Sanctification Explained Clearly

1.Sanctification is maintaining a quality spiritual walk with God and taking proper care of your spiritual life.
 
2.Sanctification is living in the fear of God as a lifestyle.
Potiphar’s wife tried to seduce Joseph. Joseph far away from loved ones and family, alone in a foreign land, would have definitely been tempted to give in. Here’s what he said, “You are another man’s wife. How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” (Genesis 39:9) Joseph’s life was directed by the fear of God.
 
3.Sanctification is always looking to please God at all times.
In the Message translation of Luke 6:26, we are told: “There’s trouble ahead when you live only for the approval of others, saying what flatters them, doing what indulges them. Popularity contests are not truth contests. Your task is to be true, not popular.”
 
A Christian lady wrote to me, saying, “If I don’t serve alcohol at my wedding, what will people say?” I definitely did not say anything to her. As you may be aware, there are people who care more about what people say than what God says.
 
But then there is also a breed (that is in short supply) that says, “I would rather be a God pleaser than a man-pleaser.”
 
Defining sanctification in the words of Lord Jesus Christ Himself. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.” (Matthew 5:6).
 
Its when your hunger and thirst for righteousness exceeds the hunger and thirst for the things of the world, you will walk in sanctification. This hunger and thirst can only be given to you by the Lord.
 
So then, make it a point to ask Him daily for this hunger and thirst for His presence, for His ways. When you do this, you will be sanctified and become more and more like Him.

Father, give me a hunger and thirst to know You more and more. In Jesus’ name. Amen.