You must labour to have a healthy spiritual eye. But how? By investing in knowing God intimately every single day. Prioritise prayer, Word study, fasting and going to church regularly. Doing these consistently will illuminate your spirit with Christ, and your life will follow the direction of God’s purposes.
If Jesus wants you to get to a height in your faith journey in Him where you can fast without external leadership, then He desires you to mature spiritually.
Just as the body wants to get fed every day, so does your spirit. Anybody who feeds his human body and ignores his soul (specifically, the mind) and spirit will have an imbalanced life. That is why there are wealthy people who don’t know anything about Jesus.
Learn to enjoy Jesus no matter how busy you are. Create a strong boundary between time for work and time for Jesus alone while leaving everything aside. That will help you enjoy the Lord very well as you make an impact in His name.
The devil has no love. He doesn’t like you. So when he suggests sinful thoughts to you, even as sweet in your mind, don’t ever think there’s a good end to engaging in it. It’ll leave you with shame and guilt when you submit to him. Be wise in how you live in this perverse generation. And let God be the reason for everything you do.
Pruning is painful. But it is God’s way of purging us from any filth in our walk with Him. Every believer who’s serious about God will definitely go through this kind of season in his life.
As believers, God wants us to live so pure and holy that we have nothing to do with sin, even in our weakest selves.
Obey your spiritual leader. Honour him very well. But don’t come to church or serve in the ministry because of him, otherwise, that would be an eyeservice and that is not pleasing before God. Remember to seek Jesus in all that you do.
Since you’re God’s child as a believer, regardless of your rank in the Spirit, you are still subject to His disciplinary actions if He has to do it to you to straighten your life.
It is common for you to experience struggles during your humble beginnings in starting to actualise the vision God has given you. In those moments when God shows Himself to be faithful, you will learn to depend on Him. Wait on God, acknowledge His Word and follow His leading.
Sometimes, you may have more time to study the very things your spiritual head is teaching the entire congregation every day. And so because of that, you can grow to be more knowledgeable than your teacher, which is not wrong, suppose that happens. But follow Jesus’ principle – the student is not above the teacher. The student can be more knowledgeable than the teacher but not as experienced as him.
Jesus chose you to reveal the Father to you. And this choice was made before the world began (see Ephesians 1:4). However, it starts manifesting when one gets born again. That is why anybody who gets closer and closer to Jesus ends up knowing the Father intimately.
