My Promise

Meditations based on readings from

The Story of My Life As Told by Jesus Christ

February 10, 2020

My Promise

Page 267-268

John 14: 1-31

In Jesus, the Glory of God has been revealed. In Jesus, we see the heart of God the Father. Jesus, as the revealed Glory of God, washed the feet of his disciples, loved his disciples to the very end, and was the Passover Lamb who took away the sins of the world. This Jesus is the revealed Glory of God. This Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. This Jesus shows us the way home to paradise, the way home to God our Father.

Jesus promises us the gift of his very presence in our lives. His presence, the Holy Spirit, our Helper and our Comforter, will teach us to dwell in God’s greatest Glory, the deepest theological truth of God:

Jesus and God are in each other;

we are in Jesus;

and Jesus is in us.

It will be through this revelation knowledge of God’s Glory that we can grasp the meaning and power of praying in Jesus’ name. We don’t pray in Jesus’ name by tagging ‘in the name of Jesus’ at the end of our prayer. We pray in Jesus’ name when the substance of our prayer expresses the Glory of God in Christ, when our prayer exemplifies the very life of Jesus. When our heart aches for the things for which Jesus’ heart aches, when our hearts desire the things Jesus desires, when our heart loves the way Jesus loves, we pray in Jesus’ name.

My Takeaway: “Now all glory to God, who is able to keep you from falling away and will bring you with great joy into his glorious presence without a single fault. All glory to him who alone is God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord. All glory, majesty, power, and authority are his before all time, and in the present, and beyond all time! Amen” (Jude 1:24-25).

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

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Publications by Alex M. Knight:

• Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms has been published and is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

• The second edition of  First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

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