Walking With God

Walking with God is the most exciting and rewarding of all experiences on earth. It is also the most difficult.

Those who walk closest to God are those who, like Jesus, become acquainted with trials and testing's. God takes us through struggles and difficulties so that we might become increasingly more committed to Him.

God may be leading you somewhere that doesn't make much sense. I want to encourage you: Don't try to make sense out of it, just go. If God leads you to stay in a difficult situation and you have peace that you are to stay, don't analyze it, stay.

Do your part. Do what He tells you to do, for His promises often hinge on obedience. You can walk with Him in perfect trust. That's your part.
Walking in God's favor requires great wisdom. Wisdom, speaks only when the time is right, seeking to please God, you'll walk in His favor.
When you received Christ as your Savior, you took the first step in your walk with Him--a walk that will last the rest of your life. However, you also stepped into spiritual warfare with Satan. The Enemy may have lost your soul, but he's going to do everything he can to hinder, sidetrack, and discourage you. The last thing he wants is a saint who's on fire for the Lord and useful in the kingdom.

To walk on water you must learn to discern between God's voice and your own impulses. Wisdom teaches us that to experience miracles, we must get out of our comfort zone. Exchange places with Peter. The storm is raging and he's afraid. The boat's secure and comfortable. Wouldn't you want to stay there? But you can't. God designed you to do more than simply avoid failure; He's calling you to step out in faith and accomplish things. You say, 'What's my boat?' It's anything you put your faith in when life gets stormy, like a job or a relationship. Your boat is anything that stops you from getting out of your comfort zone. Leaving it is the scariest, but most rewarding step you'll ever take!
2 Corinthians (5:7) - (For we walk by faith, not by sight:).

When Peter walked on the water, to Jesus.' Jesus isn't in the boat, He's on the water! And you only develop deep-water faith when you're willing to leave security and predictability and step out with Him. Perhaps you have worked for years creating a manageable and orderly life, maintaining the illusion of control. Now God is shaking everything up by asking you to step out in faith, allowing you to, walk with Him' and  face waves that are over your head. He does this for a reason: to increase your dependence on Him.

Deuteronomy (5:33) - Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and 'that it may be' well with you, and 'that' ye may prolong 'your' days in the land which ye shall possess.

Proverbs (3:5-6) - Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and lean not unto your  own understanding.

Psalms (119:105) - Your word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Genesis (6:9) - These 'are' the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

Genesis (5:24) - And Enoch walked with God: and he 'was' not; for God took him.

Micah (6:8) - He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

Reverend William Bowers