“Walking in the Spirit”

“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit”

- Gal 5:25


Walking in the Spirit means to walk in the presence of God, “And He walks with me and He talks with me and he tells me I am His own.” How amazing is that? God is a Spirit therefore we fellowship with God in the Spirit. When you walk in the Spirit you begin to share your thoughts, feelings, fears and joy of your trusting relationship with God. As you take each step, you are empowered by the Spirit of God to conquer your doubts, worries, anxieties and your fears. You can go to our heavenly Father and He will show you to all truth.

When the mind is renewed, it will walk in the spirit rather than walk according to the flesh. The renewed mind recognizes the dangers and pitfalls of what walking in the flesh will do and the consequences thereof. The renewed mind, minds the things of the spirit. Walking in the Spirit suggest that a person is focused on the things of the Spirit. You stay the course and do not deviate from the left or right. Like a thoroughbred race horse with blinders on, it sees nothing to its left or right but looks straight ahead like tunnel vision. Is your mind renewed and are you walking in the Spirit?


When you walk in the Spirit you renew your mind. It is a relationship where we become dependent on God. It is this work that becomes so radical so demonstrative and so effective in our life, “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord”, 2 Cor 3:18. Your mind is thus renewed when you are transformed into the image and likeness of Christ. This transformation process works by walking in the spirit so that the Holy Spirit will renew your mind, "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them." Eph 2:10. You will begin to think, feel, and act more like Jesus. This is what is meant by Christ-like. Christ desires for all who know Him to be like Him. We are born imitators of Christ. The more knowledge and understanding we have of Christ, the more we become like Him.


As you get to know God and His Word, He reveals things about ourselves, about Him and about others. It is through this relationship that we know God. The more you read your Bible; the more you will learn about God and become reconciled to Him. Thus walk in the spirit with Him through the Word. The ministry of reconciliation means that we are to have the same relationship with one another as the Father has with His Son.

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