Text:
1 Corinthians 3:16 (HCSB)
16 Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s sanctuary and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
Observation:
When I read this verse it opened the eyes of my heart. I pray this prayer often; it is the desire of my heart.
Psalm 119:18 (HCSB)
18 Open my eyes so that I may contemplate wonderful things from Your instruction.
Here is what I’m contemplating today about our focal verse.
- God lives in a place.
- God lives in a people.
- God is always present.
God no longer lives in temples made by the hands of man. Rather, He lives in temples made by His own hands.
Ephesians 2:21 (HCSB)
21 The whole building, being put together by Him, grows into a holy sanctuary in the Lord.
Our God is a relational God. Do you have a relationship with Him? Have you received Jesus? Are you God’s sanctuary; His living place?
John 1:12-13 (NLT)
12 But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.
13 They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.
Prayer:
Father, hallowed be your name. Father, I ask you to prepare the hearts of your people so that we might be pure and holy; pleasing in your eyes, and transformed by your hands.
Father, I am so glad and grateful that I can say that God lives in me. So, because You live in us, we have everything we need. In the mighty name of Jesus we pray, Amen.
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Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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