The Bible says, "Haven't you yet learned that your body is the home of the Holy Spirit". Your own body does not belong to you. For God has bought you with a great price. So use every part of your body to give glory back to God because he owns it" (1 Corinthians 6:19-20 TLB). Your body is actually a gift of trust given to you by God to function here on earth, and He expects you to use it wisely, because every one of us will account for what we did with our bodies. This is the reason the Lord tells you to present your body as a living sacrifice. To present your body as a living sacrifice means that you present your body to the Word of God. In other words, you cause your body to do only those things that the Word of God says you should do. You make your body function in such a way that brings glory to the Word of God. For example, the Bible says you should put to death the illegal transactions of the body (Romans 8:13); so when your body starts feeling the symptoms of sickness, you say, "Body, you are the temple of the Holy Ghost; we are not accommodating sickness here, because by the stripes of Jesus, you were healed!" Again, the Word of God says that "sin shall not have dominion over you" (Romans 6:14), and so you let God's Word and righteousness reign in you. When you present your body to the Word of God, life will take on a whole new meaning; sickness and infirmity, depression and sorrow will be a thing of the past! The glory of God will be mightily manifested from your spirit, through your body to the outside world.