FAITH CAPSULE: Take time and examine your walk with God or your walk before God.
Matthew 14:22-33
It is written, “Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.” (Genesis 5:24) Enoch walked with God and he could not miss his step on earth. It was recorded for Noah, “…Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.”(Genesis 6:9) The perfection in the life of Noah was the evidence of his walk with God. The bible also recorded Abram’s walk God stating, “When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.” (Genesis 17:1-2) Enoch walked with God, Noah walked with God, Abram walked before God and they all live to the fulfillment of their destiny by not falling away from God. As days, weeks, months and years are passing, can you take time and examine your walk with God or your walk before God? To walk with God or to walk before God is walking in God. Are you walking in the Lord or outside of the Lord? When you walk in the Lord, every step that you take will be committed unto God. When you walk in the Lord, He will be involved in your entire decision making.
As a believer, it is important to walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7). Are you allowing the Holy Spirit take control in your walk? The Spirit will not force Himself upon you, because He is a gentle spirit. It is written, “Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh” (Galatians 5:16) Jesus points it out to us, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” (John 6:63) The word of God is the spirit of God. (Believers have much to gain by walking in the Spirit, and that it why it is necessary for a believer to stay focused on the Lord. Peter walked on water because he was able to maintain his focus when the Word commanded him to. When he lost focus from the Word, he began to sink. Are you focusing on Him despite delays in having your prayers answered? Is the noise of the multitude which is growing all around you, grounding you out? Acts 9:31, “Then the churches throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were edified. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit they were multiplied.” Without any doubt, walking in Him brings comfort and multiplication of blessings in every area of life.
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to walk in Him in the coming days, weeks, months, and years.