01 Walking With God: An Introduction

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Walking with God: An Introduction For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, “For we are also His offspring” (Acts 17:28, emphasis added). God made man in His image, according to His likeness He created him and He gave him dominion over the earth. Adam and Eve were the epitome of divine energy and tranquility and were glowing with heavenly peace as they rule their domain, filled with joy as they join the angels worshiping God in the cool of the day. As king, Adam lived and related to realities in a world where the Spirit and natural realms were fused into the one world of God. It was a world where things existed in one realm because God is one and in Him is no discord and division. It was a perfect existence filled with everlasting life, dazzling light and eternal truth as the glory of the Lord covered the earth from horizon to horizon. It was perfect because man was created the son of God, one with God (Luke 3:38). In their relationship with God, man was son of God and God was Father of man. Both God and Adam find delight and fulfillment in their divine Father-son relationship. Man was created to have dominion over all things in the kingdom of his Father. Adam was beautifully fashioned a glorious son of God to be concerned about his Father’s business. He was created a royal prince of light, overflowing with the presence and Spirit of God. God placed Adam in the Garden of Eden, not to do his own will, but the will of his Father. When God walked with Adam, He taught him about creation and the purpose for cultivating and maintaining the garden. He also taught him about naming the animals

and his king-priest relationship with them. He was the covering of all the earth. Because Adam was made in the image of his Creator, Adam had creative freedom while nurturing and caring the garden. In their fellowship both God and Adam found great joy and fulfillment as they flow in absolute oneness of Spirit. As Adam abided in Christ His creator, doing His will, he flowed with the life force of God. He was totally alive to God, always moving, vibrant and an overflowing fountain of the energy of the Spirit of God which was working in Adam’s whole being according to His good pleasure. When Adam walked with God he was in harmony with creation and filled with the energy and strength of the Spirit of God. He was so full of life that he lived 930 years after sin entered him and the discord of sin entered his soul. All life in creation lost its power when Adam ceased to abide in his Creator. All that Adam did in the garden pleased God and brought fulfillment to His heart. Adam was full of life and moved with the vibrancy of the Spirit of Christ that was in him. God purposefully fashioned Adam to bring delight and fulfillment to Him and all of creation. In God, he lived and gracefully moved with purpose in doing the will of God. Nothing hurried him because he was master of time, total in harmony with God. When Adam partook of the tree of knowledge of good and evil he tore the universe apart by separating the spiritual from the physical. Through transgression he was confined to the realm of the physical and access was denied him into the Spiritual realm where God dwells. The Spiritual realm is the atmosphere of heaven, the very breath of God, which is eternal life. Adam through sin forfeited the right to live in God where eternal life, light and truth reign. Because he was severed from God, he died to God, in other words, in his spirit, soul and body death reigned. He got

independent from God and on his own terms searched for knowledge of good and evil. His perfect relationship that he had in God, with God and all creation was ruined and his rule and kingdom came to an end. He lost the ability to know God as Father and to relate to Him as son. Through Adam’s offense we all sinned and fall short of the glory of God. In Adam, we all died to God, and death reigned in our spirits, souls and bodies. Independence from God is a state of death, void of Spirit and life. God was no longer the perfection and righteousness of man. In separation and independence from God, man always tends to offer something of himself to God in an endeavor to prove his own righteousness. Abimelech offered as an offering of his own righteousness, clean hands and the integrity of his heart (Genesis 20). He that puts no trust in His servants and charges His angels with error found fault with the offering of Abimelech. How could the imperfect think that He could please Him that is perfect or how can the dead satisfy the Living? Though sin is not imputed where there is no law death reigned from Adam to Christ through the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for it is written, “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:17). Since the day of the transgression, until Christ, sin reigned in death. Adam deprived the earth to know God as Father and to become sons unto Him. Only when Christ was made manifested in the flesh He revealed the Father to man and demonstrated to the earth the truth about the Father-son relationship. Adam’s offense brought all men into subjection to futility and the law entered that the offense might abound, so that sin reigned in death. Because the law is spiritual the righteous requirement of the law could never have been fulfilled in the flesh. God who desired mercy and not

