Henceforth we are dead to everything pertaining to ourselves and alive to His Spirit alone. This requires our exercising faith.

The 'flesh' is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.

Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.

God not only wants to break the outer man...He wants our spirit and our soul...our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.

Were our spirits hardy we would be able to meet the most disturbing situation with peace and rest.

Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.

We may be forced to consume considerable time before the spirit cooperates. For example, God would like to enlarge the scope of our prayer to include the nations in order to defeat all the behind-the-scene works of Satan. Or He may want us to intercede for all sinners worldwide for the entire church.