A minister said he was looking at some beautiful houses in a magazine one day and noticed that in one of them, there was a study that He really liked. So He cut out the picture. He said He's building a house on his refrigerator with cutouts from the magazine.
Proverbs 29:18 says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he." Other translations say, "Where there is no vision, the people go wild," or "go out of their minds." Also, when you read the word "law," the word "commandment," or the word "precept" in Scripture, it is referring to the Word of God. So without changing its meaning, turn this verse around and it can very easily be translated to read, "Where there is vision, the people prosper, and he that keeps the Word of God will walk in joy."
The one thing God has given us to help maintain an enthusiasm of faith is to be able to look toward the future and see the vision. And everyone must have a vision. The vision you need is found in the Word of God because the Word lays out our potential for us: What God's Word says we can do, we can do. What it says we can have, we can have. What it says we can be, we can be.
Our potential is built in the Word of God. And that's where you begin with your vision. If you don't yet have a vision, you start where God has told you who you are in Him.
I thank God that it doesn't matter who we are in ourselves. It only matters who we are in Him. That's the difference between being self-conscious and being God-conscious. God always gives you a choice. You can choose to be aware of God and what He wants you to do, or you can choose to be aware of yourself and do your own thing. Personally, I'd rather be doing God's thing.
But to do God's thing, you must realize that your vision is found in the Word of God. And the details of that vision come by setting aside time every day to be in His presence, in intimate fellowship with the Father. The vision is conceived in those times. The vision is nurtured in those times. And also, the vision is birthed in those times.
When you never take time for intimate fellowship with the Father, you'll never get the details. It's hard to get details on the run. You have to have a face-to-face relationship to do that. And guess what? He wants you to have vision. He wants to give you details. Not only that, but He also wants to enlarge the vision so that you are filled with it. God likes big vision.
In Mark 9:23, Jesus said, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth." All things are possible to anyone who believes. You have to be willing to not listen to anyone who wants to speak doubt and unbelief to you. You have to take the word "doubt" out of your vocabulary. Instead, align your vocabulary with heaven's vocabulary, align your vocabulary to faith's vocabulary, align your vocabulary to the Word of God.
Your vision, the vision that God has given you, the vision that God is building in your heart, is possible. Why? Because you believe. Even when you can't see it, you believe it. Even when you can't touch it, you believe it. And the highest kind of faith is faith that believes on the authority of the Word of God alone, and does not demand evidence to know that it's true. That's the centurion kind of faith.
Remember the centurion who came to Jesus and said, "My servant lieth at home sick"? When Jesus answered him saying, "I will come and heal him," the centurion said, "Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed" (Matt. 8:6-8).
The Word of God says when Jesus heard that statement, He marveled at this man's faith. This man was operating in the highest realm of faith - the faith that does not demand evidence. Jesus called it "so great faith" (v. 10). Sometimes I say to myself, "I believe. I'm a believer. I believe the Word of God. I believe it in the Name of Jesus." You have to say those words to yourself every now and then. You have to say them over and over again because sometimes the circumstances around you just don't look like they agree with the vision.
Remember, the vision in your heart is possible to those who believe. Your faith is inseparable from your vision. Whatever vision you have on the inside, whether it's a small, medium or large vision, your faith is going to work to produce that vision.
The spiritual force of the faith which is on the inside of you will take those pictures and those images from deep within your heart and begin to produce the vision and bring it to pass. Your vision is the blueprint of whatever your faith wants to build. And the builder works from that blueprint. "Faith is the substance [the ground, the title deed] of things hoped for, [the things I have a red-hot, burning, earnest expectation and a vision for]" (Heb. 11:1 AMP).
That scripture says my faith is the evidence of my vision, and your faith is the evidence of your vision. It's the evidence of things that you have a red-hot, burning, earnest expectation for. Your faith wants to build your vision. Your faith is just as determined as the kid on the football team who is sitting on the bench saying, "Coach, let me in. Let me play. Let me get in there."
Do you have a vision? Can you see it? What are you doing to supplement and supply the vision that you have on the inside of you? Because whatever it is, that's what you will eventually achieve. That's what you will become.
