•     Each Morning:  I wake up and always make time to read my Bible and spend my time with God in Prayer. When I do this I always have an awesome day.

Thought:  It's like when you spend your time with God first thing; you feel ready to take on the day, almost like your challenging the day itself. It's kind of like a Boxer: He prepares for the day of his fight.  He goes into strict training and diets on the necessary foods. Step-by-step he gets closer to his fight. Well that fight represents when God is going to use us. We too must go into strict training in the Word, and take away the unnecessary things in life and put our focus on Christ.

1 Corinthians 7:35

“I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.”

•      Every Night:  Each night before I go to sleep I do two very important things. I read a passage in the Word and Pray. When I do this I feel ready to take on the next day! I try to read the Bible anyway I can. So in the Mornings I do devotion, and at night I usually read a chapter or two in a Book of the Bible. Like now I am going through the whole Bible and I am currently facing the tough Book of Deuteronomy. It is not a necessary thing to read the entire Bible-It's if you feel compelled to.

•      Throughout the Day: Always have a song of praise to the Lord in your heart. It always seems to put me in a great mood when I'm worshiping to the Lord whenever, and wherever I am. You don't have to be in Church to be praising God. You can go anywhere. Meditate on a passage or a specific scripture that really spoke to you, and live by it. It's not like in the days of Moses anymore. We do not need priest or pharisees or pastors to talk to God. Jesus wants a relationship with all of us. Not through someone. These daily scripture reading and time spent with God is going to be a challenge. It’s going to be tough, but fulfilling. "Friends" and total strangers will make fun of you, but it is most certainly rewarding.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.  Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.’”

5 Steps of Walking with the Lord

·        1.Walk the Path the Lord has laid out for us: Meaning we must put away with our past and look forward to what God has in store for us.

Proverbs 3: 1-6

“My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, for they will prolong your life many years and bring you prosperity. Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all you ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”

Psalm 25: 4-5

“Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.”

·     2. No Compromise: To not give in to the worldly things, make Jesus our number one Desire.

Isaiah 41: 13

“For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.”

·        3. A steady and willing Heart: Always ready to do the Lords will with all your Heart.

Psalm 86: 11-12

“Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever.”

·        4. The Lord will make us into the Men and Women He created us to be: He is like the Potter and we are the clay. Let the Lord do all the work into forming us to be His godly children. That He will shape us even through the trials. We will become servants.

Isaiah 64:8

“Live in Him, through Him, and for Him.  We constantly seek the Lord.”

·     5. Meditate on the Word, and completely surrender yourself to God.

Mathew 16: 24-28

“Then Jesus Said to his disciples, ‘If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul

For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done. I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom.'"

   John and Dot Overton        
Discipleship Teachers
1116 Plantation Drive
                           Dickinson, Texas  77539                          
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