If all you desire is peace, open your Bible and get to know the character of God. Nothing on this earth can fill the space meant for your Father.
Join me as I chat with Adrena Anderson-Ward, author of the newsletter and podcast: Every Day Grace with Adrena .
Adrena uses her newsletter to equip others to grow in faith and to build Kingdom mistries online. The foundation of everything she does is built on Christ. When she opened the Bible and read it in it’s entirety, her life changed. She found out who she was and what her true identity was all along.
This was an encouraging and uplifting conversation focused around, what we agree, are the building blocks to having a lasting relationship with the Creator of the universe. We want each and every person to know the love of the Father through the reading of His word and devotion to prayer, but where do you start?
We answer that very question.
Quotes to remember from the show
“Something told me to just go buy a Bible and get to know him for the very time for myself. And that is where the peace came from. It’s getting to know the character of God, getting to know who my Father is, who created me, why I was created, the covenant that I have.”
“At a certain point, you have to put your big girl underwear on and be like, you know what? It’s time for me to own my relationship with Christ. I have to stop listening to what this 30 second clip says. I have to stop taking everything that I see online or what my parents told me or what my pastor from the seventies told me as gospel. It’s time for me to take ownership of my relationship with Christ. And I think for me, that was the pivotal moment in my life. I was like, no, I’m not going to continue to rely on my grandmother’s faith and my grandmother’s prayers”
“What God is showing you through the scriptures is: I’ve always had a plan for your redemption”
“The life that you’re actually seeking is in the Word.”
“Faith is action. Faith is movement. Faith is not passive… Faith requires movement. In order to see who God is, you gotta move.”
“If you stay in that devotional style of reading where a book tells you to go here or something like that, I think it’s very catered to your carnal self. You’re just getting a word that makes you feel good and fuels you to go into the day for whatever you may be going through. My hope and prayer is that doesn’t offend anyone but sometimes we need to be convicted a little bit because I know someone will read this and they’ve been doing that devotional style reading… you got to move past that, you got to put some structure, some intentionality behind it and you really have to get that holistic view of the Bible and the only way you can do that is by reading it”
“You got to sacrifice going out with your friends or doing what you want to do or keeping the busy calendar so you can sit at the feet of Jesus”
“The Bible will walk you through and help to shape your identity. And halfway through, you’ll start to realize like, oh, oh, So I’m not what the world has told me.”
“When you put scripture between you and someone it’s so hard because you’re not attacking me you’re coming after Jesus”
Scripture we referenced
-You will know them by their fruit
Matthew 7:20
-He disciplines those He loves
Hebrews 12:6
-God is slow to anger
Psalm 103:8
-His Mercy is new every morning
Lamentations 3:22-23
-Did I not make the mouth of man?
Exodus 4:10-12
-We have power through Him to do the works
John 14:12
-According to the level of your faith
Matthew 9:29
-Spiritual milk
1 Peter 2:2, Hebrews 5:11-14, 1 Corinthians 3:13
-Seek first the kingdom of God
Matthew 6:33
-If He dresses the lilies of the field, what more can He do for you?
Matthew 6:28
-How do I rejoice in suffering, as Paul says?
Romans 5:3
-Every good thing comes down from the Father of Lights who never ever changes
James 1:17
-I want everyone I encounter to hear: well done my good and faithful servant
Matthew 25:21
-Correct them with gentleness
1 Peter 3:15
-Teachers are judged more strictly
James 3:1
-Woe to those who scatter My sheep
Jeremiah 23:1
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