Saturday, January 20, 2024 5:09:18 AM
Faith Guides Us In
~ May your faith increase today, and may your experience of God’s presence deepen as we create space to seek God together.
To see the living God face-to-face is to have our spiritual eyes opened through the important practice of faith. The entirety of our relationship with God really boils down to faith. By faith we trust in Him even though we haven’t seen Him. By faith we believe the Bible is truly His Word. And it is by faith that we enter into His tangible presence where our hearts are transformed and our lives changed.
Paul prays an important prayer at the beginning of Ephesians that I believe God desires for you and me today.
Ephesians 1:17-19 says:
“I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, would give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the perception of your mind may be enlightened so you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the glorious riches of His inheritance among the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of His power to us who believe, according to the working of His vast strength.”
We need the eyes of our hearts enlightened. We need to develop spiritual eyes to see all that is available to us in God. We need faith to guide us into the deeper things of God.
Hebrews 10:19-23 says:
“Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way He has opened for us through the curtain (that is, His flesh), and since we have a great high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water. Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.”
God longs for us to draw near to Him. He longs for us to experience Him unveiled, face-to-face with the eyes of our hearts open and our hearts full of awe and wonder. The single most exciting truth of our lives is that the God of the universe, the Creator of all, can be seen and known. Spending time with Him is more satisfying, entertaining, uplifting, and better than any other way our time could be spent. If we will have the faith to make time and let God move in and on our hearts, practicing faith as God’s Word tells us to, we will experience a reality unknown and unseen to the naked eye. We will experience the reality of heaven: God and man joined together in communion.
Faith is a gift given to those who cry out to know God. It is a gift given by the Holy Spirit in response to our desperation for relationship. If you will seek out more in your communion with your heavenly Father, He will respond with an increase of faith. He will answer your call by carrying you into the depths of His endless love where you belong — where you’ve always belonged.
May God grant you a “Spirit of wisdom and revelation” and open “the eyes of your heart” today as you spend time in prayer.
May we be a people that seek out the fullness of God. May we be children awed by the beauty, majesty, mystery, and love of our Father. God has more in store for us than we could ever ask or imagine if we will seek Him with all of our hearts. Fight the mediocrity of this world for the higher calling of experiencing all that God longs to give you.
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~ published by: First 15
https://www.first15.org/devotionals/faith-guides-us-in-2023/
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~ May your faith increase today, and may your experience of God’s presence deepen as we create space to seek God together.
To see the living God face-to-face is to have our spiritual eyes opened through the important practice of faith. The entirety of our relationship with God really boils down to faith. By faith we trust in Him even though we haven’t seen Him. By faith we believe the Bible is truly His Word. And it is by faith that we enter into His tangible presence where our hearts are transformed and our lives changed.
Paul prays an important prayer at the beginning of Ephesians that I believe God desires for you and me today.
Ephesians 1:17-19 says:
“I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, would give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the perception of your mind may be enlightened so you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the glorious riches of His inheritance among the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of His power to us who believe, according to the working of His vast strength.”
We need the eyes of our hearts enlightened. We need to develop spiritual eyes to see all that is available to us in God. We need faith to guide us into the deeper things of God.
Hebrews 10:19-23 says:
“Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way He has opened for us through the curtain (that is, His flesh), and since we have a great high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water. Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.”
God longs for us to draw near to Him. He longs for us to experience Him unveiled, face-to-face with the eyes of our hearts open and our hearts full of awe and wonder. The single most exciting truth of our lives is that the God of the universe, the Creator of all, can be seen and known. Spending time with Him is more satisfying, entertaining, uplifting, and better than any other way our time could be spent. If we will have the faith to make time and let God move in and on our hearts, practicing faith as God’s Word tells us to, we will experience a reality unknown and unseen to the naked eye. We will experience the reality of heaven: God and man joined together in communion.
Faith is a gift given to those who cry out to know God. It is a gift given by the Holy Spirit in response to our desperation for relationship. If you will seek out more in your communion with your heavenly Father, He will respond with an increase of faith. He will answer your call by carrying you into the depths of His endless love where you belong — where you’ve always belonged.
May God grant you a “Spirit of wisdom and revelation” and open “the eyes of your heart” today as you spend time in prayer.
May we be a people that seek out the fullness of God. May we be children awed by the beauty, majesty, mystery, and love of our Father. God has more in store for us than we could ever ask or imagine if we will seek Him with all of our hearts. Fight the mediocrity of this world for the higher calling of experiencing all that God longs to give you.
_____________________
~ published by: First 15
https://www.first15.org/devotionals/faith-guides-us-in-2023/
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