Psalm 5:3
At each and every sunrise, you will hear my voice as I prepare my sacrifice of prayer to you. Every morning I lay out the pieces of my life on the altar and wait for your fire to fall upon my heart.
This is a beautiful heart cry of a man desperate for God and all that He is! I can feel David’s passion and reliance upon the Lord, his fierce devotion to His God. I can see the tears streaming down his face as he cries out to the Lord each morning, knowing that if God doesn’t deliver him, he is doomed. I can feel the urgency in his words and the depth of trust that he has that God will answer him!
David says he does this daily; every morning, he is laying his life before the Lord, holding nothing back. Do we do this? Are we giving God all of us or just the parts we want Him to fix or deliver? David didn’t just want a relationship with God; he needed it. He knew that outside of God, there is no hope, but in God, there is all hope! David isn’t afraid to lay his life upon the altar because he knows the character of the One who’s altar it is. He isn’t a stranger to the Lord, and through that deep personal relationship comes the trust, the faith, the ability to say, “Let your fire fall upon my life and refine what’s of You and burn up what’s not!”
Are we willing to do that? Are we able to look past today and focus on eternity? Laying everything we are before the Lord daily with a confidence that He will hear our cry and answer? Today I challenge and encourage you to pray, “Lord, here I am, I lay all of me on Your altar and ask that Your fire would fall upon my heart, purifying and refining me and burning up what’s not of You!”
2 Chronicles 7:1- When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.
God bless! I love you all, but His love burns hotter than the sun! Glory, honor, and praise now and forever to Papa God, Jesus Christ our King, and the Holy Spirit!
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