Knowing Him Daily

01.March.2026

Before we dive in, I want you to grab a pen and your journal, or open the notes app on your phone, and do something. Write down every single thing you would do if you knew beyond any shadow of a doubt that you would not fail. Dream big. Don’t edit yourself. Don’t be practical. Just write. Now look at that list and pick seven. Those seven things? Keep them. Because over the next seven days, we are going to talk about what it actually looks like to live like someone who already knows the outcome, because in Jesus, you do.

“He counted me faithful…” 
1 Timothy 1:12, NKJV

That phrase causes me to pause every time. Not He counted me perfect. Not He counted me impressive or He counted me consistent. Faithful. That’s the word. And right now, with everything happening in this world, with the return of Jesus closer than it has ever been, that word carries more weight than most of us are ready to sit with.

When the Son of Man returns…. will He find you faithful?

Not polished. Not performing. Faithful.

There is only one place faithfulness is built, and it is not on Sunday morning. It is not in the car on the way to work with a podcast running in the background. It is not in the two-minute scroll through your Bible app before you put the phone down and open Instagram. It is in the secret place. The quiet place. The place where it is just you and Him and His Word, and nothing else is competing for the air in the room.

“Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful.” 
1 Corinthians 4:2, NKJV

Required. Not suggested. Not encouraged when convenient. Required. And here is the thing about faithfulness, you cannot prove it in the big moments if you have not been building it in the small ones. The secret place is where it starts. Always. It is the oxygen tank. No daily intake means an empty tank, and an empty tank means no power to steward anything else He has called you to carry.

“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” 
2 Timothy  3:16-17, NKJV

Thoroughly equipped. That is His promise to you when you stay in the Word. Not partially equipped. Not equipped enough to fake it on good days. Thoroughly. But that word thoroughly has a condition attached to it, you have to show up. You have to open it. You have to give it room to do what only it can do.

Joshua was standing at the edge of everything God had promised him, an entire nation about to cross into their inheritance, and this is what God told him: “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”Joshua 1:8, NKJV 

Day and night. Not day. Not when I feel like it. Day and night. Because what is at stake is too important to treat the Word like a backup plan.

Can I be honest with you for a minute?

Showing up to the secret place has not always been easy for me. Not because I didn’t believe God was real, and not because I didn’t love Him. But somewhere along the way I picked up a fear of failure that followed me into every room I walked into, including that one. I spent years feeling like I had missed the mark, let people down, fallen short of what I was supposed to be. And at some point, without even fully realizing it, I stopped trying as hard. Not on purpose it honestly simply happened. The way you stop reaching for something when you’ve been disappointed enough times.

What I didn’t understand then, and am still learning now, is that He was never keeping score the way I thought He was. He was not sitting there waiting for me to finally get it together enough to deserve His presence. He just wanted me to come. That’s it. Just come.

God is a God of order, yes. He does call us to holy living, yes. But here is what nobody told me when I was white-knuckling my way through trying to perform my way into His approval, it was never about my performance to begin with. It is Him doing the work in me and through me. It’s the same for you. We don’t show up to the secret place to prove something. We show up because He loves us and we are finally starting to believe it.

If you have ever felt like you were too much of a mess to just sit quietly with God, like you needed to clean yourself up before you knocked on that door, you are exactly who this series is for.

“Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” Psalm 119:105, NKJV It does not illuminate the whole road at once. It gives you enough light for the next step. And the next. And the next. That is what faithfulness looks like, not seeing the whole picture, but trusting the One who does and stepping anyway.

He is not looking for someone who has it all figured out. He is looking for someone who keeps showing up.

So here is your challenge for today: spend a minimum of fifteen minutes in the Word before you open social media, YouTube or move on to anything else. Not after. Before. Put the phone face-down, open the Book, and let Him speak first. Then journal it. Write down one thing He said to you. Just one. It does not have to be profound. It just has to be what you think you heard.

And while you are in that quiet place, pull out that list you made. The one with everything you would do if you knew you could not fail. Let Him speak over it. Let Him circle the ones He put there. Because the gift He placed inside you does not grow in the scroll, it grows in the silence.

Father, I come before You right now and I am asking You to make me someone who is found faithful. Not perfect, faithful. Teach me to hunger for Your Word the way I hunger for everything else I reach for without thinking. I want the secret place to become the most important place in my day, not because I have to, but because I want to know You. Speak to me. I am listening. 

In Jesus’ name, 

Amen.

Make today count and see you tomorrow.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​