The Walking With Jesus Program in a threefold flyer format

Walking With Jesus

Meet at X:00 pm, September XX at the Church for more information

The Walking with Jesus program will involve a group of Christians within our church who desire to focus their lives on Jesus for a period of six weeks. It involves a commitment to make a structured effort to put Jesus into the center of their lives, marriages, church activities, workplace and recreation. The purpose is to allow God to work through us to fulfill His will in our lives and our church in miraculous ways. It will not be an effort to spiritualize what we are doing, or to seek miracles, but rather it will be an exercise in obedience to Biblical truth so that God can work through us in ways we could never do ourselves.

In various places in America, in South America and Africa and around the world, where Christians have fully committed themselves to Christ and each other, God is moving in incredible and miraculous ways. Satanic strongholds are being smashed by the power of the Holy Spirit; people are being saved, not by the dozens, or hundreds, but by the thousands! Crime is disappearing and jails are closing. Satan is being defeated! All because God’s people are repenting and seeking Christ in obedience. That is what the Walking with Jesus Program desires to do. It will not be easy; we will stumble along the way. No one is expecting anyone to become super Christians. But, by setting our eyes upon

 Jesus, the author and perfecter of our lives, the Bible promises that we will find true joy! While it will not be easy, it promises to be the most powerful thing you have ever done as a Christian! It does not require super-spirituality, just a desire to serve Christ.

The walking with Christ program is straightforward, but it is not easy. In fact, it may be the most difficult thing we have ever done because it calls on us to die to self. It is structured, not because it is a secret formula to God’s power, but because it will hold all of us accountable to seeking Christ and all that He has for us, our marriages, our family, our church and our community. It may not be the perfect program. It is merely an attempt to apply proven Biblical principles of love of God and each other, praying and fasting, and reaching out to the lost. What will be expected over the six to nine week period is,

  1. Studying God’s Word for a mutually agreed upon minimum time each day. (Matthew 4:4)

  2. Praying for a mutually agreed upon minimum time each day. (Matthew 6:6)

  1. For God’s blessings on your life

  2. To expand your effectiveness for God

  3. To keep you from evil and doing evil to others

  4. To draw nearer to Christ and be empowered by His Holy Spirit

  5. To understand how to love one another more deeply

  1. For God to protect and use our Church

  2. Against strongholds in our family, church, community, state and nation that must be torn down

  3. For special concerns and needs

  4. Others

  1. Keep a daily spiritual journal of personal failures, needs and prayer requests. (Philippians 4:6)

  2. Attending Sunday School each Sunday or Wednesday. We will be studying "The Vine", the sequel to Prayer of Jabez by Bruce Wilkinson. It focuses on John 15. If you can’t make this study, attend another adult class. (2 Timothy 2:15)

  3. To confess our known sins to those whom we may have sinned against and ask for forgiveness. Likewise, if someone has sinned against you, you must desire in your heart, and with God’s help, to forgive them. (Matthew 5:23-24 and 6:1-15; 18:21-35)

  4. To go out of our way to do something nice for someone else each day. It may be anyone. (Colossians 3:12-14)

  5. To commit not to have a negative spirit in your daily walk in your workplace, home, at church, or anywhere you may go. (1 Corinthians 10:10)

  6. Fast a minimum of one day a week. (There may be some who want to participate, but because of medical or other reasons cannot fast in the traditional sense. God knows your heart and this should not eliminate you from participating. Perhaps going without something else can be substituted.) (Matthew 6:16-18)

  1. To meet once a week in groups not to exceed ten and share our successes and failures (we will fail—therefore we must be willing to share and lift each other up, knowing that what we share will be confidential within the group! Note this is not the place to reveal dark secrets–that should only be done with one or two mature Christians you can trust). (James 5:16)

  2. To commit to tithing for six weeks. (Hebrews 7:1-9; Malachi 3:6-12)

It is our hope that there will be at least one person fasting each day during the six to nine week period. We will develop a schedule as to when it would be possible for each person to fast and with how many days they want to fast. (Some may want to fast 2 or more days during a week!) The purpose is not to embarrass anyone or make this a contest or show who is more "spiritual" than another, but to seek God and His will for us, our families, our church, our friends and our community, and to come against the principalities and powers that would seek to destroy us and our community.

Why do this?

All Christians should lead a Christ centered life. Jesus Christ commands it. "Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men." (Mt 4:19) That command is certainly easy enough to understand. Although most of us are not evangelists, all of us are called to obedience to Christ and to give testimony to anyone who asks of the simple hope that is in us – the Gospel of Christ. But Jesus also commanded us to follow Him in ways that are not as easy to understand, and are definitely more difficult to apply,

"Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." (Mt 10:37-38)

Jesus is not saying we should not love our family. Rather, He is telling each of us that nothing, absolutely nothing should come between He and us. He demands to be first in our lives! Too often we put ourselves, our families, our desires, and other things ahead of Jesus. And, then we wonder why our Christianity is powerless. By finding our own lives, we lose the life and the power of the Creator! But, Jesus promises that if we lose our lives in Him will find the only life that matters

The Walking With Christ Program seeks to help those who participate to focus on this journey to carry the cross of Christ and to know him in a more complete way as the Bible describes. In this way God can be free to work through us and our Church with the power of the Holy Spirit — just as is happening today in so many places around the world.

 

Join us on July 23 at 7 pm in the Church in one of the greatest adventures any Christian can take.

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross. (Hebrews 12:2)

 

Your Church

Walking

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Jesus!

 

To learn more about this adventure, come to our meeting tomorrow evening:

When:

September XX at X:00 pm

Where:

Your Church