Just as you learn to walk by taking one step at a time, you also have to take steps in your faith. And there is nothing wrong with enlarging your vision. God wants you to think big.
You have to keep the vision alive and before you. We could take a clue from how the world uses this principle in their marketing and advertising. They use the print media (billboards, the sides of buses and signs in airports) and television. These are things the public sees. They use radio; this is what the public hears. We are surrounded with people who are trying to convince us to think the way they think and tell us to go buy what they are selling.
This is the idea: If you see it enough, you'll buy it. And then you'll like it. This same principle works in the Word of God. If you're putting the world in front of you, you are going to become like the world. If you put the Word in front of you, you'll become like the Word. We must be extremely selective in what we put in front of our eyes. The enemy tries to deceive us by building images and visions before us, even from the time we are children. He'll show us visions and pictures of our parents or our grandparents who are in lack or are poor and doing without.
Since that image is constantly before us, we think we should live that way. The devil puts images of failure, defeat, worry, and fear before us. But the Word of God gives us an image of success, victory, abundance and peace. What are you going to keep before you? What you behold, what you look at, what you meditate on and what you think about are what you are going to become.
Second Corinthians 3:12-13 says, "Since we have such [glorious] hope, such (joyful and confident) expectation, we speak very freely and openly and fearlessly. Nor (do we act) like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze upon the finish of the vanishing (splendor which had been upon it)" (AMP).
In other words, Moses would go up into the mountain to talk with the Lord. Then he would put a veil over his face, come down the mountain and then talk to the people. But he would keep the veil over his face, and the glory began to wane and diminish.
"In fact, their minds were grown hard and calloused, they had become dull and had lost the power of understanding, for until this present day, when the Old Testament is being read, that same veil still lies on their hearts, not being lifted to reveal that in Christ it is made void and done away. Yes, down to this very day whenever Moses is read a veil lies upon their minds and hearts. But whenever a person turns (in repentance) to the Lord the veil is stripped off and taken away.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, emancipation from bondage and freedom. And all of us, as with unveiled faces, continued to behold as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured" (vv. 14-18, AMP).
If there are some things that you know you should not be exposing yourself to, cut them out of your life - for the sake of the anointing, for the sake of the glory of God, for the sake of the vision. Get rid of them. The force of faith is working within you to conform you to whatever image you are seeing. It is working to bring your vision to pass. And as you behold the Word of God, and you behold the glory of the Word, you will, in increasing splendor, go from glory to glory. You will become what you behold.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
Beholding the Lord: Drawing Near To God
It amazes me how many believers miss the point of Christianity. They are truly saved. They go to church faithfully. They read their Bibles. But even so, they neglect to do the one thing Jesus died and rose again to enable them to do.
They neglect to draw near to God. They don't take the time to come into His presence every day to fellowship with Him. They aren't getting to know Him for themselves in a personal and intimate way. Although He has become their very own Father and they His very own children, God still seems distant and unapproachable to them. He is a concept rather than a companion, a theological figure rather than a dear and divine friend.
That kind of distant relationship with God is a Christianized version of religion that substitutes outward forms for inward experience. It fails to provide the one thing that will satisfy the truly born again heart—a deep and intimate fellowship with God.
Such fellowship is the primary point of the New Covenant. God Himself said so.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. (Hebrews 8:10–11 NKJV)
The reason God instituted the New Covenant was not just so we could go to heaven when we die. Thank God for that but it wasn't the primary point. God made a New Covenant so we could all get to know Him!
The word for know in Hebrews 8:11 means to become acquainted with someone by intimate, personal experience. It means to know them like family members know each other, to know someone like a husband or a wife! That's what God wanted from the New Covenant. He wanted His people to know Him firsthand in an intimate and personal way.
The writer of Hebrews says:
Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith…. (Hebrews 10:19-22 NKJV)
What does that verse tell us to do? It tells us to draw near. That's how we get to know the Lord. We draw near to Him! We don't get to know Him just by coming to church. We don't get to know Him just by reading the Bible. We don't get to know Him just by watching Christian television. I'm in favor of all those things and they can be a great blessing. But you can do them all every day of the week and if you never in your heart draw near to God, you won’t get much out of them.
