More than ever before, I know that He longs for our love and intimacy, and He deserves our absolute love and surrender. He is the lover of our souls, and He wants to be in the life of each believer.
I am convinced that life without Him is empty and meaningless. Life with our Lord Jesus is full, it is abundant, and it is joyful.
His Intimate Presence, a Holy Fire
At the moment when the Lord’s intimate presence becomes rich in our lives, He begins to bless us beyond measure. In fact, God tells us, “They that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing”(Psalm 34:10). When His presence becomes abundant, He brings total abundance into our lives.
I want you, my friend, to know that a holy fire is intensifying my soul’s desire to be with the Son of the living God. My commitment to serve Him is permanent and eternal.
I have said to the Lord many times, “I do not want to finish wrong. I want to finish better than I started, closer to You than when I started, and much more intimate with You than when I started.”
Today, I can say without reservation that I want Him to be my greatest delight and His Word my greatest treasure. And I know that is your prayer, too, for when you love Him like that, you want to serve Him with all your being. You want to yield your heart and soul to Him daily, consistently.
Just as I have committed to seek and serve Him, I know that your love for Him is also growing more intense, deep, and eternal.
His Presence Brings Abundance
I am asking you—God’s child, His beloved—to join hands with me and your heart with mine. Together, let’s commit to telling the world about the love of Jesus Christ. His deep, deep love is immeasurable, boundless, free, and flowing deeper than a mighty ocean in its fullness over us.
Let’s resolve to tell the world about His heart, His love, His care, and His eternal and amazing grace.
Will you stand with me today?
Will you help me tell the world about our precious, loving, and unchanging Jesus?
God’s Word declares, “The Lord knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied” (Psalm 37:18-19).
No matter what happens in the world today, you can rest assured in His promise to take care of you. For the key to divine, godly prosperity is the presence of Jesus Himself. In His presence, there will be no need, no lack, and no bondage.
Jesus gave us the secret to true biblical prosperity when He said, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” (Matthew 6:33).
He also gave us the secret of abundance when He said, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly”(John 10:10).
His presence brings abundance!
His Presence Brings Blessings
Isaac knew that the Lord’s presence brings blessings:
There was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father. (Genesis 26:1-3)
Isaac was on his way to Egypt, following in the footsteps of his father, Abraham. Isaac believed that Egypt would sustain and help him. But God told him not to go to Egypt and directed his steps in a very different way. Isaac obeyed the Lord and stayed in the land while famine was all around him. And the Bible declares, “Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him” (Genesis 26:12).
Imagine the remarkable picture of a man sowing amid desolate, barren famine. Sowing in the belief that God would provide a bountiful harvest, in spite of the famine gripping his homeland, Isaac’s actions must have looked unusual indeed. Most likely, his neighbors thought he was a madman to be sowing seed while the land was dry and dead. All he had to rely on was the promise of God: “I will be with thee, and I will bless thee.”
That’s all that Isaac needed to hear. He knew that when the Lord is with us, no death and no famine can stop His abundance from coming our way. That’s why Isaac sowed in famine, sowed seed in a land struck by death. But because God was with him, the land revived and yielded a hundredfold harvest.
God even revealed a hidden spring, and Isaac found water in every well that he dug!
God will do the same with you once you make Him your Source!
Once He is truly the lover of your soul, abundance will come your way, for Jesus promises:
Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life. (Mark 10:29-30)
The hundredfold blessing exists only when Jesus comes. He is the Source of it. He is the way to it. And His presence is the key!
God Bless you
