A closer walk with God

As we mature in our walk with Christ, we will become even stronger in the faith as we see the things that God is capable of accomplishing in our lives. God wants us to surrender, to make him bigger in our lives. He is really trying to change things for us, but we are not listening to him. What happens when we have children who decide that they have to do their own thing, even for an early age and refuse to listen to you, as a parent. When they end up in trouble, they come back to you to help them to sort it out. It is the same with us and God. Obedience to God brings you blessings, but disobedience brings us problems and then we have to humble ourselves and go back to God to see if he can help us. Your children have little faith in you, because once they have attained a certain age they feel like they now know more than you, so you cant tell them what to do. It grieves God's heart to see us struggle, but the only way he can help is if we go to him.

You can say a short prayer, whether you are a Christian who has not been living in the faith (Backslide), or not .
Father God, forgive me of my sins, I believe Jesus is Christ and he died and rose again to save us. Come (back) into my heart and be my lord and savior.

God loves us, he forgives, he delivers, he heals. God wants us to love each other, just as he first loved us. Keep a clean heart and let him guide you into what he has for you. Instead of backbiting someone, pray for them, try not to encourage gossip, lies and anyone coming against another person. Tell them to pray about it, or for the person. Try to forgive everyone and when you pray, repent and ask god to take this burden and give you his peace while he works.  God sees all, he hears all things. How can you serve a God as powerful as The Most High God and you are still worrying about things, still doubting. Pray more, worry less and ask God to take control of every situation that seeks to cause dissension in your life. He is a God of peace, he is our burden bearer. Try his love.

Having a clean heart in all that we do.

Proverbs 4:23 says: Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

God created us with a heart, from which all things flow. He works from a pure, clean heart. If you have anything in your heart that is not of god, then other things will be added. Anger, strife, malice, backbiting, unforgiveness and doubts in gods ability blocks you from receiving from god. God gives you gifts of the Holy Spirit to help you in your daily walk. If you are ill and have prayed for healing, you healing will only come through a clean heart. so when you pray, you repent and ask god for forgiveness.

Keeping things bottled up can lead to many different illnesses, asthma, stomach problems, because its that blockage that witches use to out illnesses on us. It stays because any blockage will keep God from answering your prayers. God can only work from a clean heart and a clean heart. God can give you peace if you have a clean heart. God is our burden bearer. If when you pray, you still worry about it, then god does not have it and cannot do anything with it. He has servants who are burden bearers. If they can feel your burden, or you're still worried about the situation you prayed about, then he does not have it. Lay your burdens at his feet, that way you can focus on other things while he works on that issue. Ask him to take your burden from you and give you his peace and he will.

The most important thing you can do to maintain peace in your life and keep your heart clean is to pray for peace. Tormenting spirits will constantly try to disrupt our lives, but god can calm the stormiest seas. Trust in him, believe in him and watch him work.

The spirit man and the flesh

Galatians 5:17-25 

¹⁷ For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. ¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

When the bible speaks of the spiritual man and the flesh as per  the above chapter and verse it is as real as it can get. For Christians, if you walk in the flesh you will completely miss what is happening in the world and in your lives, but if you walk in the spirit it will come to life right before your eyes. Walking in the spirit is when you listen closely to God and heed his instructions, in other words, let him direct your path in everything that you do. God is real, he is omnipresent and he is always talking, you just have to listen to his voice. God guides you and engineers circumstances for you to do his work. He guides our every footsteps and protects us from the enemy, as long as you are walking in his favor.

Whether you believe it or not, everything that is happening in the world and in our lives has been explained in the bible. If you look closely at the words in your bible, you will see that we are in a perpetual cycle with the same things happening to us over and over again, each month, week and day. when God says in the bible that we should pray for everything (Philippians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;) It actually shows us how to live, because God has everything we need. If its wisdom, knowledge, understanding, help with our finances, whatever it is that we need, we can ask and receive it as long as we ask with a clean heart.

There is nothing hard about serving God, or living for God. It is the best way to ensure a happy life, even with all the turmoil that everyone is experiencing. God wants you to worship him, praise him and watch him work out situations in our favor. the difference between knowing God, really knowing and trusting God and not knowing him, is that the problems we face in life seem bigger when you don't have God and smaller when you do. God wants us to rely on him for everything that we need and in a world where people are used to relying on themselves it can be hard, but it will be the best thing you ever do.

Surrendering your life to him can mean peace like you will never know otherwise. The enemy is against us and will try everything to bring us down, but using God as your life support can determine whether you sink or float in this rough sea we call life. There are certain principles that are common to the man who walk in the flesh that are not okay for Christians. Trusting God and believing him for everything will make you conquerors. God is for everyone and the amount of people who take him up on his offer pales in comparison to those who won't. They need God, but the enemy has them believing that this is not so.

Stubbornness and willfulness are not of God. Obedience guarantees blessings, while disobedience guarantees problems. You can choose to serve God and help each other, or to serve yourself and end up in problems that you cannot dig yourself out of, but God is so patient that we fall so many times and he still forgives us and shows us grace and mercy.