Dear God,
It is peace and sustenance to my mind and well being every day just to know You through the Holy Scriptures, and receive many answers to sincere repeated prayers, through life in general, and some ongoing hard times, and mental challenges. I give thanks for Your perseverance with me, gently leading and strengthening me. For giving me more appreciation that You are always caring for me, and refining my character in situations I do not like, and long to flee from, but could not. Now for the most part, this is somewhat later, and I am glad for the experiences of have been through, for I have found my God in a deeper and fuller way, and my rejoicing in You, also is deeper and sweeter. My blessings in coming close to You expands, as I find Your presence close through the Holy Spirit, resulting in a quiet purposeful happiness; as has been promised over and over in Your Holy Word. Zechariah 2:4 “’ Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and dwell in your midst’, says the Lord.” I wonder why more people are not made glad by the news that our Lord wants to live with us personally and dwell in our midst?
A further frequent event is a reminder of Your care, which firms our confidence in our Creator, all powerful. Rain or snow comes down to water the earth and cause plants to sprout from seed, which grows and becomes food for some animals, people and many birds. Water is ever used in Scripture to signify the Holy Spirit. We are promised the infilling of the Holy Spirit as ‘rivers of living water’. As rain waters the earth, and causes a seed to sprout and grow the Holy Spirit waters our soul, causes us to grow in God and matures our spiritual growth.
Today, more of Gods words come down, with relevance. Isaiah 55:11 “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth: it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” For all of us there is infinite power in God’s spoken and recorded words that never age, or go out of date. I have been immensely helped when I believed and put into practice, the knowledge that every promise is alive with the potential God originally spoke into it. Like a seed, the power of God liberates us from darkness, and causes new growth in mind and spirit every +day; we use our faith, and put God to the test, in peace time and challenge.
Amen