JUST SO WE KNOW

John 8:32 NKJV And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

I always thought roosters crowed because they sensed the sun was coming up but the other day I discovered it’s because they have an inbuilt biological alarm clock and they will crow at exactly the same time every morning even in a pitch black coup!😊

Sometimes we hear people say, “It’s on a need to know basis” and there are lots of things we need to know in the scriptures that are so important and unchangeable, just like the clock God has put inside a rooster! So here are a few to help us remember:

Job 19:25: NIV I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.

Romans 8:28: ESV And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

John 17:3 NKJV Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

1 John 4:13 NIV This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.

Ephesians 1:18 CEV I pray also that you will have greater understanding in your heart so you will know the hope to which he has called us and that you will know how rich and glorious are the blessings God has promised his holy people.

Psalm 46:10 NKJV Be still, and know that I am God…

1 John 3:16 NIV This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us…

1 John 4:16 NKJV And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Know and believe!😊 There’s lots to know and so much more, but it’s just so encouraging as we go about our week, that we can know and believe all these truths that set us free, and know they are the rock solid foundation on which we stand. 
Why not read them again and let them minister to your heart?😊 Amen.

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  Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.John 17:3

WALK IN THE LIGHT

John 8:12 NKJV Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

Sometimes we feel like we’re groping around in the dark and can’t see our way forward. We know we need more light on the situation!😊 So I asked the Lord, in view of our verse today, how to have more light. 

He reminded me of the verse Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” In other words the more Word we have in us, the more light we will have to see the way ahead. Scripture says Jesus is the Word, so the more Word we have, the more Jesus we have, the more light we will have. 

Now we may think there are no specific verses about our particular situation but the Word brings light to our spirit so the Holy Spirit can use it to speak into our situations through the days ahead. The Word is supernatural because it is God’s inspired words to mankind, so it follows that how it works will be supernatural as well.😊

God doesn’t necessarily give us the hows and whys, He just asks us to trust Him and obey what He says, so our part is to read His word and meditate on it and then He will do the rest.

Joshua 1:8 NKJV This book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good success.

We know meditate just means to keep thinking about it, ponder over it in our minds, not just read it and forget all about it! I heard one bible teacher say to choose a verse and write it down, read it out loud in the morning, so it starts the day off right, then come back to it and read it out loud again at lunchtime and then again last thing at night, so it’s in our subconscious throughout the day and night. 

So if you feel like you’re in the dark, let me encourage you to let God’s word be a light to your path and meditate in it, speak it every day and do what it says, then we are promised good success. I like the sound of that, don’t you, because it’s not rocket science and we’re all able to do it.😊Amen.

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