Daily Journal: 3 September

To Live In His Presence

Hosea 6:2 (NIV)

After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence.

Revive us, restore us, that we may live in Your Presence. That’s what it comes down to, for me. Just that I would live in Your Presence. In Your Presence is peace. In Your Presence is hope. In Your Presence is assurance. Your Presence is my shield and my guiding light. Your Presence is my future. When I have Your Presence, Lord, I have everything.

Hosea 6:3 (AMP)

“So let us know and become personally acquainted with Him; let us press on to know and understand fully the [greatness of the] Lord [to honour, heed, and deeply cherish Him]. His appearing is prepared and is as certain as the dawn, and He will come to us [in salvation] like the [heavy] rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.”

I have an internal insistence, a need to know the Lord more, to have His Presence permeate my headspace, my heart, my decisions, and my activities. I have a compulsion within me to medicate by His Word and be fuelled with His Love. His filling is my water, like the heavy rain that soothes and restores and refreshes.

After ruin, wounding, and dryness; of hopelessness, craving and desperation; the gentle, yet saturating rain of God’s Spirit brings incomparable healing. It’s ongoing; it comes in layers as I'm able to receive. His Spirit pools and fills to overflowing wherever and however I seek Him in those deep places of need.

Psalm 27:4 (AMP)

One thing I have asked of the Lord, and that I will seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord [in His presence] all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty [the delightful loveliness and majestic grandeur] of the Lord and to meditate in His temple.

Psalm 84:10 (AMP)

For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand [anywhere else]; I would rather stand [as a doorkeeper] at the threshold of the house of my God than to live [at ease] in the tents of wickedness.