While we continue to walk out this season with an eye on our present with an eye on the unfolding future, we can be so absorbed by that process and events that we fail to walk the walk we are meant to walk. I didn’t think I could fit so many ‘walks’ in! The point is there is a walk we are meant to walk and its in the Holy Spirit. It is important that we be intentional in reminding ourselves as to what God says. Check out these familiar scriptures Romans 8:26-28, Romans 8:31-32, Romans 8:37-39. They along with the rest of the scriptures remind us that … we didn’t find God. God found us.
- The Holy Spirit is God on earth. He is the central Person in our lives. Every triumph we experience in our lives when we follow Jesus occurs because of the Holy Spirit.
- The Christian life is a relational journey. It is a relationship with the Holy Spirit, who completely and perfectly manifests the will of the Father.
- We need to have a heightened awareness of the presence of God.
- God gave us Himself as our inheritance and the initial payment is the Holy Spirit Himself. He is the “down payment.”
It is your nature to be led by the Spirit.
- The believer must be familiar with the voice of God. Living immersed in Christ puts us in a place where we constantly hear that familiar voice. The more we learn to yield ourselves to this voice, the more normal it becomes for us to walk in the Spirit.
- Everything Jesus does in us, He works in us to the end that we would adequately represent Him.
- Biblical meditation means you fill the mind. It is joining your mind with the mind of Christ. Intercession means standing in the shoes of another, instead of praying at a situation. We pray as though this person’s struggles are our own. Jesus and the Holy Spirit both intercede for us.
We live in continuous connection to the expression of God’s love.
- The problem is that we can live aware of inferior things and lose our God-given sensitivity to God’s heart for us. It doesn’t mean His love has changed. It just means we don’t live conscious of it.
- We can only hear the richness of God’s words and promises through the Spirit, like a radio receiver. We just need to turn our dial up.
- The present moment is yours, the future is yours, but the past is not. If we revisit the moments of our past separate from our awareness of the blood of Jesus, then we actually visit something that no longer exists. We have no legal access to the past apart from the redemptive touch of Jesus. He only brings up issues of our past for a redemptive purpose, never to lead us to shame. It is only for triumph, victory, and celebration.
Extract from e Course Study Guide ‘Keys for walking in the supernatural’ by Bill Johnson