Notes: The Foundation For A Walk with God
The Foundation For A Walk with God
Henry Reyenga
Important Question
What is your spiritual dream or goal? What are you here on earth for?
Most Common Answers
God
People
Love the Lord your God …. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Summary of the Law
Same Dream Common Problem
Sin keeps us from going after our spiritual dream.
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God 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.
(Genesis 3:7-8; NIV)
The Grace Connection
God’s grace allows us to overcome sin to reach our spiritual dream.
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. (2 Corinthians 5:18-19; NIV)
How does God’s grace get to us?
God’s Spirit.
The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.
(John 3:8; NIV)
The Windy Path
How does one get to the windy path?
Knowledge
Commitment
Experience
Liturgy
All of these are just part of something called . . . a relationship . . . a connection.
The Connection Habit
Talking = Prayer
Listening = Bible and Spirit
Repeatedly = Habits of Godliness
A dialogue not a debate
Grace-won relationship
God is our Father in Christ through the Holy Spirit