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Rewrite Your Vows

January 17, 2018 By Eva Conner 1 Comment

Chasing Hard and Running on Empty

Rewrite your vows!

Here is a word that I received in my spirit during prayer time this morning. This word makes me weep with joy and also with sadness for all the glory and awesomeness we miss because we’re too busy chasing the here and now.

This word is for all of us because we all have moments when we are not chasing hard after the only thing in this temporary land that matters – the eternal. This word makes me sad because we have things so backward and wrong in this world compared to what God truly wants for us. What Jesus died to give us. Here is what He spoke:

I desire to shower you with lavish gifts. I love you as a Bridegroom loves His bride. I AM your Bridegroom. I wish to take care of you in a way that you never have to fear. In a way that you never live in lack or want of anything.

This is the vow that I SPEAK to you:

I, Jesus, take you, my beloved, to be my lawfully wedded bride, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better and never for worse, in richness and never in poorness, in health and never in sickness, forever, not even death can separate us.

I chase after you always.

But you don’t see Me. You don’t look My way. You chase after things that will never bring you wholeness and fulfillment. You look to one another to bring you things that only I CAN.

When will you look to Me? What will it take for you to see me standing here? How long before You accept my vows of marriage?

In this time of prayer and meditation, He brought back memories of new romantic relationships ~ courtships. He brought back those sweet memories of dating and the excitement that came with the newness of the relationship. The memories of wanting to do something nice for that other person who suddenly became so very important to you. The heart to shower them with gifts to show your love. This is what He brought to my heart this morning.

The tenderness, sweetness and innocence that exists in the closeness.

Jesus feels these things for us. He wants to shower us with His good and perfect gifts. He desires for us to rest in that tender, sweet innocence with Him. And He desires for us to not just rest for the moment but to settle in to it. To get comfy and put our feet up and stay there! Jesus is not just our comforter and protector. HE IS COMFORT. HE IS PROTECTION. These things to Him are tangible and part of his DNA that cannot be separated from Him.

He is standing there with His arms stretched out just for you.

Do you see Him there? Do you sense His excitement and eagerness to love you and lavish His goodness on you?

This word completely unglues me even as I am experiencing it again as I type these words. And this is just a mere shadow of what we’ll experience with Him in eternity.

So why do we fight against it? Why do we twist and distort His Word by bringing it down to what we can comprehend and explain?

What He showed me when He spoke the wedding vows is that the vows we speak when we marry our spouses are completely opposite of what He wants us to speak.

Man-made vows speak of illness, poverty and death.

The vows that are most commonly used today are rooted in religion ~ from man. You can do a Google search and find the origins are rooted in the medieval church in England. What you cannot find are the vows in Scripture with one exception. Ironically, the one part of the vow that you can find in the Bible is the piece that most people omit because they find it offensive – for the wife to vow that she will obey her husband.

For centuries, has no one asked where these vows came from? Who wrote them and were they inspired by God to do so? If someone were to say they were inspired by God to write these vows, why do they not line up with Scripture?

These are questions I’m asking myself after hearing Jesus clearly speak His vows to me this morning. He clearly denounced the “sickness, poverty and death” words that currently exist in our vows.

Jesus died on the cross for us a broken man so that we could be whole. He died in lack so that we could walk in abundance. His Word clearly states that death is not final. God desires for us to walk in the fullness of Jesus Christ. And that fullness is not sickness, poverty and death. That fullness is total wholeness in all areas of our lives with abundant fruit and gifts.

Wholeness and nothing less is what Jesus died to give us.

We need to rewrite the vows! The wedding vows must be modeled after the love of Christ and the truth of Christ. They must include grace, complete surrender, covenant bonds of undying love. UNDYING love – not death.

We need to stop watering down the Word of God to accommodate our limited, finite thinking. The minute we begin logically explaining who God is, is the minute we should fall to our knees and repent of idolatry. For when we put God within the limits of our thinking, we are creating a false god to worship.

God is outside the limits of our thinking.

He is SO incomprehensibly huge and powerful that we cannot possibly know anything about Him other than what He’s chosen to reveal to us.

The minute we start putting God in the confines of our mind is the minute we begin rationalizing why there is sickness, poverty and death in our world. It’s okay to not have answers to life’s tough questions. What’s not okay is to try to wrap theological doctrine around not having answers. God is a God who will hide things from us in order for us to search them out. And when we search for the things of God, He is so good to show them to us.

Rewrite your vows today.

