Each of us has a unique spiritual walk because we are all unique individuals. Therefore, it is up to each of us to “walk it out” for ourselves. What you must realize is that no one can do it for you – not your mother or father, your husband or wife, your pastor or congregation leader. While others can encourage you, exhort you, inspire you, teach you, and set the example for you, only YOU can actually do the walking… because it’s YOUR walk! Neither can you walk it out for someone else… because it’s his or her walk!
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Psa 86:11 Teach me Your way, O Yahweh; I will walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear Your Name.
This is a key point: it’s Yahweh’s way. But it’s still up to us to walk in it. We have the responsibility – and we have the authority – to take control of our own spiritual lives. We have to make a quality decision to do that. And then we need to follow that up daily with consistent action.
Gen 18:19 For I have known him (Abraham), that he will command his sons and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the intent that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which He has spoken of him.
Can we honestly say that our heavenly Father knows this about us, that we will keep His ways and pursue Him with everything that we’ve got? And that we will leave a spiritual legacy behind us?
Deut. 13:4 You shall walk after Yahweh your Elohim, and you shall fear Him. And you shall keep His commandments, and you shall hear His voice, and you shall serve Him, and you shall cleave to Him.
In order to walk in His way, it requires that we hear His voice. It’s not enough just to read His Word – we’ve got to know and obey His promptings and be led by His Spirit.
Isa 30:21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk in it, when you go right, or when you go left.
Jer 6:16 So says Yahweh, Stand by the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it.
Yahweh wants to reveal His ways to us. But that requires us to seek and to ask.
2 Pet. 1:2-13 Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of Elohim and of Yahshua our Master, seeing that His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and virtue; whereby He has granted to us His precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust. Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness; and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Master Yahshua Messiah. For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins. Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble. For thus will be richly supplied to you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Master and Savior, Yahshua Messiah. Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
Keys to Overcoming Spiritual Inertia
Inertia is defined as “inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.” As believers we have all probably faced this at some point in our walk. To break free from it and move forward, there are some key things that we must do.
1) Recognize the Issue and Identify the Cause
First, you have to recognize spiritual inertia and desire to overcome it. Some causes include:
- Spiritual laziness: “Complacency is the bane of spiritual growth.”
- Spiritual opposition
- Obstacles
- Distractions
- Lack of vision, focus, consistency, passion, commitment
2) Use the Word to Identify the Remedy
How do you stoke a hunger for the Word, for the things of the Spirit? How do you increase your ZEAL? There are several vital things we can and should do.
First, commit to INVESTING more time in the Word, in prayer, in praise & worship, and in fellowship.
Second, study examples of “giants of the faith” in Scripture. What was their lifestyle? For example, Moses was never satisfied with where he was at in his relationship with the Father. He always wanted more. It was he who said “Show me Your glory…” (Exodus 33:18). And David, even in the midst of adversity – in the face of those who wanted to kill him – “encouraged himself in Yahweh” (1 Sam. 30:6).
3) PRAY & BELIEVE for greater zeal, focus, and consistency.
Mrk 11:24 “Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them and you shall have them”
4) Feed Your Spirit
Watch and listen to good, solid biblical teaching and preaching. This is absolutely vital. Why? Because “faith comes by HEARING and hearing by the Word of Yahweh”. Something powerful happens whenever the Word is preached.
Col. 3:1-3 If then you were raised together with Messiah, seek the things that are above, where Messiah is, seated on the right hand of Yahweh. Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Messiah in Yahweh.
This speaks to a deliberate, willful, purposeful act. We have free will and we have to WILL ourselves to seek the things that are above and set our mind on them. It is obvious that it won’t happen by accident.
5) Walk It Out By Faith
The final step is for us to diligently and consistently apply the remedy to our situations – BY FAITH! If we do these things, we will move forward in our spiritual walk.