Psalm 42:1-2
As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?
RIGHT NOW, prepare your heart to meet with the LIVING GOD.
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God YOU ARE everything I need to satisfy my soul
God YOU ARE sufficient for me
God YOU ARE the source of life
God YOU ARE the provision I need
God YOU ARE my life
GOD YOU ARE…
My dear Savior,
Help me to point my life toward You. Help me to center my life
in YOU. May You move in and through me transforming me from
the inside out. You are everything to me.
- Danny Ray, July 2nd, 2009 at 9:23 am
Daddy-
I love you. I want to crawl up into your lap and feel your arms around me. You are the Creator of everything and yet you let me call you “Daddy.” Help me to be still…. and know that you are God. Help me to stay focused on you, Lord. You are amazing and I am thankful for what you are doing in my life.
- kimberlyhaes, August 2nd, 2009 at 7:39 am
…Lord I don’t want to “love me the best” I want to serve you and to serve others. Help me to filter all the noise and to hear You, to be conifident in what I hear and to follow. I need you. Teach me how to make time for You, my family, work, chores, exercise AND serving others… Help me to balance my life so I can honour you. Guide my priorites. Protect my spirit. Refresh me. I love you Lord. Thank you for your forgiveness.
- StephEpp, August 2nd, 2009 at 8:14 am
“How great is our God…Sing wih me, How great is our God…” Lord Jesus, you have set a perfect example of what intimacy looks like between our Heavenly Father and us. You made it a point to wake early in the morning to seek out the Father’s will, and remained obedient to the words spoken to you in that secret place. This is a trademark of those who know God in an intimate way. As we saw David write in the psalms about. you lord understood that the day is filled with distractions, temptations, and well…noise. I confess my laziness before you, that I may be refined into your likeness. So many times I ask for a hunger for you so that I would be motivated to spend time with you, but it is in that time spent with you that a longing develops. Like Peter, you are asking me to take that step out of the boat. I love you lord. As I draw near to you, please reveal you heart for me. Amen
- jdoney, August 2nd, 2009 at 10:15 am
Dear Dad,
I want to start by asking for Your forgiveness,I get so caught up sometimes in the act of serving others that I loose sight of serving You. I try to do everything with the best of intentions and motives but aside from Your motives and intentions all else is futile. My relationship with You can never be replaced by things or activities or other people. You reach out Your hand towards mine waiting for me to reach back, You whisper my name and call me to You waiting for me to listen and respond. Here I am Lord take my hand and talk to me I’m listening. I am laying it all down, show me the things You want me to do today and let me do them relying solely on your strength. Help me to not look to the tasks for tomorrow because You will take care of those too! Help me to wake up each morning and seek You and Your will for my day.
- anazgirl, August 2nd, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Comments for August 2, 2009
RE: Psalm 42:1-3 “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for YOU, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?”
As I was reading this I asked myself, “Why does the deer pant for streams of water?” I thought, “Why does a deer have such a strong desire and yearning for streams of water.” And then the obvious hit me: The deer cannot survive without water. When the deer realizes the importance of water in his life, and realizes that without water he cannot survive, he pants for it when he finds it. Which led me to another thought, “If the deer stayed near the stream, and never departed from the water, would he pant?” I believe the deer is panting because he walked away from the streams of water, his source of life, and journeyed in areas that distanced him from what he needed to survive.
What a parallel my life is to the deer. My streams of water is God himself, The Living Water – the true source of life. Without Him, I cannot survive. When I journey away from Him and realize that I need Him in my life, I begin to search for Him. And when I find Him, I pant for Him because I realize that I cannot survive without Him. But if I stay within in the will of God and near Him always, I pant less and fall in love with Him more. I don’t want to continually look for Him; I want to be with Him always. Everyday I open my eyes I want to meet with Him. I want His Spirit to lead me through the day and I want his protection while I sleep.
John 4:13-14 when Jesus was speaking to the women at the well He says, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
When a person is thirsty, it is because they have gone too long without water. A person that drinks water throughout the day does not become dehydrated and does not thirst. What I believe the Lord is saying to me is that we need to drink from His Rivers of living water throughout the day so we do not thirst and become dry. I need to read and meditate on His word throughout the day so I never thirst. If I become dehydrated from the word of God, it is because I have gone too long from drinking His well and like the deer, I will pant for Him.
- Jim Duran, August 2nd, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Father God, I am on my knees, begging your forgiveness. I have put you on the backburner in my life lately. I feel so consumed by life and overwhelmed that I even missed the first two days of this devotional (that I was so excited to start last month) and am doing 3 within one day. Lord, my life is filled with good things, new things, and things that can cause me stress (school, work, etc) but Lord help me to prioritize and ALWAYS place you first in my life.
Thank you for blessing me with an amazing new relationship and for leading us to a church that is on fire for you Lord. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to speak directly with you. I love you Lord-I love you!