sacrifices of the law send His Son that by His obedience many would be made righteous. So mercy and grace, which is eternal life, rule in righteousness through faith in Jesus Christ our Lord. When a person comes to Christ by faith and is born again by the Spirit, he or she is placed in the Beloved. That person’s spirit is than quickened to God because of righteousness. When a person is joined to Christ he or she becomes one spirit with the Lord. One spirit with the Lord does not mean a mixture of our spirit with His Spirit. It means our spirit is one with the Spirit of Christ. We are just as one with God, in Christ, as Jesus is one with the Father and Holy Spirit. We share Christ’s oneness that He has with the Father and Holy Spirit. Everything He is we are, because He lives in us and is one Spirit with us. When Christ is one with you He will not leave you or forsake you. He will only give you His goodness and mercy and will love you to the end. It is unthinkable to have the idea that God can abandon or not loving that which is one with Him, His very own. The oneness of Spirit with Christ indicates a wedlock relationship with Him because your Maker is your husband. For this reason God guard jealously over His own like a husband over his wife. Just as a wife that is set apart for her husband; so are they who are in Christ, sanctified unto Him. A deliberate turning away from Christ can cause Him to divorce His Spirit from you. It will be just as traumatic for Him as when the Father forsook Him on the cross, thus crucify again the Son of God and put Him to an open shame. When the Father forsook the Son it was the most traumatic experience the Holy Trinity ever experienced. For a moment in time the Holy Trinity was no trinity. The Father and the Holy Spirit forsook the Son because of our transgression. However, when He comes again He will not

be crucified again but will come to judge the earth in righteousness. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame (Hebrews 6:4-6, emphasis added). We relate to God with that part of us, which is alive to Him and one with Him, which are our spirits. The kingdom of God is all about relationships. This implies that we should have an intimate relationship with God and to manifest His mercy, grace and compassion to our neighbor and all of creation as it was in the beginning. We should also know one another after the Spirit, in other words, according to the anointing that is working in one another. Relationships in the Spirit work the same way as relationships in the natural; it is a growing process. Relationships are not only about doing things for each other but to become anointed substances of love to one another. God is Father to you and you are His maturing son, friend and worshiper. It is not works but the substance of anointed relationships that minister joy and fulfillment. To be something to someone is the substance of what you have become to him or her. That anointed substance is ministering unceasingly whether you are awake or asleep. Deep relationships rarely, if ever, happen overnight. Growth in your relationship to God relates to the openness of your spirit to Him. It is to grow into awareness what He is to you as Father and what you become to Him as son in Christ Jesus. It is important to God what you become to Him. It is important that you find the anointing in you and follow the Holy Spirit that is working in you. Only the substance of what you have become in Christ through faith ministers

to God. It is the relationship that ministers, not independent dead works of do and don’ts. In Christ, you live and move and have your being in Him because you are one Spirit with Him. Because you are one with Him you live His life, in other words, to think His thoughts, speak His words, accomplish His works and walk His ways. You can do nothing without Jesus, the Christ of God. He has paid the price for all things that pertain to life and godliness. On the cross, He took upon Himself your broken relationship with God and gave you His own relationship with the Father. This implies that you do not have independently from Christ a relationship with God. You share Christ’s perfect relationship that He has with the Father. No one come to the Father but through Him. It takes time to grow up into Christ; all that you are and have, matures with you in a relationship with God. How will you become a son to Him if you do not know Him as Father? To mature as a son you need to mature in the relationship that the Son has with the Father. Through faith you enjoy His relationship with the Father, not your own. In Him, you find your delight in God; it is His delight in the Father that you are sharing with Him. The Lord Jesus Christ has done it all for you. What a display of His love! It is due to His merits that you enjoy fellowship with the Father and with Him. It is in His blessed name that you come to the Father; blessed is He that comes in the name of the Lord. How does this works practically? God intended for man to live with his body on earth and with his spirit in heaven. No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven (John 3:13, emphasis added). Jesus was talking to Nicodemus being on earth but telling him He is also in heaven at the same time. The Lord who is a consuming fire is one spirit with

