Do we really admire God? What do we admire about Him? We can’t admire or adore God if we don’t have reason. Only the Holy Spirit can open our eyes to see God’s beauty. We worship out of obligation, because we feel we should. Real worship is a feeling expressed. Otherwise it is empty. Just rhetoric. We attend our worship service but are still unimpressed. Why? O come let us adore Him. How? Why? An encounter is what we need. O…
Only an encounter with our Creator can calm the restlessness of our inner being. Not just any emotional fulfilling experience, but a true encounter with the Ineffable One. The Forever One. The Holy One we can’t comprehend. The only all-important experience of a believer is an encounter with God. A life-transforming encounter where life is never again the same. Where we have been completely undone. Any hope in self is destroyed and Jesus becomes, of necessity, everything. Then, and only…
O Lord, I approach Your throne of mercy trusting only in the merit of Jesus. But You ask me to come,so I come. We listen to sermons, we read our Bible and try to be holy. We do our best to live right. And yet… And yet we are lonely. Lonely for You, our Creator. We have earthly friends and family. But there is a deeper need. A deeper emptiness. Nothing and no one can fill that need except You. …
Psalm 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments. His praise endures forever. NKJV – Dreadful, exceedingly, fear, 3374 This post is a bit long, but it has been on my heart for months. I’d appreciate your comments. The beginning of any building is the foundation. What we believe about God is the foundation of not only our faith, but of our daily life. It flavors all…
Image by Jeremy Marx from Pixabay The desire of every true believer is to see God face to face. That desire, for most, is long-buried under a heap of stuff we call life. Buried and forgotten. We might catch a glimpse of it every once in a while. What if we allowed that longing to surface? What if we allowed that desire to see Him to become larger and larger until it flavors our entire life. It is easy as…
There are times when it seems words of praise are inadequate. The songs of worship fall short of God’s majesty. Worship choruses can fail to express our praise to the King of the universe, whose kingdom stretches beyond the far reaches of the universe. God, who has always been and will always be, deserves so much more. But the “more” I am unable to give. I don’t have the words that are worthy of His hearing. He is worthy of…
I want to take a few minutes and expand a little on last week’s prayer about hunger for God. Create in us a hunger for You, O God, that is a starving, painful hunger. A longing, a pining for You that doesn’t just threaten to consume us, but actually does consume us. It consumes our thoughts, desires, and plans even while we go through every day with its responsibilities, relationships, and relaxation. May it be the default system running in…
We are privileged to live in Your presence, O God. I want to try to picture it, maybe like a fog. If the fog was blue, we would be surrounded by blue fog. It would fill the room we are in. May each of us sense Your presence surrounding us, swirling around us as we go about our lives. May we always be aware of You in our cars, in our homes, at our place of work. As we perform…
Prayer to Acknowledge God’s Ways Are Sovereign and Perfect Your ways are past finding out, O Lord. Your thoughts are far above our thoughts. We bow, O Lord, before Your purity and holiness. We see Your sovereignty and we praise You. All Your ways are righteous and just. We bow before You, O King of the universe. Your will has been accomplished this past week. You have allowed those to prosper who want evil. We can complain and grumble, but we…
O God, You are incomprehensible. You completely envelop our earth, our solar system and our galaxy. You contain all the universe and You extend infinitely in all directions. We are in You. Oh, if only we could grasp such a thought. All is Your kingdom and You rule Your kingdom with righteousness with an underlying motive of love. If only we could grasp that truth. We would not fear or worry. We would gladly surrender our will, our throne to…
