Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

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Lets get deep for a moment shall we? I believe self responsibility is the key to a deep and meaningful spiritual walk with God. And it is also the reciprocal action to one who has a deep relationship with God. What I mean is, the more you take responsibility in who, how, why, when, where you build your spiritual walk the more you in fact want to look at those and build them even more. The fact is a responsible life builds a greater life that is responsible. 

Its this simple…

Can you agree with these statements

I am responsible for my prayer life

I am responsible for the depth of my prayer life

I am responsible for my time in Gods word

I am responsible for how well I know Gods word

I am responsible for my lack of obedience to God

I am responsible for not listening to God

I am responsible for the lack of growth in my spouse and kids lives…

I am responsible for the lack of Gods power I see in my life

I am responsible for my behavior when it does not line up with Gods word or character

I am responsible for my actions, reactions and responses

I am responsible for an attitude and mindset that does not line up with Gods word

Why are these so hard to accept? Because its all on us. As soon as I read these I want to line up a few excuses and let myself off the hook… but responsibility in my walk with God does not let me do that. 

You know its a proven fact that those who accept the problems in their life and take responsibility for them also accept and take responsibility for their successes and their wins.

What’s the point? 

Scripture is so clear: Joshua says in Joshua 24:15 Choose ye this day whom you will serve. As for me and my house we will serve the lord. Joshua is stating the spiritual wins and losses in his life are due to the choices he has made. 

Just by uttering those words I am confessing I will be held responsible for my whole life… it must look like it is serving God in every area. 

Prov. 28:13 Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy. 

The hard truth is this, if I am unwilling to take responsibility for my spiritual walk, then I don’t really want a deep and meaningful spiritual walk. I must realize that I have chosen to be content with a half way, watered down, luke warm pansy wanna be poser Christian life. And worse yet, why would you want that? Why talk of day dreams but live in nightmares.

G.K. Chesterton — 'The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.'

Another great philosopher said “with great power comes great responsibility” Thank you uncle Ben from spiderman… but that is actually backwards. The biblical truth is that with great responsibility comes great power… and a pretty good walk with God as well.

Responsibility is not finding all the things we are bad at and just simply accepting them - thats just fault finding. Responsibility is knowing what in our life does not line up with Gods word - yes in every area of our life - and choosing to go to God with it, confess it, ask for his Holy Spirit to empower you to move on and make a plan to do just that. 

Do you want to change your life? Responsibility is the only way out.