{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Benefits & Blessings of Knowing God (Part 1)","description":"In today\u2019s episode, Dr. Siohvaughn Funches begins a new series and delves into the benefits and blessings of knowing God. Dr. Funches picks up where she left off in the last episode, recapping a bit from last week and then diving deeper into these truths. To know God is to know His Word. The benefits and blessings of knowing God are the benefits and blessings of knowing Jesus because Jesus is the Word. Dr. Funches encourages you to listen to the messages from the previous weeks. Dr. Funches says God is using those messages to teach us how to inherit our inheritance.   When God blesses one, He blesses all through that gift. Others also need to see your sign and your miracle. It is God\u2019s will to teach us all these things. Now is the time to receive those benefits and blessings by faith in the Living God who has done it all for you, already. We don\u2019t want to delay our destiny.   God says to be anxious for nothing. Dr. Funches explains Psalm 1:1\u20133 to apply it to New Covenant believers, contrasting prosperity in God against the greed for money. Dr. Funches covers the connections between knowing God and Jesus, knowing the Word and the truth, and being free. We learn in 1 Samuel 1 that God answers our desires and in John 15:5,7 that those who abide in the Word, Jesus, bear much fruit and they will have the desires they ask of Him.   Please listen as Dr. Funches examines the benefits and blessings of knowing God through His Word.   KEY BIBLE VERSES [2:29] John 1:1, NKJV 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. [2:35] John 1:14, NKJV 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. [8:35] Proverbs 9:10, NKJV 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. [12:26] Psalm 1:1\u20133, NKJV 1 Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night. 3 He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper. [22:13] John 8:32, NKJV 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. [25:49] John 17:17, NKJV 17 Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth. [26:03] Psalm 119:130, NKJV 130 The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple. [26:55] Psalm 119:99, NKJV 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation. [27:32] Psalm 37:4, NKJV 4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. [28:23] 1 Samuel 1, NKJV (full chapter) [32:00] John 15:5, NKJV 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. [33:15] John 15:7, NKJV 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.   MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Please visit DrFunches.com for books, blogs and more helpful resources from Dr. Funches and for ways to get involved with this ministry, A Woman\u2019s Worth Foundation. ","author_name":"The One Thing That's Needful","author_url":"http:\/\/faithcomesbyhearing.libsyn.com\/website","html":"