1 Oh, give thanks to the LORD!
Call upon His name;
Make known His deeds among the peoples!
2 Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him;
Talk of all His wondrous works!
3 Glory in His holy name;
Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the LORD!
4 Seek the LORD and His strength;
Seek His face evermore!
Oh Father...No matter where I am right now in my walk of faith, help me to love You more, trust You more and praise You more. Draw me by Your lovingkindness deeper into Your Presence. I don’t want to just read your word and forget it...I want to live it. I want it to become the very fabric of who I am. Help me, as it says in Philippians, to work out my own salvation with fear and trembling for it is You who works in me both to do and to will for Your good pleasure. Encourage my heart in this today, Father! The closer I draw to You the more I see the ugliness of my own heart. The closer I draw to You, the more I see how little I love, how little I trust and how little I give You thanks and praise. By Your Spirit of Grace, help me to be both a hearer and a doer of Your precious word. Set my heart and my soul to seek You forevermore! Set it to walk in Your perfect law of liberty which frees me from the power of sin and death and enables me to walk in Your love toward those around me. Love does no harm to a neighbor, therefore, love fulfills the law.
Thank you, Abba, that You remember the prayers of my heart long after I have forgotten them. Thank you that nothing overwhelms You. Thank you that all that goes on in my life goes through Your perfect hand of love first. Thank you that You rule and overrule all of it for my good. Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Seek the LORD and His strength;
Seek His face evermore!—Psalm 16:11
