YOUR WALK OR YOUR WORK

"As the deer pants for streams of water,
  so my soul pants for you, my God" Psalm 42:1






Spirituality today is determined by your work instead of your walk with God.We focus on what you do in church over your walk with God.We need to understand that God values our walk more than our work,most times we put more emphasis on work rather than your walk with God.

Not that I am saying working for God is wrong or not important,but when you get involved in too much activities and you no longer have quality time with God,you will not please God entirely.

God is very much concerned with spending quality time with you,so that he can fellowship with you and in doing so,you become more acquainted with him.


THE GARDEN FELLOWSHIP
The bible says that God created man for his own pleasure,that's the first reason why we were created,and it was recorded that God would come in the evening to fellowship with Adam and Eve,he would come and spend time with them,so that they can become acquainted with him and in the process get to know themselves better,because self discovery is related to our fellowship with the father.

Much more than the huge responsibility God had given Adam,they had good time of fellowship with God,this is why its important we have a devotion time with God,and he will always be there waiting for you,because he loves to fellowship with you.

some of us no longer have a time of devotion,where you just fellowship with God,pray and worship and study your bible,a time to experience his presence just you and him,then you get to know him better.


UZZAH KILLED BY THE ARK – 2 Samuel 6:7
The ark of God had been resting in the house of Abinadab and David went to fetch it,Abinadab had two sons Uzzah,Ahio,who drove the ark,while they moved it looked as if the ark was going to fall so Uzzah stretched out his hand to help the ark from falling,then God struck him,it’s a picture of been more concerned about work rather than walk.

I don’t know what he did wrong by trying to help but he was struck,God will not compromise principles over activity,he is more concerned about your walk with him,over your work.
Activity does not really mean productivity,as much as God wants you to be strategically involved in the building of his house he wants you to stay and learn from him.


ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD – Genesis 5:24
It was spoken of Enoch that he was a righteous man in his time and he devoted his time to building his walk with God rather than his work for God.Don't get too busy with the work of the lord and not be involved with the God of the work.

Enoch walked with God and he was not,he was not allowed to see death,he was taken away,he did not die,he was the first man to be raptured by the father,because he walked with God,what a way to depart!

The bible says he did not see death,the father didn’t allow death to touch him,instead he was taken away,like Elijah that was taken away,after his time was done and he had finished his work on earth he was taken away,righteous men are taken away.

Some of us are experiencing death in our lives,in different parts of our lives,we should concentrate on building our walk,sometimes we chase solution instead of the God of solution,Enoch walked with God and he was not,may that be our testimony as we walk with God.


TEACH ME YOUR WAYS – EXODUS 33:13;
Moses asked God to show him his ways; Ways here speaks of a lifestyle,teach me how you do things,I want to know you,the secrete to seeing the hand of God in operation is seeking to know his ways.

How can I know his ways,if not through his word,the word of God contains the way of God,another word for way his will,his word shows his will to us,so if you want to know his way,search and study his word and put it to practice.Teach me your ways.

There are Christians who are seeking his hand when they should be seeking to know his ways,let that be your prayer today as you develop your walk with him,teach me your ways,like Paul said,that I may know him,it's the heart cry of the believer,show me your ways,how can you work the miracles he worked when you don’t know his way,he wants to very much teach you his ways that why he sent his sweet Holy Spirit to us,to teach us about the father.

Don't trade your fellowship with the father for anything,David said “a day in the courts of God is better than a thousand elsewhere in this world” Psalm 84:10.

He is waiting for you to rise up and just communicate with him," as the deer pants for the water brooks so doth my soul pant after thee o God” Psalm 42:1, when you walk with God,he will lead you in paths of righteousness for his names sake,he wants to lead you in paths unknown,how can we do greater things when we don’t know his ways,make a decision today to build your walk.


