I have been spending a lot of time with God on this topic and it has been an amazing time of revelation.  As a christian I know that my everyday life will be bombarded with routines, attacks, temptations and so much more.  The fact is that I have conquered all of this in Christ.  Now, the subject at hand is the flesh and it is very important that we understand its role in this spiritual war.  Our flesh becomes familiar with being fed a certain way and this starts when we are very young.  It has a hunger that is all its own and we must be aware of this, especially when we choose to live our life for Christ.  Basically, we understand the less you feed something or better yet when you starve something from what it wants it does not go silently into the night.  It fights to survive and it needs to survive.  This is the life of our flesh, it is constantly wanting to fill its hunger, however when we begin to follow after Christ we have to starve it in order to pursue that path.  We must be aware of it in our prayers and ask Jesus to muzzle it and allow us to draw near to him.  We have to be alert to how it acts and know that it is violent in its attacks.  Our flesh is much like the devil in the sense that it prowls and waits for the moments to devour its next meal, if you will.  As Christians we must allow the Holy Spirit to alert us to our weaknesses in the flesh and then follow up with an offensive of our own.  The excuses are not good enough anymore and the truth lies in scripture.  We must surrender and trust ourselves to feed the Lion and not the monster.  The monster simply only wants to devour everything in its path, as where the Lion wants to devour all that is unrighteous in His eyes.  The closer we draw to Christ, the louder the monster gets, however its grasp on our lives is no longer a tight grip, but rather clinging on for its life.  We have the power in Christ to lay our flesh and sinful nature to rest and allow our Minds to focus on the Holy Spirit and Jesus in our Life… Scripture says in James 4: 7-8 ” Submit yourselves, then to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you.” Amen and Amen