Currently Listening The Inner Court By Fred Hammond #12 I yield, #13 Holy, Holy!!!!!!! see related

Romans 12:1,2

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.

12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Clearly stated in the word of The Living God is our instructions on how to live in this world of mayhem and utter craziness as a christian young man or woman. V. 1 We must present our bodies as a living sacrifice to God, HOLY and ACCEPTABLE TO GOD, which our reasonable service. By reasonable it means that it is within means, it is not impossible. We must circumsize the flesh or things our bodies want daily in order to draw closer to God. V. 2  And don't be conformed to this world. But be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that Good, acceptable and perfect will of God. We are not to behave in a manner similar to the people we see on T.V. We are not to listen to the same music or crave(lust) the same clothing or hairstyles or fads or trends, read the same books, magazines or any of that. I'm not saying that it will be easy at first, but day by day it will become easier. Renewal of the mind is daily, daily, daily. Think of the years that you have spent living a double life. It tooks years to get there so to get back to the way it was supposed to be will take a while. And only through these processes will you be able to manifest or show forth the good, acceptable, perfect will of God. Only then will your witness be of full effect. When people can say oh I see something different about you or that you actin' funny I take that as a compliment that I must be changing in a way that I will soon be unrecongnizable to the people I used to indulge in lustful activities with. There will be an recongnizable change, you will mature spiritually and you should make a visible change. Paul says, When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things 1 Cor 13:11. On your way to maturity you must find yourself putting those childish things, not just the toys! By the way, you can't be walking around still playin' with toys at 30! People would talk about you! God expects the same spiritually. You can't be walking around quoting 23rd Psalms as your defense for the devil all the time. Get off of the baby food. We need to advance spiritually or else we gon' be the same forever and never get to see the goodness of the lord in the land of the living. Psalm 27:13 Lastly God says to flee those things that we want, or crave but he says we cannot have (either in his word or from his mouth), by the way that's the defenition of lust.

Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

2 Timothy 2:22

Note: God always tells you what to do after you've given something up, he didn't just say run. If he just said run we'd be runnin for the rest of our lives. He always gives you an escape or alternate route.(1 Cor 10:13) He says that if you pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace you will be able to make your stand.