The Believer's Journey

In my first book I told you, Theophilus, about everything Jesus began to do and teach until the day he was taken up to heaven after giving his chosen apostles further instructions through the Holy Spirit. During the forty days after he suffered and died, he appeared to the apostles from time to time, and he proved to them in many ways that he was actually alive. And he talked to them about the Kingdom of God.
Acts of the Apostles 1:1‭-‬3 NLT

We live in a time where there seems to be a lot of activities going on in the body and a lot of believers are indeed carried away by these many activities but yet our Lord still seeks men and it is only normal to ask and wonder.

Dear believer, truth be told, sometimes we get too carried away by many activities that we forget the first thing the Father seeks is a walk with Him before the work for Him, it is good that you are faithfully serving in a department in church, it is good that you go out to win souls for the Lord, it is even much more good that you pray for the sick and needy around you, however, it is very important if we will truly fulfill purpose that we do not mistake the work for the walk.

A walk is an intentional journey of becoming; walking with God implies that you are in harmony with Him as you journey through life and to be in harmony with God requires that you listen to (obey) His commandments, put your faith in Him and work to follow His path for you. 

To understand what it means to walk with God on a spiritual level, consider what it means to literally take a walk with a friend or relative. When you take a walk with someone, the two of you are traveling in one direction, and there is an overall sense of harmony, unity, and community between the two of you during your walk.

It is in walking with God that we adopt His lifestyle/become just as He is, this process of walking with Him involves intense and intentional fellowship and communion as you can not truly be in harmony with someone you don't commune/fellowship with (take the mortal man and his wife for example, they truly do not become one until their marriage is consummated and they begin to commune in a deeper level that involves the deepest level of intimacy which involves intercourse; now, this intercourse is not just sexual but involves different forms of communication i.e verbal, emotional, mental, the man and his wife must be able to relate at all these levels for them to truly become one and then we see how that in no time, they begin to look alike, think alike, speak alike and sometimes even walk alike, they become fused into each other and so you see a wife of a man and you have seen the man.

Our relationship with our Lord Jesus is not just likened to a marriage for likening sake, it is actually a marriage because in God's ordination, the terms and conditions are the same (Jesus our bride-groom (Lord) and we, His bride (to be submitted under Him)).

A walk is an intentional love affair that must involve intercourse/a deep communication at every level (mind, heart, brain, spirit, body, mouth and every part of your being).

Dear believer, you can't give God your heart without giving Him your body, you can't give God your time without giving Him your heart, you can't give God your skill without giving Him your mind and yes, you can't give God your heart and soul without giving Him your money/assets.

Your thoughts have to become His thoughts/His thoughts, your thoughts, you must begin to think as He thinks, speak as He speaks, love as He loves, walk as He walks, do as He does and this becoming can only happen in the place of intimacy/an intentional walk.

Yes, the work then begins to stem and flow from the walk, you don't work for God because you want to do, because others are doing but because you love Him and you have seen what He is doing with your life and so you align yourself to it just as Jesus said in John 10:30, He and the Father are one and this did not just happen by birth but by intentional intercourse/communication at every and very deep levels, this oneness came to be by an intentional walk as we see in the life of Jesus right from birth.

I ask believers I am privileged to teach, if all God the Father needed Jesus to do was to die for our sins, why then did He not allow Herod kill Him at birth?

Two major reasons:

1. Jesus' willingness to yield to the Father was needed as this could only be ascertained after that He had grown to a certain level.

2. The Father needed the son to set/show the believer the standard/become a pattern for the believer's walk/journey.

In our anchor text, I hold dear the words "of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach", this simply implied that Jesus' teachings were a flow of an experience He had with the Father/ a flow of a life He was living which was gotten from an intentional walk.

He began to do i.e He had carried a life, become the life and then began to carry out/execute all that was required and demanded from that life.

By God's ordination, what we do is only a reflection of what we have become and not the other way round.

This, brethren is why we see a lot of believers serving in church and yet in the outside world it's almost as though we have no believers in church because the lifestyle does not correlate with the many activities in church.

If we would focus on becoming, a life will flow effortlessly out of us that will translate into an acceptable service unto the Lord.

Don't just serve God with your skill, serve Him with your life, body and soul, let your entire being serve the Lord.

Scripture to meditate on: 

1 Corinthians 9:27
1 Corinthians 3:13-15
Psalm 119:11

When your works be tried by fire, would they still stand?

The peace and Grace of our dear Lord be multiplied unto you.

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