Re-Dedication: Our Movement Towards Fresh Fire (Anointing & Power) Day 2 and 3
Today: GOD WILL ‘CAUSE’ US TO WALK IN HIS COUNSEL
(Re-Activating Spiritual Advancement)
Ezekiel 36: 25-32:
“Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean:from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A NEW HEART also will I give you, and a NEW SPIRIT will I put within you:and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put MY (GOD) SPIRIT WITHIN YOU, and CAUSE you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall KEEP my judgments, and DO them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses:and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen. Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord God”
Today we will meditate on our need to walk in newness of life in Christ afresh. Our growth and advancement must be steady. My dear, just as if we did not do it earlier, let us make a decision to walk in the Light, even if others do not.
How do we do that?
“Walk as children of light: proving what is acceptable unto the Lord” Ephesians 5:8, 10
What criteria do you use in order to decide for or against a particular action, ambition, or way of life? Do you weigh the financial benefit, the career advancement, or perhaps the physical pleasure that any given opportunity may afford?
Paul tells us, first, to walk as children of light. In other words, our lives ought to be radically, fundamentally, unmistakably different that those who do not claim Christ as their Lord and Savior. Light is glaringly different than darkness.
We should not be asking the same questions that any one in the world would ask in our same situation. We should not be making decisions that reflect the priorities and self-seeking ways of sinful, unsaved individuals. We should not have the same goals as those who don’t have an eternal perspective.
In short, Paul says, we should be testing everything to see, not whether it is pleasing to our palate or to the world, but what is acceptable to the Lord. Is this thing in agreement with His Word? Will this draw me closer to Christ? Does this further the cause of Christ in the world, through me?
Thankfully, God has not left us in the dark regarding how to walk as children of light. We do not have to guess about what is pleasing to Christ. He has given us all we need to know about his desires and pleasures by communicating them to us in his Word.
Therefore, take his Word, discover what is acceptable to the Lord, and walk in it as a child of light.
Prayer Points:
1. Go over those of yesterday. From the foundational prayer through to the resolution prayer.
2. Walking in the Light is abiding in Him:
1John 1: 5-end “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin”
Lord, have compassion on me. I declare that I need to you to strengthen me. I desire to walk in your light and not my own sparks.
I pray that every attempt of the kingdom of darkness to overwhelm me with temptations and trials, may you by your mighty arm deliver me.
3. Declarations and confessions.
I declare that I am God’s property and cannot and will not be overcome by evil.
I declare that the divine grace for preservation is mine today and always, in Jesus name.
4. FOCUS – Luke 11: 34-36 NIV “Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are unhealthy, your body also is full of darkness. See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be just as full of light as when a lamp shines its light on you.”
Correct my focus O God of my salvation!
Oh God correct my focussing, amen. If I do not see properly, I cannot move in the right direction, so help my inner sight.
Our goal is God.
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