Gal 2:20 (NIV) I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself for me.

In Galatians 2:20 we see the same four steps that are requirements to being a part of His movement:

1. You must take up our cross: I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live

2. You must follow Him: but Christ lives in me.

This doesn’t mean that you follow His pattern of life and ministry, that you try to pattern your life after Him, or that you try to follow His example. This means that you allow Him to live His life through you. You follow the wishes, dictates, thoughts, and leading of Jesus as He directs your life by living and moving through you.

3. You must deny your self-life: The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God,

4. You must have an intense desire to accept the life provision--Jesus--to start living out the walk in the Spirit as each bodily activity is replaced with Jesus’ life: I live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself for me.

This faith is a dependency, reliance, and trust in Him moving your body in the direction He wants it to go. This faith is a yielding to Jesus’ character and motivations. He becomes the driving force in all that you think, feel, say, do, and are. You believe that He is able to do in and through you all that you have not been able to do for yourself.

However, due to your God-given free will, this yielding to Jesus is done on a moment-by-moment basis all during your day. This will be more thoughly described later.