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Learning to Walk With Jesus Every Single Day

About Mike Mahaffey

The thing about me is that I’ve had a lot of experience when it comes to being separated from God. And the thing about that is that when I was living under the power of darkness (which by the way, is where every single non-believer and un-saved person lives) I wasn’t always conscious of how dark and bad my existence on planet earth was.

But, that’s not me today. All thanks to God! However, I can also tell you that getting saved and allowing Jesus Christ to become the Lord of my life, my King, didn’t and doesn’t change me over night.

But Jesus refuses to give up on me. He is constantly chipping away all the junk I accumulated along lifes way. Today, I do all I can to stay available and willing to let my old self die. One thought, one action, one word, one outburst, one sin, one lack of faith at the time. And let my real self, the self that God created, come forth.

I always have this thing to say about myself: “If you happen to sense anything good in me or about me, it’s not possible that it would be me.”

It must be Christ in me, or Christ working in me.

Like anyone, I have desires. Worldly and spiritual desires.

But, my ever standing, most important desire is to be consummed with a never ending gratitude for Jesus Christ going to the cross as The Sacrifice to atone for my sins

So that I can:

  • Stand righeous before the Most High God
  • Live out my life in communion with the Most High God
  • Recieve all that That Most High God has for me
  • Become much more “in Christ” than I’ve ever been before

I live with eternal gratitude for Jesus Christ, my Savior. He’s my only hope for this life and the next. Without Him, I’m who I was—a child of the world. With Him, I’m a child of God.

God, Himself, through the Blood of Jesus Christ has done what no human could do for me: He has translated me from the power of darkness to the Kingdom of His Dear Son: In whom I have redemption through His Blood, even the forgiveness of sins: … (Colossians 1:13,14)

However, I can well assure you, from personal experience, that even though God has translated me right out of the power of darkness, I can easily allow satan to exert his power over me most anytime.

In fact, it takes my full time efforts for any hope of walking with Christ in my day to day activities. I must stay as close to God as possible.

As far as I know, there is only one way to get to know God:

  • Through His Word. That means the more I study for a deeper insight and knowledge of His Word, the more I come to not only know about Him, but to know Him. His likes and dislikes. The more I study to discern His Word, the more I hear His voice. And the more He actually leads me from faith to faith.

And one way to have a relationship with Him:

  • Prayer. Prayer is giving my self completely to God. Whether I’m confessing, thanking, asking, sharing, or just passing time; whether I’m speaking like I’d speak to you, or praying in tongues, I know that the more time I can spend in prayer, the more I get to know my God, my Lord and Savior. As far as I know, the only way to have any relationship with anybody, is to spend time with them.

So, this website is where I get to go deeper into what the Word has to say about whatever happens to be on my mind. Sometimes I’m really wrestling with scripture to get a much deeper understanding of what it has to teach me about living as a scripture.

Sometimes I’m chasing after Jesus with everything I have. I mean, let me get it. Let me get in so deep that I can understand it and or live it.

Let me be more like You. And less like the world. Less like the power You translated me from.

Every post serves one purpose for me: to help me move from knowing about God to actually knowing God in a real, daily, moment-by-moment relationship through Jesus Christ.

I’m laboring to take biblical truths and experience them in actual life.

As born-again Christians, we have direct access to God through Jesus and real power available through the New Covenant. We don’t have to wait until heaven to experience God’s presence.

That’s what I explore here—one verse, one concept, one question at a time.