"But, I can't draw near to God, I just don't know how!"
That's not true! No matter how frustrated you may have been in the past when you've tried to sense the presence of God, no matter how many dry prayer times you may have had, the Bible says you can experience the presence of the Lord. You are divinely equipped to do so.
When you were born again, your heart was made alive to God (Romans 6:11). If you're alive to something, that means you can perceive and respond to it, right? Your body is alive to this natural realm, so you're able to interact easily with it. When it's cold outside, you can feel it. When the sun shines, you can see it. When somebody calls your name, you can hear it.
Now, consider this. Your spirit is just as alive to God as your body is to this natural realm. Perhaps even more so because your body has limitations and imperfections, and your spirit doesn't. I realize you may not feel like your spirit is alive to God but it is, nevertheless, because the Bible says so. What you must do then is just believe that fact by faith and begin to act on it.
What kind of actions do you take? Exactly what can you do to begin drawing near to God? I'll help you get started sharing with you some of the ways the Lord has taught me.
One way to do it is by praying the scripture. That way of drawing near to God involves both reading the Bible and prayer. Often, when we read the Bible, we make it our aim to read as much of it as possible in one sitting. But I want to suggest you do something very different. The next time you read your Bible, instead of reading as much as you can as fast as you can, read very slowly. Determine in advance that it doesn't matter how much you read but how deeply you read. Set your heart not on gaining information but on getting revelation.
Certainly Bible study is very good and the Word itself admonishes us to "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" (2 Timothy 2:15 KJV). But you must distinguish between Bible study and drawing near to God. When you are studying, your mind is searching for information. When you are using the Word to fellowship with God, your heart is seeking to relate directly to Him.
Begin by choosing a passage of scripture. Then purposely and by faith come quietly and humbly before the Lord. Let your heart become aware of the fact that He is there with you and in you. Read slowly and carefully, word by word and phrase by phrase.
Resist the temptation to rush ahead and read the whole passage. Instead, turn inward and become aware of your heart's response to what you are reading. As you do, you will become aware of the quickening of the Holy Spirit upon some words or phrases. It will seem as though God is touching you through them.
When that happens, you may want to lift that portion of the scripture to the Lord in prayer. Speak it out to Him and say about it whatever comes to your heart to say. On the other hand, you might be led simply to read it again and again, holding it and imprinting it on your heart. Mentally, you might not understand exactly why the Holy Spirit is emphasizing it so much but that doesn't matter. Just trust your heart and follow Him.
After you have prayed or pondered in your heart that particular portion of scripture, you may sense that the Lord is leading you to read on. When that happens, then slowly and gently begin to read the next portion. When you're finished, you may find you've actually read very little of the Word. But that small amount will have benefited you greatly.
Instead of just skimming the surface of the Bible, you will have plunged deeply into it and found not just words but God Himself! You will have sensed His very presence breaking out like a sweet aroma in your heart. As you continue to cultivate this kind of reading and prayer, you will learn more and more to follow the leadings and quickenings of the Holy Spirit. You'll develop a rich prayer life that flows from your innermost being.
A second way to draw near to God is by doing what might simply be called "beholding the Lord." When you do this, you will also begin by reading scripture but in a different way. Instead of focusing on the scripture and finding God there, you will simply use a verse or a phrase from the Bible to still your mind so that your heart can tune into the presence of the Lord.
If you've spent much time in fellowship with the Lord, you already know that your mind can be your greatest obstacle to overcome. It is accustomed to being allowed to wander wherever it pleases from this thought to that one in a random sort of way. The moment you try to make it settle down before the Lord, if it is untrained, it wiggles and squirms like a child in church. And just like you must train the child to be still, out of love and respect for the Lord, you must make your mind be still also.
As you come before the Lord to behold and wait upon Him, make use of the scripture to quiet your mind. Before you even begin to read, turn your heart toward the Lord. Inwardly come into His presence by simple faith, trusting that through the blood of Jesus you can do so. Then begin to read a portion of scripture. Once you begin to sense the presence of the Lord, don't concern yourself with the content of the verse. Focus instead upon the Lord Himself.
