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Discover how to enrich your walk with God and experience an exciting and radiant adventure in the Christian life. Learn practical ways to commune daily with God, develop an attitude of praise and thankfulness, and become a channel of blessings to others.
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Enriched Walk With God • The Christian life ought to be an exciting, radiant adventure. This excitement can be had from walking with God.
The walk is necessary. • Our interest in spiritual things is a gift that God intends us to use to minister to ourselves and to others.
Commune daily through prayer. Personal devotions Family devotions Prayer partners Prayer walks
Commune regularly through prayer. • Practice talking to God about everything. • Realize that He is interested in your “little things.”
Commune regularly • Keep an ongoing conversa-tion with God • Pray until you find yourself enjoying it.
We establish the ‘walk’ through our personal devotional life. • It fills the typical female spiritual void. • “O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee.” Ps. 63:1
It gives us a chance for introspection. Ps. 139:23 • It gives us uncommon strength, renewal and refreshing.
It gives us a chance to rebuild or cement our relationship with God. • It enhances our witness.
“No man high or low… can steadily maintain before his fellowmen, a pure forceful life unless his life is hid with Christ in God.” 7T, 194
Ways to establish the ‘walk’ • Ask God to impress this need upon you. • Study and revise if necessary, your present schedule. • Plan a definite time for your walk with God.
Make a personal covenant to walk with God. • Evaluate your walk from time to time. • Discern God’s will through a study of His Word.
Establishing the Walk • Develop an attitude of praise and thankfulness. • Praise God for whom He is. • Thank Him for what He has done.
Still walking • Develop a sensitivity to sin and claim Christ’s power to overcome it. • Think on the pure and lovely. Phil.4:13 • God will sustain us. Jude 24
More steps • Trust completely in Christ’s pardoning grace. Eph. 2:8 • Isa. 53: 5,6
Keep walking • Be ready to forgive as Christ forgives. • Matt. 6:12-15 • Eph. 4:32
Some gear is necessary for our walk. The Bible Devotional books Prayer list
Enriching the walk • Backgound music (optional) • A journal • A devotional basket • A quiet listening heart
Become a channel of blessings to others. Acts 1:8 • Become
Rediscover God’s purpose for your life and fulfill it. Pro. 3:5,6 Psa.16:7; 32:8
Enoch • The life and times of Enoch Gen.5:21-24 • Walked with God • God took him.
Rewards • Sweet communion • Peace in our hearts • Cleansing • Reflection of His loveliness
A walk with the King on the streets of heaven THE ULTIMATE REWARD
CONCLUSION • The road here is rough and rugged, but when we walk with Jesus, we will make it. He has promised to be with us and sustain us, and with Jesus we never walk alone.