Encouragement To Walk Faithfully With God – By Iwalola(Lola) Ademodi

Beloved, no one talks about how hard it is to walk faithfully with God.

🌺It’s easy to post verses and cute Bible notes, but living in obedience to Jesus requires endurance and perseverance.

🌺I submit to you that you will find out that it is worth it.

💥The Scriptures remind us that the walk of faith is a narrow and difficult road:

✝️Matthew‬ ‭7‬:‭13‬-‭14‬ ‭AMP‬‬ shares;

👉🏾” Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad and easy to travel is the path that leads the way to destruction and eternal loss, and there are many who enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow and difficult to travel is the path that leads the way to [everlasting]life, and there are few who find it.”

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🌺There’s a lifetime of spiritual warfare in ou walk with God:

✝️Ephesians‬ ‭6‬:‭12‬ AMP‬‬ tells us;

👉🏾”For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this [present] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) places.

🌺Walking faithfully means putting on the full armor of God and standing firm against the enemy’s schemes:

✝️Ephesians‬ ‭6‬:‭13‬ ‭AMP‬‬ instructs us;

👉🏾”Therefore, put on the complete armor of God, so that you will be able to [successfully] resist and stand your ground in the evil day [of danger], and having done everything [that the crisis demands], to stand firm [in your place, fully prepared, immovable, victorious].”

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🌺When we choose to walk with God, It also means losing friendships and facing rejection:

✝️John‬ ‭15‬:‭18‬-‭19‬ ‭AMP‬‬ tells us:

👉🏾”If the world hates you [and it does], know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

👉🏾If you belonged to the world, the world would love [you as] its own and would treat you with affection.

👉🏾But you are not of the world [you no longer belong to it], but I have chosen you out of the world. And because of this the world hates you.”

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🌺The trials of faith are constant however, we must persevere until the end.

✝️James‬ ‭1‬:‭2‬-‭4‬ ‭AMP‬‬ encourages us;

👉🏾”Consider it nothing but joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you fall into various trials.

👉🏾Be assured that the testing of your faith [through experience] produces endurance [leading to spiritual maturity, and inner peace].

👉🏾And let endurance have its perfect result and do a thorough work, so that you may be perfect and completely developed [in your faith], lacking in nothing.”

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🌺Though we are in the world, we are called to be set apart:

✝️Romans‬ ‭12‬:‭2‬ ‭AMP‬‬ encourages

👉🏾”And do not be conformed to this world [any longer with its superficial values and customs], but be transformed and progressively changed [as you mature spiritually] by the renewing of your mind [focusing on godly values and ethical attitudes],

👉🏾so that you may prove [for yourselves] what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His plan and purpose for you].”

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🌺It is not easy to live separated from the ways of the world, but the reward is eternal.

💥Ultimately, the struggle is worth it:

‭‭✝️1 Corinthians‬ ‭2‬:‭9‬ ‭AMP‬‬

👉🏾”but just as it is written [in Scripture], “Things which the eye has not seen and the ear has not heard, And which have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him [who hold Him in affectionate reverence, who obey Him, and who gratefully recognize the benefits that He has bestowed].”

🌺Walking with Jesus may be difficult, but it leads to an eternal inheritance in the Kingdom of God.

✝️Philippians‬ ‭3‬:‭14‬-‭15‬ ‭AMP‬‬ declares;

👉🏾”I press on toward the goal to win the [heavenly] prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

👉🏾All of us who are mature [pursuing spiritual perfection] should have this attitude. And if in any respect you have a different attitude, that too God will make clear to you.”

NOW LET US PRAY

🔥Great and Mighty God. Father, thank You for yet another day.

🔥Lord, we pray that You help us in our walk with You, to persevere and endure even in the narrow path in obedience to You so that we can gain eternal life.

🔥Thank You, Lord for Jesus Christ for the gift of salvation.

🔥Thank You for Your word of encouragement that helps us to renew our minds on a daily basis so that we can set our eyes and focus on things that are eternal.

🔥Abide with us everywhere we go Lord Jesus.

🔥Holy Spirit, teach us to walk in the straight and narrow way, and not be distracted by the things of the world .

🔥Lord we praise Your holy name for drawing us closer to You every day.

🔥Be glorified Lord in each of our lives.

🔥In the mighty unholy name of Jesus Christ I have prayed. Amen and Amen 🙏🏾 .

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Have a blessed day in the Lord ❤️

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