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Walked with God.
“What we believe can determine what we do, but WHO we believe will determine who we can become.”
“Not knowing who they were, left them unable to find their true focus in life.”
“As we grow in knowing Christ in our hearts, we grow in becoming like Him in our character, nature, way, power, and authority, in our world.”
“A relationship with Christ in us will empower us to be life-givers to others in our world.”
Adam and Eve walked with God in the garden
Enoch walked with God and did not die.
Noah walked with God and saved humanity by building a boat.
Abraham walked with God as His friend and was the father of faith.
Joseph walked with God through all the trials and saved his people.
The children of Israel walked aimless in the wilderness because they would not trust God.
You do not need to walk with God for Him to love you. He settled that by sending His son to show His love for all of you.
Luke 6:46–49 (NASB95)
46 “Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? 47 “Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them, I will show you whom he is like: 48 he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when a flood occurred, the torrent burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. 49 “But the one who has heard and has not acted accordingly, is like a man who built a house on the ground without any foundation; and the torrent burst against it and immediately it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.”
If we build our lives around comfort that is building on the sand.
When we take action based on what God is telling you then our lives are built securely. Then our lives are a safe haven for others.
Noah, Joseph Abraham, Jesus…
Words of the Year:
1 Thessalonians 2:12–13 (NASB95)
12 so that you would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory. 13 For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.
Activation:
What action have you been waiting to take that you need to do now?
Jesus, Is there anything I am doing that You are not doing with me?
Other Resources:
Acts 24:21 (NASB95)
21 other than for this one statement which I shouted out while standing among them, ‘For the resurrection of the dead I am on trial before you today.’ ”
15 and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of the same nature as you, and preach the gospel to you that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.
10 You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and uprightly and blamelessly we behaved toward you believers; 11 just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children, 12 so that you would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory. 13 For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.
22 Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters.
9 These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.
Genesis 24:40 (NASB95)
40 “He said to me, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you to make your journey successful, and you will take a wife for my son from my relatives and from my father’s house;
15 He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, The God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
Micah 6:8 (NASB95)
8 He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?
6 “True instruction was in his mouth and unrighteousness was not found on his lips; he walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many back from iniquity.