8. God's Love: Indwelling

1 John 4:16 We have come to know and rely on the love that God has for us. God is love, and the person who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Romans 8:9 You, however, are not under the control of human nature but under the control of the Spirit since God's Spirit lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of the Messiah, he does not belong to Him.   

John 14:17 He is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. But you recognize Him because He lives with you and will be in you.  

1 John 4:15 God abides in the one who acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, and He abides in God.

When you accept Christ as your Savior (Romans 10:9-13), the Holy Spirit takes up residence in your heart, bringing with Him an entirely new life of love, relationship, and service to the Lord.

Psalm 51:12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and let a willing attitude control me.  

My heart is heavy with intense emotions and confusion. I pray for divine intervention to quiet my mind and bring inner peace. If I could but feel a breath of His presence, my mind would be soothed and calmed.

I must learn to enjoy Him in my heart. The enjoyment of an indwelling Lord is absolutely essential to proclaiming a living Christ with your mouth.

How much time have I been with God in the inner study with an open Bible and waited on Him? There, my weakness could have absorbed His strength, and His power and peace have calmed my restlessness and striving, and my impatience would have taken in the grace and patience of the Lord Jesus Christ.

"Breathe through the heats of our desire, Thy coolness and Thy balm."

"Drop Thy still dews of quietness till all our striving cease; take from our souls the strain and stress, and let our ordered lives confess the beauty of Thy peace."

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Psalm 23 He prepares a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.

Communion with God is an urgent need of my soul. I thirst for the living water only the living God can provide. His constant fountain of life, light, and love is my soul's desire.

To see the face of God and to be seen by Him - I would come into His presence, and my thirst would be satisfied.

Hope in God! In the morning, after a dark and troubled night, I seek His face and hope to be saved out of my sadness. I search for the Words that put scorn on my laughing enemies. I desire with all my heart for joy to be restored, for the chains to be removed, and my prison walls shaken. Hope then in God. Seek His presence and be restored. Sow in your heart His words which "grow laurels of future victories, the roses of coming joy, the lilies of approaching peace." (Spurgeon)

I ask for my heart to be healed and restored, and I receive Your perfect peace. I ask for the oil of joy to be my portion. I put on the garment of praise, worshipping and honoring You. I receive freedom from all oppression in the name of Jesus!