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Increase Through Fearing the Lord

This year for The Rock and World Outreach Center is a year of increase. Psalm 115:15 tells us how we can increase more and more, both you and your children. The psalmist says God will bless you with increase through fear of the LORD. Through fear of the LORD, He will give you increase.

I gave Christ all of my heart and all of my life when I was 15 years old, and my first question as a brand-new believer was, "What does it mean to fear the LORD?" I thought to myself, I do not fear the LORD, because I love Him. I love Him because He forgave me of all my sins and gave me assurance that I would go to heaven and have eternal life. Why should I fear Him? What does it mean to fear Him? So, I asked the college student who had prayed with me to receive Christ when I responded to the altar call. The student explained that to fear the LORD means to have a deep reverence for Him. To be in awe of Him.

If you fear the LORD, you will be blessed. If you are a parent, take this promise to the bank!!! God promises to bless your lineage and give you a legacy if you will truly fear the LORD. Mom and Dad, receive this promise today and rejoice in it!!!

Reflection and Application:

1. Read Genesis 39:9b-10. Run from sin as Joseph did from Potiphar's temptress of a wife. She repeatedly, day after day, told him to have a sexual relationship with her, and Joseph told her, "How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? So it was, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he did not heed her, to lie with her or to be with her.” Running from sin demonstrates our fear of God.

2. Read Proverbs 1:7, which challenges us, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge.” When we fear the LORD, we will spend time daily in His Word to receive God’s knowledge and wisdom. When we truly fear the LORD, we will desire to spend time with Him.

3. Read Psalm 119:10, this encourages each of us: “With my whole heart I have sought You; oh let me not wander from Your commandments!”

4. Remember to pray daily and cry out to the LORD you fear. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 reminds us: “Rejoice always, pray with ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”

​Prayer:

Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for this amazing promise with fearing You in this coming year, which will bring to us and our families blessings and increase. Thank You for an abundance of grace to run from sin, read Your Word, and cry out to You daily in prayer. In the mighty name of Jesus, the God of increase, Amen.