Generations of the Christian faith have given us time to catch up with the Pharisees of old. We have our religious jargon, rituals, and doctrines. We have grown so accustomed to what we have made of religion that few people even wonder if there is anything more. We talk of God, sing of Him, and pray to ask things of Him. But, if God cannot be sensed here with us, then we have fallen short.
Something deep within our hearts must be stirred. Like the pool of Bethesda, a supernatural movement must happen to a believer. Then, what becomes of that encounter determines if our religion ties us to God or gives us more earthly ways.
Dear Lord, rock our boat until our tie to You becomes real. Turn our religion from fanfare into a deep and intimate walk with You. Let Your presence be the beating heart of our existence. So that when we wake each morning, it is unto a whole day to spend adoring and enjoying You. Amen
Matthew 22:37 ESV / 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.
Psalm 63:1 ESV / A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Psalm 9:1 ESV / To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Philippians 4:7 ESV / And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 3:16-19 ESV / That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Colossians 3:1-2 ESV / If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
Psalm 42:1-2 ESV / To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
Jeremiah 24:7 ESV / I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
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