Word Of The Day
“My child, My Beloved, come. Come … Yes, come and taste the clear waters of My unfailing love, and you will be refreshed. Forget the troubles of the world. Be drenched with My love now poured out (Romans 5:5).
Come into My presence in your silence and solitude. Come near Me, really close to Me. You can feel Me; you can even touch Me in your heart. I will rest in your being, and you will be in awe. Forget all your worldly cares. You will be transcendent as I come to rest in your weary mind. Many promises of the past, long forgotten, have been watered by your tears of repentance, causing them to grow within the soil of love occupying your heart. Be rooted and grounded in My love (Ephesians 3:17).
Draw deeply from the wells of salvation, and see My redemption come to fruition and bloom into fullness (Isaiah 12:3). The fullness of time has come. Don’t be so distracted by what has not happened yet, causing you to miss what is taking place right in front of you. In looking back, you lose. In looking ahead, you fear. In looking at Me in the midst of the here and now, you abound with faith and joy.
Only in the here and now can you be infused and submersed in the moments of poured out love. All else, causes you to be depleted, causes you to leak. The aroma of all your past burnt offerings and sacrifices are ascending to My throne and I am sending refreshing help just in time from My sanctuary (Psalms 20)
“that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height-to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:16-19 NKJV)
Prayer
I draw near to You sweet Jesus and taste the waters of Your unfailing love. You are faithful when I am faithless, strong when I am weary. All You are and have has been given to me. I rest my weary thoughts, my jubilant thoughts, and I sit at Your feet in a place of transcendent joy. I root myself deep into the soil of Your heart and draw nourishment from Your great unquenchable love.
Wash me anew with fresh fire and anointing. I choose not to look back in regret, nor look forward in fear. Instead, today and in the days to come I choose to focus on You. Take my burnt offerings, my sacrifices and return them in the form of blessings upon those I love. Yes, help is here for me today, flowing from Your sanctuary. Amen
Reflect and Journal
1. What worldly cares and fears have distracted you from being in His presence?
2. In what ways have you been looking to the past with regret or the future with fear?
3. What is He speaking to you right now about any of the above?
I finally have been able to log in with a new password. Halelujah!
I do so want to comment on the above questions posed.
1. Time… finding time on my schedule to have a quiet time every day,(and I’m retired!) and that is important in experiencing the closeness of our Lord and Savior.
2. I do this alot, but try to leave the past…past. I was young, inexperienced in the ways of the Christian life and just emotionally in so many aspects of life when things went wrong. Yes, I do sometimes wonder about the future, but I trust the Lord to take care of me and my husband in our retirement.
3. Get on with my poetry writing. Prayer is soo important and just having that quiet time with Him, while walking the Walk.
Brenda, thank you for your faithful service for our Lord Jesus, your Journals of the heart help me start my day.