In our continuing quest to intentionally live our lives in 2012 there are two essentials that we must intentionally do everyday of our lives. We must have a daily quiet time with our God; where we listen to His voice through His Word, the bible. And then we speak to God thru our prayers in response to what He has revealed to us this day in Scripture.
God has provided us with many great and precious promises in Scripture, especially regarding our relationship with Him. Jeremiah 29:12-14 says in part; "Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the LORD." Wow!! What an amazing promise, the God who created the universe, the God who created you and me and everyone who has ever lived is saying He will hear us when we pray!!
What is so special about that? Just this, 1 John 5:14-15 says; "This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him." Notice the condition in this promise, "if we ask anything according to His will" How do we discover and know His will? The bible of course!
Daily reading Scripture and praying is how we grow in the wisdom and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it is how we discern God's revealed will, it is light and life to our souls, it warns, corrects, encourages and teaches, and if you don't know God's Word then you will never know Him! That is the truth, His Word is truth and it has the ability to transform our lives, our minds, and our hearts! It is God's gift to all who seek Him. I wish I had the ability to express to each and everyone of you that will read this just what the Scriptures can do in your life, I know because I have experienced this change, year after year, I know what it is to hunger and thirst for the Word because nothing, and I mean nothing is able to satisfy like Scripture!
There is nothing more powerful that we can pray and ask God for than to pray His Word back to Him! Why? Because Scripture is all true, it is all God's will and when we pray that, we know that He hears and we know He will answer because it is in accordance with His will! This year 2012 I am praying the following everyday for my family members, for the women in the bible study groups I meet with every week, and I am going to write it out here so that you can read it and perhaps the Lord would encourage you to do the same for your family members or your bible study groups, and yourself. We could never on our own think to ask God for these things that is why it is so wonderful that we can pray His Word with complete confidence that He will answer!
"...We have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light. For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." Colossians 1:9-14.
"For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened." Matthew 7:8.
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