Lord Jesus, Open our eyes! Too often we slide slowly into the normalcy of pretending and stay there unaware. It's okay to say, "I don't know!" But do we stay there in that awareness or do we move forward to learn more. Let us take a look at James.
James, the leader of the Jerusalem church, reminds us that when we lack wisdom, we should ask it of God who gives generously. In Psalm 43, the Psalmists confesses that God’s light and God’s truth are the only reliable leaders, for they bring us to where He is. Jesus says in the New Testament that He is the way, the truth, and the light. No one comes to the Father but through Him. God of Heaven, Lead us with your light and truth!
As we continue our way into this consecrated season of prayer and fasting, we are coming together as a church praying that God would lead us, open our eyes, and give us the moving power of His Spirit in a fresh and awakening way. This prayer is a heart-felt, guttural, straining desire to return to True Reality, God’s light and life. We know that Christ Jesus has resurrected our souls by His grace and that light and life, along with wisdom and revelation, come only from Him. Don't go through the motions, Don't play church on this one. Be challenged to sense God and ask for the wisdom and His revealed plan for you during this season.
REFLECT
- Where have you sensed God giving you the gift of wisdom and discernment in your life?
- James tells us that God will give us wisdom if we ask. Will you ask Him for wisdom? He promises to give it to you when you ask.
- Have you heard anyone say, "Be careful what you pray for!"? Are you afraid that in this season, you will gain clarity and have a desire placed on your heart that you will be led to pray on? Are you afraid to pray about it because you fearful of the unknown of where God will lead you?
- When God says go, will you go? Will you follow?
- Have you asked God to set the desires of your heart to be that of His?
WORD
Psalm 43:3: Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.
Ephesians 1:17-18: I keep asking that the God of
our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and the incomparably great power for us who believe.
Matthew 22:37: And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
WORSHIP
May these worship songs bless you during your time of connection with God.
PRAYER
Lord, open my eyes to see You more clearly and my ears to hear anything You desire to speak. I pray for a Spirit of wisdom and revelation that I might know Jesus more deeply and have a profound understanding of the hope that is in His heart for me.
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