COMMITMENT WITH GOD:

 Getting committed with God is a great and awesome avenue every child of God (‘you love uprightness and detest evil. This is why God, your God has anointed you with oil of gladness as none of your rivals’ Ps.45:7) should follow without delay lest the seed of God’s glory planted in us will be made weak and inactive by laziness, bad-company and fear {“Everyone, no matter how firmly he thinks he is standing must be careful he does not fall” 1 Cor.10:12}. This entails the following

Praying consistently [1 Thess.5:17] by way of speech, behavior, actions, thoughts e.t.c that portray righteousness and also getting involved in mental prayers continuously

Digging deep into the word of God (“How I love your Law! I ponder it all day long. You make me wiser than my enemies by your commandment which is mine forever. I am wiser than all my teachers because I ponder your instructions. I have more understanding than the aged because I keep your precepts” Ps.119:97-100)

Choosing, accepting and maintaining honest Christian friends just the way Christ chose you [‘you did not choose me, no I chose you…’ Jn.15:16] since “…Bad company corrupts good ways” {1 Cor.15:33} but ‘a loyal friend is a powerful defense: whoever finds one has indeed found a treasure…whoever fears the Lord makes true friends, for as a person is, so is his friend too’ (Sirach 6:14-17)

Getting rid of all junk; junk in the life of a Christian are those things that distracts us from righteousness like pornographic pictures, videos, songs, novels, books, websites, clothes, lustful discussions and teachings, co-habiting with opposite sex e.t.c. One should also flee depraved and bad groups like cultism, partying-spirit, fashion-maniac, money-mongers e.t.c  [‘turn away from the passions of youth, concentrate on uprightness, faith, love and peace, in union with all those who call on the Lord with a pure heart’ 2Tim.2:22]

Maintaining your loyal position with the sound and profound teachings of the One, Holy, Apostolic and Catholic Church instituted by Christ {Mtt.16:18} thus “keep as your pattern the sound teaching you have heard from me in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. With the help of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, look after that precious thing given in trust” [2Tim.1:13-14] and so with you as you are eager to have spiritual powers, aim to be rich in those which build up the Church’ (1Cor.14:12).

Always maintain fellowship [“do not absent yourself from your own assemblies, as some do, but encourage each other; the more so as you see the day drawing near” Heb.10:25] with the Church of Christ because it is the pillar of truth {‘…in the Church of the living God, pillar and support of the truth’ 1Tim.3:15} and there you will always be given the sound doctrine “You must keep to what you have been taught and know to be true; remember who your teachers were and how ever since you were a child, you have known the holy scriptures – from these you can learn the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and useful for refuting error, for guiding people’s lives and teaching them to be upright. This is how someone who is dedicated to God becomes fully equipped and ready for any good work” [2 Tim.3:14-17].