Speak life, health and wholeness into your marriage. Take out those things that are not of God. Seek Him above all things and He will show You all things. Don’t stop there either. Rewrite your vows with God. Ask Him to scrub your heart clean and purify you in His Word. His Word is cleansing and it will reveal to you all the things you are searching for in this life. His Word will reveal Jesus from front to back.

Chase hard after Jesus.

He chases after us and pursues us with a self-discipline we know nothing about. He is intentional about US. Let’s get intentional and self-disciplined about HIM.

HE IS all things.

Period. Nothing less than ALL things. And in Him we find our fulfillment and all of our emptiness is suddenly gone.

Jesus Christ is the ultimate fulfillment center.

He wants to be the center of your life. Will you let Him? It’s a decision we make that will alter the course of our life for eternity.

Time is short. Total surrender to Jesus is the only way to live the few short years we have on this planet. You see, this life is not what it’s about. This life is but a mere test for eternity.

I remember as a child I would often lay on my back in the grass staring up at the clouds, trying to think about eternity. I use the word “trying” because eternity is so big that it’s hard to grasp. It’s hard to fully get your mind wrapped around what “forever” means. No end at all. Compare 70 or 90 years to forever. It’s hardly any comparison at all.

When we shift our thinking from temporal to eternal, we find a lot of things in this world that once seemed huge and insurmountable become like mountains that can be cast into the sea.

This is the word for you and for me today.

Rewrite your vows and chase hard after Jesus.

He is waiting and He longs to lavish us with gifts and love.

Stay in the Light and Love always,

Eva

A Father’s Love

January 4, 2018 By Eva Conner Leave a Comment

This world needs a father’s love.

The love of a father is special. And whether we know it or not we all have the love of our Father. Our religion doesn’t change it. It doesn’t matter whether we have faith to believe or not. Our skin color doesn’t change it. Nothing in all of creation can change the love of our Father.

How do I know that He loves us no matter what?

His Word tells us so. John 3:16 says “for God so loved the world…” It doesn’t say “for God so loved believers…” Nor does it say “for God so loved those who love Him…” It clearly says “for God so loved THE WORLD….” This is you and me!! It is our neighbors, our co-workers, our families, our friends and even our enemies. The world is every single person who has ever lived, who is living now and who will ever live in the future.

Every. Single. Person.

The world includes all types of beliefs and religions including (but certainly not limited to):

Judiasm,
Hinduism,
Islam,
Atheism, and
Christianity.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16

What does this love look like?

Unconditional love. Love that was willing to hang on a cross in a horrible, tragic death for all of us. It is love by choice and it is a love that will never want anything for us except for the very best.

One person in the Bible who gives me great hope and encouragement is Jacob.

We can all be encouraged by the life of Jacob. Jacob was Isaac’s son. If you recall, Isaac was Abraham and Sarah’s miracle baby. Isaac married Rebekah and they had twin boys, Jacob and Esau.

Jacob took advantage of his brother Esau when Esau was at a disadvantage of being super hungry. Today we call this being “hangry” but we didn’t invent this ~ it comes straight from Genesis. Esau had been outside for a while and when he came in he was “hangry.”

Jacob had been cooking stew that must have smelled very good. For when Esau came in, it was all that was on his mind. Jacob told his brother he’d sell him some stew in exchange for his birthright (for Esau was firstborn). Wow! Who thinks like this?

Jacob was a little devious. And Esau was a lot hungry.

He sold his birthright for a bowl of stew. Esau despised his birthright after this happened (for more, see Genesis 25:24-34).

Later we see more suspect behavior from Jacob. He deceived his father, Isaac, out of Esau’s blessing. In Genesis 27, Isaac is nearing the end of his life and he wanted to bless his eldest son Esau (who happened to be Isaac’s favorite). Rebekah helped Jacob (who happened to be Rebekah’s favorite) disguise himself as Esau. When it was time for Isaac to give the blessing, he thought he was talking to Esau when he was actually talking to Jacob.

The blessing from Jacob’s earthly father stuck and could not be reversed.

Jacob deceitfully took what was rightfully Esau’s. He took not only his birthright but also his blessing. And do you know what God did? He loved Jacob anyway!

That’s right. God loved Jacob very much. In fact, Jacob’s name is mentioned more than the name of his father, Isaac, and even his grandfather, Abraham.

Jacob had a quality that God loves.

Persistence. Jacob persisted in an all-night wrestling match with God until God blessed him.

