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The Worthy Walk
- Grace
Creflo Dollar
God has given each of us an assignment and placed a calling on our lives; to succeed in completing that assignment and fulfilling that calling, we must know who we are in Christ. Through his grace, God has done much for us to determine our identity. When we realize everything that He has done for us, we cannot help but want to serve and obey Him out of gratitude; an understanding of who we already are is the foundation of the worthy walk God has called us to.
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Pastor Creflo Dollar is an American televangelist, author, and the founder and senior pastor of World Changers Church International (WCCI), based in College Park, Georgia.
Day 1God Has Made Us Worthy Forever
Believers have been called to live on a higher level than the one the world operates on. God has declared us righteous because we’ve been born again. This position of righteousness and holiness isn’t something we could ever earn; it’s a gift from Him that’s independent from anything we do. Understanding this rescues us from striving to obtain worthiness when God has already said we’re worthy in His eyes.
Paul beseeched the Ephesians to walk worthy of the calling with which they were called. His appeal to them to live godly wasn’t so that they could gain holiness through self-effort, but because they were already holy. What we receive from God doesn’t hinge on our performance; His gifts and calling are irrevocable.
Being worthy in God’s eyes is a finished work. It doesn’t hinge on us having to earn our worthiness or righteousness. Any self-efforts in this area signal that we’ve fallen from grace back into the law. Even Paul, who had a wretched past, was able to confidently tell the Corinthians that he had wronged, corrupted, and defrauded no one.
God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places, and chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world. He has made us accepted in the beloved and redeemed us through His blood. It’s significant that this was written in the past tense; it means He’s already done it. Nothing we could ever do can cancel God’s blessings.
Children born into a royal family are taught to conduct themselves accordingly, because their royalty is their status by birth. It’s the same way with us; we’re a royal priesthood and a holy nation. We don’t have to strive for something that has been given to us permanently. No matter how many mistakes we make, we’ll never lose our right-standing with God.
Scriptures:
Ephesians 4:1, NKJV
Romans 11:29, NKJV
Romans 3:20, 21
Galatians 3:11
Galatians 5:4
2 Corinthians 7:2
Ephesians 1:3-7, NKJV
1 Peter 2:9
For more about the believer’s worthy walk, check out Creflo Dollar’s 6-message series, The Worthy Walk, or his book, The Transformative Power of Grace.
Day 2Unmerited, Unearned Worthiness from God
God has given each of us an assignment and placed a calling on our lives, and success in completing this assignment requires that we know our identity in Christ. When we got born again, God declared us righteous, worthy, and without blemish. This is our standing before Him, which never changes no matter what we do. It’s important to remember that when the world tells us we are what we do.
During our Christian walk, there will be plenty of times when we miss the mark. However, our state in life is continually changing; God is working in us to eventually bring up our state to match our standing. Until we get to that point, He tells all believers that regardless of their shortcomings, they’re still the righteousness of God.
There are conditions for a worthy walk, but they aren’t based in self-effort. One condition is expressed in character and state of mind; letting the Holy Spirit lead us on this walk always keeps us humble and gentle. He teaches us to be patient with each other and make allowances for each other’s faults.
Another condition is the need for spiritual growth and development, because we can’t stay babies in Christ all our lives. Developing and nurturing a relationship with God is paramount here; we must grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ. As newborn babies, we should desire the sincere milk of the Word, so that we can grow.
Walking in our identity as God’s children reveals that we must live by His Word, not by our momentary feelings. Who we are doesn’t change just because we feel unworthy after doing something sinful. We’re God’s masterpiece, created anew in Christ Jesus. Believing this enables us to fulfill the mission He gave us.
Scriptures:
Philippians 2:13
Romans 3:21
Ephesians 4:2, NLT
2 Peter 3:18, NLT
1 Peter 2:2
Ephesians 2:10, NLT
For more about the believer’s worthy walk, check out Creflo Dollar’s 6-message series, The Worthy Walk, or his book, The Transformative Power of Grace.
Day 3We’re Already Worthy
Understanding how deeply God’s grace impacts our lives frees us from toiling to please Him. In a world where most people work hard to earn God’s blessings, all we need to do is to accept and believe in His finished works. We’ve already been blessed and accepted as members of His royal family, which happened automatically when we got born again. We certainly want Him to see us as worthy, but we don’t have to wear ourselves out through constant works to earn our worthiness.
Meeting the conditions of a worthy walk refers to maintaining the proper attitude, not checking off items on a to-do list. God asks us to bear with each other and forgive each other. We’re to put away all bitterness, wrath, anger, and evil speaking, and be kind to one another. This is impossible to do in our own strength, but we can do all things through Christ, who strengthens us.
