BBD 06.01.16 More of Jesus (New)

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Since June 8^th 1998, this
is the 1750^th

Burning Bush Devotional

01 June 2016

More of Jesus

Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who
have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and
Savior Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of
God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain
to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and
virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises,
that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped
the corruption that is in the world through lust. But also for this very
reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to
knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance
godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. – 2
Peter 1:1-7 NKJV.

Grace and peace be yours in abundance through
the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. – 2 Peter 1:2 NIV.

Grace and peace [that special sense of
spiritual well-being] be multiplied to you in the [true, intimate] knowledge of
God and of Jesus our Lord. – 2 Peter 1:2 Amplified
Bible.

When
you first meet someone, do you immediately know everything about that person?
Of course not. With social networks like facebook and twitter it is easy to
understand this lack of knowing about a new friend on Facebook, or a follower
on Twitter. Over a period of time as you interact with a new friend on facebook
or follower on twitter you come to know more about them. Then, there are some
friends and followers that you never really know; because they never interact
with you, they never talk to you. It is the same in the actual real world when
you meet a new person, they may become a friend, or they may just be a person
whose name you know.

Do you
know Jesus, really know Him? Did you meet Jesus one day receiving Jesus as your
Savior, but that initial experience is about all you know about Him? You know
His name, but that’s about all? Are you wondering why other believers sing the
praises of knowing Jesus, but you have never personally experienced anything
like they have? God, through the apostle Peter, is trying to help us to
understand that knowing Jesus, really knowing Jesus is the key to the abundant
life (John 10:10) that Jesus came to give us.

The “divine power” of Jesus “has
given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness.” For us to
receive the “all things that pertain to life and
godliness” Peter is telling us (2 Peter 1:1-7)
that we need a growing relationship with Jesus. We can’t just be facebook
friends with Jesus if we want to have the “all things.”
We need to know the “exceedingly great and precious
promises.” We must give our relationship with Jesus “all diligence.” If we want to have the blessings of
God, the “all things” we just need more of Jesus.

As the
old hymn “More About Jesus” puts it:

More, more about Jesus,

More, more about Jesus;

More of His saving fullness
see,

More of His love who died for
me.

“That I may know Him and the power of His
resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death (Philippians 3:10 NKJV).”

Copyright © 2016. Ed Wrather. The
Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On June 8, 1998
the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent. Ed Wrather
began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those first devotionals
was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to prison facilities
throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

www.theburningbush.net

www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
18 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Prayer
Requests:
Please continue to pray for McCoy Greer, Michelle Abetz,
Shane Hall, Brad, Reta (my sister), Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), and Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at edwrather@yahoo.com or
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Since June 8^th 1998, this
is the 1750^th

Burning Bush Devotional

01 June 2016

More of Jesus

Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who
have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and
Savior Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of
God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain
to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and
virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises,
that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped
the corruption that is in the world through lust. But also for this very
reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to
knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance
godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. – 2
Peter 1:1-7 NKJV.

Grace and peace be yours in abundance through
the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. – 2 Peter 1:2 NIV.

Grace and peace [that special sense of
spiritual well-being] be multiplied to you in the [true, intimate] knowledge of
God and of Jesus our Lord. – 2 Peter 1:2 Amplified
Bible.

When
you first meet someone, do you immediately know everything about that person?
Of course not. With social networks like facebook and twitter it is easy to
understand this lack of knowing about a new friend on Facebook, or a follower
on Twitter. Over a period of time as you interact with a new friend on facebook
or follower on twitter you come to know more about them. Then, there are some
friends and followers that you never really know; because they never interact
with you, they never talk to you. It is the same in the actual real world when
you meet a new person, they may become a friend, or they may just be a person
whose name you know.

Do you
know Jesus, really know Him? Did you meet Jesus one day receiving Jesus as your
Savior, but that initial experience is about all you know about Him? You know
His name, but that’s about all? Are you wondering why other believers sing the
praises of knowing Jesus, but you have never personally experienced anything
like they have? God, through the apostle Peter, is trying to help us to
understand that knowing Jesus, really knowing Jesus is the key to the abundant
life (John 10:10) that Jesus came to give us.

The “divine power” of Jesus “has
given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness.” For us to
receive the “all things that pertain to life and
godliness” Peter is telling us (2 Peter 1:1-7)
that we need a growing relationship with Jesus. We can’t just be facebook
friends with Jesus if we want to have the “all things.”
We need to know the “exceedingly great and precious
promises.” We must give our relationship with Jesus “all diligence.” If we want to have the blessings of
God, the “all things” we just need more of Jesus.

As the
old hymn “More About Jesus” puts it:

More, more about Jesus,

More, more about Jesus;

More of His saving fullness
see,

More of His love who died for
me.

“That I may know Him and the power of His
resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death (Philippians 3:10 NKJV).”

Copyright © 2016. Ed Wrather. The
Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On June 8, 1998
the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent. Ed Wrather
began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those first devotionals
was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to prison facilities
throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
18 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Prayer
Requests:
Please continue to pray for McCoy Greer, Michelle Abetz,
Shane Hall, Brad, Reta (my sister), Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), and Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at edwrather@yahoo.com or
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html text group (Because of time
constraints the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a
blank email to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org and you may unsubscribe by
sending a blank email to burningbushhtml-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email. If the link does not work, copy and paste the link.

To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org