The necessity of crying out to God in order to walk with God

There is no more time to waste! If God dwells in you, the visible proof of that presence must be seen. The spiritual world does not respect beautiful words; it respects power. It recognizes the imprint, the authority, the reality of a man or a woman who is no longer content to say “I have received God,” but who walks with God.

So I ask you a simple, brutal, yet life-giving question: do you walk with God… or have you merely been content to receive Him? In Colossians 2:6, Paul says: “Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him.” This is not a suggestion, it’s a command. Because receiving is not enough—you have to walk. And walking is not religion. Walking is relationship. Walking is intimacy. Walking is experienced reality!

This is not about decorative Christianity. It’s about an inner fire that drives a man to cry out to God, to seek God, to plead with God: Lord, I cannot remain at this level! I have to rise! I need to shift dimensions! Walk with me! I want to walk with You! Oh God!

A higher dimension cannot be received intellectually. It is grasped in the cry, in the thirst, in the sacrifice of prayer. The tears, the night watches, the shattered silences. It’s in that posture that we enter into walking with God.

The cry that reveals the thirst for a different life

There are things you cannot attain through recitation. You can have all the verses on your lips, you can have received prophecies, you can be under the anointing. But that’s not enough. Do you want your life to change? Do you want to walk with God? Then you have to cry out to God. Your soul must kneel before His greatness.

The Bible says in Luke 18:1 that “men ought always to pray and not lose heart.”

Men ought always to pray and not lose heart. (Luke 18:1)

Jesus Himself revealed that God avenges those who cry out to Him day and night. It’s not a wet prayer, a weak prayer, a convenient prayer. It’s a cry. It’s an urgency. It’s a supplication that breaks your sleep, disrupts your life rhythm, tears your guts: “Lord, lift me up! Lead me to the rock that is higher than I!”

Many want the heights, but they don’t cry to get there. My brother, my sister, if you don’t cry out, you won’t overcome before the adversary. There are resistances you will not break without the cry. The evil spiritual realm has no respect for laws, for your rights. It respects power. You have received promises, received graces, but the demons don’t care. They are outlaws. They know that you have the right to freedom in Christ, but they say to you: “I will not let you go.”

So cry out! Cry out to your God! Don’t be a spectator of your own defeat while the One who lives in you has already overcome the world. Nothing will change until you cry out to God. The cry of the man who wants to walk with God is a cry that shakes heaven. A cry in which you say: “Lord, I reject the heritage of limitation from my family, I reject mediocrity, I reject spiritual barrenness!”

Walking with God is not receiving God and letting Him sleep in you

How many have received God but it’s not visible? How many welcomed Him like a silent guest in a house, without ever expecting an interaction? What blasphemy! The Holy Spirit was not given to be ignored. He was given to reveal the glory of the Father, to manifest the power of God in your life and through your life. Colossians 2 says you have received the Lord! But then… are you walking in Him?

Let us not be empty temples, silent temples.

We are the temple of the living God […] I will dwell in them and walk among them. (2 Corinthians 6:16)

The problem is that we say God dwells in us… but it’s not visible. Why? Because we haven’t learned to activate, to trigger, to provoke that dimension of intimacy with the Spirit. We haven’t learned to cry the cry that touches God’s heart.

And let me tell you this: if your life remains normal despite the presence of the living God in you, something is wrong. You’ve received the Holy Spirit, but you’re not walking with the Holy Spirit. And walking with the Spirit, Galatians 5:16 says, is the only key to not fulfill the lust of the flesh. You want to live a pure life? You want to break out of cycles of sin? You want to bear fruit, walk in love, joy, peace, self-control? Learn to walk. And walking means following Him, desiring Him, seeking Him, listening to Him, honoring Him, loving Him to the point of tears.

God sets apart those He walks with

When God walks with a man, it shows.

God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power – and He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil. (Acts 10:38)

Why? Because God was with Him. Not just in Him, but with Him. He went before Him. He acted with Him. He built with Him. He spoke through Him. He worked through Him. He was with Him!

As He is, so are we. What Jesus lived, what He experienced, what people witnessed in His life must also be seen in our lives.

We know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him. (John 3:2)

Walking with God sets you apart. It’s not your degree, nor your seniority in the church, nor even your title that impresses people—it’s that God is visible in your life.

Look at Elijah. Elijah said: “Let it be known that You are God and that I am Your servant.” His obsession was for God to manifest visibly in his generation. He didn’t want to preach a pompous message. He wanted that when he prayed, fire would fall! Do you want to stand out in your family? In your generation? Then don’t seek position, seek presence!

You may have fallen, made mistakes, like David. But David had a thirst for God.

My soul thirsts for the living God (…) my tears have been my food. (Psalm 42:2-4)

And God walked with him. Do you know why? Because he wept—not because of the battle, but because of the distance. He said, “Lord, I have to see You. I want to walk with You.”

Practical application for every reader

• Today, you must say to God: “I’m tired of a normal life. I’m tired of reading the Bible without living it. I’m tired of talking about a God I don’t encounter. I want to walk with You.”
• This is what God is waiting for. Not from a lukewarm, blasé, religious heart. But from a desperate, determined, thirsty, hungry heart.
• Stop trying to impress people. Impact God. Touch God. Make heaven cry with your cry.
• Don’t you want it to be said of you one day: “Here is a man, here is a woman, and God is with them.” Why stay at the foot of the mountain when God is waiting for you at the summit?
• Today, decide to cry out to God. Today, decide that your voice will no longer be silent in heaven. That your tears will not be drowned in sterile emotions. Knock on heaven. Knock again. Seek again. Persevere again.

Until heaven says: “That man walks with Me.”

Let us pray together

Lord, I cry out to You. I refuse a fruitless spiritual life. I refuse normalcy. I want to rise, I want to grow. I want to walk with You. Open my eyes to dimensions I’ve never known. Draw me. Prune me. Break in me anything that pushes You away. Reveal Yourself to me. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. In the mighty name of Jesus, Amen!

🙏 If you’ve never given your life to Jesus, say this prayer with faith:

Lord Jesus, I believe You died for my sins. I believe You rose again. I accept You today as my Lord and Savior. Come live in me and help me to walk with You every day of my life. Amen.

At the heart of the Bible

• Luke 18:1 – Pray continually and never give up
• Acts 10:38 – Jesus, anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power
• 2 Corinthians 6:16 – Walk in the reality of the living God
• Psalm 42:2-4 – Thirst for the living God
• Colossians 2:6 – Receive Christ and walk in Him
• Galatians 5:16 – Walk by the Spirit
• John 3:2 – Miracles prove that God is with you

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