Psalm I am feeling: 63
O God, you are my God,
earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you,
my body longs for you,
in a dry and weary land
where there is no water.
I have seen you in the sanctuary
and beheld your power and your glory.
Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.
My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods;
with singing lips my mouth will praise you.
On my bed I remember you;
I think of you through the watches of the night.
Because you are my help,
I sing in the shadow of your wings.
My soul clings to you;
your right hand upholds me.
They who seek my life will be destroyed;
they will go down to the depths of the earth.
They will be given over to the sword
and become food for jackals.
But the king will rejoice in God;
all who swear by God’s name will praise him,
while the mouths of liars will be silenced.
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I LONG to worship right now.
I love this season I am in now with the Lord. I had my own personal breakthrough this past week as we learned about “The Heart of the Father.” We read the passage about the prodigal son and I love how there’s always more. When I used to sit in church, I never really got much deeper in my understanding of the parables beyond the surface levels. That’s on me though. My lack of searching, coming under the lie that, that’s all there is. But there TRULY is so much more, and thankfully God brings the revelations on if we seek it. So our leader Ben posed the question to all of us in class, where are you in the house? Are you outside? Are you inside? And God showed me that I am in the house but I am in my own room and I locked the door to my own room. But God the Father wants me to open up my door and explore the rest of the house, not just His house, but OUR house. The vastness of this house, I myself am being stretched to explore more and more. I had to go deeper, asking God why I was content with my room, why I wasn’t opening the door. And once God broke down of that blockage and I realized where I stood, I pressed forward and unlocked my door, stepping into the unknown with the Lord in greater depths of faith. I am learning more about how to live in the Spirit. What does that mean? What does that look like daily? And with it comes the discipline of obedience. Each time it feels like I’m jumping off a cliff in faith once again. I thought it ended when I made the leap of faith to become a child of God through Jesus Christ. But no, it’s each step of faith and obedience. Whatever He says, will I do it? Will I believe? God is teaching me to shorten my response time to obey. It’s so interesting! God is showing me time and time again that each time I do step out in faith, as scary and unknown as it may seem, it always ends up working out. It just…DOES. I have a story about that I could share but too much to type for now.
“I am the Lord; that is my name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.” Isaiah 42:8
Where are you in the house?