Remember that your purpose is not to read the Bible in this case but to fellowship directly with the Lord. The reading is just an aid to help you turn away from outward distractions and turn inward to the center of your being which is your spirit. It is there where the Spirit of the Lord dwells. So when you tune into your spirit (or your heart) you are also tuning in to Him.
Once you have done that, hold your heart in His presence. Acknowledge and appreciate Him. If your mind starts to wander to other things, don't try to correct it by changing what you're thinking. That distracts you more from your heart and pushes you back into the mental realm. Just quiet your mind again by returning it to the scripture with which you began. Gently turn it inward once more toward your spirit. As you do so, you'll get more and more free from distractions and you'll experience your nearness to God.
One of the reasons we often miss the presence of the Lord, even when we're in church, is because we are so occupied with outward things. We are watching the worship leader or struggling to keep our attention on the preacher thinking that we're going to find God there. But we must realize that God is living inside us. John 14:23 says He makes His home in our hearts.
Once we understand that and begin to cultivate our ability to tune into Him there, we'll find we can have a distinct experience of His presence any time we desire. We will be able to perceive not only that He is there but that He is moving in us. Very often, we will sense Him communicating with us not through words but simply with a sweet and silent touch.
At those times, instead of thinking feverishly about scriptural truths, our minds will be at rest. Our lips may very well be still, sensing no need for spoken prayer. To the uneducated bystander, it would appear that nothing is happening. Yet the fact is that something very wonderful is happening. We are experiencing God's touch. And although we may not be able to explain it, we know that His touch is changing us somehow.
As long as we sense that divine touch, we should endeavor to stay before Him quietly allowing Him to work in us that which is pleasing in His sight.
Many years ago, the Lord assured me of that. He told me that every touch from Him leaves His divine impression on my soul. It engraves His character and His nature upon me. It is as though in times of prayer when I come to Him, He touches me and leaves His fingerprint upon my heart. I cannot see it with my eyes, but it is surely there.
There is no touch like His touch. The Bible says, "As many as touched him were made whole" (Mark 6:56 KJV). That was true when Jesus walked the earth, and it is true today. When we come into His presence, when we encounter Him in intimate and personal ways, He is able to do in us and for us what most needs to be done. When we draw near and touch Him, we are made whole.
"Is that really true?" someone might ask. "Can it really be that such a simple thing as sitting quietly and beholding the Lord could make such a radical difference in our lives?"
Absolutely. That is the undeniable, scriptural truth. And it is why drawing near to God is the whole point of real Christianity.
We can do many kinds of Christian activities and remain unchanged, but when we draw near to the Lord Himself, we are never the same again. We become living demonstrations of the power of God's presence. We become walking proof that what the apostle Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 3:18 is eternally true:
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. (NKJV)
They neglect to draw near to God. They don't take the time to come into His presence every day to fellowship with Him. They aren't getting to know Him for themselves in a personal and intimate way. Although He has become their very own Father and they His very own children, God still seems distant and unapproachable to them. He is a concept rather than a companion, a theological figure rather than a dear and divine friend.
That kind of distant relationship with God is a Christianized version of religion that substitutes outward forms for inward experience. It fails to provide the one thing that will satisfy the truly born again heart—a deep and intimate fellowship with God.
Such fellowship is the primary point of the New Covenant. God Himself said so.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. (Hebrews 8:10–11 NKJV)
The reason God instituted the New Covenant was not just so we could go to heaven when we die. Thank God for that but it wasn't the primary point. God made a New Covenant so we could all get to know Him!
The word for know in Hebrews 8:11 means to become acquainted with someone by intimate, personal experience. It means to know them like family members know each other, to know someone like a husband or a wife! That's what God wanted from the New Covenant. He wanted His people to know Him firsthand in an intimate and personal way.
