you know you can be filled with the Holy Spirit and not be led by it or walk in it simply by engaging with your fleshly desires.

Lemme clarify before i get attacked. If you read closely Galatians 5:16-26, it talks about being led and walking in the spirit alone.

Many of us have been or are filled with the Holy Spirit yet do not live a spirit led lifestyle.

We literally wrestle with our flesh because we give it dominion. But it doesn’t have it. If we choose to engage w/ what the flesh wants, you produce fruits of the flesh (envy, strife, sexual immorality..)

But If you partner with the spirit, you get the fruits of the spirit.

(Peace, meekness, self control...)

This isn’t about falling short, this is about lifestyle.

I remember being filled with the Holy Spirit 2017... didnt walk in the spirit until 2018. It was 2018 i decided to submit to living in the spirit.

Prior, i was LIVING in sin.

There’s a difference between falling into sin and living in sin. When you fall into sin all you have to do is get up but when you live in sin, which both require, it’s about the renewing of the mind.

I know a lot of people can testify to this.

Some people have been filled years before they actually changed the way they lived. It’s possible.