2 Tim 1:7 (uneloquent thoughts)
God gave us a spirit. He put a spirit within me that is I will submit to will produce awesome things. I do not have to try to will myself to have power or love or self control, it is already in me. I simply have to stop submitting again to my flesh which has been crucified and try to submit to the spirit that is alive and active within me. I truly want to please God, and the only way that I can do that is by bringing Him glory, and the only way I can do that is by submitting to the spirit that He placed in me. I did not earn this new spirit p, I did not merit the favor that I have been shown in any way, however I must work to change what I am submitting to. If it happened without effort I would be a super duper mega spirit submitted follower of Christ. I would look and act like He does. So now the process is to turn away more and more every day from the flesh and toward the spirit. This does not earn me salvation, it allows me to glorify God with my life. The very fact that I have any desire to Glorify God is only due to the grace that He has shown me.