The writer of Hebrews says:
Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith…. (Hebrews 10:19-22 NKJV)
What does that verse tell us to do? It tells us to draw near. That's how we get to know the Lord. We draw near to Him! We don't get to know Him just by coming to church. We don't get to know Him just by reading the Bible. We don't get to know Him just by watching Christian television. I'm in favor of all those things and they can be a great blessing. But you can do them all every day of the week and if you never in your heart draw near to God, you won’t get much out of them.
"But, I can't draw near to God, I just don't know how!"
That's not true! No matter how frustrated you may have been in the past when you've tried to sense the presence of God, no matter how many dry prayer times you may have had, the Bible says you can experience the presence of the Lord. You are divinely equipped to do so.
When you were born again, your heart was made alive to God (Romans 6:11). If you're alive to something, that means you can perceive and respond to it, right? Your body is alive to this natural realm, so you're able to interact easily with it. When it's cold outside, you can feel it. When the sun shines, you can see it. When somebody calls your name, you can hear it.
Now, consider this. Your spirit is just as alive to God as your body is to this natural realm. Perhaps even more so because your body has limitations and imperfections, and your spirit doesn't. I realize you may not feel like your spirit is alive to God but it is, nevertheless, because the Bible says so. What you must do then is just believe that fact by faith and begin to act on it.
What kind of actions do you take? Exactly what can you do to begin drawing near to God? I'll help you get started sharing with you some of the ways the Lord has taught me.
One way to do it is by praying the scripture. That way of drawing near to God involves both reading the Bible and prayer. Often, when we read the Bible, we make it our aim to read as much of it as possible in one sitting. But I want to suggest you do something very different. The next time you read your Bible, instead of reading as much as you can as fast as you can, read very slowly. Determine in advance that it doesn't matter how much you read but how deeply you read. Set your heart not on gaining information but on getting revelation.
Certainly Bible study is very good and the Word itself admonishes us to "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" (2 Timothy 2:15 KJV). But you must distinguish between Bible study and drawing near to God. When you are studying, your mind is searching for information. When you are using the Word to fellowship with God, your heart is seeking to relate directly to Him.
Begin by choosing a passage of scripture. Then purposely and by faith come quietly and humbly before the Lord. Let your heart become aware of the fact that He is there with you and in you. Read slowly and carefully, word by word and phrase by phrase.
Resist the temptation to rush ahead and read the whole passage. Instead, turn inward and become aware of your heart's response to what you are reading. As you do, you will become aware of the quickening of the Holy Spirit upon some words or phrases. It will seem as though God is touching you through them.
When that happens, you may want to lift that portion of the scripture to the Lord in prayer. Speak it out to Him and say about it whatever comes to your heart to say. On the other hand, you might be led simply to read it again and again, holding it and imprinting it on your heart. Mentally, you might not understand exactly why the Holy Spirit is emphasizing it so much but that doesn't matter. Just trust your heart and follow Him.
After you have prayed or pondered in your heart that particular portion of scripture, you may sense that the Lord is leading you to read on. When that happens, then slowly and gently begin to read the next portion. When you're finished, you may find you've actually read very little of the Word. But that small amount will have benefited you greatly.
Instead of just skimming the surface of the Bible, you will have plunged deeply into it and found not just words but God Himself! You will have sensed His very presence breaking out like a sweet aroma in your heart. As you continue to cultivate this kind of reading and prayer, you will learn more and more to follow the leadings and quickenings of the Holy Spirit. You'll develop a rich prayer life that flows from your innermost being.
A second way to draw near to God is by doing what might simply be called "beholding the Lord." When you do this, you will also begin by reading scripture but in a different way. Instead of focusing on the scripture and finding God there, you will simply use a verse or a phrase from the Bible to still your mind so that your heart can tune into the presence of the Lord.
If you've spent much time in fellowship with the Lord, you already know that your mind can be your greatest obstacle to overcome. It is accustomed to being allowed to wander wherever it pleases from this thought to that one in a random sort of way. The moment you try to make it settle down before the Lord, if it is untrained, it wiggles and squirms like a child in church. And just like you must train the child to be still, out of love and respect for the Lord, you must make your mind be still also.
