A Closer Walk with God

A Closer Walk with God

Whatever your list of goals for the new year may look like, the first should be to walk closer with God.
If truly we believe that He is the Creator and the owner of all that we desire to have and to become, then nothing else should satisfy us than He.
I speak of a closer walk with God, however, we should actually deal first with the issue of walking with God before talking about walking closer with Him.
We heard of Enoch, who walked with God and was not because God took him. Twice, in Genesis 5, it was said of Enoch that he walked with God, I'm sure it's for emphasis. It was that which informed us of walking with God. There is something so called walking with God that has the capacity to impact upon a life.

[My Offline Bible] 1 John 1
5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

From that scripture we can see that walking with God  can be said to be how our fellowship with God impacts the daily steps we take in our lives, lifestyles and daily living.

We can't have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness because He is light. Light here speaks of that  perfecting holiness in the fear of God that is revealed by the absence of sin, the filthiness of the flesh and of the spirit.
[My Offline Bible] 2 Corinthians 7
1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Our walk with God makes cleansing automatic. It is grace for "cheap" holiness for those thirsty insatiably for God's righteousness.

It's sweet to know that if we walk in the spirit we wouldn't fulfill the desires of the flesh. Our constant fellowship with God deprives the flesh it's capacity to influence our decisions and actions, rather the Spirit of God and the nature of God through the word of God dominate the boardroom of our lives helping us to take decisions in sync with God's will.

How do you walk with an invisible person? Walking with God can't be totally visible, because only one of the actors is visible. The effect however will be clear to all to see. To walk with God you have to come to Him by faith. Faith is the device used to relate with  spiritual invisibility. You have to believe in what you can't see or experience. You will need to depend on revelations from that realm. It's a realm that sees you without you seeing into it, a realm that controls what you can know about it.

You can't walk with God on your own terms, otherwise the walk will be powered by ignorance which is susceptible to superstitions, suspicions, suppositions and assumptions. Rather we walk with God based on the revelation of His Word which is Christ and the operations of the Holy Spirit.

[My Offline Bible] 1 Corinthians 2
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

So walking with God requires the knowledge of God's word in Christ and a deep and sincere knowledge and relationship with the Holy Spirit.

The place of fellowship with God is key. Like it has been said, it is by faith in God's word. The fellowship is of the Spirit of God who helps in facilitating it between us and God. It involves communication and interactions between the parties. It is an inside thing and not an outside thing for the believer. It isn't a show we do, it isn't of activities no matter how religious or spiritual it may seem, it is an inside thing.
[My Offline Bible] Isaiah 26
3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

The mind of one who walks with God is stayed on Him because of absolute trust. No distractions, no second thought, no hidden desires, no alternate plans, God is all in all, God is the totality and the summary of desires and aspirations, it's God or nothing and God is all things. God is the reason for everything, He is the reason for every desire or need.

With that we can't have enough of inner intermingling with God on a consistent basis. We can't have enough of God, we can't have a subject matter or a project too physical or secular to get God into. The fellowship with God within becomes a haven and a covert from the stresses of life and from there wisdom and power are drawn to deal with the issues of life.

To the one walking with God, prayer is breath, unconscious, intrinsic and unconditional. Prayer beyond asking and pleading for mundane things while deeper issues are being discussed, yet nothing is too carnal to bring to the table, nothing is too big to bring once the ultimate is secured which is the consistency of fellowship with the Ultimate Himself!

And all these affect the man walking with God as He begins to reflect the very essence of God in His light and holiness to the world, the wisdom and the power of God becomes easy to flow in and prayer and intercession become effective through knowledge. Walking with God automatically engages the blood of Jesus and the whole system of spiritual transformation in gradually but consistently chipping of caked deposits of sin and unsurmountable evil habits and lifestyle in the process of conformity to God we walk with. You eventually become like whoever you walk with and it's no different with God.

[My Offline Bible] Proverbs 13
20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Here God is the dominant influencing factor and the process of sticking with Him in fellowship consistently without distraction imposes His character on us replacing humanity and it's flaws with divinity and it's perfection!

This is the answer to present day challenges and the possibility lays before us to explore to our excellence.

Happy New year again!

(From this day 2017)