A Teaching and Prayer to deny the god of self. Many in essence are crying out, “Give us Barabbas, (our flesh that doesn’t deserve to live), we don’t want the Spirit to rule and reign over us, crucify Him!”. 

Holy Spirit please help me to keep my focus, affection, and attention on the light filled heaven above rather than this passing dark world that You redeemed me to come out of.

I choose to die daily to my flesh because I want nothing to separate me from Your love Yahshua. I submit and surrender my whole being as an instrument of righteousness to You and You alone.

I pray that I will always look up to You when temptations come my way, pushing them aside saying, “The enemy is a liar, destroyer, and a robber of my joy, faith, and even my life, if I believe him!”

Purify me from all that is prideful, stubborn, rebellious, self indulgent, self justifying and makes me a friend of this world, thus making me an enemy to You. I pray to keep step with You, as You lead me safely to Your Kingdom.

Forgive us for everything that has been a grief in Your hearing, words that were not like a heavenly melody that goes up to You as the aroma of the life of Yahshua (Jesus) in word and deed through us.

By the power of the Holy Spirit, we must deny our flesh nature. We must starve it, reject, rebuke, resist, renounce, and repent for indulging our self and its worldly cravings. We are to beat it back lest it overpowers us.

All of humanity, including “professing believers”, who continue to do their own will, are destined to be destroyed by the sharp sword of His written Word because of their perpetual rebellion against the Truth, the will of God.