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Thursday, August 23, 2012

The Prayer that Destroyed Me




When You said, “ Seek My face,” my heart said to You,
“Your face, O Lord, I shall seek.”
Do not hide Your face from me, 
Psalms 27:8-9


I learned to pray at the dinner table and before I went to sleep, as many young children do. I memorized the Lord's prayer in Sunday school. Prayer became more essential in college. My prayer life matured quickly my freshman year. My relationship with the Lord was extremely empowered in a short period of time. However, I wasn't revolutionized by prayer till a few years later.

I was weakly meditating on Psalms 27 on my ride to a prayer meeting in Fort Wayne. The idea of "seeking God's face" had been resting on my heart. I often thought this scripture required that we seek God's goodness, not His actual face. That night, God was challenging my conception. God told me to take a more literal approach. I shouldn't just seek God's goodness; I should literally seek His physical face. This concept was foreign to me. I had never heard it preached, or if I had, it never sunk in.


That night I introduced the thought to our group, and we prayed about it. I was in tears. Ever since that night, my heart longed for His face. The longing to encounter God's face is a constant desire. It may not always surface, but the groan is lying underneath. Small triggers release it during the mundane day. I realized today that this prayer, "seek His face", has radically shaped my emotional chemistry. My relationship with the Lord has dramatically shifted since that late night prayer meeting in Fort Wayne. The mission "to seek His face" will revolutionize your prayer life! If you let it!

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