HOW TO MAINTAIN A CLOSE WALK WITH GOD: Part 1& 2
Pastor David Wakaba

Walking with God implies our making progress in the divine life. Walking requires a progressive motion. But how does a Christian maintain such a walk with God?

1. Prayer and Fasting
“Most Christians pray like wimps and brag like champions….”Bishop T.D. Jakes

Neglect of private prayer has been frequently an inlet to many spiritual diseases, and has been attended with fatal consequences

1Tim 2:08 I will therefore that men pray lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting……

Confession leads to consecration which guarantees acceptance.
Prayer is the most neglected and under used resource in the kingdom of God. It’s a secret weapon that satan has hidden from men.

2 Chronicles 15:2-8,15  And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The Lord is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
³ Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
⁴ But when they in their trouble did turn unto the Lord God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
⁵ And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
⁶ And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
⁷ Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.
⁸ And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the Lord, that was before the porch of the Lord...
 ¹⁵ And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the Lord gave them rest round about.

Joel 2:16-17  Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
¹⁷ Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

If you kneel before God you will stand before men.

Lamentations 02:19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

God is not moved by vocabulary, enunciation or articulation; He is moved by sincere longing of an open heart that “spills” the burdens of the day across the altar.
If we don’t kneel in prayer, we will stand-in frustration.
If we fail to learn the healing art of prayers, we will practice the hideous habit of wary.

2. Walking in Holiness/Practicing the Word of God

Those who would maintain a holy walk with God must walk with him in His commandments.
When you walk in his commandments, he makes you a commander in life.
Talkativeness, gossiping, flattery, lying, idle talk , dilute the power in your tongue thus avoid. 


James 3:1-9 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
² For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
³ Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
⁴ Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
⁵ Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
⁷ For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
⁸ But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
⁹ Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

Col:4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Lev 20:16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Watch your heart ,motions and motives.
Avoid all appearance of evil.

Prov.25:17 Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbor's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.

Your make-up will never cover your sinful life.
The closer you walk with God the more of God nature’s you will acquire.
You would rather walk than drive to hell.
Practically walk in discipline because you are a disciple of Jesus.

3. Serving God Exodus 23:25-30 And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
²⁶ There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
²⁷ I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
²⁸ And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
²⁹ I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
³⁰ By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

When you serve God with all your heart men will serve you. When you serve God He services you. When you serve God you cannot serve sickness.

Job 36:11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
When you serve God in pressure you will live in pleasure.

Jeremiah 48:10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

Numbers 16:9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?

Deuteronomy 28:47-48 Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
⁴⁸ Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

Serve God also with your offerings and Tithe.If you don’t pay tithe your life will be tight.

4. Godly Association

Who you follow determines what follows you.
Who you spend your time with determines how you behave.
Many mind keeping friends than keeping God.
If you would walk with God, you will associate and keep company with others who walk with Him

1 Cor15:33….Be not deceived evil communication corrupts good manners…..
Its imperative for those who would walk with God to meet together when they can, in order to provoke one another to love and good works

“ And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. (Heb. 10:24-25).

The apostle Paul knew this full well, and therefore exhorts the Christians to see to it, that they did not forsake the assembling of themselves together.

For how can one be warm alone?

5. Studying & Meditating The Word of God
2 Tim.2:15…..”study to show thyself approved unto God….

Joshua 1:8…..” This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success…”
Develop a culture of reading & studying the word of God.

Prov. 27:17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

When we read the word of God we are rubbing our minds with the mind God.

Gen24:63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming….”

We read of Isaac's going out into the fields to meditate in the evening; or, as it is in the margin, to pray. For meditation is a kind of silent prayer, whereby the soul is frequently (so to speak) carried out of itself to God.