As we continue our week on God's longing to be encountered, today we'll dig deeper into how He desires for us to know his truth.

God has given us everything we need to walk in His truths and waste this side of heaven.

As we look to Jesus as our model, may we be filled with

courage and light to love not just in the word, but indeed in truth. Welcome to the first 15

podcast. In the incredible abundant blessings of Scripture and the Holy Spirit, God has demonstrated

his longing for us to know truth. Truth is a powerful weapon against the schemes of the enemy.

Truth has an ability to bestow confidence and freedom on all who find their satisfaction in it.

And truth in the eyes of God is completely

founded in relationship with the person of Jesus Christ. May God grant us a hunger for truth that

is deeply satisfied in communion with our loving Savior today. Everything God is and does is truth

personified. There is no lie or deceit in our God. And therefore,

it is only in centering our lives around relationship with Him that we begin to experience the fruit

of truth in our lives. In John 146, Jesus says, I am the way and the truth in the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

The life of Jesus is our example of truth.

Everything he did was a perfect demonstration of truth.

If we don't devote ourselves to the study of his life and experiencing who he is personally,

we'll find ourselves living on the rocky shores of

indecision and half-truths. We need his example to follow. We need the life of Jesus at the forefront

of our minds if we are to enjoy the abundant life that truth has to offer us. 1 John 520 says,

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given

us understanding so that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true. In His Son

Jesus Christ, He is the true God in eternal life. Jesus is the Word made flesh, and through the Holy Spirit and Scripture

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