bypass what the Spirit wants to satisfy what you want in order to break fellowship with God.

But I say Galatians chapter 5, 16, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.

You and I will never have victory if we just visit the Spirit.

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