{"id":2482,"date":"2020-11-03T09:39:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T17:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2020-11-03T09:39:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T17:39:47","slug":"devotion-3-john-12-through-him-all-blessings-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2482","title":{"rendered":"Devotion 3 John 1:2 Through Him All Blessings Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"
3 John 1:2\u00a0<\/b>\u201cDear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.<\/i>\u201d<\/div>\n
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With deep down from my soul sincerity I desire and pray that all of you would know closeness with God, Health, Peace, Joy and Happiness.\u00a0 What do we want most out of life?<\/div>\n

Reviewing\u00a0Psalm 23<\/b>\u00a0we begin to understand the unshakeable and deep peace of walking with God.\u00a0\u00a0A peace and joy beyond the first view of your dear beloved, beyond your first sight of you newborn child, greater than the most magnificent sunrise and more soothing and quieting than the sunset.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0More rapturous than the most beautiful song, and more breath taking than the sight of the soaring eagle, or first steps of a newborn fawn.\u00a0\u00a0More beautiful, more soul healing, is the palpable presence and the sure knowledge of God with us, in us and always loving us.\u00a0\u00a0This is what He desires for all of us.\u00a0\u00a0It is what I have and what I passionately pray for all of you!\u00a0\u00a0May all of you know and have as your treasure, and understand, the many riches and facets of\u00a01 Chronicles 11:9<\/b>\u00a0\u201cAnd David became more and more powerful, because the Lord Almighty was with him.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n

Highest among health is spiritual, emotional and mental health.\u00a0\u00a0Many physically healthy people have no spiritual, emotional and mental health.\u00a0\u00a0Yet many people whose hope is in the Lord suffer because of poor health but the joy the Lord has placed in their heart is unfailing.\u00a0\u00a0The one who comes to comfort them is lifted by the joy of the Lord that radiates from them.\u00a0\u00a0Physical health is a blessing we all seek.\u00a0\u00a0But the truth is that the health of our spirit, our emotions and our mental health is the greatest health.\u00a0\u00a0Physical health may not lift a broken spirit, but a spirit united with God will sustain the physically challenged.\u00a0\u00a0Besides, the body will perish, but the spirit lives forever.\u00a0\u00a0Proverbs 17:22<\/b>\u00a0\u201cA cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n

Being enslaved, or constricted, or inhibited from the blessings of freedom is a yoke horrible to bear.\u00a0\u00a0At the start of His ministry Jesus was, in\u00a0Luke 4:18<\/b>, telling everyone the reason that He came to live among us.\u00a0\u00a0He reminded them of the messianic prophecy of\u00a0Isaiah 61:1<\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0They say\u00a0\u201cThe Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news\u00a0to the poor.\u00a0\u00a0He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord\u2019s favor.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0The incomprehensible but fully available to us joy of the Lord comes from being set free from the chains that bind us.\u00a0\u00a0Chains of sin and struggling against the love of God.\u00a0\u00a0In Jesus those chains are broken that we may enjoy an intimate relationship with God.\u00a0\u00a0Peace with Jesus is peace with God.\u00a0\u00a0Peace with God is the highest joy.\u00a0\u00a0A joy that blossoms even in the most inhospitable conditions.\u00a0\u00a0Joy is Jesus within.<\/p>\n

If we truly let God have us so we will have God, then He will give us the most important health, a heath that brings an unshakable peace.\u00a0\u00a0It is a peace only from God that transcends all understanding and actually guards our hearts and minds with joy and happiness.\u00a0\u00a0All this is found in God\u2019s love that is expressed to us and given to us only through Jesus Christ His Son.\u00a0\u00a0So it comes down to the simple phrase often seen, but unfortunately too often neglected \u201cKnow Jesus, know peace.\u00a0\u00a0No Jesus, no peace.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0My sincere pray is that all of you Know Jesus, and thereby know peace.<\/p>\n

Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will Hear\u00a0me.<\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/p>\n

Numbers 6:24-26<\/b>\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

3 John 1:2\u00a0\u201cDear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.\u201d With deep down from my soul sincerity I desire and pray that all of you would know closeness with God, Health, Peace, Joy and Happiness.\u00a0 What do…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[2453,103,100,106,94,1874,88,17],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-chronicles","tag-isaiah","tag-john","tag-luke","tag-micah","tag-numbers","tag-proverbs","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/2483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}