In His Presence, Hope!!
As I set here this evening in our Tuesday Prayer group there is an awareness of the presence of the Lord
How awesome is it to know that our Father delights in us as we gather in His name. As we become one with Him, one with each other. Being shaped together as one in the Body of Christ.
Having a corporate heart, a oneness with the Lord that brings a healing to our inner most being. That we rise above the battles of the day and choose to dwell in His presence. How blessed are we to be called to abide with Him. That the heart of the Lord is to make us one.
Likewise it is the Heart of the Father, that we learn to be one with our families, with our children, with our wife or husband.
Some how over time many of us forget the foundation that we built upon and we allowed the little foxes, the little things to rob us of precious moments, of time spent with the Lord, with our children and especially time with our wife or husband, that quiet time with the Lord together.
Unless the foundation is built upon the Lord, upon the rock, upon the word, it will in due time crumble, be open to attack and one day we will wake up and look around and wonder what happen, how did it happen. I mean I am a Christian, I love the Lord, what happen?
All because, at least on my part, I did not maintain my focus on the Lord. I didn’t truly maintain the spiritual covering that I should have been for my former wife and our children. Ours was mostly a hit and miss time of really spending time with the Lord, for that I am responsible.
Oh we talked about it, about spending time, we did not, rather I did not follow through like I should have. I know that this grieved the Heart of my Father. For the family represents Christ and the Church. It represents our relationship with Him, with our family, with our friends.
It was undermined by spiritual neglect, by allowing other things to occupy that place in our lives.
The Heart of the Father is to bring us back into His presence, individually, as families, to restore us back to what He originally desires.
That we as His people will represent the Lord in all aspects of our life. That families will represent Christ.
A lot of wounds, a lot of hurts we all have gone through, things that only our Father can heal and He will if we call upon Him.
I can’t go back and undo a lot of things, I can only go from where I am in my life, in the things that He has done over the last three years. I have no idea what my Fathers plans are for my former wife and I are but the one thing I do know is that His plans are good plans, whether He brings us back together or not.
Let us refocus, come into His presence and ask forgiveness for those we have wounded and allow Him to do what He does best.
He loves us, forgives us and heals us and He will bring us back to that place of restoration. Of bringing us back into His purpose for our lives as individuals, as husband and wives, as families and as the church.
He will finish what He has begun!
Till later my friends,
Paul 