Recently God's been talking to me about ruling the spirit. Our actions we take don't happen randomly. The way we live reflects what is inside. Which means that if your spirit is not in God than it is impossible to surrender anything to God.
Through out my life I'm constantly giving this and that to God and my life is getting cleaned up. But sometimes I focus on just giving God that one thing and not why. I focus on the sin or habit that I'm giving God and not on the reason why.
If your spirit is in God, if your spirit is in complete submission to Him, then your actions and everything else will follow. You have to deal with the inside before you work on the out side.
Check your heart. Where is it? What do you truly love? What you love will be shown in how you live. The outside will prove the inside. So you have to fix the inside.
Matthew 23:26
26 You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.
Give God the inside and the out side will follow.
