27/09/2026
REFLECTION 39— Sept 27, 2026
By Cosmas Ilechukwu,
The General Overseer, CRM.
THE POWER OF DIVINE ALIGNMENT (4).
"Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" (Amos 3:3, KJV)
This question was the opening line to a barrage of soul searching questions about cause and effect God addressed to the children of Israel through the Prophet, Amos. It advances a profound truth that nothing meaningful moves forward without a working agreement and proper alignments of the people involved. It is a practical impossibility for people to walk together while headed to different directions. This same law holds true in our walk with God. The blessings of God such as peace, power, and fruitfulness flow only when we're walking in step with Him, not when we are living in violation to His will. The Prophet Isaiah affirmed this truth saying, “You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!” (Isaiah 26:3, NLT). Aligning our thoughts, words and actions with God’s will is the way we give God pleasure.
Alignment is often misunderstood as restriction – as if getting in line with God's will shrinks your life down to something smaller and weaker. Nothing can be further from the truth. The Scripture presents it the opposite way. Alignment isn't the cage; it's the channel. A river confined to its banks doesn't lose power, instead, it gains it. Water that spreads out flat across a field moves nowhere and accomplishes nothing. Water held within banks generates power that turns mills, runs factories, and electrifies cities and communities. The constraint is not the enemy of power; it's the condition for it.
This is what Jesus meant when he said, " without Me you can do nothing " (John 15:5). Notice what He did not say. He did not say “without me you cannot do much.” He said without Him, we cannot do NOTHING!! That's a hard word, especially for people who pride themselves on self-sufficiency. On the other hand, our Lord’s assertion is liberating and affirming because it clearly shows that fruitfulness is never meant to depend on our human strength in the first place, but on God’s. The branch does not generate its own life; it simply stays joined to the vine, and the vine does the rest. Our fruitfulness in life and ministry does not depend on what we can do on our own but on what His Spirit does in and through us. Paul made the point very clear: “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God” (2 Corinthians 3:5).
So what does alignment actually look like in practice? It is certainly not a one-time decision but a daily posture – the willingness to let God's word correct your direction before your plans, your emotions, or your ambitions do so. We see alignment in Abraham leaving Ur without a map, in Mary saying "let it be to me according to your word," and in Paul counting his credentials as loss for the sake of knowing Christ. In each case, alignment cost something. And in each case, what followed was power those individuals could never have manufactured with the best of their self-efforts.
Misalignment, by contrast, doesn't usually announce itself as rebellion. It creeps in surreptitiously – a slow drift from a long standing godly habit, a little compromise here and there, a minor resentment in the heart, a prayer life quietly abandoned. Amos, by this question exposes the drift: you cannot possibly walk with God while walking away from him, however small the steps.
The power of spiritual alignment, is not about forcing yourself to obey God more. Rather it is about staying close enough to God that your steps naturally start to match his – the way two people who walk together often without noticing fall into the same pace. Where in your life right now are you walking parallel to God's will instead of with it? What would it look like this week to let God reset your direction before you take the next step? Let us pray together: Lord, align my steps with yours – not so my life shrinks, but so it finally moves with power it is destined to move with in Jesus name
