Key Verses: 2 and 10-11 "(2) My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God…(10) For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. (11) For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly."
Spurgeon Insights: "To feel His love, to rejoice in the Person of the Anointed Savior, to survey the promises and feel the power of the Holy Ghost in applying precious truth to the soul, is a joy which worldlings cannot understand, but which true believers are lavished with. Even a glimpse at the love of God is better than ages spent in the pleasures of sense."
To experience an awareness of God's presence satisfies the human soul. When you are in a relationship with God through faith in Jesus the presence of God is refreshing to your spirit. The Psalmist knew that when they authored Psalm 84. They knew that strength came from the renewing presence of the LORD.
I have looked for the refreshment that only the presence of God can bring into my life in a lot of different things. Sex, drugs, causes, politics, and music have all been part of my pleasure pursuit. None of them satisfy like the Person of God. The Holy Spirit in me is the reality of God's life inside me. The only true spiritual source of revival for churches, families, and individual Christians is an experience of God personally. We must have a personal life with God. This is what we need in our meetings as follower's of Jesus. We need the manifest presence of God which He desires to grant. Praise Him. Pray with me…
Father, I pray that You would continue to draw me into times of renewal and revival in one on one settings with you, as well as with your people. I need to know Your presence, not just believe correct facts about You as I read them in the Bible. Fill my soul with Yourself. Pour Your life into me so it can be lived out through me by the power of the Holy Spirit. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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