When I sit on my God's shoulders...

I was caught-up with work and deadlines for a few months at a stretch which caused my prayer life to suffer.  Yeah, that sounds better than saying that I was unfaithful to my God, or that it was too inconvenient for me to wake up a little early to sit before the creator of the universe.  

He is a God who comes after the one who goes missing... so He came after me, and carried me back on His shoulders.  He did not stop there, but went on to make a few adjustments in my life, and I have been getting some extra time in the mornings to sit before the Lord! 

Over the years I have learnt, when I come to that place where GOD is where He should be in my life, His presence becomes very real, and HIS voice becomes very clear.  When I sit before Him in prayer, He takes me to places in the scriptures that speak about the very things that I have been talking to Him about.  

This is what He did this morning…

Of late, the hunger for Him in my life has been so great, and I have been asking the Lord to scoop out everything that is of me, making me a empty vessel which He can live inside.  The Song “I need you more” has been my own prayer these few days...

I need you more, more than yesterday 

I need you more, more than words can say 

I need you more, than ever before 

I need you, Lord, I need you more

More than the air I breathe, more than the song I sing

More than my next heartbeat, more than anything

Lord as time goes by, I will be by your side

Cause I never want to go back to my old life

During my prayer this morning, I was led to read Psalm 42 and as I started to read, I found the first two verses are simply echoing my own prayer few seconds ago...  

 ¹ As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.

 ² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?

I love it when He does that… it is like He is telling me “I hear you”.

Last morning, when I was praying for some people who desperately need divine intervention in their lives, I was led to read 2 Kings Chapter 6.  It was the incident where Elisha and his servant were surrounded by an army that was about to attack them.  When Elisha's servant gets frightened, Elisha asks the Lord to open his servant’s eyes so that he will see that "those who are with us are more than those who are with them", and immediately the servant started to see armies with chariots of fire around them ready to protect them.  

I felt that the Lord was leading me to pray the prayer of Elisha… "O Lord, open his eyes that he may see".  Just like Elisha’s servant's eyes were open to see what human eyes are not capable of, the Lord is going to open the eyes of the people who are unable to see beyond their own circumstances and they will see the presence of God around them.  

When I am right with God, I start a prayer and He finishes it.  I think I am going to sit here for a while... on my God's shoulders.  

Praise the Lord!