Who will Inquire of the LORD?

A new song the Lord gave me this morning...

Who will inquire of the LORD in His holy temple?

Who will inquire of the LORD in His holy temple?

Will you lay down your pride?

Will you lay down your idols?

Will you come and enter in and run into His presence?

Who will inquire of the LORD, in His holy temple?

Who will inquire of the LORD, in His holy temple?

Will you lay down your pride?

Will you lay down your idols?

Will you come and enter in and run into His presence?

For He is God, He is our Father

We are His delight and we are His reward

Will you open your ears?

Will you open up your heart?

Let the fire of His love, come and purify the dross.

He wants us to see Him.

He wants us to know Him.

He wants us to call on His Name.

Who will inquire of the LORD in His holy temple?

Who will inquire of the LORD in His holy temple?

Will you lay down the sins that easily entangle?

Will you lay down the fears that keep you from entering?

For He's here, He's here right now.

He's closer than the air we breathe.

Will you come and take a drink of Him?

Will you come and take a drink of Him?

Your souls are thirsty. Your souls are thirsty.

He wants to give you more, so much more of Himself.

He wants to give you more, more than you can imagine.

Who will inquire of the LORD in His holy temple?

Who will inquire of the LORD in His holy temple?

Just come in, come in for a while.

Let His Spirit speak to your heart.

Le His Spirit sing over you.

Let His Spirit bring you life to the deadness inside.

Only He can satisfy.

He longs to walk with you.

To share with You His heart, to share with You His mind.

We are His, We are His.

We've been purchased, we've been bought.

We live no longer for ourselves, but to worship Him.

So come in, He's here.

Come in.

Bind. Seal. Cords. Trust.

I will sit and wait for You

You are my hope and stay

I will sit and wait for You

I dare not run away

So bind my heart to Yours

With unbreakable cords

Seal me with Your love

I want to trust You more

I will sit and wait for You

You are my hope and stay

I will sit and wait for You

I dare not run away

So bind my heart to Yours

and seal me with Your love

Bind. Seal. Cords. Trust.

With All My Heart

I just finished eating lunch and thought of spending some time in my prayer room... and as I began to walk upstairs this song came to mind. It was as if You were reminding me of this song and prayer that I sang years ago.

So as a prayer today, Lord Jesus, I sing this song to You again and ask that you would give me the grace to go deeper in intimacy with you, to trust You with everything, and to love and serve You with all my heart. Thank You for the nearness of Your presence - closer than the air I breathe. Your Spirit is in me, You are with me, and You go before me. When it's hard to see You, see the ways that You love and protect me, and to remain in Your love - I'm glad to know You are still here - You will never leave me or forsake me and no one and nothing can snatch me from Your hand.

So with my heart that sometimes is fragile, weak, has questions, hurt and fears - yet has been made strong with Your love, purer with Your holy fire, full of Your Word, filled with hopes, longings, Godly desires and Christ-like compassion - I come to You now - as I am - with all of my heart.

Lyrics ~ "With All My Heart" -by Babbie Mason

In this quite place with you
I bow before your throne
I bear the deepest part of me
To you and you alone
I keep no secrets
For there is no thought
That you have known
I bring my best and all the rest
To you I lay them down

With all my heart
I want to love you Lord
And live my life
Each day to know you more
All that is in me
Is yours completely
I'll serve you only
With all my heart

You faithfully supply my needs
According to your plans
So help me Lord to seek your face
Before I seek your hand
And trust you know what 's best for me
When I don't understand
Then follow in obedence
In every circumstance

Grace

Thinking about Your amazing grace today... and how much more I need to see myself through Your grace, approach Your throne of grace, and live in and from this place of Grace.

Meditating on the words to the song by Chris Tomlin ~ Your Grace is Enough and then reading & meditating on several excerpts from "The Power in Prayer" by Charles Spurgeon

Great is Your faithfulness oh God
You wrestle with the sinner's heart
You lead us by still waters in to mercy
And nothing can keep us apart

So remember Your people
Remember Your children
Remember Your promise
Oh God

Your grace is enough
Your grace is enough
Your grace is enough for me

Great is Your love and justice God of Jacob
You use the weak to lead the strong
You lead us in the song of Your salvation
And all Your people sing along

So remember Your people
Remember Your children
Remember Your promise
Oh God

Your grace is enough
Your grace is enough
Your grace is enough for me

Your grace is enough
Heaven reaching down to us
Your grace is enough for me
God I see your grace is enough
I'm covered in your love
Your grace is enough for me
For me

The Throne of Grace ~ excerpts from chapter 5: "The Power of Prayer" by C.H. Spurgeon

Hebrews 4:16 - "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy. and find grace to help in time of need."

"It is a throne for dispensing gifts. Come, then, you that are poor as poverty itself. Come, you that have no merits and are destitute of virtues. Come, you that are reduced to a beggarly bankruptcy by Adam's fall and by your own transgressions. This is not a throne that glorifies itself by the taxation of its subjects, but it is a throne that glorifies itself by streaming forth like a fountain with floods of good things. Come, now, and receive the wine and milk that are freely given. 'Yea, come, buy wine and milk, without money and without price." (Isaiah 55:1)

Grace is on the throne. How does it become so exalted? Well, grace has a throne by conquest. Grace came down to earth in the form of the Well Beloved, and it met with sin. Long and sharp was the struggle, and grace appeared to be trampled underfoot by sin. But grace at last seized sin, threw it on its own shoulders, and, through all but crushed beneath the burden, grace carried sin up to the cross and nailed it there, slew it there, and put it to death forever. Grace triumphed gloriously. For this reason, grace sits on a throne at this hour because it has conquered human sin, has borne the penalty of human guilt, and has overthrown all its enemies.

Grace is enthroned this day, friends, because Christ has finished His work and has gone into the heavens. It is enthroned in power. When we speak of its throne, we mean that it has unlimited might. This is the dispensation of grace, the year of grace; grace reigns through righteousness to eternal life. We live in the era of reigning grace. "

Hebrews 7:25 ~ "Seeing He ever liveth to make intercession", Jesus "is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him."

Living with an Open Heart

I could keep my heart safe away in a box with a lock and key, for no one to reach in and for me to not reach out. Too much exposure, too much risk, too much uncertainty.... it's not safe to live that way. How will I know how my heart will be returned to me - in what state, in what condition? Will it have new scars? Will it be torn apart? I don't know what will happen, i think to myself - it's better if for now it stays in a box with a lock and a key.

But it's lonely and dark in this hiding place. Without life, without hope, without feeling. It might be 'safe' here, but I feel dead. This is not how I want to live nor how I was created to live.

So I decide to open the box with the lock and key and let my heart out. I decide to try and live with an open heart. To let you in and to let me out. And I was right, there was too much exposure, too much risk, too much uncertainty, too much fear... but to my surprise there was also life, love, new memories made, new closeness shared, acceptance and care.

I let you in and I let myself out - maybe not fully and maybe not everyday. But I did open up my heart - I learned to live and to feel again and even though my heart may hurt today for things not fulfilled and for disappointed hopes. I will keep on living with an open heart. Knowing that even with the risks, the pain and the questions - there is life and newness, joy to be known, and love to be shared.

Giving you the gift of myself is a gift I am willing to give as I live with an open heart.