April 19, 2011
An Expert Searcher
For thus Says the Lord God: "Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out."
~ Ezekiel 34:11
"How wonderfully does the Lord find His chosen! Jesus is a seeking Shepherd as well as a saving Shepherd. Though many of those His Father gave Him gone near to hell's gate, the Lord, by searching and seeking, discovers them and draws near to them in grace. He has sought us out: let us have good hope for those who are laid upon our hearts in prayer, for He will find them out also.
The Lord repeats this process when any of His flock stray from the pastures of truth and holiness. He will, by providence and grace, pursue them into foreign lands, into abodes of poverty, into dens of obscurity, into deeps of despair; He will not lose one that the Father has given Him. It is a point of honor with Jesus to seek and to save all the flock, without a single exception."
(By: Charles H. Spurgeon ~ One Minute Devotions)
An Expert Searcher
For thus Says the Lord God: "Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out."
~ Ezekiel 34:11
(By: Charles H. Spurgeon ~ One Minute Devotions)
PLEASE PRAY THESE PRAYERS WITH ME THIS MORNING.
ReplyDeleteOUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE THY NAME. THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD. FORGIVE US OF ALL OUR SINS, OUR DEBTS, AND OUR TRESPASSES AGAINST YOU AND MAN; AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO ARE INDEBTED TO US, AND THOSE WHO HAVE TRESPASSED AGAINST US. AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM ALL EVIL:FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM, AND THE POWER, AND THE HONOR, AND THE GLORY, FOREVER. IT IS IN CHRIST JESUS' PRECIOUS NAME, AMEN.
ABBA FATHER, THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT, I CALL UPON YOU, TO FULFILL IN ME THE CHARACTER THAT YOU POSSESS. I WANT TO EXHIBIT THE QUALITIES OF YOUR CHILD, JESUS, THROUGH WHOM I PRAY, AMEN.
FATHER IN HEAVEN, I GIVE YOU PRAISE FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY YOUR WORD AND LEARN ABOUT SPIRITUAL WARFARE. FATHER, PLEASE OPEN MY MIND TO YOUR TRUTH AND HELP ME TO CONCENTRATE ON WHAT YOU WANT ME TO LEARN FROM YOU. IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, THE LORD REBUKE AND BIND ANY EVIL SPIRITS FROM INTERFERING WITH MY STUDY TIME TODAY. IN JESUS CHRIST NAME, I COMMAND THESE SPIRITS TO LEAVE MY PRESENCE RIGHT NOW, AND TO GO TO JESUS FOR TO WAIT OUT THEIR JUDGMENT. I LOOSE HIS PEACE, HIS KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING, AND HIS WISDOM INTO MY MIND AND BODY RIGHT NOW. LORD, PLEASE SEND YOUR HOLY ANGELS TO PROTECT ME AND MINISTER TO ME AS I STUDY YOUR WORD TODAY. THANK YOU, FATHER FOR GIVING ME THIS TIME WITH YOU THIS MORNING. IN JESUS' PRECIOUS NAME, I PRAY, AMEN.