Today’s Scripture: As they listen, their secret thoughts will be exposed, and they will fall to their knees and worship God, declaring, “God is really here among you.” 1 Corinthians 14:25 NLT Tyndale 1996
If unbelievers come and see us will they have this same experience? As they come to our meetings will they be convicted such as these in 1 Corinthians 14? Are our meetings and our lives obvious that the Spirit of God is at work?
God is really here now with us. Not only are unbelievers affected but we believers need reminders and encouragement as well. He is here and He will give us what we need to show Him.
God are you really here in my dark places, in the pain of lost ones and in my evilness as well? This morning in His prayer I was reminded that it is He that delivers us, we need Him and He will show Himself and we and others will know He is really here.
LORD, let us fall to our knees and worship You. May our secret thoughts be exposed and we realize you are really here!
Today’s Prayer: Father God, thank You for offering to deliver me. I am asking You to deliver me from my evil and to fill me with Your Spirit. Fill me LORD; change me and use me to show that You are really here. Amen
Tom Raines
Christian Affirmations 4 Life
Thank you so much for your affirmations and reminders… Yes, I pray this prayer with you. May a hurting world see through us that He is real. He is there. He hears. He cares. Blessings to you, Tom!
Thank you Heidi, I so love joining you in prayer and know God uses us to remind each other and to show Him to the hurting world around us that He is here and loves us more than we can conceive. Blessings and presence.
Yes Tom…God is here, even if ‘here’ is in the belly of a fish as Jonah was AND as some of us may feel or even belong due to our running away from Him! But He is a saving merciful, loving Extender of grace! I was/am studying Jonah in my prayer time and not only were his secret thoughts exposed, but he began to worship right there in the belly of that fish! I can so relate. Repentance for believers or the lost brings salvation!!!Felt led to share. God bless you, yours , and your readers, Cindy.
“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,
and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
and you heard my voice. 3 For you cast me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me;
all your waves and your billows passed over me.
4 Then I said, ‘I am driven away from your sight;
yet I shall again look upon your holy temple.’
5 The waters closed in over me to take my life;
the deep surrounded me; weeds were wrapped about my head
6 at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land
whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the pit,
O Lord my God. 7 When my life was fainting away,
I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to you,
into your holy temple. 8 Those who pay regard to vain idols
forsake their hope of steadfast love. 9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving
will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay.
Salvation belongs to the Lord!”
Thank you Cindy! I feel His steadfast presence and love in the scriptures you have shared. I am crying out here in the belly of where I am. I am so thankful for His grace and His care for us! My hope is in Him and not the idols of this world. LORD I know You hear my voice of thanksgiving and are here now. My salvation, my life, my gifts belong to You and I give all of me as a living sacrifice to You! Blessings Cindy and thank you for this encouragement that He will answer my calls of distress and thanksgivings. Blessings and love!
Our Dad is here Tom and He WILL NEVER let us go…in the calm, storm or even in the belly if a fish…especially in the belly if a fish! God bless, Cindy
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Thank You Cindy for sharing this! I love singing to God and this really helped me sing. Blessings and singing!
God bless you today, Tom–you Always show Him to us in a BIG way. love, sis Caddo
Thank you Sis, all glory is to OUR LORD! He blesses us BIG. Thank you and MUCH love!