The blessing from Jacob’s heavenly Father stuck and could not be reversed either!

In fact, Jacob not only wrestled with God but he met Him face-to-face and his life was spared. Jacob won God’s favor and honor. And God did something else for Jacob. He changed Jacob’s name. God has a special name for each one of us and His special name for Jacob was Israel.

Jacob received the blessings that he didn’t deserve. He received love and honor that he didn’t deserve.

Knowing that I, too, have the Father’s blessings, love and honor, even though I don’t deserve any of it, is life-altering knowledge.

Friends, be encouraged by this great news. Our Father so loves THE WORLD. You and me. Regardless of what we’ve done in our past. Regardless of how much love we have in our heart for Him. He loves us beyond measure.

Soak in this love today. Stop looking to things or people in this world to love you as you need to be loved. Look to our loving Father for the love that you seek deep deep in your being. His love is the only love that will fill that aching void in your life. His love is the only love that will never change or leave us.

God is love.

My prayer for you is taken directly from the words Paul penned in Ephesians:

14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

Ephesians 3:14-21

Stay in the Light and Love always,

Eva

A New Take on Love for our Children

November 24, 2017 By Eva Conner 2 Comments

I received a beautiful gift from God on our love for our children and am sharing with each of you.

Yesterday morning I was outside with Leo, one of our two dogs. My heart was touched three years ago by this little fur baby when we adopted him from a pet rescue outfit. We’ve had a couple pets in the past but I was never really an animal person so they never worked out.

I acknowledge my newfound love for pets is a gift from Christ and part of my transformation to become more like Him; therefore, He gets all the glory for changing my heart. We now have not one but two dogs in our home and they are both the greatest blessings from God.

So yesterday morning when Leo and I were outside, God spoke directly to my heart. He showed me how much love I have in my heart for Leo and He didn’t just leave it there.

He went on to show me that my love for my dogs is absolutely unconditional.

I have no expectations for how either of them should “grow up” and I have not planted any of my dreams in their hearts. No “suggested” thoughts or opinions on their choice of friends, careers, clothing, or anything else.

They are simply allowed to be who GOD created them to be.

We do not hold them to the standard of who their “parents” think they should be. They are not measured horizontally against peers or anyone else in this world.

As God was speaking to my heart, I was standing in our backyard in the morning sunlight with the crisp dew covered grass at my feet. It was very early and all was quiet in our neighborhood. That is, all was quiet outside.

But on the inside, my heart was dancing with joy over this revelation.

It is pure freedom for a mom. And this is exactly what Christ wants for each of us. Freedom. Release. Rest.

The Apostle Paul understood freedom possibly more than any other human being ever.

So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law. Listen! I, Paul, tell you this; If you are counting on circumcision to make you right with God, then Christ will be of no benefit to you.
Galatians 5:1-2

Before Paul became “Paul,” he was Saul and he persecuted Christians. He was so completely sold on the law that he could not see that he was in slavery with no hope for true freedom. That is until he had a personal encounter with Jesus. When he had that personal encounter, he understood freedom and until his death, he shared the message of freedom – GRACE – with everyone.

God gave me a deeper revelation of this message of grace yesterday morning.

I have three children who are all young adults finding their way in college or starting careers. It’s so hard to step back and not interject what I think is best for them. But I must step back.

I need to lay down all ideas and thoughts I might have about their future. Their future doesn’t belong to me. It doesn’t even belong to them.

Their future belongs only to God and only God can direct as He knows best.

Only God is truly in control of anything ~ and everything.

Only God knows the beginning from the end.

Only God is Sovereign.

Only God.

If you are a parent reading this, my hope is that you will also get this deeper revelation of love for our children. Love God’s way!

As a parent, it is so easy to interject ourselves as God in our children’s lives. It is also dangerous. And it is linked back to what Paul mentions in the verse above, those things that keep us in slavery. In Paul’s case, he was in slavery to the law. The law was the Mosaic law of do’s and don’ts that the Jewish people followed. The purpose of the law was to protect and guard the people until Jesus came to make us right with God. However, the law could not save us and make us right with God.

Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian until Christ came; it protected us until we could be made right with God through faith. And now that the way of faith has come, we no longer need the law as our guardian.
Galatians 3:24-25

We know from Scripture that Jesus came to fulfill the law. He took our place and set us free from the bondage and trap of all the rules and regulations that have no power to set us free.

Freedom is only found in Jesus.