- girl4god, August 3rd, 2009 at 10:04 am
SELAH … I needed this …
- jdennistoun, August 3rd, 2009 at 11:40 am
Lord, You will fight for me, I need only to BE STILL. Thank You.
- thinkle, August 3rd, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Abba,
How true it is, that I fill my life so easily with the mediocre and the pointless rather than strive for the things that I can do BEST. I have lately been convicted and inspired by Paul’s famous words of “I can do ALL THINGS through Christ who gives me strength.” Yet, I realize, how am I suppose to find Christ’s strength to do those things if I haven’t taken time to meet with The Supplier of the strength?
My daughter, she cries for me if I leave her alone for too long… she misses me! How often do I cry and call for you throughout the day, and seek to be held in your arms at every moment possible. I know that I do miss you throughout the day… but I believe I fail to recognize that my stress or my fatigue or my discouragement or whatever is ailing me is actually an indicator that I miss you.
Precious Father, I long to have to efficiency in my day to both meet with you and achieve what you want me to achieve, while putting the not-so-important tasks to the side. ….Help me focus on what makes me the MOST EFFECTIVE disciple and child of you, my King.
I love you.
- Maribeth, August 3rd, 2009 at 12:44 pm
As I sit and pray, Psalm 46:10 comes to mind, “Be still, and know that I am God”. It is 5:10 AM and the world in which I sit is silent. My wife is asleep, my kids are a sleep and it is just God and me. It is just me and God and my head full of things to do today. As I think of the things that need to get done, it makes me want to begin working so I can start checking off the things on my task list. But I cannot rush through this time with God. My relationship with Jesus is much more important than any task that needs to be accomplished today. If it is that important, God will give me the resources to get it done. If it’s that important, God will get it done Himself by whomever He chooses. It’s funny, but
God has done an excellent job before my arrival on this earth.
God you are so awesome and I thank You for this time of rest, comfort and peace. Lord, I thank You for helping me realize that there is no greater thing than to be sitting in Your lap and sharing with You the things I want to get done today. Thank You for responding to me in a way that I can understand. Thank You for guiding me and directing me. Thank You for giving my soul rest as we sit together, You and I. You are such an awesome God! I realize now that the things on my list are not important unless they also appear on Your list. Please make Your list my list and Your will my will. Thank You for Your awesome presence and Your hand on my life. I love You!
- Jim Duran, August 4th, 2009 at 5:40 am
Dear Father,
Thank you for not hiding the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Thank you for making the Gospel available to everyone. Thank you for the incredible joy that I received when I accept You as my Savior. Thank You for making me a new creation. Thank You for the treasure You have given me. Thank You for Your awesome love.
Your love is amazing to me. Thank You for speaking to me in such an intimate and personal way. I have never thought of myself as a fine pearl but as I read this passage You are revealing to me, once again, Your incredible love for me. The world wants me to think I have no value at all but You make me feel like this pearl. I feel that You have found me and that You are telling me that I am of great value and you gave up everything, Your life, for me. With Your blood, You purchased my life.
You are so awesome! I love You! Thank You!
- Jim Duran, August 5th, 2009 at 4:45 am
What I know is that apart from Christ I am miserable. Apart from Christ I may have temporal fun (I don’t think I can really call this happiness) but I will never have true joy! What I know is that when my eyes are fixed on Christ and Jesus is my focal point, and I am doing what I have been called to do, walking in His light, I am the most happiest. Even when the storms of life try to rock my boat, as long as my eyes are fixed on Jesus, the storm do not effect my outlook on life. I am not sure how incredible the rewards are in heaven, I know that my tiny mind has no idea how awesome it will be, but my goal are not the rewards. My goal is Jesus! My goal is to live my life for Christ. My goal is to seek the Kingdom first. God has never left me or has he never forsaken me, so why should I ever worry? I have received the greatest gift, salvation, so what troubles should concern me? What is the worst that could happen – I die? But Paul says, “To die is gain.” I can’t agree more. As a Christian, I have it made. Not in the worldly sense of having things made, but in the Spiritual sense. With Christ, anything that happens will turn out good! I am so thankful that I have Jesus in my life and that he has saved a wretch like me.
- Jim Duran, August 6th, 2009 at 6:45 am
Father, help me to be still. Help me to stop and listen. Help me to seek your will and not my own.
- onesavedbygrace, August 7th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
The wisdom of silence and well timed right words spring from rememberance of God is one, and one is all.
- steelearth, September 7th, 2009 at 12:53 am
Sorry that I don’t get silence, Sorry for always having the TV or other distractions there. You made me and just want to have me look at you with awe. Help me to just sit and smile at you my papa. I love you. Help me learn to just be with you! Thanks that you want me to just sit at your feet and commune with me!
- firehead58, September 7th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
I pray we can all have this thirst for God.
- graceforus, September 13th, 2009 at 11:04 pm