The key to true happiness is to live a life devoted to Jesus. Only in abiding in Him can we be truly fulfilled. Your spirit longs to connect with the One who created you. You were created for a life of worship, to feast on daily bread, letting your hunger for Him increase day by day.
Katherine Ruonala Shares Her Life’s Message
Katherine Ruonala carries a strong prophetic and miracle anointing. She travels internationally and is passionate about revival.
Katherine lives her life surrendered and devoted to God. In her message she says, “The key to true happiness isn’t in living for yourself, it’s in losing your life to find His.” She drives the point home, that our souls truly long for God, and we can’ be satisfied without Him. We will find fulfillment in living daily for Him and with Him.
It may take some practice, but once you realize how wonderful His presence is, you will willingly spend your days in His presence. Not only do we long for God, but He longs for us!
Living A Life Devoted To God Brings True Happiness
The key to true happiness is in waiting on the Lord. What happens when we wait on the Lord?
Isaiah 30:18 in The Amplified Version gives a beautiful picture of what happens when we wait on the Lord:
“Therefore the Lord waits [expectantly] and longs to be gracious to you,
And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
Blessed (happy, fortunate) are all those who long for Him [since He will never fail them].”
It was for the joy set before Him that Jesus endured the cross. During His three years walking on the earth, He intentionally took time away to pray to His Father. He said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of His own accord, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise” (John 5:19). He showed us what a life devoted to God looks like.
Feast On Daily Bread
We are not called to live for God only on Sundays (or whenever we attend church). We are meant to live, abiding in Him daily. His love is infinite. We will never get to the end of His love! His presence is wide open and available to us all day, everyday. We can choose to live a life of love, totally swept up in Him. That doesn’t mean we don’t go to work, or do the things that need to be done in a day, but it’s intentionally choosing to stay connected to the Vine, and to turn our affections towards Him.
“As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?” (Psalm 42:1-2).
Jesus will satisfy our hunger! The beautiful thing about Him is, He will satisfy our hunger, but as we feast on Him, we become even hungrier. Daily bread is just that…for this day. And then we eat fresh bread tomorrow and the next day and so on. This is the key to true happiness!
God’s love is endless, and Paul even prays that the people of God would have strength to even be able to comprehend how far, wide, and deep God’s love is:
“–that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 17b-19).
Application
Let’s begin today to fix our gaze on Jesus. Don’t worry about yesterday, or if you’ve failed in the past. His mercies are new for you! Take a look at this verse in Song Of Solomon:
“Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves” (Song Of Solomon 1:15).
Sometimes, reading Song Of Solomon can be a little confusing. What does it mean to have eyes that are like doves? Katherine Ruonala explains that doves have no peripheral vision. They focus on what is right in front of them. Let us have eyes like doves today and everyday. Jesus is ready and waiting for us to spend time with Him.
Receive This Prayer
God, we want to know the depths of your love, and so today we choose to fix our gaze on you. Thank you that your mercies are new every morning. We start afresh today, running into your presence and abiding there. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
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