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We're able to stretch our hands out and receive what we asked for because we're doing what he said, doing what pleases him.
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Again, this is God's command: to believe in his personally named Son, Jesus Christ. He told us to love each other, in line with the original command.
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As we keep his commands, we live deeply and surely in him, and he lives in us. And this is how we experience his deep and abiding presence in us: by the Spirit he gave us.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.