Well first you have to understand the nature of Spiritual Mastery; we are no god. Thus, it is one of the two Spirits that rule us - You are right that your desires; by way of spirit - which are of the flesh and world that you delight in is running the ship or soul as it were. But you have said you have given your life to God now about a year ago - thus, now it is time to allow God to change and transform your mind and your character in Him through obedience. How do we make a determination to do that? (Matthew 6:21) says "...where your heart is; there your treasure will be also." So, by your will you can place your trust and life in God and He will begin the transformation process through righteousness. When we willfully start Praising God - God will produce in us humility. Ok, great speech Dan - but now what right?
Well, Decide to make a choice and go with it! - "Meditate upon these things..." (1 Timothy 4:15) Meditation means getting to the middle of a thing, pinning yourself down to a certain thing and concentratedly brooding upon it. The majority of us attend only to the "muddle" of things, consequently we get spiritual indigestion, the counterpart of physical indigestion, a desperately gloomy state of affairs. We cannot see anything rightly, and all we do see is stars. "Faith is...the evidence of things not seen." Suppose Jesus suddenly lifted the veil from our eyes and let us see angels ministering to us, His Own Presence with us, the Holy Spirit in us, and the Father around us, how amazed we should be! We have lived in the "muddle" of things instead of in the middle of things. Faith gets us into the middle, which is God and God’s purpose. Elisha prayed for his servant, "LORD, I pray Thee, open his eyes, that he may see," and when his eyes were opened he saw the host of God and nothing else.
We have to learn to pay attention to reality; one soul attending to reality is an emancipation to hundreds more. We are impertinently inquisitive about everything saving that one thing. Through inattention to our own true (John 12:24-26) experience:
"I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life."
As we respond in obedience to God, He promises to lead and guide us through life with a sense of victory and hope. The times of trial, distress, and isolation are times God accomplishes His greatest work, when He molds us into the likeness of Christ (Himself).
"The one great need for the one who has given their lives completely to Christ is to be ready for Jesus Christ, and we cannot be ready unless we have seen Him." The way we come to see Jesus is through surrender. The blessing of living life abandoned to Him is to witness His daily power and grace alive and flowing through our lives into the lives of others.
In abandonment and surrender we find the capacity we live as in a dream, when all around us and in us are the eternal realities. "Attend to these duties, let them absorb you, so that all men may note your progress." We are apt to be busy about everything but that which concerns our spiritual progress, and at the end of a profitless day we snatch up a Bible or Daily Devotional and read a few verses, and it does us good for precisely three-quarters of a second. We have to take time to be diligent. Meditation is not being like a pebble in a brook, allowing the waters of thought to flow over us; that is daydreaming.
Meditation is the most intense spiritual act, it brings every part of body and mind into harness. To be spiritual by effort is a sure sign of a false relationship to God; to be obedient by effort in the initial stage is a sure sign that we are determined to obey God at all costs.
Take time. Remember we have all the time there is. The majority of us waste time and want to impose ourself on eternity. "Oh well, I will think about these things when I have time." The only time you will have is the day after you are dead, and that will be eternity. An hour, or half an hour, of daily attention to and meditation on our own spiritual life is the secret of progress.