Yes, for all concerned, I did survive those nights alone with the girls last week…in fact I am sure I was blessed by it! However, my greatest blessings come from the presence of God…I suspect yours do as well. There is something about sensing the very presence of God, perhaps not physically, but sensing God’s very presence with you or in a service…in a very real way, real enough to want to reach out and touch God…that is a blessing! Or to sense God speaking to you…not speaking generally, but specifically to you! I have shared with some before that there have been times when I am sure God spoke to me audibly. I was alone, so I cannot confirm my thoughts, but then it really doesn’t matter does it? I know that God spoke specifically to me and that is a blessing. I have often wanted God to bless me, wanting to replicate the feeling, but I’ve learned the only way one can come into God’s presence is to intentionally hunger and thirst after His righteousness alone. When God calls to us (as He often does) and we are busy…too busy to stop whatever preoccupies us in order to focus on Him, we have just slammed the door shut in His face. Even worse, we have opened the door for satan! It is our pursuit of God that leads to the presence of God. Smith Wigglesworth said, “You have to live ready. If you have to stop to get ready, you are too late. The opportunity will have gone” (Wigglesworth: A Man Who Walked With God, p. 78). My prayer for us is that we live ready!
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