Wonderful Season of Prayer

I had a wonderful season of prayer today. Felt the need to spend extra time with my heavenly Father and unburden myself with the great needs I felt weighed down with. I have been concerned for the lost people that I have been ministering to and felt so strongly to plead with God to have mercy upon them and to take away the deception and darkness that is clouding their minds. Also for the lost in China and North Korea, Africa, Europe as our missionaries labor there. Prayer for our church. I have been following Paul's example of the prayers he recorded in his letters. I have been pleading with God that our people here would be filled with a knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding; that we would therefore bear fruit in every good work; that we would know the great hope of our calling, the riches of our inheritance and the great resurrection power that is in us. And chiefly -- after that amazing prayer we just studied in evening Bible Study -- that we would be given strength to know the width, length, height, and depth of the love of Christ and so be filled with the fullness of God.


After I finished my pleadings and petitions I was just resting in His Fatherly presence...loving Him and enjoying His nearness. Feeling at peace and filled with Him. I then thought... "What a wonderful thing it will be to be in heaven. To be near Him like this all the time. To know this peace, safety and security. To know all is well and to feel person to person His great love. To look upon Jesus, enthroned, glorious, loving and to know He loves me and loved me by sacrificing Himself for me. Oh how blessed are those saints who have gone on before us. What a privilege to continue to serve Him here and glorify His name, and also to know that heaven is my home and homeland even now!!"