How we gain or receive the Fear of God in our life?

ByPastor Rufus Ajiboye Reading Time: 3 minutes
Hello Friends! We have been spending quite some time now talking about walking in the fear of God. Today I want to bring it home by answering a very practical question. And this is the question: How do we gain or receive the fear of God in our life?
  • First, we must choose with our will to have the fear of God above all else.
Proverbs 1:29 says,
 “Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord…” God will not give this fear to us unless we want it. We must see this as something we choose above all else because we desperately need it.
  • Second, we should confess our desperate lack of this fear, and ask God for it by faith.
The Psalmist expresses what that prayer should be:
“Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.” Ps. 86:11
What will enable the Psalmist to have the fear of the Lord? An undivided heart! What is the connection between an undivided heart and the fear of the Lord? It implies we need an undivided heart so we can focus solely and completely on God, and that we can’t have that heart without God’s help.
  • Third, earnestly desire and seek after God 
“Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures, then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God”  (Proverbs 2:3-5).
  • Fourth, hear the Word preached 
 “In the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah. And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests. And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people. And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat” (2 Chronicles 17: 7-10).
  • Finally, write out the Word of God and meditate on it 
“And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites. And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them” (Deuteronomy 17:18-19)
May the grace to walk in the fear of God take root in you from today on, in Jesus’ name!Till tomorrow, Pastor Rufus Ajiboye

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