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Walking in the Spirit is to follow the Holy Spirit's leadership where we dial down inside and become more aware of His leadership in our thoughts, words and deeds. Not as the religious do, such as which restuarant, or which t-shirt or which turn to make or what color lip stick to wear. We need to be much more concerned with the words that we speak and the places that we go and the thoughts that we think that are out of the will of God than trivial things that has no weight on our relationship with Him. We don't want to trivialize the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Rather we want to come under the leadership of the Holy Spirit on a daily basis. We quiet ourselves from all the stresses of life, from the anxieties about tomorrow, the difficulty of today, the mistakes of yesterday. We get away from all that and we cultivate an inward gaze toward God. We honor the Spirit's leadership instead of ignore it in both the small and significant decisions that we make. We will lose the war of the spirit and the flesh if we do not have a vibrant relationship with the Lord. As the physical body needs food to live, our spirits need the Word of God to live. He is not just a helpful influence who speaks when we want Him to, but He is God and He has a plan for everything in our lives.