Do You Know Him?

I've been dwelling on this thought and I wanted to share it with you............

To know the Word is to know Him (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) personally. If you don't know the Word, then you don't know Him. For example; If you are sick, then you must know Him as your Healer (not just God). You'll only know Him as Healer by allowing Him to reveal Himself as Healer to you through His Word. Whatever issue of life you are facing, who does God need to be to you to provide the help that you are seeking (Provider, Wisdom, Guide, Counselor, Protector, Healer, Deliver, etc). To know Him is a personal relationship with Him.
 

In Ps 103:7 the Holy Spirit declares to us, "He (God) made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the people of Israel". Knowing the acts of God is very impersonal. It's like reading a History Book about someone who did something a long time ago. But having God show you His ways comes through a personal relationship with Him and His Word and it is out of that Word that He reveals His ways and the more He reveals, the more you know Him and that is the way you grow up in Him and that's the way you become a man (woman) after God's own heart, one that God likes to be with. (Would you like to be one of those people? You can!)

When you make the Word of God your priority over everything else, that's when you make God #1 in your life, and when you do that, He will gladly show you His ways.

Be Blessed!!

God Alone-- There is no other way to live

The Holy Spirit Has a Word of encouragement for you today and I feel led to share it with you................so be blessed, Terry

Psalm 62:5-8English Standard Version (ESV)

⁵ For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence,
    for my hope is from him.
⁶ He only is my rock and my salvation,
    my fortress; I shall not be shaken.
⁷ On God rests my salvation and my glory;
    my mighty rock, my refuge is God.

⁸ Trust in him at all times, O people;
    pour out your heart before him;
    God is a refuge for us. Selah

There are 2 key phrases that jumped off the page to me this morning; 1) For God alone  2) He only 

We all hear about the "Peace" of God, but we are all more familiar with "anxiousness". Why? Job 22:21-22 is a good answer:

²¹ “Agree with God, and be at peace;
    thereby good will come to you.
²² Receive instruction from his mouth,
    and lay up his words in your heart.

Anytime you take your eyes off God to consider something else or some other way to resolve the challenge before you, you are moving away from being in agreement with Him. When it's only God alone and He only, your life will come into agreement with God's ways and God's promise to you is "Rest" and "Peace". This is the way God always intended for the man He created to live his life. Look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (that is a display of Heaven on Earth) before their fall into sin. And the good news is, God has given that lifestyle back to you and me again through the sacrifice of His Son Jesus on the Cross.

Yours and my anxiety come from considering other ways than God's. I've got a great prophetic word for you, "Stop it!!". It really is that simple.

Now go back and read Ps 62: 5-8 again. That word Selah at the end means "to stop and think about this" with the intent that after you think about it, you'll be smart enough to do it. I'm in, how about you?

I love sharing the Truth with you. Be Blessed!