The Knowledge of God Changes Everything
- Henley Samuel
- May 13
- 8 min read
May 13, 2026
Here is something that might surprise you. Many of us spend years praying for things that we have already been given. We pray for faith, not realising that faith has already been granted to us. We pray for grace and peace, not knowing they are already multiplied toward us. We pray for healing while sitting on top of promises that declare it is already done. And the problem is not God's reluctance. The problem is our ignorance of what we already possess.
2 Peter begins with a striking declaration:
"Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours." 2 Peter 1:1
Peter writes to people who have received a faith as precious as his own. The same faith that walked on water. The same faith that raised the dead. The same faith that declared healing in the name of Jesus and saw a lame man leap at the temple gate. That same quality of faith has been given to you. It is not something you need to beg for. It is something you need to be awakened to.
Grace and Peace Come Through Knowing Him
2 Peter says:
"Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord." 2 Peter 1:2
Notice that grace and peace do not multiply through prayer alone, or through church attendance, or even through fasting. They multiply through the knowledge of God. This is not just head knowledge. This is an intimate, deep, personal knowing. The same word used in Genesis when it says a man knew his wife. Something is conceived when two things come together in that kind of closeness. When you come to the Word of God with that same intimacy, something is conceived on the inside of you.
Isaiah connects this directly to peace:
"You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you." Isaiah 26:3
Perfect peace does not come from getting the right answer to prayer. It comes from a mind that is kept steady in Him. A mind that has fixed itself on His word and refuses to let go. That is trust. That is the knowing that produces peace in the middle of every storm.
What Are You Meditating On?
Joshua says:
"Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful." Joshua 1:8
Let me ask you a direct question. What do you meditate on? Because everyone meditates. The difference is not whether you do it, but what you do it with. Worry is meditation. When you wake up at two in the morning turning the same problem over and over in your mind, that is meditation. When you replay the same fear, the same diagnosis, the same financial pressure on a loop all day, that is meditation. The only difference between that kind of meditation and the kind Joshua 1:8 is talking about is the content.
The blessed man in Psalm 1 meditates on the Word of God day and night. The result? He is like a tree planted by streams of water. He yields fruit in season. His leaves do not wither. Everything he does prospers. That is not a picture of someone who is striving.
"who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither, whatever they do propsper" Psalm 1:2,3
That is a picture of someone who has stopped striving because the root goes deep into the right source.
Stop meditating on your problems and start meditating on His promises. One keeps you stuck. The other makes you fruitful.
His Divine Power Has Given Everything You Need
His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness. Not some things. Not the important things. Everything. Every need for every area of your life has already been addressed by His divine power.
2 Peter 1 verse 4 adds this:
"Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires." 2 Peter 1:4
Great and precious promises. Not ordinary promises. Not vague commitments. Precious ones, given so that you could escape the corruption in this world and participate in the divine nature itself. The word in the original Greek for "everything" means exactly that: everything. Every healing, every provision, every breakthrough you are carrying as a prayer request has already been addressed by His power through His promises.
The reason many of us are not experiencing those promises is not because God has withheld them. It is because we have not taken hold of them. You cannot get pregnant by standing next to a pregnant woman. You cannot receive healing by watching someone else receive it. You have to take the Word and make it your own. You have to dig into it, carry it with you, turn it over in your mind, declare it over your situation, and let it be conceived inside you.
The Wireless Signal You Cannot See
Think about a wireless microphone. It has no cable connecting it to the speaker system, and someone who does not understand how it works might assume it cannot possibly work. But right there in the room, invisible to the eye, communication waves are moving. The microphone is connected. The signal is real.
That is exactly how the spiritual realm operates. Elisha's servant woke one morning surrounded by an enemy army and panicked. But Elisha prayed that the young man's eyes would be opened. And when they were, the servant saw that the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire surrounding Elisha. The spiritual reality was always there. The servant just could not see it.
What surrounds you right now is not defined by what you can see. The fire is already on the mountain.
2 Kings says:
"'Open his eyes, Lord, so he may see.' Then the Lord opened the servant's eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha." 2 Kings 6:17
God's provision, His protection, His divine power none of it depends on your ability to perceive it. It is already present. The question is whether you will develop the knowing, the intimacy with His Word, that opens your eyes to see what is already there.
Do Not Be the One Who Limits the Revival
2 Peter says:
"The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." 2 Peter 3:9
God's desire for revival and restoration is greater than yours. He wants not a single person to perish. He wants every family, every neighbourhood, every nation to turn back to Him. And here is the confronting truth: the revival you have been praying for is not being held back by God. It is being held back by those of us who have received His promises but have not acted on them.
He told us to lay hands on the sick. He told us to resist the devil. He told us to speak to mountains. He has given us everything we need. But when we come to Him asking Him to do what He has already commissioned us to do, we are not releasing faith. We are limiting God.
Every seed of the Word that goes into the right soil produces after its own kind. What seeds are you sowing? What are you listening to, watching, and meditating on? What you consistently feed your spirit will determine what grows in your life.
1 John closes this with one of the most expansive statements in all of Scripture:
"He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world." 1 John 2:2
He died for the whole world. His sacrifice was sufficient for every person who has ever lived. His desire is that none would be lost. And we, His body, have been entrusted with the message and the ministry that makes that desire real in the lives of people around us. Do not limit that.
Conclusion
Everything you need for life and godliness has already been given to you through the knowledge of Him. It is not on its way. It is not waiting for a better version of you to appear. It has already been granted. What you need is not more prayer for what God has already provided. What you need is the deep, intimate, daily knowing of the One who called you by His glory and goodness. Wake up each morning and meditate on His promises. Let His Word be conceived inside you. Let His peace guard your mind. And then go out and be the person through whom His unlimited power flows to a world that is waiting. Do not limit God any longer.
Reflect on This
If grace and peace multiply through the knowledge of God rather than just through more prayer, what does your daily practice of knowing Him actually look like, and what needs to change?
Think about the difference between praying for something God has already given and declaring what He has already provided. How would shifting from asking to declaring change the way you approach your prayer life this week?
Prayer
Father, I thank You that Your divine power has already given me everything I need for life and godliness. I declare that I have received a precious faith, the same quality of faith that walked on water and raised the dead. I declare that grace and peace are multiplying in my life right now through the knowledge of You. I choose to meditate on Your promises and not on my problems. I choose to be the tree planted by the water, bearing fruit in every season, refusing to wither. I declare that the great and precious promises of Your Word are mine. I take hold of them now. I will not stand on the outside and watch others receive what belongs to me. I am conceived in Your Word, I am rooted in Your truth, and everything You have prepared for my life is available to me right now. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Key Takeaways
Faith has already been given to believers in the same quality as the apostles', and praying for faith we already have is a sign of not knowing what we possess.
Grace and peace multiply not primarily through more prayer but through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
Meditation on the Word is not optional for a fruitful life; whatever we meditate on consistently shapes the direction and condition of our lives.
God's divine power has already provided everything needed for life and godliness, meaning our role is to receive and walk in what has been given, not to ask for what is already granted.
God's desire for revival and transformation in the world is greater than ours, and the limiting factor is not His willingness but our unwillingness to act on what He has placed in our hands.
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