June 8, 2016 - Being with Him

June 8th, 2016 - Thoughts for your Week

Scripture Verse

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; love and faithfulness go before you. Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, Lord.

Psalm 89: 14-15

“Long ago God spoke to the fathers by the prophets at different times and in different ways. In these last days, He has spoken to us by His Son.”

Hebrews 1:1-2

“Our generation is preoccupied with methods. When we find a program that works in one business, we immediately want to package and distribute it so that it will work for others. This attitude carries over into the spiritual life as well. But God does not want us to trust in methods. He wants us to trust in Him. Doing otherwise limits the way we experience God.”

Henry Blackaby

“I want you to be all mine, filled with the light of My presence. I gave everything for you by living as a man, then dying for your sins and living again. Hold back nothing from Me. Bring your most secret thoughts into the light of My love. Anything you bring to Me I transform and cleanse from darkness. I know everything about you, far more than you know of yourself. But I restrain My yearning to “fix” you, waiting instead for you to come to Me for help. Imagine the divine restraint this requires, for I have all power in heaven and on earth. Seek My face with a teachable spirit. Come into My presence with thanksgiving, desiring to be transformed.”

Jesus Calling

“Launch all on God, go out on the great swelling tide of His purpose, and you will get your eyes opened. If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the smooth waters just inside the harbour bar, full of delight, but always moored; you have to get out through the harbour bar into the great deeps of God and begin to know for yourself, begin to have spiritual discernment. Beware of harking back to what you were once when God wants you to be something you have never been.”

Oswald Chambers

 Keep it simple this week. Devote time to sit and be with Him. You don’t need to bring anything other than your time and attention, and your quiet self. Pray what’s on your heart and then be silent and give Him a chance to speak back to you. 

Trust that He will.

“Whether we think of; or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for Him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than His love and the desire of pleasing Him.”

John Wesley

 “Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.”

Jeremiah 29:12 

Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’

Jeremiah 33:3

The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Psalm 145:18