Walking With God

I find it comforting that I will always be learning. Well it all depends on if I’m hungry for it or not. I can’t tell you how many times I have been walking up and down a highway asking God for change and deliverance, asking God to move in my life in an intense extreme way. There had been times when I would see these things happen, in the sense that I would see God move more frequently than other times, but then there are the other times where I wonder where God is.

I often listen to teachings from great men of faith who operate in closeness and truth with God. People like, Bill Johnson, Joshua Mills, Paul Washer and so on. Something that I have been wondering for a long time is whether or not it is healthy, spiritually, to listen to speakers of truth in excess. I have been thinking about this and praying about this, and as I have been writing this blog entry, God showed me something about it. He showed me that if I fill myself up with the teaching of truth, what comes out of me will be that teaching. But if I spend time with God and get to know Him more and more, and be filled with Him, then He will flow out of me, and the teaching of truth will help to further understand Him. I hope that makes sense. In a way it could be said like this; “it’s not enough to hear the word, but we need to do what it says.”

As I have been learning more and more about God and who He is, as well as His ways, I’m seeing how it is becoming more and easier to obey Him. For example; this past Sunday I was confronted with an opportunity to pray for a lady in our church who was overcome with pain and weariness. As it was given to me and seemingly no one else around me to pray for her, I then had the opportunity to both pray for her and watch what God would do, or stay comfortable and spend time thinking of what would have happened if I had prayed for her. Now, not to sound proud or conceited, but I believe that because I said yes to God and decided to pray for her, that this is an open door for God to work though me and flow through me more and more; we are vessels of His mercy after all.

This is all still a learning process, but it is an exciting one. We as believers in the One True God need to realize that just because the way is narrow, does not mean it’s boring, but rather extremely brilliant with color and excitement beyond anything we can imagine. Think about it, pray about it.

God Bless

-Andrew-