you from the time that you are joined to Him through the born again experience. As He become one spirit with you He makes you a flame of fire for the Lord makes His messengers flames of fire. The Lord has set the fire alight but you must keep it burning by abiding in Him. Unless you keep this fire burning in your heart you cannot walk with God or fulfill His purposes for you on the earth. God never fashioned you to be close to Him but He made you one with Him. So do not ascend into heaven to look for Him or do not descend to hell to find Him. He is in you, one with you, in your mouth and in your heart. It is not a quest to be close to Him but an awareness of His presence in you. To walk with God like Enoch did, you need to practice the presence of the Lord all the time. This is how you live with your spirit in heaven and become more at home in heaven than on earth. If you loose the sense of His presence you will descend down into the realm of the flesh and die. The realm of the flesh isolates you from God’s life, light and truth but compel you to partake from the tree of the knowledge of good (legalism) and evil (lawlessness). What most of us lack is discipline and endurance. Some of us can adequately for short periods walk with God but we must now learn to walk with endurance. Just as God placed Adam in his garden and taught him the reason for it and how to cultivate and maintain it, God has given every one of His sons and daughters a garden of their own. Your garden is the plan of God for your life that you must cultivate and maintain with the anointing that He has placed in you. Your garden is your dominion over which the Lord has set you to rule. Now you must learn to walk with Him with endurance in your domain. If you are faithful in practicing to live in His presence He will teach you about His purposes for your life, how to cultivate the flow of His anointing in your life and how to maintain it. You will become increasingly more creative in Him as you

grow into a greater awareness of His presence in you. Only when you breathe the air of His presence you will be fruitful and multiply. The fire, which burns in you, must be fueled with the atmosphere of heaven, which is the breath of God. What He breathes upon lives, and what He does not breathe upon dies. The path of life always leads to the awesome awareness of His presence and to harmony and tranquility of your spirit with His and with all that is His. It does not mean that you live by feelings but always by faith. It is just that your spirit grows more sensitive to the things of God as you live in the presence of God. This takes intensity of strength and endurance because the whole creation is in disharmony and apposes oneness in God. The Father-son relationship will minister great joy and fulfillment both to God and you as you walk with Him in the cool of the day and the heat of the battle. You can relate to God only through His word. His word is given to you that you may relate to Him more correctly so that He may find greater fulfillment in you and you in God. Grace is to live a life with the faith of the Spirit, hope from the heavenly vision that He placed in your heart and the love of Christ, not your own. Faith, hope and love that flows from the fleshly mind and emotions accounts for nothing. It is just as dead as Adam after the fall. Your relationships toward God, one another and the rest of creation consist of faith, hope and love in and toward God. Faith in God stimulates Christ in you, the only hope of glory you have, to manifests Himself in you and to move in your life. All your relationships toward God and His creation are perfectly provided for you, in Christ Jesus. However, you need to mature in those relationships. Nothing happens by it self. God never purpose for you to be a magician but He created you a vibrant life force that always moves and grows. Therefore you need not to put any confidence into the flesh because you rest in His

relationships. His life is grace, peace and fulfillment. He is your inheritance and reward. He is everything you need. A life apart from Christ’s relationship with the Father and Holy Spirit is a life of independence from God, which place you under the law or legalism of dead works that brings forth death. Everything, which is not from Christ within you, is death because it is not inoculated into the Tree of Life. Everything that does not receive its waters from the Fountain of Life is inevitability dead. It is not by might or power, which is the dead works of legalism but by His Spirit according to the anointing that is working in you, which is His life and breath in you. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain (Galatians 2:20-21). The cross has taken away the tree of the knowledge of good (the law or legalism) and evil (lawlessness) and made you a partaker of the Tree of Life, which is Christ. To enjoy the fruit of the Tree of Life is to enjoy the fruit of His immeasurable mercy and grace regardless your circumstances. You live this life by keeping you focus on the Lord. You can truly live in the presence of God because of what Jesus has done for you. A walk with Christ is to share His life with Him in the presence of God. It is growing into an awareness of the vastness of His provision and His love for you. You need to understand that it is all through His mercy, grace and infinite love and not through works of legalism. The just shall live by their faith. This growing awareness of who He is in you is an ever expanding practicing of His presence. This is indeed a deep love relationship that deepens everyday as you behold Him in the Spirit and then change from glory to glory through

