Greetings to you in the wonderful name of Jesus Christ – THE Risen Saviour! I trust that you had a good weekend and Monday – that you experienced God’s blessing(s) in the midst of your daily adventures. I am believing that God has given you many an opportunity to share with someone how God is being good to you. I will be praying for you today, asking Father to fill you with the sunshine warmth of His love and creative power…may He transform you!
Over the past week or two God has been speaking to my heart through the prophetic words that I have been hearing and reading. I do value these words – and when two or three or even four different individuals make the same declaration there is a particular power released. The one declaration that is being affirmed again and again is that we are in a season of God’s “Presence” where anything can happen and probably will. I have been reading from a new daily devotion that encourages us to seek His face.
One of the challenging bits of advice was…”if you aren’t seeking His face you are probably hiding from His sight” – and that was something to ponder. Another sentence that struck me was lived out before me at our prayer time yesterday. We song was entitled – As We Worship You – and had a chorus that simply said – “As we worship you” – and it was repeated several times…”As we worship You, as we worship You” – and the music slows and softens. We sang the whole song through twice but the second time through was very different.
Now this is where the sentence in my devotional fits in: “When we are seeking His face – His presence – in worship we are not singing songs about God we are singing songs to God.” As we sang the song, especially the chorus – “As we worship You” – the first time through I think it was a matter of singing about God and what we were looking for. However the second time through I watched as individuals began singing to God and that is when the “presence of God” began to be experienced in a corporate, and even personal for some, way.
I have a sense that something is going to be happening in and around the church in our city. This morning God directed me to a verse of scripture that I will leave with you to ponder…Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers righteousness on you. Hosea 10:12. Be blessed!