GREAT WALK WITH GODFew Point to Note

•Walking with God is not necessarily a partnership; it is about keying into the leadership of God.

• The question always is, are you ready to fall in line with His perfect will?

• Walking with God is not merely living by rules and regulations; strict quiet time, prayer, evangelism, you cannot be legalistic; it’s about freedom and joyful seeking.• No baby is born walking; there are

certain factors that must be available: food, healthy environment, time for the child to mature-this is applicable in our walk with God.

• One do not need to be perfect to start his walk with God

• Most people that walked with God in the Bible are not perfect people

• Abraham• Moses• David• Paul• But it is worthy to note that as they progress in their

walk their imperfection disappears.• We should not be afraid to start. The goal is to get

better as we progress

• Essential Quality we must possess• Faith and Trust• Desire • Willingness• Obedience• Ability to surrender and submit• Humility• Patience

Examples of people that walked with God

• Enoch- Genesis 5:21-24•Abraham- Genesis 24:40

Enoch• Gen 5:1-8 This is the written account of Adam's line. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

2.He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them "man." 3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. 4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 5 Altogether, Adam lived 930 years, and then he died. 6 When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father of Enosh. 7 And after he became the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters. 8 Altogether, Seth lived 912 years, and then he died.

• Gen 5:9-17 9 When Enosh had lived 90 years, he became the father of

Kenan. 10 And after he became the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters. 11 Altogether, Enosh lived 905 years, and then he died. 12 When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel. 13 And after he became the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters. 14 Altogether, Kenan lived 910 years, and then he died. 15 When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he became the father of Jared. 16 And after he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters. 17 Altogether, Mahalalel lived 895 years, and then he died.

• Gen 5:18-24

18 When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch. 19 And after he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 20 Altogether, Jared lived 962 years, and then he died. 21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. 22 And after he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. 23 Altogether, Enoch lived 365 years. 24 Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away. NIV

• Generations before Enoch lived and died,• Enoch broke the pattern.• What Adam the first man did not discover

Enoch discover it.• He sought God, found God and walked

with God.

• NOTE: if we have a great walk with God we will spiritually live forever.

• He was 65 years old and became the father of Methuselah, he walked with God 300years – imaging intimate communion with God for 300years.

• How will people see him after 10? 20…100years of steady progress of unbroken fellowship and sweet communion…

• NOTE: Great transformation takes place in our lives,

both physical and spiritual- character, attitudes and perspectives changes, spiritually we operate differently.

• He became so holy and pure that God couldn’t let go of him.

• NOTE: when we walk with God, we became free, light, contented that the world will not matter to us anymore,

• we have inner peace, and joy that cannot be explain.

• Enoch was acceptable to God, his life pleased God,• Enoch has a surrendering will.

Abraham• Gen 12:1-3he Lord had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your

father's household and go to the land I will show you.

2 "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."

• Gen 12:4-11

• 4 So Abram left, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

6 Abram travelled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord. 9 Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

10 Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

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• Abraham obeyed God; he got to the land, soon after famine broke out.

• Why did God allow famine in the land he promised Abraham?

• NOTE: It does not mean that when we obey, follow and walk with God, all will be rosy. It is not automatic.

• God will test the genuineness and motive of our heart ,how durable and dependable you can be before taking you further and begins to reveal more to you

• 1 Chron 28:9

• 9 "And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him,

• Obedient is proved when there is opportunity to disobey but chose otherwise.

• Gen 13:1-9 So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and

everything he had, and Lot went with him. 2 Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.

3 From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier 4 and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.

5 Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. 6 But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together. 7 And quarrelling arose between Abram's herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.

8 So Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have any quarrelling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers. 9 Is not the whole land before you? Let's part company. If you go to the left, I'll go to the right; if you go to the right, I'll go to the left."

• Gen 13:10-18 10 Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was

well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) 11 So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. 13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord. 14 The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, "Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west. 15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. 16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. 17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you." 18 So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord.

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• Abraham allowed Lot to choose first, he believed God, trusted God and God blessed him.

• Abraham wasn’t thinking of the best place, he was thinking about the best God because of what he has learnt walking with God

• NOTE: when we prove to God that He is enough for us, He will bless us beyond imaginations.

• The mountain of absolute surrender• Gen 22:9-14

9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 11 But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!""Here I am," he replied. 12 "Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son." 13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, "On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided."

• Gen 22:15-18

• 15 The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and said, "I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me."

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To Abraham, what God asked for (Isaac) means• only son• Promise• Hope• Love• Joy• His life• To put it straight God is asking for everything from

Abraham• Abraham was willing to give it all and he discover

God the more JEHOVAH JIREH

• ARE YOU WILLING TO DISCOVER GOD EVERYDAY?• DESIRE IT

• BE WILLING IN YOUR HEART

• HAVE FAITH AND TRUST

• BE OBEDIENT

• BE HUMBLE

• SUBMIT AND SURRENDER