Fill me with Your Spirit to move forward in faith. Prayerĭear Lord, I want to cross my Jordan River and experience a deeper relationship with You. It’s the culmination of a faith journey that helps us draw closer to God and experience His everlasting peace over our lives. The Catechism of the Catholic Church makes this connection explicit. We need to be ready to defeat our enemy with the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.Ĭrossing our Jordan River is what we’ve been wanting our entire lives. We need to reconcile ourselves to fully commit everything we are and everything we own to Him. Before we experience the greatness of God’s faithfulness in the Promised Land, we need to remember His grace that carried us through the tough times. When we’re standing at our Jordan River, we need to recommit our faith and allegiance to Jesus Christ. His presence gets us to the shores of our Jordan River of purpose and destiny. Yet during those times, the Lord promises to never leave or forsake us. Because we live in a sinful world, we will have wilderness experiences, which sometimes include loss, illness, death, disappointment, rejection, etc. We were never saved by God’s grace to remain the same throughout our Christian journey. Crossing the Jordan meant they were on the cusp of being conquerors and stakeholders in the Promised Land.Īs believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, we will also have our “crossing the Jordan” life experiences. Crossing the Jordan meant they were never going back to wilderness living. Crossing the Jordan meant they were moving beyond their history as slaves to being free people of God.
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