The deeper the water, the richer the insights.

Psalm 66:10 says, “For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us as silver is refined.”  Of Joseph, Psalm 105:18-19 says, “They hurt his feet in fetters, He was laid in irons.  Until the time that his word came to pass, the word of the Lord tested him.”

Our trials develop proven character.  Our faith is tested and purified.  As we cry out to Him in our trials, He gives us the wisdom needed to endure.

Romans 5:3-4 in the Amplified says, “Moreover (let us also be full of joy now!) let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance.  And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character (approved faith and tried integrity).  And character (of this sort) produces (the habit of) joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation.”

I had another night of grace thoughts.  Over and over in my mind I was saying, “You make all grace abound toward me, so that I can abound in every good work.”  All grace means there is grace for every situation.  Grace for trials, blessings, good works, and creativity.  It is all a gift.

The word used in John 10:10 for more abundantly from the Strongs is: superabundance, excessive, overflowing, surplus, over and above, more than enough, profuse, extraordinary, above the ordinary, more than sufficient.

Now of course we have to go to Ephesians 3:20 which says, “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.”

Yesterday afternoon I was meditating on 2 Corinthians 9:8.  It says, “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.”

I don’t know if I dreamed it, or I was awake.  I was being bathed in grace.  I loved it.  I felt amazingly secure and cocooned.  The definition for cocoon is: to envelope or surround in a protective and comforting way.

For the last two days the Holy Spirit has been giving me expanded information for my Inner Peace notes.  Sometimes He speaks something that I don’t have a grid for.  Maybe it is something I’ve never heard before, or it goes contrary to what I have been taught.  Revelational insight is His way to build that grid.

Psalm 25:14 Amplified says, “The secret (of the sweet, satisfying companionship) of the Lord have they who fear (revere and worship) Him, and He will show them His covenant and reveal to them its (deep, inner) meaning.”

1 Corinthians 2:10 Amplified says, “…the (Holy) Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God (the divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man’s scrutiny).”

Personality clashes are a world’s view, that can be spiritually redefined as flesh clashing again flesh.  It is one’s flesh refusing to be humble, or one’s flesh resisting the Holy Spirit at work through others.

Proverbs 27:17 says, “As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.”  The Lord works everything in our lives for our good.  “O Lord, let the eyes of my understanding be open to grasp Your higher way in my relationships that You’ve designed to complete Your work in me.”

1 Corinthians 12:25 says, “That there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.”  This is possible when both are walking in the Spirit, yielded and humble, flowing in His grace together.

The moment we chose to humble ourselves before the Lord, His grace is there to empower us to continue to walk in the Spirit.