Today I want to share from Andrew Womack's daily devotional!
FILL UP WITH GOD
John 17:23 "I in them, and
thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know
that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me."
God loves us the same as He loves
Jesus. A true revelation of this will quicken our faith and allow us to walk in
the fullness of God. God's love is the key that opens the door to everything
that God is. "God is love" (1 John 4:8).
God's love is not one
dimensional. There is width, length, depth and height to it, which can only be
comprehended through the revelation and knowledge of the Holy Spirit. Those who
only have a superficial knowledge of God's love are like a person who looks at
a one dimensional picture of the real thing.
In Ephesians 3:19, Paul prays for
us to know the love of God which passes knowledge. How can we know the love of
God if it passes knowledge? This sounds like a contradiction. The Greek word
that is translated "know" in this verse is GINOSKO, which is a verb
expressing experiential knowledge. The Greek word that is translated
"knowledge" is GNOSIS, which is a noun denoting the act of knowledge.
Simply, Paul is praying that we will experience the love of God which passes
mere knowledge of it.
Since a true revelation of God's
love makes us full with the fullness of God, then a lack of being full of God
must mean that we lack understanding and experience of God's love. The end
result of having understanding and experiential knowledge of God's love is that
we will be filled with all the fullness of God.
In fact, the Amplified Bible says exactly what he is saying about Ephesians 3:19 (above)! Here it is:
19 [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!
AMEN! There is SO MUCH MORE for us to know than what we now know! Let's keep searching the Word and seeking the TRUTH every day! Meditating on that Word (Joshua 1:8) so that Holy Spirit can make it REAL to us, to that we can be DOERS of it! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Your Word":
Shalom in Him!
