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More and More

2016-05-10 Devotional with Hymn No comments

We instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. (1 Thessalonians 4:1, NIV)

Jesus, in what areas have I been instructed how to live, and
perhaps I’m living that way to some extent,
but You want me to live more and more that way?

Help me be more and more loving to others in practical ways and
more sensitive to their needs.

Help me trust You moment by moment, more and more.

Help me turn to You more often throughout the day.

Keep my thoughts pure and holy and full of thanksgiving to You.

I love You, Lord! Increase our fellowship more and more.

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Union with God

2015-05-10 Devotional with Hymn No comments

When he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth . . . He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you.
(John 16:13-14, NIV)

Union with God is not a feeling. It is not merely an emotion.

Fellowship with God is not brought about by human imagination or understanding.

Rather, as we trust God, He gives us His Spirit to live within us. His Spirit leads us to God and lifts us to Him. He nurtures a desire to love God, to worship Him, to turn our minds and lives to Him more and more.

As we respond to God, a union grows that is beautiful and indefinable. It is peaceful, reverent, loving, personal, and very simple.

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Hymn: Growing in the Spirit (Medley)
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