God never asks us to do something without first reminding us of what He already did. On the basis of His finished works, He appeals for us to live in harmony with what He has done. Forgiveness is one example; through our own efforts, we struggle mightily forgiving someone who has wronged us, but we’re empowered to extend forgiveness by believing God in Christ has forgiven us.
Loving others is another example. God is love. Accepting the love He offers us empowers us to love others, because He first loved us. Operating from His finished works in this area produces better results than trying to love because a commandment orders us to do this.
Having the mind of Christ enables us to do everything with love. This motivation allows us to bypass self-effort. Faith in what Jesus did rescues us from fruitless striving.
Scriptures:
Colossians 3:13, NKJV
Ephesians 4:31, 32
Philippians 4:13, NKJV
Ephesians 4:32, NLT
1 John 4:16, 19
1 Corinthians 2:16
1 Corinthians 16:14, NKJV
For more about the believer’s worthy walk, check out Creflo Dollar’s 6-message series, The Worthy Walk, or his book, The Transformative Power of Grace.
Day 4Worthy by Faith, Not by Works
One of the greatest joys in a Christian’s life is receiving affirmation from God that He’s pleased with us. As believers, the knowledge that we’re worthy in His eyes is something we all want; however, we need to know the truth about righteousness so that we won’t get trapped in trying to earn it. Being in right-standing with God isn’t about performing to deserve something, but about walking through life knowing that we’re already worthy. As His children, nothing we could ever do can change our stance before our heavenly Father.
Our righteousness is a gift from God; we’ve been saved by grace through faith. Accepting that our stance isn’t the result of our own works keeps us from boasting about anything we did. It’s all about the finished works of Jesus and our belief in Him. When we believed in Christ, God identified us as His own; it was always in His perfect plan to adopt us as His delightful children through our union with Jesus.
Our faith is another gift. Our worthiness could never be based on our own shaky, imperfect faith; we need the faith of the Son of God. The righteousness of God is by the faith of Jesus Christ, to all who believe. Because of this faith, He has brought us into the place of undeserved privilege where we now stand with confidence and joy.
The gifts we’ve received from God allow us to follow Him as His dear children. We can now walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave Himself for us. We don’t have to wait until we think we’re worthy before following Jesus; He made us worthy when we got born again. Our faith, not our efforts, is the most important condition to walking as God’s sons and daughters.
Scriptures:
Ephesians 2:8
Ephesians 1:13, NLT
Ephesians 1:5, TPT
Galatians 2:20
Romans 3:22
Romans 5:2, NLT
Ephesians 5:1, 2
For more about the believer’s worthy walk, check out Creflo Dollar’s 6-message series, The Worthy Walk, or his book, The Transformative Power of Grace.
Day 5Redefining the Concepts of Effort and Worthiness
As believers, when we hear the word “effort,” we immediately think of the self-effort the people lived by in the Old Testament. Thankfully, what was true under the law may no longer be true under grace. We no longer have to strive to be worthy before God, because our status immediately changed when we got born again. However, we can’t just sit back without making any effort at all.
Worthy is defined as honorable, meritorious, having worth or value, or having sufficient importance. We already are those things because we’re in Christ, but religion tells us we must work for them. God has given us everything we need for living godly lives by coming to know Him. Letting religion confuse us on this point makes us double-minded and unstable in all our ways.
In addition to the spiritual gifts God gave us, He also called us to be His children; these gifts and our calling as members of His family are irrevocable and don’t depend on our performance. We’re a royal priesthood, a chosen generation, and a holy nation. This is our identity in Him. He wouldn’t call us these things if we weren’t worthy in His sight.
Although we’ve been delivered from self-effort, we still must make an effort to deepen our relationship with Jesus. Some of the ways we do that include praying, studying and confessing His Word, church attendance, and making godly relationships. The world will push back, and it takes work to stay in alignment with God.
Jesus died to make us worthy. By one offering, He forever perfected those who are sanctified. We’re not just worthy, but we’re God’s masterpiece. We’re precious and honored in His sight, and He loves us—the effort required to focus on our worthiness in Christ is well worth it.
Scriptures:
2 Peter 1:3, NLT
James 1:8
Romans 11:29, NKJV
1 Peter 2:9
Hebrews 10:14
Ephesians 2:10, NLT
Isaiah 43:4, NIV
For more about the believer’s worthy walk, check out Creflo Dollar’s 6-message series, The Worthy Walk, or his book, The Transformative Power of Grace.
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