Develop a Personal Walk with God

Develop a Personal walk with God

Rev Kenneth Copeland at the ongoing South West Believers Conference shared a testimony of a church where 90% of members were working at the world Trade Center during 911. The Holy Spirit had led the pastor to teach on the leading of the Spirit, walking by faith and in love over and over immediately before the attack.

When the attack happened, they lost not one member, and not even one had an injury. There were testimonies of how individuals were led through the floors to safety and how so many people were saved through these people leading them out by the Holy Spirit leading. Today, the church is still at ground zero winning souls...

Sometime we need to stick to what we are called into... We are called to walk in the Spirit, walk in love towards all men, Pray in the Spirit, walk daily in faith towards God... Many churches aren't doing this, rather we preach and teach to make people depend on a person's anointing rather than their own personal relationship with God...and no one's faith can carry the burden of many other people, no one's relationship with God can substitute for people's personal relationship with God, you can't hire another person to be your parent's child in your stead when you aren't dead...you can't hire your pastor to be your permanent representative before God, he too would have to stand by himself first...but he has a responsibility to point you towards God and help you develop your own personal relationship with God, he has a responsibility to help you walk with God on your own by exposing you to teachings and personal examples that will help, he has a responsibility of seeing you have a personal walk of love and of faith...motivating you unto conformity to the image of Christ in a sweet fellowship of the Spirit...

Then you can call on God in time of trouble even when your pastor isn't around and God will save you...

No voice is better than yours before God for yourself. Yes, we pray for each other and prayers of intercession and agreement can be powerful but that's between people who have greater confidence in their personal walk with God, who believe God hears them and not a people going with a mentality of having need of a particular people to pray on their behalf before God can save them as if they don't have access to the Holy Spirit or to the throne of grace...

Jesus Christ didn't die on the cross in order to make any of us a second class child of God. While we were growing up we needed people to support our growth, we needed milk, we needed care, we needed a watch over us so we don't hurt ourselves as children but we get weaned and live in freedom to take personal responsibilities and that is same spiritually. But lots won't want to be weaned and their pastors love the patronage and dependence which doesn't have capacity to produce at crucial times...all the time, as a personal walk with God will do...

We must realize what apostle Paul said, we have no authority over another person's faith but we are helpers of their faith...Ministers are helpers of God's people's faith and not lords over it...

Determine to develop your love life beyond the politics of your local church...

Determine to develop your faith life based on the word of His grace on all that Christ did for us on the cross...
Learn to take your personal shield of faith, no one will do that for you, everyone is carrying his or her own to quench the firy darts of the devil...take yours too...

Determine to have a robust prayer life based on a personal relationship and fellowship with God without a third party, in your closet, on the altar erected in your recreated spirit, the temple of God within you beyond a church altar...

Determine to learn how to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit and live in it beyond whatever anyone tells you God is saying to you... God wants to speak to you personally daily concerning things pertaining to your life...the Holy Spirit lives personally within you as a believer...

Determine to know God personally, read your Bible and other books personally and glean the truth, to you is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom...read this write up to the end for instance...many won't unfortunately and they'll miss the message therein!

Determine to be like the Berean Christians who would go back to check if what the great Apostle said in the open were true with the scriptures... Nobody else can judge correctly for you like you digging personally into the Word...

Prove all things, hold on to the truth...

This will save you in the day of trouble...by that, those God has raised to watch with you can become more effective and their prayers and prophecies can cover for you in areas of your laxity in the day of trouble and on the evil day there won't be any space for the devil to strike...

Remain blessed today and always...

Study the following scriptures from where the write up came from for better understanding...

[My Offline Bible] Romans 10
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

[My Offline Bible] John 16
23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. 24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. 25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. 26 At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: 27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

[My Offline Bible] Habakkuk 2
4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

[My Offline Bible] 2 Corinthians 1
24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

1 Thessalonians 5:19-22 (The MSG)
Don’t suppress the Spirit, and don’t stifle those who have a word from the Master. On the other hand, don’t be gullible. Check out everything, and keep only what’s good. Throw out anything tainted with evil.

We must take personal responsibilities of our walk with God. Good morning.

The Bible Class, TBC, Non Denominational Bible Discussion Class holds today at 6pm...
Havila Place
#46 DF Street
Mosan Road
Beside D Mama's Pride Supermarket
Shagari Estate
Ipaja, Lagos.

If you can be there...