SPIRITUAL PREPAREDNESS 2023
Walking with God
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; (Proverbs 30:25)
1. Look up
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. (Colossians 3:1-4)
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:2)
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” (John 14:2-3)
2. Beware the attacks of Satan
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high Places. (Ephesians 6:10-12)
Our battle is not against man, but against Satan and his demons.
3. Walk in:
Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess. (Deuteronomy 5:33)
Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. (Psalm 86:11)
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. (Proverbs 20:7)
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. (Romans 13:13)
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. (Galatians 5:16)
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. (Galatians 5:25)
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor. (Ephesians 5:2)
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)
I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. (2 John 1:4)
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. (3 John 1:4)
4. Walk with:
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. (Genesis 5:24)
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. (Genesis 6:9)
5. Love one another
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. (John 14:34)
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. (1 John 4:11)
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. (1 John 3:11)
6. Think on these things
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. (Philippians 4:8)
CONCLUSION
Look up
Beware
Walk in/with
Love
Think
Tom Stearns, WASI Chaplain, 907 715-4001 chaplain@alaskaseniors.com
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