He knows them that trust in Him. It is not enough to call Him Savior and go on our merry way, seeing He will never deny us His love. We need to spend time with Him and get to know Him beyond asking for what we need. Thank Him, praise Him, just talk with Him. To know Him is to trust him.
I am the good shepherd…and I am known of mine. (Adapted from John 10 verse 14)
The intimacies of His character are ofttimes lost within our psyche.
“Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether (lower) springs.” Joshua 15 verse 19
When our hope is fueled by faith we are drawn to ask with all boldness.
Then, why is there hesitation?
Because of unbelief?
Do we measure Him by our own strength?
Do we understand or even truly know Him?
Or surely, we know only of Him.
The intimacies of His character are ofttimes lost within our psyche.
We reach out in our learning to understand how the Creator called the things that are not into being.
How He hung the stars in the heavens and divided the land from the seas.
And how this same God could entreat us to ask of Him, but not just so;
But to ask with purpose, strength of faith and to stagger not with unbelief;
Believing in hope against hope, else if we ask doubting or ask amiss, we may receive nothing.
If only we ask.
(references Romans 4 verses 17 and 18, James 4 verse 3)
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