So why do we put slavery back into our relationship with our children? What do I mean by this? When we impose OUR dreams and plans on our children, we are putting our children in bondage. We know from the Scripture above that the law was to protect and guard people until Jesus came. This is what we are trying to do too – protect and guard our children. However, when we do this, we are telling God to back off because we can do a better job at managing their lives than He can do. OUCH. I know that hurts but it is truth.

Let me put it another way. Do you worry about what your kids are going to do in their future? If your kids are in college, do you worry obsessively about how they are doing? Do you worry about them finding the right job or how they are doing if they have a good job?

When you are with your children, do you feel the need to always offer advice? Do you think that if they are not doing things the way you think they should then they are doing them wrong?

How is your well-meaning advice received and does it cause tension and stress in your relationship?

I think I can take a guess at the answer to this last question. I’ve seen it in the relationships with my own children. So how do we change things?

We have to stop playing God in their lives. Period.

To do this, we must keep our focus on Jesus. We must abide in Christ and let Him guide us in ALL areas of our life, including our love for our children. He will nudge us when we need to speak and also when we need to stay silent. We need to take all of our worries and concerns for our children to God working them out in our prayer closet.

The only way to do parenting is God’s way.

God has big dreams and plans for each of us, including our children. Whose dreams and plans are best? Ours or God’s? Let’s vow today to get out of God’s way and let Him place HIS dreams into our childrens’ hearts.

Here is a prayer full of powerful Scripture for all of us to pray for ourselves as parents and for our children:

Dear Father,

Thank You for being Sovereign and in control of all things. We thank You for all of our children and lift them each up to You and ask that You bless them and keep them, make Your face shine upon them and be gracious to them, turn Your face toward them and give them peace.

We thank You for making them strong and courageous and helping them to not be afraid or discouraged and for being with them wherever they go. Thank You for never leaving them nor forsaking them.

Lord, we ask that You protect our children, keep them from all harm and watch over their coming and going both now and forevermore.

Please surround them by so great a cloud of witnesses, let them also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let them run with endurance the race that is set before them, fixing their eyes on Your Son Jesus.

Father, let our children only fear You and serve You faithfully with all their heart. Let them consider what great things You have done for them. We ask that You surround them with those who are wise so they will become wise and we ask that You keep fools far away from them. Place people in their lives who will speak Jesus, love and life.

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and Your love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with each of them at all times.

And Father, for us parents, let us be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger. Keep us in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because we trust in You. And as we trust in You with all of our heart, help us to not lean into our own understanding and to submit all our ways to You as You make our paths straight.

For we were called to freedom but help us to not use our freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love to serve one another. We know that in the Body of Your Son Jesus, we are called to encourage and edify one another. Help us parents to pray for and lift one another up to You for Your strength and wisdom.

We thank You that Your Words says all our sons will be taught by You, and great will be our children’s peace. Please let Your blessings, love and Presence be with our children and family, as we lay down our own agenda to honor and surrender all to You.

In Jesus’ Name we pray.

Amen♥

Stay in the Love and the Light Always,

Eva

Scripture used in prayer above: Numbers 6:24-26; Joshua 1:9; Hebrews 13:5; Psalm 121:7-8; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Samuel 12:24; Prov. 13:20; 2 Corinthians 13:14; James 1:19; Isaiah 26:3; Proverbs 3:5-6; Galatians 5:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:11; Isaiah 54:13.

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Knowing God’s Great Love for YOU

August 17, 2017 By Eva Conner 2 Comments

God loves you. God loves me.

God loves every single person. Even those who do not love Him in return. One very important key to walking a victorious life and breaking the chains of defeat is that it isn’t about our love for Him. We need to stop wasting our time trying to love Him enough. We will never be able to love Him as much as He loves us. Please don’t mistake what I’m saying. Yes, we should love God – with all of our hearts.

But don’t get caught up in the internal battle between your heart and your mind. The battle that sounds something like this: “If I loved God like I say I do, I wouldn’t have talked badly about that person. I must not love Him.” I’m sure you’ve done this to yourself.

Friends, let me help you get your mind and heart right about God’s love. It is HIS LOVE FOR US that we need to meditate upon. It is HIS LOVE FOR US that we need to get planted deep into our hearts. Let’s look at Scripture to help explain what I’m saying.

Jesus and the disciples share the Last Supper.

18 “I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.’ 19 Now I tell you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe that I am He. 20 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”

21 When Jesus had said these things, He was troubled in spirit, and testified and said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, one of you will betray Me.” 22 Then the disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom He spoke.

