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4 Steps Closer: Aligning Your Life With God’s Will
Contributed by Bob Mcgill on Oct 18, 2025 (message contributor)
Summary: Every believer wants to draw closer to God, but real closeness doesn’t come from emotion—it comes from alignment. This message walks through four practical steps to align your thoughts, beliefs, actions, and words with God’s truth so your life reflects His presence and power.
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4 Steps Closer: Aligning Your Life with God’s Will
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Intro
Every one of us wants to be closer to God. We want His presence in our lives, His peace in our hearts, and His power to help us every day. But the truth is, life often pulls us away. We get busy, we get distracted, and sometimes we even get discouraged.
The good news is that God has already given us what we need to grow. He shows us in His Word how we can draw near to Him in very real and practical ways. If we will take simple steps of faith, He will change our lives.
Today I want to share with you four steps that anyone can take to grow closer to God — steps that will help us think differently, believe differently, live differently, and speak differently.
God’s power has already given us everything we need — not just for belief, but for real change. That means we don’t need a new technique, a better method, or someone else’s anointing. We need to believe, surrender, walk, and speak the truth God has already given us. These four steps aren’t self-help — they are God-powered transformation through His Word, His promises, and His Spirit.
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Step 1 – Guard Your Thoughts
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)
“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
Philippians 4:8 (NKJV)
“Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy — meditate on these things.”
• Your mind is a gate — protect it.
• What you feed your thoughts will either grow your faith or fuel your fear.
• God wants to transform your life — but it starts in your thinking.
• Replace garbage with truth. What goes in, comes out.
Reminder: If you don’t guard your thoughts, you give the enemy a foothold before the battle even starts.
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Step 2 – Judge Your Beliefs
2 Corinthians 10:5 (NKJV)
“…bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.”
Psalm 139:23-24 (NKJV)
“Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties;
And see if there is any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting.”
• What do you believe about yourself? About God?
• Not every belief is true — and not every belief came from God.
• Beliefs can come from wounds, trauma, failure, or fear.
• Test every belief. If it doesn’t match God’s Word, it doesn’t belong in your life.
• Lies lead to bondage — truth leads to freedom.
• Write out some beliefs and try to re-word them.
Example: Instead of “I never have money for things I want,” say “Thank God I have enough for my needs.”
Reminder: Your walk will never rise higher than what you believe to be true in your heart.
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Step 3 – Walk in Faith (Not Fear)
2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV)
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
2 Corinthians 5:7 (NKJV)
“For we walk by faith, not by sight.”
Numbers 13:33 (NKJV)
“There we saw the giants… and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight.”
• Your walk reveals what you believe.
• Fear is a sign that false beliefs are still active.
• God is calling you to walk forward — not shrink back.
• You don’t need more faith — you need faith based on God’s truth.
• Faith is not a feeling — it’s a decision to trust God.
Reminder: Faith doesn’t always feel strong — it simply obeys when God says “Go.”
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Step 4 – Speak With Power
Proverbs 18:21 (NKJV)
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”
Luke 6:45 (NKJV)
“Out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.”
2 Corinthians 4:13 (NKJV)
“And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, ‘I believed and therefore I spoke,’ we also believe and therefore speak.”
• Your words reveal what’s in your heart.
• You can’t speak life if you’re filled with fear and lies.
• When aligned with God, your mouth becomes a weapon of truth.
• This is not about speaking things into existence — it’s about agreeing with what God already said.
• Your words don’t create truth — they declare it.
Reminder: We speak in power only when we walk in truth.
