For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace.
But we who live by the Spirit eagerly wait to receive by faith the righteousness God has promised to us.
When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, 20idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, 21envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these.
But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness, and self-control.
For we are each responsible for our own conduct.
Lord God my Father,
Give me understanding of my own struggle, you know I love you yet I struggle to keep my desires in this world out of my thoughts and actions. May I live by the spirit completely and have a heart filled with your desire, a desire for you. I surrender my past, deliver me to now with you in charge.
In Jesus name I pray,
Amen