Day 24 - Alone in the presence of God

Let’s pray:

This day I am asking You God for an awareness of Your Spirit, to remind me that the God I serve is the Great I AM. That small as I am by comparison, my faith in You is big and I do believe You to be Great, to be loving, to be wise and that You actually do care for me. So today, as an act of faith in Your desire to relate to me, I am asking that I get a sense of Your Greatness - perhaps now as I pray or maybe at another time today.

I am created in Your image and, without sounding too presumptuous, I guess that makes me like a mini-god - someone with creative ability, someone with breath of life within me, and someone who has autonomy over my choices, some of which sadly expose my human weakness. Today Almighty God I choose to worship You, I choose to reach out from my spirit looking for Your Spirit to connect with mine and as I am reaching out in faith right now I am sensing a Higher Power drawing me effortlessly into an awesome Presence. Do I hear or am I sensing a voice audible or not calling me saying: “Be Still and know that I am God”? I am your God and I will answer the honest cry of the heart of those who seek me and I will be found of you – I give you My Word on that.

As I rest quietly before You, God, everything else that wants to distract me I am shutting it down.

I am now in this moment in reverent silence before the Creator God.

Let’s be silent in the Presence of God. - Pause

Almighty God I am known intimately by You and as Your Spirit connects with my spirit I become aware that nothing is too hard for You and I sense I have to release my anxieties into Your care – help me to really cast all my cares upon You, to trust You with my life, with the lives of those I love and whom You love even more. Help me to stop trying to do Your job and get on with the job You have asked me to do to make Your Name known and leave the rest up to You.

“Oh, what manner of Love the Father has given to those who love Him that we should be called the children of God” (1 John 3:1).

Yes, I claim that promise from God that I am indeed a child of God and I rest in that fact, assured of Your Love for me and the knowledge that because I have a Great God that I no longer need to carry burdens that are too big for my child-like shoulders.

Thank You Spirit of God for being with me in this moment, help me to take time out more regularly, help me to learn to cease striving and simply be alone in the Presence of God, because it’s there I will find Joyful Rest. Amen.

Elisabeth Sweeney Smith