This document discusses walking with the Holy Spirit. It states that some people walk by sight, relying on human senses and experiences, while others walk by the flesh, satisfying carnal desires. However, the best way to walk is by the Spirit. The document outlines how to walk by the Spirit: acknowledge helplessness without Him, ask for His leading, activate faith in God's word, and act according to His prompting. Walking by the Spirit involves enjoying God's presence, overcoming struggles, and reflecting on what He says, leading to freedom and bearing the fruit of the Spirit.
19. Are we…
• Enjoying His presence?
• Wanting some benefits from Him?
• Needing to overcome our struggles?
20. Are we…
• Enjoying His presence?
• Wanting some benefits from Him?
• Needing to overcome our struggles?
• Reflecting on what He is saying to us?
21. Are we…
• Enjoying His presence?
• Wanting some benefits from Him?
• Needing to overcome our struggles?
• Reflecting on what He is saying to us?
• Wanting to experience spiritual thrills?
22. People who walked with God started in
Genesis…
ADAM & EVE
Gen 3:8
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.
God looked for them.
23. People who walked with God started in
Genesis…
ENOCH
Gen 5:24
Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took
him away.
So closely that he was taken to heaven.
24. People who walked with God started in
Genesis…
NOAH
Gen 6:9
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and
he walked faithfully with God.
Believed and followed God all the way.
25. People who walked with God started in
Genesis…
ABRAM
Gen 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and
said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless.
Faithful even to death. Known as a friend of God.
26. They ALL had a personal and intimate
Walk with God.
28. John 14:16-17
16 And I will ask the Father, and He will
give you another advocate to help you and
be with you forever—
17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot
accept Him, because it neither sees Him
nor knows Him. But you know Him, for He
lives with you and will be in you.
29. God still wants to walk with us
personally and intimately
TODAY!
31. THREE Common Ways People Walk in Life
Walk by SIGHT
2 Cor 5:7
For we live by faith, not by sight.
What makes most human sense?
32. THREE Common Ways People Walk in Life
Walk by SIGHT
• Based on our human senses
what we see, hear, think, feel, smell & taste.
• Based on past experiences
formal training, upbringing, what we read etc.
• Limitation
the more we live life, the more we realize how much we don’t know.
• Stressful
What makes most human sense?
33. THREE Common Ways People Walk in Life
Walk by FLESH
• Based on satisfying our carnal desires / lust of the flesh
Gal 5:16-21
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and
debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of
rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy;
drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that
those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
What brings me worldly pleasures?
34. THREE Common Ways People Walk in Life
Walk by the SPIRIT
What gives me freedom in Christ?
35. Walk by the SPIRIT
Gal 5:16-25
16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires
of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit,
and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with
each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. 18 But if
you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control.
Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ
Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
36. Walk by the SPIRIT
HOW?
1. Acknowledge our helplessness
Being born again /made alive in our spirit is the work of the
Holy Spirit.
Gal 5:25
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
37. Walk by the SPIRIT
HOW?
2. Ask for His Leading
We need the same enabling power of the Holy Spirit to live this life!
Gal 5:18
If you are led by the Spirit, then you are not under law.
When the Spirit is producing godly desires that are stronger than the flesh,
then the commands of God are no longer a burden but a joy.
38. Walk by the SPIRIT
HOW?
3. Activate faith in God’s Word
Believe in what God said.
Rom 6:11
In the same way, count yourself dead to sin but alive to God in
Christ Jesus.
2 Tim 3:16
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking,
correcting and training in righteousness.
39. Walk by the SPIRIT
1 John 3:1
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we
should be called children of God! And that is what we are!
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us
our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
40. Walk by the SPIRIT
James 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives
generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
John 16:33
“ I have told you these things, so that in me you may have
peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have
overcome the world.”
41. Walk by the SPIRIT
HOW?
4. Act according to His prompting
Do what you know is right.
Phil 2:13
For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to
His good purpose.