Freedom To Walk In Spirit And Truth

 We are to stand fast in spirit and truth. We are to walk in the Spirit and be led by the Holy Spirit of God. When we submit to His leading and guidance we are delivered from a life of bondage to all sorts of fleshly inclinations and set free from legalistic practices, laid down by law.
 When we are not being led by the Spirit, we are walking in the flesh and not living as God desires, in spirit and in truth.  The sad consequence of a fleshly Christian life means that we forfeit the beautiful freedom we have in Christ and place ourselves back under slavery to sin and legalistic practices, which rely on self and not on God.
 Although a fleshly Christian life and a legalistic leaning does not necessarily mean gross indulgence in sexual immorality and other unseemly practices, it does mean that our actions are in opposition to the will of God for our life. The appetites of the flesh are not necessarily sinful, but they do refer to any works of the flesh that spread out from the old sin nature (our fleshly heritage before we were born-again) rather than the new-life-in-Christ which we received as a result of our faith in His finished work on the Cross.
 Before we received the Freedom To Walk In Spirit And Truth through faith in Christ, we were in bondage to a law that we could not keep and a fleshly nature that we could not control. But the Law was a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ so that all that is of the fleshly 'self' could be put-away in Him and remain nailed to the Cross.  That means all that is of Christ may manifest itself in our lives as we walk in spirit and truth and are led, moment by moment, by the Holy Spirit of God.
Galatians 5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank You that we have been saved by grace through faith in Christ and are no longer under the Law, but under grace. Thank You that our old, fallen natures were crucified with Christ on the Cross. We pray that it will remain nailed to the Tree so that we may be led by the Spirit of God and walk in newness of life. Keep us, we pray, from fleshly inclinations and legalistic practices that place us back in bondage to our old sin nature and the works of the flesh. Help us to live and move and have our beings in You so that we can say, "The life which we now live in the flesh we live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved us, and gave himself for us." In Jesus' name, AMEN.