Prayerful Inner-Searching

January 9th, 2012 by JDVaughn Leave a reply »

May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless . . . —1 Thessalonians 5:23

“Your whole spirit . . . .” The great, mysterious work of the Holy Spirit is in the deep recesses of our being which we cannot reach. Read Psalm 139 . The psalmist implies— “O Lord, You are the God of the early mornings, the God of the late nights, the God of the mountain peaks, and the God of the sea. But, my God, my soul has horizons further away than those of early mornings, deeper darkness than the nights of earth, higher peaks than any mountain peaks, greater depths than any sea in nature. You who are the God of all these, be my God. I cannot reach to the heights or to the depths; there are motives I cannot discover, dreams I cannot realize. My God, search me.”

Do we believe that God can fortify and protect our thought processes far beyond where we can go? “. . . the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:7). If this verse means cleansing only on our conscious level, may God have mercy on us. The man who has been dulled by sin will say that he is not even conscious of it. But the cleansing from sin we experience will reach to the heights and depths of our spirit if we will “walk in the light as He is in the light” (1 John 1:7). The same Spirit that fed the life of Jesus Christ will feed the life of our spirit. It is only when we are protected by God with the miraculous sacredness of the Holy Spirit that our spirit, soul, and body can be preserved in pure uprightness until the coming of Jesus-no longer condemned in God’s sight.

We should more frequently allow our minds to meditate on these great, massive truths of God.

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January 9, 2012

Lord, thank you for the reminder that in Your sight I am beautiful. It is a wonderful thought and I love You so much for reminding me of your love in this way. Thank you for your ocean of mercy and grace. Please help me to stay lost in your ocean of mercy, grace and love this day.

And God says…”When you focus on Jesus and the notion that you are beautiful in My sight, your view of your life changes. When you are connected to Jesus and allow Him to live through you by your act of prayerful surrender, your thoughts are His thoughts, your ideas and plans, His plans. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not rely on your own devices; seek Jesus and His life first and everything you seek becomes yours.”

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