Promise of rest.
Promise of peace.
If we have no strength to hold on to anything. God promises to hold His children through the storm.
Who is a child of the Lord? Are all people born?
The Bible instructs us to hear. His Word says, to those who believe in His name He gives rights.
He gives the right to become His child: Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—John 1:12.
What name? Who? What’s going on in our spirit? Does it fight and war against God, or is it broken and ready to hear it?
The name?
Jesus.
Who is He? Spend time walking with Him in the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
In today’s world we can listen audibly to the Word of God. Instead of popular music, the choice can be made to hear the music of God’s love.
Ask Him to help you understand. Pray to God. Ask Him to show you Himself in His Word.
Do you think God will answer a prayer like that? Ask, seek, knock. He instructs open, willing hearts:
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened, Matthew 7:7,8.
What’s the Father in heaven like?
The Bible tells us all:
“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! Matthew 7:10,11.
Ask God. Seek His face.
“What’s the importance of the Bible?” Let God help you know:
But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name, John 20:31.
The Lord Himself will reveal His truth. Ask His Spirit to help you understand. He will show you the Way.
When we believe in Jesus, He comes in and heals, forgives, and lifts our guilt by the power of His blood. The atoning sacrifice Jesus gave on the cross, sets us free from our past and great losses.
The promises of God are our gain. We believe Jesus. We become His child.
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life1 John 5:13.
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him 1 John 5:13-15.1
We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. 1 John 5: 19,20.
And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. 1 John 5:20
We can know that we are children of God.
God, our Father in heaven, knows that we are healthy and blessed when we walk according to His ways and rest:
We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. 1 John 2:3.
But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did, 1 John 2:5,6.
So, as a child of God, we must seek to know Him greatly that we might live our lives for Him completely.
