Dear Friends,
It is imperative that we get to know God in a deep, rich, real and intimate way. Indeed, we must seek Him with our whole hearts and develop our fellowship with Him, if we are going to
experience His best for our lives and walk in His Will for our lives.
There are so many distractions around today. And they are just that, distractions, set up by the enemy of our souls, trying to stop us from being close to Jesus, which definitely leads to his defeat in our lives and in the lives of others we love and care about.
Make no mistake about it, child of God, we are at war. The devil is attempting to pull our souls and affections away from our Lord Jesus and fill our thoughts with everything else but Jesus. It is a well thought out plan of the enemy to pull our minds in various directions and amuse us with different things such as movies, ungodly music and other forms of amusements, while at the same time using those amusements to lure us away from spending time with God. Beware of his devises, child of God.
The first step to developing a deep and intimate walk with God is making a decision. That's right. The real thing that stands between us and having things that we desire is a lack of decision. Now before you decide that I don't know what I am talking about, permit me to prove my point. The only reason why you may disagree with me is because you may not know what a real decision is.
Although decision and desire are related, they are not the same. Think about it. Desire precedes decision. But you can have a desire for something all day long, if you do not decide to go after and attain it, and have a made up mind and a determination that you will have what you desire, no matter the cost, I say again, until you decide to have what you desire, you will not have it. And as it pertains to a close, deep, rich, abiding, real, sweet, living fellowship and intimate walk with God, if you do not make a concrete decision, no playing around, a decision that you will have such a walk, no matter what, and back your decision with continuous, determined action, you will not have such a walk. the enemy will see to that.
What then is a decision, I mean a real decision? A decision is a choice we make, based upon a desire in our hearts, to have, go after and attain something, with a state of mind that we will not be denied, that we will have it and that we will, by the grace of God, do whatever we need to do (within good and godly limits) to attain it. We will not stop, we will not procrastinate, we will not be lazy, we will not be hindered, we will not be stopped. We will have what we want. Therefore we will make a plan to have it. And we will, with focus and determination, diligence and purpose, pursue and realize the desire of our hearts. Now, I know that that is a mouthful, but it is really the essence of the depth o the word, DECISION. Until you will pay the necessary price to have a close, deep and rich fellowship and communion with God, you will not have such a walk.
The Father truly desires to have a close and intimate walk with all of His children. But few of us will do what it takes to attain such a walk. And when we see the results of such a walk, by the power and anointing of God flowing through a person who has paid the price, we behold them with wonder and amazement, not realizing that this kind of a walk is available to all of the Father's children. The only difference is that some of us decide that we are so hungry and thirsty for God that we are willing to do, DAILY, whatever it takes to walk close to Him, Whom our soul loves and longs for, while others are satisfied to follow afar off.
Decision is an ACTION word. DECISION means I TAKE ACTION to make my desire a reality. In our next lesson together, I will share of some of the decisions we must make. And I will also show that the greatest hinderance to a close and rich walk with God is PROCRASTINATION to do things that we already know to do.
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Until next time.
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