Knowing Him Daily

30.April.2026

There will be seasons when you question whether God’s love is still there, whether His call on your life is still valid, whether maybe this time the opposition is finally too loud to overcome. When the diagnosis comes. When the relationship falls apart. When someone tells you that you don’t have what it takes, that your voice isn’t right, that you can’t do what God called you to do. When you’re standing in the wreckage of rejection or doubt, you wonder if maybe this is finally the thing that makes you believe the lie that God’s love and His purpose for you have limits.

They don’t.

Paul wrote something so absolute, so final, that it should silence every excuse you’ve ever made for drawing back from intimacy with God: “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39 

Not death. Not life. Not rejection. Not opposition. Not the voices telling you that you’re not enough. Nothing, absolutely nothing, has the authority to separate you from God’s love or His call on your life, except you.

That’s what Marilyn Hickey understood at the very beginning. When she first stepped in front of the radio microphone in Denver, they told her she didn’t have a voice for radio. It didn’t matter. God told her to go, and she chose to know Him intimately over knowing what the world thought about her. She said every morning, “Good morning, Father, good morning Jesus, good morning Holy Spirit, this is your beloved Marilyn,” and she meant it. She lived it. She chose it. And nothing, not gender, not controversy, not the nations that didn’t honor women but received her message anyway and got saved, healed, and delivered, nothing separated her from God’s love or His purpose for her life.

She didn’t just pass from this life to the next last Saturday (25.April.2026), she left a living legacy, the kind that keeps working, keeps saving people, keeps delivering people because she chose to answer God’s call on her life.

She understood what David prayed so deeply: “Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.” Psalm 139:7-10 There’s nowhere to go that God isn’t already there, holding you, calling you, inviting you into intimacy with Him.

The prophet Jeremiah brought this forward with tenderness: “The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” Jeremiah 31:3 Everlasting, not temporary, or contingent on your circumstances or how the world receives you or whether you have the “right” voice for what God called you to do.

But here’s what matters most: God gave the choice to you, not to the enemy. Moses told Israel, “I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse: therefore choose life, that thou and thy seed may live” Deuteronomy 30:19 The choice is yours, beloved. Nothing and no one can separate you from knowing Him intimately but you. Not rejection, not opposition, not doubt, not the voices that say you’re not enough. Only you can step back from intimacy with God, and only you can choose to step forward into it.

Marilyn chose forward. She chose intimacy with God over comfort, over acceptance, over safety. She chose to know Him so deeply that her entire life became a testimony of His love and His faithfulness. And she left a living legacy, the kind that keeps working, keeps saving people, keeps delivering people because she chose to answer God’s call on her life.

You can too. Not someday. Not when you’re perfect or famous or universally accepted. Now. Today. With your voice, your gifts, your story, your choice. Think about and meditate on this: what would change in your life if you actually believed that nothing separates you from God’s love and His call on your life but your own choice to step away? Oh dear! What if you lived like Marilyn lived, waking up every morning and saying, “Good morning, Father, good morning Jesus, good morning Holy Spirit, this is your beloved [your name],” and then stepped into the day knowing that your voice matters, your call matters, your legacy matters because God said so?

If you’ve never invited Jesus into your heart, today is the day. Pray this: 

Dear Heavenly Father, 

Thank You for sending Jesus to die on the Cross just for me. I admit that I have sinned, and I repent. I ask You to forgive me. I believe that He died and rose again. Right now, I make Him the Lord of my life. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit. My sins are washed away, my past is forgiven, and my future is bright. Help me to live like the beloved that I already am in Christ. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Make today count and see you tomorrow.