A Deeper Life
Do you feel it? It is an excitement, a quickening in the soul as we approach a new season of living. I am looking forward to the new year with wonder. Each year God leads me through new adventures so unexpected, they surpass my wildest dreams. A year ago, I never would have conceived God leading me into an online ministry. How He delights and surprises!
Over the past several days, I have felt this familiar quickening. It is a calling of sort…a calling to deepen my prayer life. Several scriptures persist to appear in my thoughts and Bible reading. They are both from an Old Testament book I rarely read…. puzzling?? Maybe not!
Daniel 6:10 (New Living Translation)
But when Daniel learned that the law had been signed, he went home and knelt down as usual in his upstairs room, with its windows open toward Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, just as he had always done, giving thanks to his God.
Daniel 9:23 (New Living Translation)
As I was praying, Gabriel, whom I had seen in the earlier vision, came swiftly to me at the time of the evening sacrifice. He explained to me, “Daniel, I have come here to give you insight and understanding. The moment you began praying, a command was given. And now I am here to tell you what it was, for you are very precious to God.
Daniel practiced quiet prayer more than once a day. I understand why God dearly loves him.
Prayer is our lifeline. Our words spoken in humility can heal, reveal, perceive, direct, revive, inspire, forgive, celebrate, love… (The list goes on and on). Our genuine prayers avail a changed heart, a changed home, a changed country, and a changed world. Let 2007 be the year that our prayer lives deepen to impact God’s Kingdom and change the hearts of many.
Lord God, as we embark upon this new year teach us to know You in a deeper prayer fellowship. You have many things to reveal to us. In Jesus name, I ask You to make us warriors of prayer. Amen
How may I pray for you and the adventures God has in store for your life in the comming year?
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Lynn, what a wonderful charge to us all to deepen our prayer lives. God has been calling, er, yelling at me to do the same. As you said, “our words spoken in humility can heal, reveal, perceive, direct, revive, inspire, forgive, celebrate, love…”….a beautiful list.
Yes, I would love you to pray that God would reveal to me the path He wants me to travel. Where to go in the next year…I also need to learn to be quiet before Him, so I can listen to Him.
Thank you Lynn for your on-line ministry. You are a wonderful blessing and I am thankful that God has crossed our paths.
Amen. Great verses and encouraging. Here’s to getting on our knees in 2007!
This is lovely Lynn. May He bless you and all others who choose to grow closer to Him through prayer. (Including myself.)
Lynn, I sense His quickening, too, and am looking forward to so much more of Him in the New Year. Thank you for the sweet encouragement and lovely post today.