Walking With God

Walking with God

Prayer-

Good morning

I have to tell you I am ready to hear from the Lord! Amen?

I come to every service with this attitude… what do you want to say to me today Lord. I come with an expectation that He will speak to us. I believe it is His desire to speak and is not unusual for Him to do these things if you have a close enough relationship with him to hear when he is talking.

I am amazed at stories of the Lord speaking to people and then listening to the things that He does.

Abraham- where the Lord spoke to him and said go to a land that I will show you and Abraham left his town of UR.

Joshua and Caleb investigating the promise land where 10 out of 12 spies sent out said that the people in the land were giants and they could not possessed the land that God himself had promised them. Only two of them stood on God’s promise.

Another familiar passage speaks of Enoch- “Enoch walked with God”

That the title of the message and theme- walking with God

Enoch walked so close to God that God took him home and he did not taste death.

I am not saying that you can walk so close to God that you would never die but I will say that I desire to be in a relationship that would be that intimate with the Lord.

The original Hebrew meaning of ‘walking” was walking with God, talking to God, and drawing close to God. If you want that kind of relationship- just walking won’t get it- you have to be walking, talking and drawing close to God.

I want that kind of relationship with the Lord don’t you?

We think it impossible because of all the distractions and opposition.

It is possible- so what keeps us from that close of a relationship? We do!

Enoch walked with God- better said Enoch learned to walk with God-

He lived in a wicked society.

He was not born in a time where everyone loved God.

He had children, a wife, a job, a ministry. He had obligations and responsibilities.

Enoch choose not to be a part of the people who refused God, but choose heavenly things over earthly things.

The wicked world had it lust, hardness, and distractions, but Enoch choose to walk with God.

He had no complete Bible like we have

He had no song books, phone apps that play your favorite worship songs.

He did not have the indwelling Holy Spirit in his life to daily direct him. The Holy Spirit fell on someone for a task and after Pentecost the Spirit of God dwelled with believers.

Yet scripture said that He knew God!

I am guessing before Paul that Enoch learned to die to self and walk with God and let God direct his path.

Hebrews 11:5 says that ‘Enoch walked with God and that he pleased God”

What was it about Enoch that pleased God? What pleases God? His walk with God produced faith and God loves faith.

Faith moves God!

Impossible things happen when people have radical life changing faith that God can do some amazing things in our lives.

Miracles still happen.

Throughout history- people who walk close with God are going to be a part of the solution not the problem.

The glass half full people are the ones that get God’s attention.

If the church universal was a church walking with God, having conversation with God, the result would be people of faith- and people of faith would be changing this world for the better instead of watching the world beat us and pollute our thinking.

What happen in Genesis 3:8?

“Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, where are you? ”

God knew where they were and what had happen.

They had stopped walking with God and they hid from God because of what they did while they were walking away from God.

This world is walking away from God and as they do they do things displeasing to the Lord and are forced to hide because they have sin in their life.

Their eyes weren’t opened like the devil promised, they were deceived and they were found naked and separated from God.

They tried to fix it themselves- anyone try to fix it themselves and bad things get worse.

“Adam and Eve were both naked and felt no shame’- that is what God says about their relationship with Him after they decided to no longer walk with God