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Our Walk With The Lord
Contributed by Dr. Stanley Vasu on Jan 1, 2024 (message contributor)
Summary: A FRIEND OF GOD
OUR WALK WITH THE LORD
1. THE LORD WANTS US TO BE HIS FRIENDS THROUGH OUR OBEDIENCE
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE
14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.
15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.
2. THE LORD WANTS TO USE US TO DEMONSTRATE HIS POWER AND DELIVERANCE
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE
11 So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.
10 But since then there has not arisen in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,
11 in all the signs and wonders which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, before Pharaoh, before all his servants, and in all his land,
12 and by all that mighty power and all the great terror which Moses performed in the sight of all Israel.
3. THE LORD WANTS US TO DEMONSTRATE OUR FAITH BY OUR ACTIONS
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE
20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?
22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect?
23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God.
4. THE LORD WILL SUSTAIN US THROUGH ALL THE ATTACKS OF THE ENEMY
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE
22 “Joseph is a fruitful bough,
A fruitful bough by a well;
His branches run over the wall.
23 The archers have bitterly grieved him,
Shot at him and hated him.
24 But his bow remained in strength,
And the arms of his hands were made strong
By the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob
(From there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),
5. THE LORD WILL STRENGTHEN US WHEN WE BECOME WEAK AND WEARY
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE
Isaiah 40 ;29-31
29 He gives power to the weak,
And to those who have no might He increases strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
And the young men shall utterly fall,
31 But those who wait on the Lord
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.
6. THE LORD WILL HONOUR US WHEN WE LOVE HIM AND SERVE HIM
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE
14 “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him on high, because he has known My name.
15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him,
And show him My salvation.”
26 If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.
7. THE LORD WILL MAKE US A FLAME OF FIRE AND USE US FOR HIS GLORY
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE
7 And of the angels He says:
“Who makes His angels spirits
And His ministers a flame of fire.”
4 Who makes His angels spirits,
His ministers a flame of fire.
