Episode 40: The Joy of Knowing the Lord Jesus

Happy is he . . . whose hope is in the Lord his God.—Psalm 146:5. All happiness and all of the unlimited benefits of God which flow from the storehouse of heaven are contingent upon our relationship to God. Absolute dependency and absolute yieldedness are the conditions of receiving these promises as His child. In order to be His child, there must be a total surrender of your will to Him. Man does not come to know God through works—he comes to know God by faith, through grace. You cannot work your way toward happiness and heaven, you cannot moralize your way, you cannot reform your way, you cannot buy your way. It comes as a gift of God through Christ. All God's requires of you is to open your heart and say "I repent and receive you Lord as my personal savior"