May 6,2023 Warrenton, NC Part 7

The Price and Cost for more of God and His Presence

The Price and Cost for more of God and His Presence I was reading an account of a preacher’s experience that I had previous heard him describe before in a sermon. Thought the account was familiar to me this time though it hit different. The experience was during a time he had spent months desiring and seeking more of God and His Presence. There were two statements that the preacher made from this account that the Lord highlighted for me. The first was “My request for more of God carried a price” and the second was from his cry to the Lord “I must have more of You at any cost!”. These statements when I had heard them before sounded very true and I totally had agreed with them. In fact, they had inspired me. This time, though, was different. This time there was at first, for a moment fear and not a Godly fear. No, it was a fear that the price I would have to pay would be the cost of the life of one or mor...

Fragrance

Fragrance 2 Corinthians 2:14-15 Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. 15 For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. Today in a prayer meeting someone mentioned the word fragrance as they were praying. The first thing that popped into my head was of a college student who had come into my store yesterday. This young man had gone a little overboard, in my opinion, with his cologne. It was so strong that I could smell him coming. I also have customers who come in to the store with a different type of fragrance, one that isn’t pleasant. In both cases you can smell them before you even see them and also the fragrance sticks around for a while after they leave. The point of this being that fragrance influences and ...

Conversation

Conversation Have you ever just had a conversation with the Lord? I mean a real two-sided conversation, one in which you and He both got to speak? How about one of those two-way conversations that isn’t about anything deep but just a simple conversation like you would have with your spouse, or a friend? I wonder if we understand that frequency of conversation tells a lot about the quality and depth of relationship that we have not just with people but with the Lord? The slogan that I have heard in the church most of my life is that it is not a religion it is a relationship. While this is the truth of how things are supposed to be, I wonder how many of us really have quality in that relationship. Sadly, I think that we don’t spend the time developing the relationship we have in Christ through genuine conversation. We have settled for a acquaintance level relationship instead of the intimate one that is made available to us. ...

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