MARY AND MARTHA – Luke 10:38-41
Jesus paid the sisters of Lazarus a visit,what a honor to be visited by a man like Jesus,so excited Martha was that she got so busy trying to prepare to entertain the master,but why did Jesus visit Martha and Mary,because he was hungry no,but because he wanted to fellowship with them have sweet communion with the sisters,who he knew loved the lord.

But Martha moved by so much respect and love for Jesus wanted to give Jesus the best,she was busy running all over the house while Mary her sister was busy listening to the master teach, Martha unhappy that Mary wasn't helping her at the chores,she rebuked her and asked Jesus “don’t you care that my sister has left me to serve thee alone,ask her to come and help me”

The response of Jesus was amazing,Jesus said “Martha,Martha,thou art troubled about many things,but only one thing is needed,Mary has chosen what is better and it will not be taken from her”.

Jesus didn’t rebuke Mary as Martha would have expected but encouraged her, “she has found the on thing that is better”.

In other words what Martha is doing is just okay but Mary's choice is better and Jesus said it will not be taken from her,what is that one thing that is better,staying in the feet of the master to learn of him,nothing can be more important than fellowship with the master,there in our walk is developed.

Mary wants to know the master,she sat at his feet to sup with him,to learn his ways,that is what we should be doing that one thing that is better,I dare to say that your walk with God is better and to be more treasured than anything else.

Recently the great Evangelist Billy Graham was asked what is the one thing he would have done more,in his life,the year old replied, “I would have taken less speaking engagements and spent more time with God,studying,praying and fellowshipping with him”.

Martha is troubled about many things,it's the attitude of Martha to be troubled and worried and its okay,she was concerned about what Jesus would eat,over the main purpose of his visit,that's how some of us are carried away with so many church activities but that one thing that is better is fellowship with God.

The book of Daniel says they that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits,how can you be strong and do exploits it begins with knowing God,how else can you know him if you don't fellowship with him,spend time with the word and prayer,the emphasis is not exploits but they that do know,their God,knowledge produces inner strength and causes you to do exploits,we must build a time of consistent constant fellowship with the father,if we will see his hands in manifestation.

PRESERVING POSTERITY 3 – Transfer of the Blessing

“And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Galatians 3:29

God  blessed Abram and Abraham sowed and prospered in wealth,he was the wealthiest man in the middle east,he maximised the blessing and worked and prospered.We see the continuity of this wealth in Abraham’s lineage,and his seed Isaac was also blessed,he received the blessing and he sowed in the land that he was in and prospered in a hundred fold.
He received from God what made Abraham thick,the blessing.Also in the life of Jacob also received the blessing in his life and he was a prosperous man,such that whatsoever the put their hands to do they were blessed,it was a transfer that changed their lifes entirely,they were also blessed.

THE BLESSING
When God called Abraham he told him I will bless you and make you a blessing and I will bless everyone that comes from your lineage.We need to understand the difference between the blessing and blessings or a blessing.
The word blessings speaks of the result of been blessed,we must not confuse it for the blessing,the blessings are what follows a blessed man.
Abraham was blessed,the word translated Bless in the old testament in Hebrew is Barak meaning to knee before,to bless,to Adore,so when the bible says and God blessed Abraham it means that God adored Abraham,knelt before him,that would imply that God must have put in Abraham a quality that only God possessed,that made the difference in Abraham’s life,that is what resulted in the wealth that Abraham enjoyed why here on earth,that there was no record of Abraham ever broke,no his lineage.
That same quality was transferred to Isaac and Jacob that they lived in wealth all their lives,they were never broke.When we talk about the transfer of wealth,I don’t mean money,houses,land and all of that but the transference of what makes you thick,a quality that can make the difference in the life of those that will come after you,it’s a spiritual activity.
If it was all about physical transfer,why did Isaac still have to sow in the land,he could have lived on what his father gave to him without stress,but he sowed and he prospered even more,he had what made his father thick,I would like to call it the transfer of an anointing,the transfer of the Spirit.It totally changed his life,such that when he dug wells and the well was stolen he never struggled with the people he knew what he had on the inside it was able to produce more wells.
We see in the life of Jacob that he propered also,because of the same anointing on his life,even if he had flaws yet he prospered in whatever he did,yes he got the birth-right of Esau because of Esaus carelessness but he didn’t steal the blessing,we need to understand the difference between the blessing of the first born that came with the law and the blessing on Abraham.

