Email from Abiding Place Daily Bread – January 25, 2025 (The Seventh Day – Genesis 2:1-3) 1 John 5:14 – And this is the confidence that we have toward Him: if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. Confidence & Boldness Through Relationship As surely as you know you have been born of God and received eternal life through believing on the Name of Jesus Christ, we may also be just as certain that whatever we ask the Father in His Name, we will receive it (John 14:13, 15:16, 16:23, 26; Mark 11:24; 1 John 3:22). The certainty of God’s promise concerning the answer to our request is placed on the same level of knowing we have received eternal life (1 John 5:13-14). Having received eternal life, we are given divine sonship and are heirs and co-inheritors with Christ Jesus to do the works of the Father (Galatians 4:7; Romans 8:17). The confidence we have of God hearing our prayers and doing whatever we ask is found in the knowledge that we have His eternal life and the intimacy of sonship relationship (John 15:7,16). Without the confidence of who we are in Christ and the boldness that comes from knowing and believing the love the Father has for us, we will not have this kind of confidence in Him – that whatever we ask, He will do. In this wonderful relationship, we will not ask for things to consume them in our own lust, but will ask those things modeled by Christ Jesus for the purposes of the Kingdom (James 4:3; 1 John 5:14; John 5:30). Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
Daily Bread 1/25/2025
