FAITH CAPSULE: Steadfastly walk with God.

1 King 19

Following God, walking with God is to serve God diligently that demands to be steadfast.
Following God steadfastly is costly which anyone that is self-full cannot serve God diligently.
Following God is not a one-time or an on-and-off action. 
Following God is giving self to the word of God.
To be steadfast in the word of God demands to be fixed in direction or to be firm in purpose. 
To be steadfast in following the living word of God is not a self-satisfying engagement, and one who is self-full cannot be possibly steadfast walking with God. 
King David realized the importance and the need for one to be steadfast when he called on God in Psalm 51:10, “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
A steadfast spirit is what caused Caleb and Joshua to follow God fully. Caleb and Joshua refused to flow with the crowd confessing negatively against the word of God that promised them a land that flows with milk and honey. 
Caleb and Joshua steadfastly followed the word of God in the face of Moses and all the people confessing positively. 
The positive confession of Caleb and Joshua in the place of negative confession, God, responds saying, “My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.” (Numbers 14:24) Following the commanding word of God is being steadfast, the evidence of having a different spirit, following God fully.
Elisha received the calling of God through Elijah as “…He left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, ‘Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.’ And he said to him, ‘Go back again, for what have I done to you?’ So Elisha turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and boiled their flesh, using the oxen’s equipment, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah, and became his servant.” (1 King 19:20-21) 
Elisha left all behind when he answered the calling of God. 
In answering, Elisha demonstrated steadfastness. 
He emptied himself by getting rid of all that could have held him back. 
Elisha used his oxen’s equipment as a boiler for the slaughtered oxen. Elisha followed the calling of God steadfastly. 
Whatever man cannot forsake for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven is what will become a forsaken one to become a qualified candidate for the Kingdom of Heaven.
Answering to the calling of God demands all to disallow whatever is in place to withhold as an excuse, not to be steadfast to the calling of God.
Be steadfast in following fully, and God will reward you.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you for a clean heart and renew a steadfast spirit within you.