Chapter 6: The Heart of an Apostle

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Walking with God means you quickly jump up into the square in the

upper right. That is where you operate in your new life of righteousness. It is far away from the world of sin. It is the realm of faith. Faith is exercised by unyielding will power dedicated to truth and righteousness. You understand fully that you CANNOT BE PERFECT 100% on your own. You

understand that you need both God the Father’s Spirit and the spirit of Christ within you just to live up to the expectations that God has for you. You no longer lean on your own understanding because you now know that God’s ways are higher than man’s way. Without His Spirit and the spirit of

Christ inside of you, you realize that you would meet with failure. That is because you have developed the heart of an apostle; a heart that loves God and understands it is He and Christ within us that help us to be obedient.

After you gave your heart to God, you either instantaneously or within

a short time literally dumped all the sinful behavior that falls below the line of righteousness. You realize that you need to practice righteousness all the time. When the unrighteous behavior of colleagues, family and friends surface, you have no problem letting them know why you choose not to

participate. Your life becomes a living testament for God and Christ. Because you know that God has a minimum righteousness standard, you quickly dump the rest of your routine sinful behavior including the bad habits you’ve acquired from the world and you operate in the area of Faith.

Your Heart Speaks Loudly To God!

When it comes to sin, your heart will matter more to God than any

perceived notion that you failed to be 100% perfect and 100% sin free. When Peter denied Jesus three times to the authorities, did he sin? Yes, to me, that was sin. That is the level of sin that comes from the understanding of the heart of an apostle. Yet, Peter did not deny his God. The Almighty

God and His only begotten Son that I know will use your weakness to demonstrate their strength. Their compassion on us mere humans will cover our shortcomings. All this occurs for the person who will walk a life of faith with God.