Nothing can separate us from the love of Jesus.  It takes diligent thought training to be ever mindful of the deception seeking to convince us that we are alone and without help or hope.  We need to practice residing in, running to, calling out for and remaining in the Holy Spirit to make these deceptive attempts ineffectual.  Strength of mind, body or spirit requires practice.  Steady review of God’s Word, prayer and fellowship with the Holy Spirit of God are the pillars of spiritual strength/maturity.  Just as a healthy lifestyle requires consistent physical maintenance through nutrition, exercise and right-living, so too there are common-sense procedures and practices we can undertake that lead toward a robust Christian walk.

The Lord has given me a ministry to assist with this spiritual muscle building, titled “Walk In The Spirit, (WITS), keep your wits about you”.  This simple process involves setting aside several minutes of each hour in your day to consciously remain in the the Holy Spirit.  Just as calisthenics produce muscle memory, improved circulation and endurance turning to the Holy Spirit for a short period each hour will train your mind to grow closer to the Lord.  The average person is awake for sixteen hours per day.  If we walked in the Holy Spirit for just five minutes of each hour that would produce eighty minutes per day of continuous, prayer behavior.

Through practice we can increase the minutes per hour over time to increase that Spiritual communion.  For example if over the next year I increased that time to ten minutes of each hour then I would be in the Holy Spirit for two hours and twenty minutes of each day.  How many of us remain in prayer for two hours a day?  I am willing to bet that your honest answer, just like mine would be not many.  A person never eats an entire pizza in one bite, they cut it into pieces.  It is common sense that we must first learn to run before we can run a marathon.  Training for long-distance running initially requires that we allocate a part of each day to miles on the path then slowly increase that distance and speed as our endurance and skill improve.  The same principle is applied here by teaching continual prayer through improved and increased prayerful thinking/acting over time.  Just as faith is a noun and a verb, walking in the spirit turns passive prayer into action for Christ.

I pray Lord that someone find these words intriguing if not useful in their attempts to grow in Your Holy Spirit.  Praise You for all that You are.  In Jesus’ Holy name, Amen.