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根据使徒保罗的说法，我们每个人里面都有争战。圣经这样说：“这两样互相敌对，使你们不能作自己愿意做的”（新译本）。究竟哪样势力会得胜呢？在接下来的一年，我们怎样才能靠圣灵而活呢？

保罗帮我们回答了这个问题。如果我们要靠圣灵而活，就不能再像自己掌控生活那样行事了。我们需要让自己被神的灵来引导。我们应当“只顺从圣灵的指引”。我们需要和圣灵同步。在接下来的一年，只有圣灵能帮助我们成为合乎主心意的样子。

我们应当转向圣灵之书——圣经，来聆听圣灵对我们说的话，并需要每天来祷告，经历圣灵充满。耶稣亲自向我们保证，神深爱我们，祂会“将圣灵给求祂的人”。（参路 11:13）

According to the apostle Paul, each of us has a battle going on inside us. The Living Bible puts it this way: “Two forces within us are constantly fighting each other to win control over us, and our wishes are never free from their pressures.” Which force is going to win? What will it take for us in the coming year to live by the Spirit?

Paul helps to answer these questions. If we are to live by the Spirit, we have to stop acting as if we are in control of our lives. We have to let ourselves be led by the Spirit of God. We must “obey only the Spirit’s instructions.” We need to stay in step with the Holy Spirit. Only the Holy Spirit can help us become and be what the Lord wants us to be in the coming year.

We have to listen to what the Spirit tells us by turning to the book of the Spirit, the Bible. We have to pray each day to be filled by the Spirit. And Jesus himself assures us that God, who dearly loves us, will “give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” (Luke 11:13).