A KEY TO OUR WALK WITH GOD

2 Peter 1:2 May God give you more and more grace and peace as you grow in your knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord.

A lot of the Epistles begin like that talking about Jesus' followers being given grace and peace. God's desire for each one of us is to give us more and more of those things. 

We very often gloss over these sort of verses as just the introduction to an Epistle but they hold a key to our walk with God. 

According to how much we want grace and peace to increase in our lives will be how much we're growing in our knowledge of God. I don't mean knowing about Him but knowing Him personally, like you know a member of your family.  And how do we do that? By hearing God's words of faith preached by Holy Spirit inspired preachers, and by reading God's Word for ourselves and meditating on it and spending time with God.

Biblical meditation isn't some mystical thing but it's just asking the Holy Spirit to help us mull God's word over and over in our minds, muttering it under your breath throughout the day if you find that helps, but constantly going back to a verse or verses and thinking about them until the Holy Spirit sheds some new light on them for us. Then we learn something more about God and Jesus and know them better and automatically we'll find God's grace and peace will be multiplied in our lives. It's a win win situation but we do have our part to play.

I was chatting to someone the other day and they suddenly said "You know Jackie, God is love, He doesn't just have love, He is love.  They'd suddenly got a fresh revelation of that fact and had to tell me about it. I was really blessed by that because until recently they hadn't seen God that way.  And how did they come by that revelation? They'd just been reading and reading the Word about God's great love for us all and it bubbled up out of them!

Can I encourage us all to spend some time in the Word and see what happens?  Maybe choose a particular subject like God's blessings on the believer (the righteous) and find all the verses on God's blessing.  When you do, share it with someone, let it bubble up and we'll all be blessed! I'd love to know how you get on.😊

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WATERFALL OF GOD'S LOVE

Psalm 42:8 The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime..... NKJV

Psalm 42:8 Each day the Lord pours his unfailing love upon me.....NLT

It's good to stop and recognise what God has promised He will do for us each and every day. 

These two translations of the same verse help to visualise the fact that He not only has commanded His lovingkindness to be on us today and every day but it's a picture of Him pouring it out on us.

Just imagine you're standing under a waterfall which is pouring out from a high rock, would you be dry or would you be soaked by it if you were standing in the way of it? You'd be soaked to the skin and refreshed. It makes you feel relaxed and invigorated at the same time and good. That's what God's love is doing for us if we stand underneath it as it were and consciously put ourselves in the way of it and acknowledge it. 

Psalm 40:11 .... Let your unfailing love and faithfulness always protect me.

This verse goes further and unfolds the fact that His love also protects us. God has you covered today with His love and faithfulness. 

Look at the other things the Lord does for His loved ones....

Psalm 41:2-3 (NLT)  The Lord protects them and keeps them alive. He gives them prosperity in the land and rescues them from their enemies. v.3 The Lord nurses them when they are sick and restores them to health.

That is absolutely wonderful!!! So every day take a shower under God's waterfall of love. Just stand there for a minute or two and thank the Lord out loud and tell Him that you're receiving His waterfall of  love, faithfulness, protection, prosperity, rescue and healing and you love it and Him! 

And don't forget you can have one of those showers anywhere, anytime.😊 Thank you Lord.