![]() It’s also how he ushers forth the power of his Holy Spirit to transform our lowly selves into the likeness of His Son, Jesus Christ. Repentance is how God cleanses the deepest places of our soul. Throwing our guts up before God and getting the whole rotten mess out before him. Repentance is getting raw honest with God. In short, when you feel that faint drawing on your heart to get right with God, to admit your sin, to say you’re sorry, to seek him more, that’s conviction. Once he saturates us, he sets us free to run forth by lighting up our world for his fame and people’s highest longing. Conviction is a beautiful gift from God that draws on our emotions for the sole purpose of bringing us back to where we belong: In the presence of God. Conviction is also the sorrow we feel when we fail to surrender to God. But if you’ll go to him, talk to him about what’s going on, and own up to whatever you need to own up to, he will grace you, forgive you, cleanse you, and empower you with newfound strength, resolve, and the continued awareness of his leadership in your life.Ĭonviction is feeling the drawing of God’s presence in your life to surrender to him in a particular way. Walk in it.” He’s urging us to go to him. Conviction feels like guilt but is more than guilt it’s the Spirit of God saying, “This is the way to go. I was feeling the conviction of God’s Spirit at my workplace. It made no sense, and I had no way of mentally contextualizing it. The hardest part was I had no way to logically resolve this mess in my head. The only relief was to pack my bags, and to head back home. Not a personal pep talk, not a shot of liquid courage, and not a drug either. Nothing was powerful enough to relieve that heavy load of misery crashing down on me. So much so, I’d viciously attack myself for being the trashy home-wrecking woman who participated in keeping such an evil fed. Suddenly, my own self-disgust came alive. Last, the thought of their wives being stabbed in the back stabbed my heart too. I felt too paralyzed by fear to even leave the dressing room. This was panic-attack material leaving me stricken by a nauseous trepidation at the thought of working the floor, talking to customers, or anything else. Not the typical kind of anxiety I often struggled with, mind you. But to walk with God wholeheartedly in these principles will be what takes you from messy to miraculous in your pursuit of Christ and his presence.Ĭonviction is the thing that brought me to God in the first place by the feelings of “needing to get right with God.” Conviction of the Holy Spirit is what kept falling on me in the club.įirst, a feverish pitch of angst would pummel me. Any wise Christian will tell you to study under many teachers, and to familiarize yourself with the presence of God and his revealed Word, the Bible. I’m only sharing these for the benefit of helping you to find God in the way I can. ![]() All to say, these steps are not written in stone. ![]() Plenty of other faithful followers of Christ could supply you with their own version of the steps God has led them to walk with him. My hope is not only to shed light on how each one leads us further into attaining more of God, I hope you can see where God has you right now. Let’s look at some pertinent steps to walking with God daily.
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