Sept.23.02: Lftd - "Prayer Is The Nearest Approach To God"

-- Jeremiah 29:11-13 (NIVUS)
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "
plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give
you hope and a future.
12 Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me,
and I will listen to you.
13 You will seek Me and find Me when you seek me
with all your heart."

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Prayer is the nearest approach to God and
the highest enjoyment of Him that we are capable of in this life.
-- William Law

When we think enjoying God, we often think about the goose-bump
emotions that can result in some highly charged worship services.
But to Christians who know better, emotions are never a
measurement of the spiritual life. The true enjoyment of God is
deeper than our emotions and is only known by those
who meet God in prayer.

Even a brief time of enjoying God is priceless and far more
sustaining than all the goose-bumps you can muster.

Today is an opportunity for you to enjoy Your God
and by the way, He will enjoy you too.

"A CALM HOUR WITH GOD IS WORTH
A WHOLE LIFETIME WITH MAN."
-- Robert Murray McCheyne

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-- Zephaniah 3:17 (NIVUS)
"The LORD your God is with you, He is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing."

-- Ephesians 3:16-19 (NIVUS)
"I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you
with power through His Spirit in your inner being,
17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,
18 may have power, together with all the saints,
to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,
19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge -
that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."

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