Thursday | 05 March 2026
Couples who are walking blamelessly by the Spirit, are embracing, and applying themselves to, the process through which the nets and bands that belong to a carnal bond are being removed. At the same time, they are each being strengthened in their inner man, by a remnant of the Father’s Spirit, to bear the fruit that belongs to a ‘one-Spirit’ marriage covenant.
In his letter to the Romans, the apostle Paul, after he introduces us to the gospel of which he was not ashamed, directs us on our pilgrimage of faith, into the valley of the shadow of death. Rom 1:16. Rom 7:7-24. In this place of wretchedness, he teaches us to fear no evil, for the rod and staff of Christ, our good Shepherd, are still in His hand. Rom 7:24-25. Psa 23:4. Christ uses the rod and the staff for our deliverance and chastening. We are delivered from our carnality as He delivers us to the Holy Spirit, who leads us in the fellowship of Christ’s offering and sufferings.
The Holy Spirit has been given to us to bring us into the settled reality of living as sons of God by walking in the Spirit. Rom 8:4-6,14. The beginning point for walking in this manner is praying in the Spirit. When we pray in tongues, our spirit prays by and through the Holy Spirit, bypassing the law of our mind that provokes the emotions of sin and the lust for control that is resident in our flesh. 1Co 14:14. As the law of our mind is bypassed, we are able to be built up in faith.
Explaining this point, Jude wrote, ‘But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life’. Jud 1:20-21. It is by this mercy that we are able to present ourselves for fellowship in the process of reformation and salvation. Rom 12:1.
Further Study:
Psalm 23
References:
Rom 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
Rom 7:7-25
What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the Law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the Law had said, ‘You shall not covet.’ But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the Law sin was dead. I was alive once without the Law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. Therefore, the Law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practise; but what I hate, that I do. If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the Law that it is good. But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practise. Now, if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God — through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
Psa 23:4
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Rom 8:4-6
That the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Rom 8:14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
1Co 14:14
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
Jud 1:20-21
But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Rom 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.