The New Way of Living

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

January 15, 2026

The New Way of Living

Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.

Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.

Philippians 4:6 

In our human experience, we tend to be linear people. That is, we like progressing step-by-step in an orderly sequence. We tend to have relationships where we expect what we receive in the relationship to be proportional with what we put into the relationship. We also tend to have a linear relationship with God. But God exists in a realm separate from our human experience and is not linear. God wants us to know Him, but on His terms, and not within our linear thinking.

Sunday morning worship and Wednesday night Bible studies are our creation, not God’s. Our Heavenly Father seeks us to worship Him, and study His word, and whether we do so on Monday or Thursday, is the same as Sunday and Wednesday with Him. God calls us to worship Him at the Communion Table, and at our dinner table. When Paul told us God is working in us and will continue to do so until the return of Christ, (Philippians 2:13, & 1:6) he meant God is active within us 24/7. This truth caused Paul to counsel us to take our every thought captive to obey Christ, and to never stop praying, and after we have prayed, to keep on praying, keep on talking to God and listening for God’s response to our prayers. (See 2 Corinthians 10:5, 1 Thessalonians 5:17, and Romans 12:12)

My Takeaway: One of my favorite worship songs is, I Love You, Lord. The lyrics are thoroughly embedded within my soul and often during the day I find myself singing, “I love You, Lord, and I lift my voice to worship You . . .” My gracious Heavenly Father has used these lyrics to help transform me from my linear existence, to “the new way of living in the Spirit.” (Romans 7:6)

Sē’lah

My book on prayer,

First Think, Then Pray

is now available on Amazon Kindle.

 

(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.

 

Copyright © 2026 by Alex M. Knight

 

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