23 Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved. 24 Simon Peter therefore motioned to him to ask who it was of whom He spoke.

25 Then, leaning back on Jesus’ breast, he said to Him, “Lord, who is it?”

26 Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I shall give a piece of bread when I have dipped it.” And having dipped the bread, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. 27 Now after the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.” 28 But no one at the table knew for what reason He said this to him. 29 For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus had said to him, “Buy those things we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.

30 Having received the piece of bread, he then went out immediately. And it was night.

31 So, when he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him. 32 If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and glorify Him immediately. 33 Little children, I shall be with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come,’ so now I say to you. 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

36 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, where are You going?”

Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow Me now, but you shall follow Me afterward.”

37 Peter said to Him, “Lord, why can I not follow You now? I will lay down my life for Your sake.”

38 Jesus answered him, “Will you lay down your life for My sake? Most assuredly, I say to you, the rooster shall not crow till you have denied Me three times.

John 13:21-38 (NKJV)

I used the New King James Version because it best illustrates the point I want to make. Jesus knows what is coming. He knows that Judas is going to betray Him and that His death is soon. He is having one last supper with these men He so dearly loved.

Let’s look at verse 23 and 25. Verse 23 reads, “Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.” And verse 25, “Then, leaning back on Jesus’ breast, he said to Him, “Lord, who is it?”

The “disciple whom Jesus loved” is John himself.

John is writing this book and is referring to himself in the third person. John rested against Jesus’ breast because he knew how very special the love of Christ was and he was soaking it in. He wasn’t wasting precious time trying to show Jesus how much he loved Him.

Now let’s look at one of the other disciples – Peter. In verse 37, Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, why can I not follow You now? I will lay down my life for Your sake.” He was so distraught at the thought that Jesus was leaving him. There is a key difference between John and Peter in this Scripture. That difference is where their focus was.

John’s focus was turned to Jesus. Peter’s focus was turned to himself. Peter is trying to prove to Jesus just how much he loves Him. John wasn’t trying to prove his love for Jesus because he knew it was not what was important.

What is important is Jesus’ great love for us.

I sympathize with Peter. He truly loved Jesus but he was too focused on his love and this is why he failed. Not once but three times. This is a very important lesson that Jesus is teaching us. Nestled in the middle of these verses above, Jesus gives us the greatest command of all.

34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 13:34-35

It seems that it is just stuck in among these other verses but Jesus is very intentional about the placement of this command. He is showing us that we have His love within us and He expects us to share that love with others.

His words “as I have loved you” is critical to understanding this command.

This is the third post of the series “Setting the Captives Free” (click to read the first post in this series). We will continue to explore how we can move from living a defeated life to a victorious life in the next week as we cover the remaining three keys:

Knowing God (click to read this post about Knowing God).
Knowing God’s great love for us.
Knowing and understanding the finished work of the cross.
Knowing who we are in Jesus
Knowning our assignment.

When we begin to understand that it is not about us, but rather it is always about Jesus, we can have a victorious life. Because it is not dependent on us, we cannot fail. It is dependent upon Jesus and He will never fail! He did all the work and all He wants us to do is recline upon His breast and soak in His love. As we do this, we are filled to the point where we can’t help but overflow on those around us. It’s the beauty of His ways.

Here is my prayer for all of us today:

Dear Father,
Thank You for this great day. Thank You for Jesus and His great love for us. Thank You for Your great love for us. Help each of us to not only soak in that love but to also be filled with the love so that we can overflow to those around us. Fill us so we can fill others. Fill others so they can fill us. Your ways are so perfect! Thank You for Your ways being so much higher than our ways.

We praise You for taking us deeper into who You are. Deeper into who You created each of us to be. Use us in mighty ways to show Your love to the hurting and oppressed around us. Use us to show love and light to those in darkness. Thank You for giving each of us a role in Your kingdom. All glory and praise goes to You.
In Jesus’ great name we pray.
Amen♥

Stay in the Light and the Love Always,

Eva

Knowing God

August 14, 2017 By Eva Conner 2 Comments

How do we break the cycle of living a defeated life?

God holds the key to breaking the cycle of a downtrodden life. He is the key. Today let’s explore one of five ways to get the key to a victorious life.

Knowing God.

It’s important to know who God is. And who He isn’t. There are so many dimensions to God, if we studied who He is for an entire lifetime, we would just be scratching the surface. He is so grand and majestic our human minds are incapable of grasping His fullness.