your faith that create substance in a world of unseen realities. Is God enough for you? Jesus said that His food is to do the will of the Father that sent Him, and to accomplish His works. The Lord was totally taken up with the will of His Father. He was concerned about the Father’s business, which is the garden of your domain. You must cultivate and tend it faithfully. To be absorbed in the Father’s business is the only way to come forth into the image of the Son of God. God has not given us any other alternative image to be shaped into, but the image of His Son. You must follow the ways of the Firstborn among many brethren. It is in this atmosphere where your spirit is released into freedom to manifest the life of His Son in mercy and grace. The glory of God that we seek is the character and the power of the Son of God. There is no other glory. The glory of God that we are looking for is not a mystical cloud in the air or radiance around us, or a nice feeling but it is Jesus. It is not even a cloud by day or a pillar of fire at night. Christ in us is the only hope of glory that the Father has given us. He is the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person. He is the alpha and omega of our faith. Unless you know the Father, as Father, and share Jesus’ sonship with Him, you will never come forth in the fullness of the image of the Son of God. For this reason Christ gave us the five-fold ministry to come to the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. It takes fathers to bring forth sons and it takes sons to fashion fathers. A father is one that knows the Father and a son is one that knows the Son. Even the natural teaches us that you cannot become a father unless you have become a son first. No one comes to Father but through the Son. No one

comes to fatherhood but through the road of sonship. No one matures spiritually unless he or she has a life in the Spirit, which is an intimate relationship with God. A son is one that is concerned about the Father’s business and he will reveal to you the glory of the Father and lead you to Him through Christ’s life in him. Christ’s desire is to bring us into the presence of the Father as we are growing up in Him. How wonderful to know that we are perfect in Him. In all phases of our growth we are perfect just like a rose that is perfect from its budding stage to its full flower stage. Every stage is filled with perfection, so are we in Christ. There is no need to labor. Nature teaches us that there is no labor process in completing any stage of growth of a living organism. Only nutrients and patience are needed. We only need to rest in His complete work and enjoy His eternal indwelling presence and fellowship. It is not striving to attain but resting in His provision while growing up in Him. Resting is not passivity but godliness exercised through faith. Only by faith you enter into Christ’s relationship with the Father. Faith is the substance or realization of our hope, which is the vision we have received by revelation with an expectation of fulfillment. Faith creates the substance of unseen realities. Paul testified to King Agrippa that he was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, which was his hope in God. A backslidden condition is when you live a life, which is not Christ. Only Jesus is the author and finisher of your perfection. As you behold the Lamb of God you are changed from glory to glory into His image. You cannot change yourself into the image of Christ. Only as you behold Him you are changed into His image through faith. Real repentance is to enter into the life of Christ through faith. Trust the anointing in you, Christ in you the hope of

glory. He is your only hope of glory. Without Him you can do nothing. The works of the flesh is a destroyer of your life in Christ. A life in the Spirit is a perpetual focus on the Lord and a practicing of His presence to grow into an awareness of His awesome presence in you. It is like the sunflower plant that continuously turned its face toward the sun. It is the only way to conform to the image of the Son of God. It is the way to release and reveal His glory. As you behold Christ you change into His image through faith. The motivation of your heart is to glorify your Father whom you love. The essence of life is to prepare our spirits and hearts to please God continuously through faith in all that we do. We are those that like the firstborn Son will have no darkness in us or any shadow of turning. We are those like Enoch that walk with God and God will take us.