The Agreement

 Galatians 5:25 reads, Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Keeping in step with the Holy Spirit is something every believer should have as their priority, particularly in these days of ever growing deception. It's very easy to get out of step with Him, and so many  of us do. Maybe some part of our lives is out of step right now.

Walking in step with Him doesn't come naturally and it will come about as a result of our daily choices. In the Gospel of John, Jesus said, I am the Vine and you are the branches, telling us that we are to abide in Him. This is a choice. It can't be done from a distance. It requires intimacy. When we fail to abide in intimacy with Him, the result will always be chaos and confusion, and eventually a drifting into unbelief.

How do we so easily get out of step with Him? A great deal of it is because we tend to base everything on what we're seeing, feeling, and experiencing in the moment, instead of on the the truth of what He's said and promised. John Eldredge in Walking With God puts it this way; We don't believe the Scriptures because they don't seem to align with what we're feeling right now.....People are clinging to their unbelief because that's what they're feeling in the moment....we're not at that moment experiencing what God says is true. So, if we're not feeling it or seeing it right now, it must not be true.

It will come down to our choices. Will we believe that what God has said is true, or will we believe what the enemy is saying in this moment is true? Either answer will involve agreement from us. We choose who it is we will believe. Our choices will then reveal if we are walking in step with the Spirit of Truth or completely out of step with Him as we follow the lie, and the lie will only grow more powerful in your life. Where do we walk right now, in the steps of the Father and His Holy Spirit, or in the crooked and destructive pathway of the enemy and his lies?

Both the Father and Satan are constantly issuing invitations to us. God invites us to agree with Him and believe, while the enemy invites our agreement with him and be deceived. The Lord's invitation most often comes with no frills, readily seen benefits, or emotional appeals. Just a bold calling to believe and trust Him. The devil's invitation will always be accompanied by a bombardment upon our emotions and reasonings, and an appeal to use our heads and be realistic. We'll agree with one or the other and eventually, it will become our life pattern. What's your life pattern today? Are you moving in step and in harmony with the leading of the Holy Spirit, or in the disharmony and missteps of the enemy? Just who is that you're agreeing with?

Blessings,
Pastor O