A New Life

  As members of the fallen race of humanity, we were born with a fallen nature and a carnal mind that can never, ever please God, for the thoughts and the intention of mankind's fallen nature are only evil continuously. There is nothing in fallen mankind that can ever please God, and even good deeds that impress other people are not pleasing to the Lord. The unbeliever has a fallen, carnal nature, and the natural, unsaved person is dead in their sins and at enmity with God.
 Those that are saved have A New Life; the life and nature of Christ which can only do good in the sight of God (although until our physical death we can choose to slip back into an ungodly, carnal mind-set.) Those that are saved also have the Holy Spirit of God Who is there to teach and train our new, born-again nature to grow in grace and in the knowledge of Christ.
 As believers, we have been lifted out of the fleshly realm and placed into the heavenly sphere. As believers, we are not in the flesh but in the spirit. As believers, we have the permanently, indwelling Spirit of God, Who has been given to us to lead and to guide our new nature in Christ so that we can be conformed into Christ's image and likeness. As believers, we belong to HIM and should not allow the flesh to force our privileged position in Christ. Rather, we should walk in spirit and truth so that we may grow in grace and in a knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank You that in Christ, we have been born from above, given a new nature, and received the Holy Spirit as a guarantee of Your eternal promise to all those who trust in Christ for salvation. May we walk in newness of spirit and do only those things that are pleasing to You. This we ask in Jesus' name, AMEN.