Fixated on Christ Led by the Holy Spirit

If we are working real hard to be kind and loving then we are operating in the flesh.

When the fruit of the Spirit flows from us naturally without having to think about it, then we are being controlled by the Holy Spirit.

Galatians 5:22–23 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."

The character qualities of the Holy Spirit flow effortlessly from those who walk in the power of the Holy Spirit. There is no need to work real hard to make sure we are doing things right because the Holy Spirit is the One Who is working through us.

Galatians 5:16-25
"But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, ..."

Born again believers who are walking in obedience to the Holy Spirit flow naturally and effortlessly with that precious fruit. Their automatic response to life is the fruit of the Spirit, that is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, we need no law that we are trying real hard to obey, these things flow effortlessly from us because they are the essence of our being. They are the essence of Jesus Christ Who lives in us. When we fail in the flesh we feel the full brunt of conviction, know it immediately and confess to be cleansed a little more.

Galatians 5:25
"If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit."

I believe this verse is not a command to walk by the Spirit, it is a truth that if we live by the Spirit we will walk by the Spirit, not from compulsion as if to try hard, but as effortlessly as we breath, without realization that we were doing so.

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you were challenged harshly by someone but did not answer angrily in return? It was not in you to fight back because the Spirit in us gave us the proper response and that was not to answer an angry or foolish man according to his folly. We may not have known that our silence was Holy Spirit control, but we find out later that in the flesh we thought of all the things we could have said and wanted to say but they were restrained by the the Holy Spirit.

It wasn't that these things we wished we had said just didn't come to mind, it was that the Holy Spirit didn't allow the flesh to take over and control us.

Have you ever said something that came effortlessly out of your mouth without thinking that seemed like the perfect answer but you don't remember thinking it up? Then when it was all over you thought...."where did that come from, it was perfect and I didn't even have to work it up?

Those were times when the Holy Spirit took over and gave the answer for you, yes He actually used your mouth to speak Himself.

Sometimes the response of the other person to the answer is not always good, but the reaction has no effect on us at all because it was the Holy Spirit that brought the message and not ourselves. Therefore any response was not against us but against the Holy Spirit.

We know when the Holy Spirit has responded for us and when we responded in the flesh. I am here to tell you how wonderful and satisfying it is when the Holy Spirit speaks through us.

It is also very ugly and dissatisfying when we allow the flesh to have a even a moment of our response.

We cannot be at peace when we allow the flesh to have its head. There is peace when the Holy Spirit leads and speaks on our behalf.

When we are walking in the Spirit we are continually thinking about Christ. We are interested in Him, His principles and His heart. This is when we are controlled by the Holy Spirit. We can only be controlled by the Holy Spirit when Christ is our continual focus.

When something comes up in your life unexpectedly our first response to it will tell us how far along we are in our walk. If our first response to everything is "what does Christ want", then we know we are walking daily with Him.

The Spirit filled Christian will think continually in terms of Christ and His principles as explained in the Bible. This person will not be looking for loop holes or making up rules according to human wisdom. There will be a humility that drives them to seek the Word of God for the answers and stand boldly when those answers are found in His Word.

The Spirit led believer has no fear of rejection or persecution, they are living in the power of Christ, nothing moves them from their convictions.

Ephesians 5:2
"And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God."

Psalm 119:105
"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path."

Psalm 127:1-4
"127 Unless the Lord builds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the Lord guards the city,
The watchman keeps awake in vain."

We will be Spiritually prosperous growing in wisdom when we are fixated on Christ.