Manifest

Happy (black) Friday! Hope you were all safe if you went out shopping today. I am going to share with you now a word study on 'manifest'.

Manifest
1. readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sight 2. easily understood or recognized by the mind...obvious 3. a list of passengers or an invoice of cargo for a ship or plane. (courtesy of Webster's Dictionary).

John 14:21 'He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.' Another meaning to manifest in this verse is to reveal, which makes sense after knowing the definition of the word. I looked at the cross-reference in this verse and I have to include it since it is 1 John 2:5 and we have been studying 1 John in our group, Mosaic. 1 John 2:5 says, 'But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected (has been completed) in him, By this we know that we are in Him.' If you didn't love God, you wouldn't keep His word.

1 Cor 12:7 'But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:' The next three verses following tell of what is given by the same Spirit, such as the word of knowledge.

John 17:6 'I have manifested (revealed) Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept your word.' Hmm, another verse about those who are His, keeping God's word. I begin to see a theme here.
Okay, I looked at a cross reference to this verse in John 17 and it mentions John 6:37 which is where Jesus is telling the people He is the Bread of Life...'All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.'

1 Tim 3:16 (aww...a 3:16 verse!) 'And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory.' I remember having this verse in a recent Women's Bible study lesson. Any verse that describes God is awesome!

Heb 9:8 'the Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing.' This verse was not listed in the concordance but I found it as I am currently reading through Hebrews. That's a bit odd it's not in the list under manifest.

To give a summary statement, like we do in Women's Bible study, let me think for a second. Okay...God makes His word manifested in us who keep His word and loves those who were given to Him by the Father to love and obey.