***Listen To Audio Version: Deeper Roots Audio 581
Today’s Devotional Scripture: 2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. - 3 John 1:2 KJV
The Message For Today (July 2, 2026):
***Listen To Audio Version: Deeper Roots Audio 581
There are many promises in the Word of God. Those promises anchor us. They give us hope, peace, and strength, especially in times when hope seems far away and slow in coming.
Through the Spirit of God, John penned this scripture. During a time when life was bleak, this was highlighted to me. I had seen it before, but this day I saw it in a different light.
Life, health, and prosperity were in the balance.
John’s words gave me comfort and peace. The plan was here all along. It was a blessing and a strategy for me. My prosperity starts in my soul. When my soul is prospering, everything else will prosper.
It’s the same as being connected to the Vine. When our souls are connected to Jesus, we are fed, we are alive, and that life gives other areas of our lives sustenance, reaching to the end of that branch.
Soul prospering, health prospering, and life prospering are all part of God’s benefit package. We are responsible for drawing near, staying close, and being a part of that prosperity. Being in the Word, through reading or hearing, fellowshipping with God through prayer and praise, and sometimes silence, will foster this prospering and keep our branches healthy and alive.
The Word of the Lord and its promises would not be there if they were not attainable. These proclamations made through the Holy Spirit of God are truth. They are guides for our lives, health, and overall well-being.
Our souls are part of our bodies, the temples the Lord has provided us with as we live and navigate in this life. We would do well to learn how to find comfort in them and provide them with what they need to prosper so that we can have good turnouts.
The Spirit will guide us into all truth with matters of our souls, bodies, and life. The Wonderful Counselor will show us how to live life so that these three things will always be in place in our lives.
Maybe you feel as if you’re lacking in one area while another area is thriving. That happens in life. Just like the Proverbs 31 Woman, all of the things in that chapter happened not just in one day, but throughout her life.
Take the first step, draw close to Him so He can draw close to you. In that closeness, intimacy will come. That intimacy will lead to a leaning ear that hears what the Lord is saying, and those words during those intimate times will carry you through life.
In times of intimate fellowship, we are filled with the Spirit, given new energy, peace, and comfort to continue our journeys in life. Our lives are not a sprint; we are running a marathon. When we train every day, we will walk better, closer, and build endurance.
That endurance will carry us through when times are tough and cause us to misunderstand or question where God is in our pain. Being intimate with Him has caused us to build our faith in who He is, and that faith will carry us through during challenging times.
For many years, devastating things happened. I was drawing close, but not understanding, hearing, but not hearing. The Word was not fully permeating my heart because of a warped perception of God. But one day, when I saw this scripture, a light went on in my heart. I realized that He, God Himself, wished above all things that I would have these things, the very things my life was lacking, and that changed my perspective, and that perspective changed my life.
My trust built up within me and caused me to hunger for more of His truth. This hunger led me to draw closer, dig deeper, and make my heart good ground to receive. Those moments with Him took root within me, and when adversities came, I had something to draw on. I didn’t face cancer the same way I faced paralysis years before. I took it on with faith, with hope, and with the resilience I had built up in the Word.
When the diagnosis came, I didn’t curl up in a ball in despair as in previous years.
I followed the hints of the Spirit.
I watched my first words. I took the next steps, even when everything was happening so fast that my head seemed to be spinning. He was still there in ways that are still a magnificent wonder to me.
From a lady who appeared out of nowhere, wanting to give me a hug days before surgery, to people who I had not seen in years showing up in my life to visit and pray. To me, that was God showing up in the flesh for me. These things caused me to prosper inside. The Word I had built up caused me to prosper.
Although the situation lingered in different ways, I was not alone; I had God, I had His Word, I had my Counselor, and I was equipped to prosper because my soul was prospering. Take time out to prosper today. Draw near to God, fill yourself up with His presence.
Build yourself up in your most holy faith. Let faith water those roots so they go deep down; that way, when the trials of life are pulling at you to uproot what you’ve planted, your roots will be so deep and strong that they cannot be torn away. They may be shaken, but they will not move.
May the peace and blessings of the Lord be with you and shield you as you prosper in your soul, and may this prosperity overflow and permeate all other areas of your life.
Written by our Thursday Morning devotional writer, Ann Marie Thrives
Reference…
*John 16:13 - Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
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