📖Encouraging Mondays: Reading to Know Him
👋🏼 Good, Blessed Encouraging Mondays, Family, Friends & New Encouragers!
👏🏽😊 Before we continue, I want to pause and acknowledge something meaningful. To everyone celebrating a birthday this month, to everyone celebrating an anniversary, to those honoring milestones, and to those who have remained faithful to resolutions and commitments, big or small: We see you. We celebrate you. And we honor the consistency, courage, and intention it takes to keep going. Whether you chose to read more, rest more, watch less television, be more present with your family, care for your health, or simply stay committed to growth, your effort matters. Happy Birthday! Happy Anniversary! Congratulations on every milestone and every resolution kept! You are loved. You are supported. And you are not doing this alone.
📖Today’s message is entitled:
“Reading to Know Him”
📖SCRIPTURE READING — (NLT)
John 20:31
“But these are written so that you may continue to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing in him you will have life by the power of his name.”
💛 ENCOURAGING MONDAYS REFLECTION
“More Than Information… It’s Relationship”
Family…
God is inviting us to look at His Word differently.
Not just as something we read…
but as Someone we come to know.
So often, we approach the Bible looking for:
answers
direction
understanding about ourselves
And while all of that matters…
The Lord is gently reminding us:
The primary purpose of His Word is to reveal Him.
This is not about perfection…
This is about relationship.
📖 The Bible was written so that we may:
believe in Jesus
know who He is
experience life through Him
Not just know about Him…
but truly know Him.
Because when we know God:
clarity replaces confusion
peace replaces striving
truth replaces fear
God’s presence brings understanding that no amount of striving ever could.
So this month…
As we reflect on the Cross…
Let us not just remember what Jesus did…
Let us grow in knowing who He is.
💛 ENCOURAGING THOUGHT FOR TODAY
If you’ve been feeling:
• distant
• unsure
• spiritually disconnected
Pause and remember:
You are not rejected.
You are not forgotten.
You are not out of reach.
God is still speaking.
God is still drawing.
God is still walking with you.
🍎 TEMPLE CARE CHECK-IN
This journey is not about guilt or extremes.
It’s about awareness, stewardship, and grace.
You may be:
• consistent
• restarting
• adjusting
• learning
• observing
And all of it still counts.
Gentle Temple-Care Truths to Reinforce:
• Our bodies are God’s design
• Habits follow the heart
• Clean choices can be simple and convenient
• Awareness leads to freedom, not fear
🙏🏼 CLOSING PRAYER
Perfect LORD,
Thank You for Your presence, Your patience, and Your light.
Bring our hearts into alignment with You.
Shine on every place that needs clarity, healing, and renewal.
Help us walk honestly,
live intentionally,
and rest confidently in You.
Cleanse us.
Guide us.
Renew us.
In Jesus’s powerful, majestic name,
we Praise and Pray,
Amen.
🙏🏼 DAILY PROCLAMATION
Before we close, I want to invite you—only if you feel led—to say a daily proclamation with me.
This is the proclamation I return to daily.
Not out of perfection, but out of surrender.
From Survival to Surrender — My Daily Proclamation
God, today I stop negotiating with You.
I stop hiding parts of my life behind excuses, wounds, and fear.
I stop managing sin instead of surrendering it.
I stop calling survival “strength” when it is really exhaustion.
I release every attachment that feels good but pulls me away from truth.
I let go of relationships, habits, and cycles that soothe me temporarily but cost me spiritually.
I acknowledge what I already know:
what does not align with You cannot heal me.
Today, I surrender control.
I surrender comfort.
I surrender timing.
I surrender the false intimacy I’ve used to avoid true wholeness.
I choose alignment over appetite.
Obedience over urgency.
Healing over hiding.
God, I no longer want to survive — I want to live whole.
I invite You into every area I’ve kept guarded, delayed, or divided.
Lead my life.
Heal my heart.
Reorder my desires.
From this moment forward, I choose surrender —
not because I am weak,
but because You are strong.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
💞 CLOSING BLESSING
💖 Much love for you all!
😊 Have an amazingly Blessed day and week.
🎧 STAY CONNECTED WITH ENCOURAGING MONDAYS
Encouraging Mondays is more than a message —
it’s a digital ministry and growing community rooted in faith, reflection, and peaceful transformation.
Website — https://encouragingmondays.com
LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawna-stately-853771390
YouTube — http://www.youtube.com/@EncouragingMondays
Podcast — https://open.spotify.com/show/3pT2RcBNOKpa8A2vuYIJ4W
Wherever you connect, may God’s peace meet you there.
