*Above Only Devotional* Saturday, December 21 *Christ has Empowered You to Dominate Your Flesh* _Romans 6:11-13_

*Above Only Devotional*

Saturday, December 21

*Christ has Empowered You to Dominate Your Flesh*

_Romans 6:11-13_
_... you are to think of yourselves as dead, so far as sin is concered, but living in fellowship with God through Christ Jesus. Sin must no longer rule in your mortal bodies, so that you obey the desires of your natural self. Nor must you surrender any part of yourselves to sin to be used for wicked purposes.

Instead, give yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life, and surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes._

In Christ, you have dominion over sin and you have dominion over your flesh. You are completely free from sin. You are no longer in bondage to sin. Romans 6:7 says, for he that is dead is freed from sin. Christ has set you free. When you died with Christ on the Cross of Calvary, you died to sin and the power of your flesh. The more you realize this, the more you will have victory over sin and your flesh. Realize in your mind that in Christ, God has given you all that you need to dominate your flesh and to have victory over sin. You have grace to submit to God; resist the devil and he will flee from you, James 4:7. You have grace to abstain from all appearances of evil, 1 Thes.5:22. You have grace to love righteousness and hate iniquity, Heb. 1:9. The more you believe that it is possible for you because of Christ the more it will be your experience. God's grace is sufficient for you.

Let pleasing God and growing in holiness be a priority to you. You have control over your spirit. Proverbs 25:28 says, he that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. Yield yourself to the Spirit of God and let the works of the flesh die out of your life, Rom. 8:13. That part of you that wants you to sin is actually dead. You have dominion over it. Exercise your dominion over it and stop obeying a dead master. Decide that you will no longer yield yourself to sin. Decide that you will not let your flesh prevent you from yielding yourself to God and doing His will continually.

Faith Declaration: I am dead to sin and alive to Christ. Christ has empowered me to dominate my flesh. I yield to God continually.