Meeting God
We’ve talked the past several days about the importance of having a daily connection with God. One of my mentors, Pastor Newton Conant, used to say that the most important meeting of his day was when he met with the Lord. In fact, I almost likened him to Moses, because if you ever had the privilege of being with him after he came from his daily time with the Lord, I think his face actually was ablaze with the glory of God.
We’ve talked the past several days about the importance of having a daily connection with God. One of my mentors, Pastor Newton Conant, used to say that the most important meeting of his day was when he met with the Lord. In fact, I almost likened him to Moses, because if you ever had the privilege of being with him after he came from his daily time with the Lord, I think his face actually was ablaze with the glory of God.
This morning, I read this prayer from The Valley of Vision regarding my meeting with God:
Great God,
In public and private, in sanctuary and home,
May my life be steeped in prayer,
Filled with the spirit of grace and supplication,
Each prayer perfumed with the incense of atoning blood.
Help me, defend me, until from praying ground
I pass to the realm of unceasing praise.
I pass to the realm of unceasing praise.
Urged by my need, invited by Your promises,
Called by Your Spirit, I enter Your presence,
Worshipping You with godly fear,
Awed by Your majesty, greatness, glory,
But encouraged by Your love.
I am all poverty as well as all guilt,
Having nothing of my own with which to repay You,
But I bring Jesus to You in the arms of faith,
But I bring Jesus to You in the arms of faith,
Pleading His righteousness to offset my iniquities,
Rejoicing that He will weigh down the scales for me,
And satisfy Your justice.
I bless You that great sin draws out great grace,
That, although the least sin deserves punishment
Because done against an infinite God,
Yet there is mercy for me,
For where guilt is most terrible,
There Your mercy in Christ is most free and deep.
Bless me by revealing to me more of His saving merits,
By causing Your goodness to pass before me,
By speaking peace to my contrite heart;
Strengthen me to give You no rest until Christ
Shall reign supreme within me,
In every thought, word, and deed,
In a faith that purifies the heart, overcomes the world, works by love,
Fastens me to You, and ever clings to the cross.
Wow! That those last 5 lines are pretty powerful words to pray today! Is that your desire, brother? That there will be no rest unto Christ shall reign supreme within you – in every thought, word, and deed? The more you spend time with Him, the more you will become like Him! Have you started your day WITHOUT Him? Stop what you are doing and meet with Him. – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick and is glad you are on the journey with him!
Compass Pointers: I have this day been before God and have given myself – all that I have and am – to God; so that I am in so respect my own. I have given myself clean away. Jonathan Edwards
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