Knowing Him Daily

13.June.2026

When God says everything, He means everything, and the parts that are hardest at times to lay down are never the obvious ones. They are the ones you have carried so long and sometimes quietly that you forgot they were even there, tucked behind your smile, hidden underneath a version of “fine” that you have been performing for so long it almost feels true.

He is not interested in the performance, and He is not intimidated by what you have been hiding, because He already knows and He has been waiting, not with judgment but with an open hand.

Jesus is direct about what this costs: “Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.” Matthew 16:24-25 Everything on the altar means everything, not the tidy presentable parts, not the wounds you have already processed and made peace with, but the ones you have never said out loud, the ones that explain why you have not been all in, the word nailed to the cross that only you and He know the name of, and for me this week that word was failure.

He wants the deepest darkest wounds you have held onto and hidden from the world. The parts that not even the people closest to you have seen, because He is not like everybody else, and you are not either. Sometimes you have to say that out loud until you believe it: “I am not like everyone else because I am a child of a King.”

Paul knew what it meant to count the cost and call it gain: “But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.” Philippians 3:7-8 All things, not some things, and not the things that were easy to release. All of it, laid down, counted as loss, because what you gain in exchange is worth everything you surrendered.

I want you to consider something. When Jesus died on the cross He left a will, and you and I are holding it in our hands every time we open our Word. Why? Because that is His will and His Testament, old and new. The scripture says that every single one of His promises is yes and amen, which means the inheritance already has your name on it. As with any inheritance there is a caveat and it is this: the person it was intended for must receive it. You cannot receive what you do not know, and you cannot know what you have never read, and that is as much a motivation for me as it is for you.

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” Romans 12:1 Everything on the altar:every wound, every word, and every part of you that you have been protecting instead of surrendering.

He can handle all of it. He has been waiting for all of it.

Make today count and see you tomorrow.