But let’s do the best we can to increase our knowledge of Him.

Our God is a Triune God.

God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are all fully God. Let me explain my thoughts on the Trinity. I liken the Trinity to a construction company. My dad worked as a superintendent in the commercial construction industry so this analogy comes easy to me. God the Father is the CEO of the construction company. No one has ever seen the CEO (Father) except for the General Manager (Son). The CEO (Father) has the master plan and the big picture. God the Holy Spirit is the Superintendent. The GM (Son) makes sure that all is going well on the job site by sending the best Superintendent (Holy Spirit) He has.

The Superintendent (Holy Spirit) gets the job done. His mission is to glorify and please the GM (Son) by doing the best work ever. We are His workers. With the Superintendent as our constant companion, He teaches us all we need to know. He comforts us along the way and He guides us. He is with us always and He never steers us in the wrong direction. His advice and instruction are always spot on. He advocates to the GM on our behalf. And the GM stands before the CEO and further advocates on our behalf.

What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
Romans 8:31

The Trinity is a preview of the many depths and layers of our one God. Yes, all three are separate but completely One God.

God is Omniscient.

How great is our Lord! His power is absolute! His understanding is beyond comprehension!
Psalm 147:5

The definition of the word omniscient is having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding, perceiving all things. This is God. Only God can fill the definition of this word. No human being can have complete and unlimited knowledge. No human can perceive all things. Only God.

O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away. You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do. You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord. You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand.
Psalm 139:1-6

I encourage each of you to continue reading the verses in Psalm 139. This is one of those Psalms that is good to read often. When I read it, it grounds me and helps me refocus on how truly amazing and grand God is. The Psalmist David tells us that God knows our every move – even before we know it. He is ahead of us and behind us – at the same time!

God knows every single persons’ hearts and thoughts. He knows us intimately – even those who do not know Him. His heart is for all people.

God is Omnipresent.

Omnipresence is being present everywhere at the same time. This is simply impossible for humans. Only God. Even knowing the definition of the word, it’s hard to grasp the fact that God is everywhere. At. The. Same. Time. Yet in Jeremiah, He tells us Himself this is so:

“Can anyone hide from me in a secret place? Am I not everywhere in all the heavens and earth?” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:24

Man cannot hide from God – not even in the darkness. I have had moments when I wanted to turn the lights off and hide from Him. I didn’t want Him to know my thoughts or read my heart. When we are not in a good place with ourselves, He’s still there. When we’re hiding from Him, He’s still there. In a strange way, this is comforting – even in those times I wish He wasn’t there. Do you understand what I’m saying? Even when we don’t want Him near, we want Him near. Only God.

God is Omnipotent.

Omnipotent is defined as almighty or infinite in power. Only God. Nothing or no one is stronger than God. He is power. The sun and the stars obey Him. He created the sea and everything in it. Even the most fiercest beast is His creation. Nothing can come close to being a true opponent to Him. Not even Satan.

From eternity to eternity I am God. No one can snatch anyone out of my hand. No one can undo what I have done.
Isaiah 43:13

No one can snatch us from God’s hand. What comfort these words bring to my heart! Paul sums it up perfectly in Romans:

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow – not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below – indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39

Knowing who God is and what He is is so important to walking in freedom.

He is enough for whatever we may be facing. Death. Divorce. Disease. Loneliness. Despair. Lack. He is Enough! When we keep our focus on Him, He is sufficient for whatever we need.

One final key to knowing God is knowing He doesn’t condemn us. Romans 8:1 tells us that there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus. No condemnation! This should be a life-changer. Knowing that He does not condemn us means that we should not condemn us either. Let go of that guilt and shame once and for all.

We will continue to explore how we can move from living a defeated life to a victorious life in the next week as we cover the other four keys:

Knowing God’s great love for us.
Knowing and understanding the finished work of the cross.
Knowing who we are in Jesus
Knowning our assignment.

If you didn’t catch the initial post in this series, you can read it here: Set the Captives Free ~ Be Free Today.

Here is my prayer for all of us today:

Dear Father,
Thank You for each of my brothers and sisters reading this with me today. We praise You for being so worthy and majestic. Today help each of us see a new side of You. Take us deeper into who You are. Show us those things that You have hidden for just this time to reveal. Father, we thank You for being with us and never leaving us. We thank You that Your promises are yes and amen! We thank You for being enough.
In Jesus mighty name we pray.
Amen♥

Stay in the Light and the Love Always,

Eva