THE BIRTHRIGHT AND THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM
The birthright was a blessing you receive as a result of been first son and this had nothing to be in the lineage of Abraham,but Jacob got Abrahams blessing and the blessing of the first son,Esau lost his birthright,people say he was cheated,I don’t agree,Jacob didn’t cheat Esau,but Esau had no value for that birth-right,he valued more the immediate satisfaction of his belly,to the eternal blessing he would receive as first child,but he lost it forever,he chose his belly over the blessing and a lot of us do that even today by the choices we make.
Though the bible records in Hebrews that he sort for it with tears but he never got it back,it was irrevocable Jacob told him,but he still sort for it,there are some things once we loose we would never get it back,ever again,some of us are restricted because we lost some opportunities and we can never get it till we die.
Jacob prospered,to prove to you that even Esau didn’t loose the blessing the bible recorded that he was a very prosperous man,when Jacob met with him to make peace he was already a prosperous man and didn’t need Jacobs gifts.So we a flow of this blessing that produced blessings on their lives.
But we read in scriptures that God told Abraham that through his seed not seeds shall all nations of the earth be blessed,that spoke of Jesus being his seed,Jesus became the extension of that blessing that made Abraham thick and even more to us,if Jesus had not come,we would not be able to access that blessing on Abraham,it would have ended with those in his lineage,but the Bible says that in christ we can enjoy the blessing not blessings of Abraham.
Reuben Jacobs first son lost the second portion of his birth-right to Joseph because he despised his father by sleeping with Jacobs concubine,Jacob took it and gave it to Joseph.
Joseph was favored and blessed such that even what he went through the bible records that the lord was with him and he enjoyed the blessing of God o his life,though he was a great grand son of Abraham,we see him prospering in all he did and those he had contact with saw the blessing of God on his life,that he became a ruler in a foreign land,he was blessed.

IN CHRIST THE TRANSFER TO US.
So what made Abraham thick and rich in all ramification is ours when we receive Jesus as lord and personal saviour.We areceive the blessing of Abraham through christ in the form of the anointing,the holy spirit.
Anyman who is in Christ is blessed in the same way and more than our father Abraham,through Christ we have access to the blessing and the gift of the Holyspirit that they never had,this gives us access to all of God.
Jesus had to give his life for this to be possible,he became poor so that we can be rich,all we need to do is to walk into this through the faith we receive when we accept Jesus as lord and saviour,you access the blessing and the power to make wealth.The believer is blessed,with all blessing,we don’t need anything else,all you have to do is put your hands to work and you will see the manifestation of the blessing in your life.
The blessing is in us already as a seed,imagine that you should never be broke again in your life,there is so much in you than you could ever imagine,there was no record of Abraham or Isaac or Jacob or Joseph broke and begging,nor do we ever see Jesus,who is the exact reporesentaion of God broke or begging,put your hands to work by faith,it should flow,its natural,you don’t struggle for it to flow,it’s a natural flow,through Christ Jesus.
The blessing of Abraham through Christ Jesus,is yours already,this is the cure for poverty and been broke,you can never be broke another day of your life,it’s a reality if we follow God,the world has a system,but this is a spiritual transfer that takes place once you receive christ Jesus.The blessing of Abraham is yours and much more through christ Jesus.
The blessing is accessed through faith in Christ Jesus but the blessings can only come when we apply some work to our faith.

scriptures : Genesis 12:1-3;Genesis 25:29-34; Genesis 26:13;Genesis 30:43;Genesis 33:11;Deuteronomy 21:17;1Chronicles 5:1-2;Galatians 3:16,29;Hebrews 12:17KJV(king James version)