As you come before the Lord to behold and wait upon Him, make use of the scripture to quiet your mind. Before you even begin to read, turn your heart toward the Lord. Inwardly come into His presence by simple faith, trusting that through the blood of Jesus you can do so. Then begin to read a portion of scripture. Once you begin to sense the presence of the Lord, don't concern yourself with the content of the verse. Focus instead upon the Lord Himself.
Remember that your purpose is not to read the Bible in this case but to fellowship directly with the Lord. The reading is just an aid to help you turn away from outward distractions and turn inward to the center of your being which is your spirit. It is there where the Spirit of the Lord dwells. So when you tune into your spirit (or your heart) you are also tuning in to Him.
Once you have done that, hold your heart in His presence. Acknowledge and appreciate Him. If your mind starts to wander to other things, don't try to correct it by changing what you're thinking. That distracts you more from your heart and pushes you back into the mental realm. Just quiet your mind again by returning it to the scripture with which you began. Gently turn it inward once more toward your spirit. As you do so, you'll get more and more free from distractions and you'll experience your nearness to God.
One of the reasons we often miss the presence of the Lord, even when we're in church, is because we are so occupied with outward things. We are watching the worship leader or struggling to keep our attention on the preacher thinking that we're going to find God there. But we must realize that God is living inside us. John 14:23 says He makes His home in our hearts.
Once we understand that and begin to cultivate our ability to tune into Him there, we'll find we can have a distinct experience of His presence any time we desire. We will be able to perceive not only that He is there but that He is moving in us. Very often, we will sense Him communicating with us not through words but simply with a sweet and silent touch.
At those times, instead of thinking feverishly about scriptural truths, our minds will be at rest. Our lips may very well be still, sensing no need for spoken prayer. To the uneducated bystander, it would appear that nothing is happening. Yet the fact is that something very wonderful is happening. We are experiencing God's touch. And although we may not be able to explain it, we know that His touch is changing us somehow.
As long as we sense that divine touch, we should endeavor to stay before Him quietly allowing Him to work in us that which is pleasing in His sight.
Many years ago, the Lord assured me of that. He told me that every touch from Him leaves His divine impression on my soul. It engraves His character and His nature upon me. It is as though in times of prayer when I come to Him, He touches me and leaves His fingerprint upon my heart. I cannot see it with my eyes, but it is surely there.
There is no touch like His touch. The Bible says, "As many as touched him were made whole" (Mark 6:56 KJV). That was true when Jesus walked the earth, and it is true today. When we come into His presence, when we encounter Him in intimate and personal ways, He is able to do in us and for us what most needs to be done. When we draw near and touch Him, we are made whole.
"Is that really true?" someone might ask. "Can it really be that such a simple thing as sitting quietly and beholding the Lord could make such a radical difference in our lives?"
Absolutely. That is the undeniable, scriptural truth. And it is why drawing near to God is the whole point of real Christianity.
We can do many kinds of Christian activities and remain unchanged, but when we draw near to the Lord Himself, we are never the same again. We become living demonstrations of the power of God's presence. We become walking proof that what the apostle Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 3:18 is eternally true:
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. (NKJV)
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Keeping A Journal: The Disciple's Record
How often have we heard these words “Write it down or you’ll forget it”? If that is true for our daily efficiency, how much truer is it for the treasures of our experiences with God’s Word?
One of the greatest heritages that you could pass on to your descendants is a written account of your walk with God. The struggles and trials that you experienced and the steps that you took to overcome them will be a tremendous resource to those who follow you.
When you begin keeping a written record of your experiences, you will become much more alert to the people and events that affect your life. You will learn how to be precise with words and ideas. The result will be a greater ability to communicate truth with others, and this is an important foundation for daily success.
One of the greatest heritages that you could pass on to your descendants is a written account of your walk with God. The struggles and trials that you experienced and the steps that you took to overcome them will be a tremendous resource to those who follow you.
When you begin keeping a written record of your experiences, you will become much more alert to the people and events that affect your life. You will learn how to be precise with words and ideas. The result will be a greater ability to communicate truth with others, and this is an important foundation for daily success.
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