Friday July 17th, 2026
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97 Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day.
98 You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies; for they are ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep Your precepts.
101 I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I may keep Your word.
102 I have not departed from Your judgments, for You Yourself have taught me.
103 How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through Your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
106 I have sworn and confirmed that I will keep Your righteous judgments.
107 I am afflicted very much; revive me, O Lord, according to Your word.
108 Accept, I pray, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord, and teach me Your judgments.
109 My life is continually in my hand, yet I do not forget Your law.
110 The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I have not strayed from Your precepts.
111 Your testimonies I have taken as a heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
112 I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes forever, to the very end.
- To become intimate with God, the major thing you will need to sacrifice is time.
The more time you spend with someone, the more you will become like that individual.
God loves it when we spend quality time with Him, so much so that He prefers that you spend more of your time with Him than you do for Him.
The difference between spending your time for Him and with Him is in Luke 10:38-42 .
Martha was spending her time serving Jesus and that is good,
but He said Mary had chosen what was needful by sitting at His feet to hear His word.
- The time you spend doing the work of God is good, but what is more needful is the time you spend at His feet, hearing His word.
There are many Church workers and pastors who only read and study their Bibles,
pray or hear the word of God when they come to Church.
You cannot become intimate with God that way.
God wants people who love spending quality time with Him, whether in Church or alone, just because they love Him.
As dutiful as David was, he just loved to spend time in the presence of God, Psalm 26:8.
That is why God said in 1 Samuel 13:14 that David was a man after His heart.
To become intimate with God, you must never be satisfied with how close you are to Him now.
You must constantly remain hungry for His word and His presence.
Those who will be intimate with God will never be satisfied with how much of Him they know;
they will keep studying more, praying more, fasting more, all in a bid to know Him more.
Apostle Paul said in Philippians 3:10Phillips
« I long to know Christ and the power shown by his resurrection… »
You begin to wonder, with all the revelations and encounters that Apostle Paul had gotten,
he was still saying he wanted to know God.
Believe me honestly, the day you feel as if you already know enough of God is the day you begin to draw further from Him.
You will no longer know the things you thought you knew before.
If you stop growing, you start dying.
If you decide not to get closer to God, you will start getting closer to the devil.
- This is a racetrack you are on, not a highway with bus stops.
Once you stop moving, you are taken off the racetrack.
Application – How much time you are willing to spend in fellowship with Christ will determine how intimate you will be with Him.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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