ARE YOU DRIFTING?

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

• It is easy to drift.

 

• When you are drifting it does not require power or any effort at all to drift

 

• Drifting is an unconscious process. You do not have to make a conscious effort

 

• When you are drifting, you do not drift upstream. It is always downstream. That is you never drift towards God, you always drift further and further away from God.

 

• As you drift, the speed begins to increase.

 

• When you are drifting it always poses danger to others

 

• Drifting most often ends up in shipwreck.

 

SIGNS OF DRIFTING

 

• Lack of desire for studying of the Word of God

 

• Difficult for you to have a personal time of prayer with God

 

• Diminishing interest in the things of God

 

• Diminishing interest in coming to the house of God

 

• Desire for sharing the Gospel with others  dwindles

 

• Your examples are always of the past

 

• If you begin to like the things that you did not like before. You begin to love pleasure more than God

 

REMEDY FOR DRIFTING

 

• Acknowledge it and come to that place where diligence becomes your watch word. That you get diligent.

 

• Perseverance. You must persevere

 

• What is the state of your relationship with God? Watch out for the undercurrent for they are the things that make people drift