Both Known by God and Knowing God - Morning by Morning, January 30, 2026

“My Sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me” (John 10:27).

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Morning by Morning, January 30, 2026 — Both Known by God and Knowing God

Good morning, Lord Jesus. Calling out to You, spirit to Spirit, heart to Heart, deep to Deep, I look to You, call out Your name, and listen for Your leading to intentionally begin my day with You in the awareness of Your Presence. ...

“My Sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me” (John 10:27).

You know me. And I know You.

Part of knowing is listening, hearing, following. We get to know someone by spending time with them, being attentive to them, seeking to understand them. The same is true in our relationship.

You know all about me. You formed me in my mother’s womb (Psalm 139:13). “You have searched me and known me” and “are acquainted with all my ways” (v. 1, 3). And there’s so much more than I can fully grasp in the eternity and enormity of Your Presence.

You stir in me and draw me to know all about You. Not only to know about You, but to know You. You promise me that if I draw near to You, You will draw near to me (James 4:8). You promise me that If I seek You with all my heart, I will find You (Jeremiah 29:13). And You promise me that if I join myself to You, You join Yourself with me, that I may even become “one spirit with (You)” in the unity and intimacy of a depth of personal relationship I can only begin to imagine (1 Corinthians 6:17).
 
 “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;

It is high, I cannot attain it.

Where can I go from Your Spirit?

Or where can I flee from Your Presence?

If I ascend into heaven, You are there;

If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.

If I take the wings of the morning,

And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

Even there Your hand shall lead me,

And Your right hand shall hold me” (Psalm 139:6-10).

I thank You for how much I’ve been graced to know You, Lord. Help me know You more. As You said of this pursuit of knowing God in Your high and priestly prayer of John 17:

“And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent” (John 17:3).

By the power of Your grace moving in my heart to pursue You and to know You, I embrace this spiritual journey with the goal “that all things are worth nothing compared with the greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.... This allows me to have Christ” (Philippians 3:8 NCV).

In each and every dimension of Your Being, One God, revealed in Three Persons—God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit—give me a hunger and thirst to know You more in my daily, deliberate, intentional, focused, and passionate spiritual pursuit of You, my Lord, my God.

As I come to the close of this set-apart time with You, to get up from my prayer chair to go out into my day, some words from an old worship by Graham Kendrick are flooding into my heart:

Now my heart's desire is to know You more,

To be found in You and known as Yours,

To possess by faith what I could not earn

All surpassing gift of righteousness.

Knowing You, Jesus, knowing You

There is no greater thing

You're my all, You're the best

You're my joy, my righteousness,

And I love You Lord.

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.